This Week on the Blog

This past week so the Yanks be a little more aggressive than we wanted them to be here in trade season.  There are ominous signs that they're going to keep it up. Of course, this was also the last week without Football, and the Knicks and Rangers are still both positioned to make a move or two before their training camps begin.

Yankees: Today, we'll see if the Yanks remember how to win 3 in a row, which they haven't done since early June.  It will be a little tougher than it should be since Joe Girardi used 3 of his top 4 relievers last night to cover 3 of 4 low leverage innings that could have easily been split up by Green and Warren.  Warren did pitch the ninth.  Tonight, they will be withouth Betances, and should be without DRob, who worked a simple 1-2-3, but was up 3 times Thursday night.  We'll see what the binder says about that.  It displayed a stunning level of bullpen idiocy that he probably learned from Torre, who also used to like to show off his best relievers when they weren't needed.

Tomorrow, is still an interesting day.  Luis Cessa(?????) is still scheduled to start and it felt all week that that was the slot where we'd see whichever starter they could acqure woud debut.  But nothing seems to be cooking, and they probably will, once again, work against their Mission Statement and start Cessa.  They are, apparently still in the market for more 1B's, too,

Giants: The Giants will report to training camp later this week, and may even have their first practice next Saturday.  So let's say this right now: if they get proper production for the OL, and I do think Bisnowaty could be the answer, there should be no reason why they don't win another Super Bowl.  They are loaded on O and D, and the coach must realiz that he made some playcalling and game management mistakes in his first season, so I expect that to be corrected.

Rangers:  The Rangers signed that Russian goalie, which really gives them ridiculous goalie depth, one of which will probably be packaged for a C.  Speaking of C's, the good one they have, Mika Zibanejed, still needs a new deal, and that could be announced at any time.

Knicks: Okay, for about a month it looked as though a Carmelo trade to Houston, rather than Cleveland was afoot. That changed when all dealings were paused the Knicks so they could hire a GM, and then yesterday, Cleveland might have become a little more motivated as Kyrie Irving has asked for a trade.  So there might be a possibility of a deal where Kyrie comes to the Knicks and Lee goes to Arizona for a PG that will go to Cleveland with Carmelo. Of course the Knicks have to decide whether or not they really want yet another ball dominant player.  Do they believe they can unlock his innner Michael Porter?  These are the big questions, but it seems like something that could happen.   Or Houston will finally step up.

So there it is, still ten more days or trade terror, but the Giants will be back, Judge appears to be regaining his mojo,  Now we need Sanchez to, and that this can really get fun again.  Have a great week everyone.