After Burnett blows up, Girardi unveils new rotation strategy
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:41 pm by SJK
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just like when you guys unveiled the new format for the site.
Very clever.
I’m not worried though, it’s very similar to last year’s situation.
You forgot about Nova.
Not trying to defend AJ in any way, shape or form here, but he didn’t win any games in August last year either. That’s kind of a silver lining. MAYBE he’ll turn it around.
However, I do think they should skip his next start and have him work with Eiland.
A simple step Girardi can take is pulling Burnett before he gives up seven, or eight, or nine runs. It seems that in many of his starts, Burnett gets torched for a few runs in the first or second inning and then stays in long enough for the game to get out of reach. With Freddy Garcia on the mound, despite how he pitched tonight, 4-0 is still a game. Burnett hasn’t earned the leeway Girardi gives him.
This is the funniest i have seen in a long time! HAha
Is there any question about Texas being the best team in the AL right now? I hope the tune changes this time next month but they’re looking pretty unbeatable. Hamilton (MVP) and Lee (Best K:BB in decades) are not going to lose a short series and would be terrifying in a 7 game set.
First we’ll use Sabathia
then we’ll pray for Pettitte
Then an off day
followed by rain
Back will come Sabathia
followed by us still praying for Pettitte
And followed
we hope
by two days of rain.
Texas looks great against garbage but if the playoffs started today they would be 6-12 combined against the teams they would face. Anybody can look good playing Seattle, Oakland, and Angels all year long.
“Is there any question about Texas being the best team in the AL right now?”
Their rotation isn’t exactly proven. It’s Lee and then a bunch of guys having career years. I’m inclined to think most of their starters are performing over their heads, but that’s just me.
I would take the “bunch of guys having career years” over what I’ve seen from Burnett and Vazquez for most of this season.
Yanks probably won’t go that deep into the rotation. Vasquez isn’t going to be making any post-season starts. If he is, things are already over. Pettitte returning helps a bunch. I’m not exactly exuberant about the situation, but I wouldn’t say the Rangers are far and away the best. They’re certainly in contention, but a Hamilton cold streak dooms them.
WTF. If they keep playing like shit, I’m gonna come back and kick their complacent asses. Jeter, stop worrying about your goddam wedding and start hitting the motherf**kin’ ball. Tex, I ain’t paying you 25 million bucks to hit .250! And Burnett… holy sh*t, don’t get me started!
Sabathia and then what? Burnett? NO. Nova? Not yet. Vazquez? NO. CJ Wilson is having a better year than all of the Yankee starters not named Sabathia this year. Sorry Gary, but face fact. Hughes is having a good year but INNINGS LIMIT limit him, and, BTW, he hasn’t been exactly effective the last few weeks. Yanks are NOT winning it all this year.
“…and, BTW, he hasn’t been exactly effective the last few weeks.”
He blew up in his last start. His five starts before that however: 29.1 innings, 3.38 ERA, 20 K, 6 BB. That’s pretty damned effective if you ask me. I agree that the innings limit hurts, but who knows? Maybe they decide to push it.
“Yanks are NOT winning it all this year.”
I’m not saying they will. It’s never a given. I’m just saying I’m not that intimidated by Texas. It’s also way easier to say they won’t than they will. The odds are clearly against any single team.
“CJ Wilson is having a better year than all of the Yankee starters not named Sabathia…”
He’s also been pretty lucky. Most of their pitching staff has overachieved. The Rangers are a good team. Are they the best in the AL? I don’t think so. That’s not Yankee homerism, that’s objective opinion.
No Maas messed this up.
It should have been Girardi throwing a B-12 needle at a dartboard and hoping for the best.
Eh…. we get Pettitte back, hope for lightning in a bottle with Burnett like last year, and think that Hughes can throw some decent innings in the post-season.
Remember the WS last year? We lose the first game that CC throws. If I told you that we lost Game 1 of the WS with CC on the bump and we only used 3 SPs, yet we still won the WS in 6, you would tell me I was insane. That’s the nature of playoff baseball.
I’m willing to roll with dice with the 4 guys we have, take the best 3 if we have to, and simply do what we have to do. Hopefully it works out. Stranger things have happened and will happen again.
Hey, Hughes last start was rough, but you can give him some credit.
@History Professor
More importantly, AJ isn’t just shit. He’s either really good or really bad any given day. At some point pretty far into the season he was leading the majors in shutout appearances… He’ll on any given day give you a line of 7.0 IP 0 ER 0 R 8K 1 BB, or 3.1 IP 15 ER 17 R 1 K 8 BB. Ok the latter was a bit exaggerated but I’m sure you get my point.
