Betances

Wow.  Has Dellin Betances been electric.   Right now he 39K's in 22.1 ip and his WHIP is .94.   Dominance.   Seems like just yesterday we were waiting for him to be our next great homegrown starter, and last night he looked like Mo `96.   Unfortunately, I think they'll probably leave him in the pen, though he now says he's really comfortable there, so he might not want to go back to starting.    That's too bad, because beyond Tanaka we don't have much.

Whitley probably earned another start last night.  PitchFX showed he was getting squeezed in the 5th, but he did some really good things.   First time through the order he used fastball/change.  Second time through he went fastball/slider.   So he had a plan.  Bryan Mitchell is off the DL, so he might replace Nuno or one of the others soon. I don't know if we're going to make a trade for more or not.

Yesterday, Hal intimated that they might make a move for more pitching.  But they should really wait and see if the middle of the order guys like McCann and Soriano are ever going to start hitting consistently.  McCann's current OBP is under .300 and that's pathetic.   He swings at a lot of ball 4's and that's ridiculous.  I think it would have been more fun, and we might have been a better team if we'd just turned C over to Murphy and spent the McCann/Beltran money on Sin Soo Choo, who'd hitting better than our for hires and was build for YS.     Grim construction.

At least it's fun watching Tanaka and Betances.   Robeertson's fun, too.  And Warren may be part of the solution.