This Week on The Blog

This past week was a little tumultuous with the Yanks reeling for most of it, and the Giants looking like scrubs in Cincy.   Let's take a look.

Yanks:  Carlos Beltran may have gotten his signature moment as a Yankee last night.  Sheesh, was that ever huge?  But the Yanks have to do it again today.  Bird is back in the lineup at first, so I assume Tex is DH'ing.  We need a good one with no jacks from Tanaka, then hopefully Luis can go for the sweep tomorrow.  I think the Yanks may be heating up.

Meanwhile, down on the farm, Trey Amburgey, the JuCo CF we drafted and signed in the 13th or so, has been promoted from the GCL to SI.   I don't put much stock in draft year numbers, but he was destroying the GCL and it's nice to see the JuCo's move.   Also, Isiah Gilliam has hit his first bomb this morning.

Giants:  Dear lord was that ever a disgraceful effort.  The Beatty and Schwartz injuries have compromised the OL, and thus the offense.  I don't think the RT that will start the season for us is on the the team yet.   The Giants were going to have to spend another pick or two on the OL as it is, next Spring, but it might be time to spend that pick now, and make a trade.   They'll probably want to wait till final cuts to see if anyone they like hits the waiver wire, but they should really start to think about doing it now.  They HAVE TO do something here.

Knicks:  The Knicks hired a new Coach for their CBA team this past week.  He was an assistant for the Spurs CBA team last year.  It feels very much like Phil Jackson, the executive, admires the way the Spurs build their team, with the draft and stashes, etc. and he's trying to establish that sort of system with the Knicks.   Bravo.   There are far worse teams to model.

Rangers:  The Blueshirts hired two new scouts this week with good pedigrees.  Steve Greeley was an assistant coach this year for BU, but previously had been a pro-side scout for the Bruins.  He'll probably be on the pro-side fo the Rangers, and in a sense take Gorton's place in the FO.  He's only 34.  Nikolai Bobrov is the new head of international scouting.  I guess Anders split.   Anyway, he'd had that job with the Bruins, peviously and is just 39.  I assume Gorton has known them both for some time.   Oh, and they still need to make a trade -- and they could go after Robbie Russo some time this week, if it's the week he becomes available.

So, important week for the Yanks.  Slightly desperate week for the Giants.  Knicks and Rangers are smooth and steady.

Hope your weeks are better than smooth and steady.