Some of you people sound like you think the Yanks are actually going to finish higher than third in the AL East this year.
That can be stressful and you should be more realistic.
Unecessary disappointment in that approach.
I am starting to think that Mosely and Nova are the Yankees 2nd and 3rd best pitchers?
This time certainly is not good enough to play with my Big Red Machine of the 70′s. I’d say this team sucks hard enough to not make the playoffs at this point.
Toronto has our number this year, and AJ imploded. We still have the top record in baseball.
Meh..
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Double shot of this.
Get your own act you unoriginal piece of shit.
“Shit” is an anagram for “this.”
Can’t there be more than one Average RAB Guy?
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nomaas: when you’re not being vulgar, you’re the best
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I’m fairly certain Andy_C is either a member of AJs family, his agent, or AJ himself. In his 12 losses, he averages under 5 innings, has given up 89 hits, walked 35 guys, while K’ing only 45, not to mention allowing 16 HRs. That’s just this season, I can go back farther if you’d like. No one is perfect, everyone struggles now and then. But when he has a bad outing, he gives his team such a small chance to win, it’s insane. Is all that, plus 16 million dollars a season, worth a good performance every once in a while?
Oh but wait, he won Game 2 of last season’s World Series. He should be allowed to go out every 5 games and give it his best………
We also assume you’re for the argument that Matsui should have been resigned and allowed to hit clean-up this season because he OPS’ed 2.027 in the World Series.
@DormantUlcer:
1) I am not AJ, related to him or his agent. I promise you that.
2) I said, “Not trying to defend AJ in any way, shape or form here, but he didn’t win any games in August last year either. That’s kind of a silver lining. MAYBE he’ll turn it around. However, I do think they should skip his next start and have him work with Eiland.”
As I wrote above, I wasn’t trying to defend AJ by any means. I was simply looking for some sort of bright side. Forgive me for not being a bridge-jumping pessimist like most. I also said that I thought he should be skipped.
3)Do you know how many times this season CC has held opponents to 2 earned runs or less? 14. Do you know how many times AJ has done that? 12. (OK, now I am trying to defend him.) My point is that I have not thrown AJ out with the proverbial bathwater. I still have faith that Eiland and CO. can fix him.
4) I didn’t want them to re-sign Matsui this season. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even think he should’ve gotten the MVP of the WS.
Ok Andy I am curious who did desreve the WS MVP….I don’t think it was Matsui either
@ Andy_C_Burnett
What is there to fix? He isn’t broken. This is who he is. You don’t fix who you are. He has (or had) stuff that was good enough to dominate, but he has no control of it. For every good game, he tosses a piece of shit game that makes people want to cancel their cable and crawl in a cave for years. Not lately. Not this year. His whole career. It’s all a matter of whether teams are willing to give up the clunkers in exchange for the good game. Apparently New York thought that was worth 16.5 mil. And apparently you think that’s a good enough investment to hang some faith on.
Something about old dogs and new tricks….
And the answer was : Hideki Matsui deserved the MVP for the World Series. Would they have won without him? Probably. But when that’s the case, you give it to the guy who had the best series. He OPSed 2.027 with three bombs. Reasonably cut and dry.
@Phieleblunt
I think Mo deserved the WS MVP. If they don’t have Mo they probably don’t win.
Look here fuckers: 79 wins, ALL Sabathia’s. Derek sucks, AJ should be traded, forget Andy_C_23′s valid point of the 12 starts 2 runs below (think he actually leads the league in scoreless innings). ARod isnt doing shit – The fact that he’s 3rd in RBI’s in the LEAGUE is junk. Yanks scored 12 tonight with a mix-match line up. Throw it all in! The season’s over! Pessimist douchebags rejoice in the streets and stroke each other!!!! PS, my dead hamster can do better photoshops!
Agreed if they had switched Mo with Lidge they probably would have been swept
“Can’t there be more than one Average RAB Guy?”
I suppose…this.
Girardi isn’t really planning on having all those games rained out. I don’t know where you get your facts. This makes me very angry. I’m offended, too, as usual. Rain is a real thing and shouldn’t be made fun of.
Wait. What? A joke? What’s that?
Always bat a double play specialist after your top on base guy.
Pettitte is the key. If he does not come back full throttle, this season is done. Without him, chances for the ring are in the shitter..
worth mentioning that Javy and AJ ‘could’ string together 6 innings between the both of them to get us to Wood/Joba/Robertson/Mo. it only needs to happen 3 times in the playoffs… I mean, shit…. so what if that will cost us $22.5M