Yankee starting pitchers have a 6.08 ERA, almost a full run worse from the terrible Boston Red Sox. Given the personel on the staff, this should be a surprise. Kiroda, Nova, and Sabathia were reasonable good bets entering the season, and are still reasonable good bets going forward, to be very strong contributors to the [...]
That picture is not what Freddy Garcia wants to see tomorrow night. If we assume for a moment that D.J. Mitchell will be optioned back to Triple-A when Brett Gardner returns from the disabled list this Thursday (which is probably a safe assumption, to be sure) the next roster decision the Yankees will have to make, barring any unforeseen circumstances between then and now, will be the one we’ve been eagerly anticipating for a month and a half now: Andy Pettitte‘s return to the Yankees’ active roster.
It’s not known exactly when Pettitte will be ready to join the Yankees, but the smart money right now says he gets two more minor league starts at least. If that’s a good timetable, and assuming he stays on a regular five day schedule, that would peg his arrival date as Thursday May 10th, which just so happens to be the night of the final game of a three game set with division rival Tampa Bay at Yankee Stadium. If that is indeed the day Pettitte comes back, one other current member of the 25 man roster will have to go within the next 10 days.
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The world of the New York Yankees has spent so much time this season talking about what is not working in the rotation. There is Freddy and Phil and sometimes Hiroki. There has been the lost Pineda story lines and all the rest. Can we take a time out among all of that and simply bask in the glow of C.C. Sabathia for a minute? Sometimes, I think we take him for granted. He is the ace. We count on him making his 32 to 34 starts and adding a bit of sanity to our Yankee world. And he rarely lets us down. We just assume that he is going to go out there and pitch well. His size and frame become topics of stories before his pitching does. And yet, among the whirlwind of this early season, he goes out there and beats the Rangers and Tigers in the same week. Do we even understand how good C.C. Sabathia has been for his tenure in New York?
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The Charleston Riverdogs are wrapping up their series in Hickory at the moment, but Mason Williams got an early end to his day when Anderson Feliz entered the game as a pinch hitter for him in the top of the second inning. Williams started the game as the Riverdogs’ DH and lead off the game with a groundout before being removed. No idea what that’s about at the moment.
It seems like only yesterday when baseball prognosticators everywhere were wondering what the Yankees would do with all their starters. The team didn’t have room for all those arms! The Yankees had too much pitching, literally, for four games. That’s about how many starts it took for everyone to realize that Freddy Garcia didn’t have [...]
When we last saw the Orioles, they were walking back to their dugout, having just been swept by the Yankees in the second series of the year for both squads. The Fightin’ Showalters have been hot ever since the end of that series, going 10-5 since the Yankees left the Charm City. In that span, [...]
Freddy Garcia survived his latest abomination on the mound and the promotion of D.J. Mitchell, but he’s not out of the woods yet as the Yankees have more roster decisions to make in the next coming days, at least one of which will definitely require the removal of someone currently on the Yankees’ 25 man roster.
That, of course, is the return of Brett Gardner, who is scheduled to come off of the disabled list Thursday. Since the Yankees have been carrying 13 pitchers since Gardner hurt his wrist on a sliding catch against Minnesota, it will be a pitcher who gets removed for his return as well, and the only two likely candidates are Mitchell and Garcia.
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Tonight, the Orioles will send right handed pitcher Jason Hammel to the mound in the Bronx. Originally drafted by the Rays in 2002, Hammel saw his first major league game in 2006. Although he was a highly touted pitching prospect, he spent his 3 seasons with the Rays in limbo between the rotation and the [...]
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