Tanaka Shines as Yanks Sweep M's
posted by Kalel9 @ 4:53 PM
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Wednesday, June 03, 2015
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posted by Kalel9 @ 4:53 PM
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Less than a week until the draft!
Yup.
I'm gonna fanboy so hard if the Yankees get Aiken.
I would be over the moon if they got Allard too.
I want them to find at least 2 great hitters.
Need some top-tier starters for sure. Only one at the upper levels right now is Severino.
Bryan Mitchell is pitching really well. ERA under 3.
So as of now I would rank the starters:
Tanaka
Pineda
Warren
CC
Eovaldi
If they continue to be in the race, will they have patience with Eovadli if Severino shows he is ready?
My guess is no.
Mitchell would probably need a complete meltdown or injury to get in the rotation.
As for drafting top tier starters, they need to give any young starter a chance before I believe it will happen. Warren would be the first starter they developed since, I can no longer recall when.
Phelps was a decent starter.
They never permitted to become an established starter here.
Nova wasn't developed here?
What is Nova? He has been a very inconsistent pitcher from season to season, and sometimes within seasons.
I just noticed that Prado has a 91 OPS+, about what he has been for the last few years.
So while they probably should have given Phelps the chance to be an established starter, some people may not think that much of Eovaldi, but unlike Prado, he does upside, and if they ultimately don't have the patience to keep him in the rotation, throwing an inning or two in the pen, he could probably get his fastball over 100.
Jennings take. If he is right, Carpenter got two months; Drew has many times that. I don't understand it.
• Along those same lines, I wonder if Girardi is doing something similar with Stephen Drew. After a couple of days off to clear his head and tweak some things, I wonder if Drew gets another week or so of everyday at-bats to see if he can right the ship before Brendan Ryan is ready. If Drew can get something going, then he’ll stick around and Jose Pirela will be optioned. If Drew continues to fall flat, then maybe Pirela gets a real opportunity, Ryan becomes the backup middle infielder, and Drew follows Carpenter into DFA limbo. Right now, I’d say the smart money is on Drew staying and Pirela going, but then again, I didn’t expect the Yankees to actually DFA Carpenter, so what do I know?
Chien-Ming Wang was the last rotation mainstay developed in-house before the injury derailed his career. Joba Chamberlain was well on the way to becoming the second one before his injury sucked the juice out of his fastball.
Wang was a guy I always liked to watch pitch, because that sinker was a thing of beauty, but I also felt his slider was under-developed when he came up. Not that it was the wrong decision to bring him up when they did, but I go back to his April 27, 2008, performance against Sabathia and the Indians, when he struck out nine in seven innings. Looking back at the GameDay feed, six of his nine Ks came on the slider (a seventh was on a "splitter" that I wonder if GameDay mistook for a slider, as I don't recall Wang having a split in his repertoire ). We got a glimpse in that game of what kind of pitcher he could really be if the slider was there. It really is a shame what happened to him (and Joba, quite frankly).
Looking back, I will say the Yankees' recent lack of success developing starters would be a much different story if those two hadn't gotten hurt. That's not to absolve the team completely — the butchering of Wang's rehab is well-documented, as is the idiotic back-and-forth between the pen and rotation for Joba — but I really do think the injuries were the primary catalyst for both players not still taking the mound every fifth day for this team.
Nova has been the closest thing to a mainstay from the farm since then, but he's been inconsistent, and last year got hurt. I'm almost inclined to have him pitch in Triple-A this season barring injuries, since you really don't know what you're getting the first year back from TJS, and I'd hate for Warren to be the odd man out with his success so far.
As an aside, does anyone else think CC needs to become the longman over the remainder of his contract, since he generally struggles the second or third time through the lineup?
Putting Joba in the pen may be the worst move they have made that I can recall, and I said it when they did it.
As for CC, who knows? Unlike Roberts or Drew, for example, he actually contributed to a championship and has a great resume, including for them.
CC actually has the same stats the 2nd time through the lineup -- it's the third time where it spikes dramatically.
But for his contract and status, I would replace him with Mitchell right now.
@Billy, thanks for the clarification.
@LINJ, with the fragility of the rotation, I'm confident Mitchell will get his shot at some point.
Mason Williams's line at SWB is now .315/.373/.444/.817.
Maybe these new developmental people in the farm system are going to pay off after all. Don't trade him for pitching, Brian; the outfielders are too injury-prone.
They really should stop making trades and just live and die with their in-house people.
