This Week on the Blog

This past week was interesting for the Giants and Yanks and sort of crummy for the Rangers and Knicks.  Let's take a look at how next week could be better.

Yanks: Yesterday, Tanaka, Jordan Montgomery and Chasen Shreve combined to no-hit the Detroit Tigers.  That's not just cool cause it was a no-no, but greart news because Tanaka has been absolutely lights out this Spring, complete with what maybe the best splitter in baseball, and Montgomery has continued to impove and put himself on the map. It's also good that Shreve, who looked good for part of a season a few years ago, is looking good again.  Depending on his health, the Yanks might want to just extend Tanaka now, since he's not only an ACE, but he's also all about helping the kids.  He's encouraged Severino to be patient, and wrote it on his hat, and has been. They say Montgomery will get a start this coming week, and that could be big.  He's stretched out enough to join the rotation and if it's he and Severino at 4 and 5, we'll have nice diversity of stuff across the staff.  In other news, someone (probably CC) is just keeping a spot warm for Kaprielian who is the real deal and will roll through the minors this year.  Also, Greg Bird is looking like an all-star, and Cash should sell high on Didi or take on money to move Starlin, because Gleyber Torres is better than both of them.

Giants: This week the Giants re-signed JPP, making him the first Jerry Reese first rounder to earn a second deal.  And that just shows you how bad the injury luck was with Phillips, Nicks, Wilson, Prince and others.  Right now, the Giants need to move more cap around if they want to retain Hankins.  If they don't they would probably have to spend a high pick on a DT, although, Robert Thomas was impressive when he got in there last year, and they may not want to tie up another 8 per year or whatever Hankins will cost, on the DL.  Beyond that, the Giant scouts are all over the country this week attending pro-days.

Rangers: Tanner Glass is one of the reasons I didn't want to extend AV.  At the time, several weeks ago, I was assured that that era was over.  Now we are losing games and AV is sitting Buchnevich, the most talented guy on the team, for Tanner fricking glass.  AV has been lucky, not bright, in his career, and it's hard to watch them give away games like they have through his decision making.  This could have been a special year.  In other news, the Rangers have signed Sean Day and Tim Gettinger to their entry level deals.  They'll probably join Hartford when their seasons are over.  Day could eventually be the offensive defenseman we've been looking for since Leetch was sent away.

Knicks: Three years into the Jackson reign, the questions are becoming louder and more fequent. They should end up in the lottery and a good draft and FA period could maybe turn things around.  But they have to get rid of Melo and Rose.

So there we are.  And as always, have a great week!