Jeez. He's dangerous.
http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2015/06/04/cashman-yankees-market-right-handed-relief/
Listened to the interview, he essentially said there are in-house options he's open to, and he's also open to outside help. Also said he considers Mitchell a high-end starter that's still developing, and that there are some prospects with the potential to be guys who will "either succeed or fail" with them. So nothing really dangerous IMO.
I really do think Girardi is the main problem here as far as kids not getting extended opportunities.
I don't for one (really, many but) reason: Cashman allows it to happen, while with Torre he didn't.
That's probably the biggest mystery to me. Back then, he stressed the importance of youth. While I do think he wants to give young guys a shot now, he's not forcing Girardi's hand. Maybe he has a better relationship with him than he did Torre and doesn't want to come across as second-guessing him?
And Girardi didn't say:
Everything is more short-termed oriented. Our decision-making process, which is geared from above, we're always in win-now mode. I don't think that's ever going to change.
I've had enough conversations with the (Steinbrenner) family to know that next year's goal is to be the last team standing. So playing on the margins of building the perfect beast over time — like what you see that goes on with the Cubs and Astros — that's not going to happen here, where 'you're willing to lost a ton of games and get a ton of draft picks and live to fight another day, trade off players on a team at the deadline when your team might not look good enough so you go ahead and speed up the rebuilding process by trading veteran pieces to get young prospects so you can utilize in your seasons going forward.
That stuff is not part of the playbook here.
http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2014/10/brian_cashman_dont_expect_yankees_to_go_into_rebuilding_mode_ever.html
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Nope that is on the GM, who keeps taking the big check, unable to fully exploit the multiple and unique advantages he has.
That's a Steinbrenner mandate judging by those quotes. Don't get me wrong, I want Cashman gone (and Girardi, and Levine, and the Steinbrenners most of all), but the vision on how to run the team comes from them, make no mistake.
OT, but if you want to see something really, really sad, go visit the A-Rod Performance Thread at NYYFans. It hurts so good to read it.
The irony, of course, is that because the playbook was the pursuit the "perfect beast" immediately before Cashman become the GM, the moronic Steinbrenner spawn were able to inherit not only a very valuable asset but one that had become relevant again (let alone a model for all sports franchises).
That was because their father was pursuing the same myopic business model that they are now, with GMs, like Cashman, who were willing to do his bidding.
It took a GM like Stick who had the guts to parry George's counterproductive directives to give the franchise had a real chance to be great again.
OK, I took a quick look. Some people are nuts.
IMO, the reason many (not all) Yankee fans don't like A-Rod isn't PEDs, it's their devotion to Derek Jeter, and it has been that way since 2004.
It could never be:
"Hey, we have two great players"
Instead it was:
"I hate A-Rod for being a better on the field player than Jeter."
George King the Whatever has a quote from a scout that the Yankees need another starter.
It's a psychosis.
And no doubt King has the perfect trade, Severino and Judge for Dillon Gee.
The names mentioned were Hamels and Cueto.
Of course, it never dawns on the anon scouts that but for A-Rod and Tex, this team would be tanking, and the chances of both being over .900 OPS (let alone ,850) and healthy, is something less than 100%
Note: A-Rod is at .880.
Per Heyman, the Yankees are interested in Ben Zobrist and are "surprised" Pirela hasn't hit so far. Is it really that surprising that a guy who doesn't play regularly isn't hitting?
That's why it is not all on Joey G. The GM is a jerk.
Drew again it's so tedious
I predict he has until Ryan's impending call up to show us something. Then, if nothing, he gets cut when Ryan comes up and Pirela gets the starts.
TBH, I would take Drew over Ryan, and that's an easy call for me.
They are skipping Pineda's start on Sunday. He won't pitch until June 12th.
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Ugh, Drew is doing just enough not to get cut.
Oh, hey, I see Anonymous the Troll returned only to have his comment get deleted. Must've been cheerleading for Drew. Oh well.
He's like a thirsty lost soul in the desert who found a shot glass full of dirty water.
Definitely a Met or Sawx fan.
I think he's a Yankees fan who probably thinks a lot like us in reality but loves to troll. Phil seems to have gotten sick of the act, though.
Saw your tweet. Prayers for the fan who was hit by the piece of a bat.
Something is going to have to be done to protect fans. And unfortunately, eventually a player is going to be seriously hurt.
Unbelievable that Betances had to come in this inning. Get rid of Rogers and Capuano now. They bring nothing to this roster.
LINJ -- I was making a sarcastic reference to King's eagerness to swap any prospect who shows signs of promise for some washed up vet. Cheers! S68.
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