This Week on the Blog
Giants: The Giants play their second preseason game, and it looks like the starting O will debut and maybe play the first two quarters. The Giants are still looking to straighten the DE and DT rotations, find the best starting 5 for the OL, find LB depth, corner depth, and 4th safety, and on an on. No crazy needs other than OL consistency, but lacking depth in some crucial places. They probably will be able to trade a DE or two as the preseason shakes out.
Yanks: Sonny Gray's going to try to get the Yanks a series win in about half an hour. Meanwhile, Greg Bird has been hitting the ball hard in rehab and should be back this week. That's as big a bat as anyone is getting before the waiver trade deadline. They're still sort of jammed up on the 40 so we'll see what they do. Down on the farm, the pitching has been really impressive, especially Trevor Stephan who threw 5 or 6 no-hit innings last night. He's a very intriguing college arm who needs a promotion. Guzman has also been great, as have most of them. The long term outlook is great.
Rangers: The Rangers may or may not need another C, and may or may not trade for one at any minute.
Knicks: Great seeing KP looking so good in international play. They still have to make some trades to get rid of Courtney Lee and Carmelo, we'll see if the new crew can do it.
So there it is. We want no injuries for the Giants and for Greg Bird to comeback and re-ignite the Yankee offense, as he is capable of doing. And we could hear of a Knick or Ranger trade at any time now. Should be a great week.
posted by Kalel9 @ 10:03 AM
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Hicks has sucked since I complemented him, so it won't happen again. #ReverseMojo
Phil, wasn't sure if you saw this question, so I'll repeat it here: I saw you mention on Twitter you want Brian Butterfield to replace Girardi. Is that in reference to the Sox's third-base coach? And why him specifically?
The offensive inconsistency has made this a frustrating team to watch.
Kinda wishing Girardi had pinch-hit Ellsbury for Judge in the eighth so he could have ended that stupid consecutive games with a K streak.
They HAVE to move him down in the order, right?
He said after last night's game that he won't. OTOH, he flipped quickly on Chapman.
They should make that WC, and if they advance the season will be viewed as a success.
But Hal saying not making the playoffs is a failure reveals how he ordered the trades despite it being premature to do so.
That may also be a tell on the off-season strategy.
Struggling has seemed to affect Kahnle's confidence.
This team has a bad manager and unresourceful coaches. Girardi and Pena haven't been able to help Gary block balls? Or haven't tried? They must be awful teachers. And no way in hell should Judge be in his slump for seven weeks or whatever it's been. He's an unproductive player at the point and should be sat down or sent down. Austin could have played RF today.
RFBlues, Butterfield was one of our minor league coaches for a long time before leaving the system for the Jays then the Sox. He deserves a shot and I hope it will be with the Yanks.
I think Judge should sit for 2 days to regroup, similar to what Boston did to Benintendi earlier this year. His ABs are not good.
Mike- if you PH for Judge in the 8th just to break the streak, that sends a message that you care about it as an organization. He's also supposed to be our 3 hitter, so this would also be a bad move for his confidence.
The streak is something no one cares about except for the media. A strikeout is an out, he has an enormous zone, so he will always have them. If he was having quality AB, then I wouldn't be worried but he simply isn't at this time.
I agree about strikeouts, but far too much is made about where a hitter bats in the lineup in general, and Girardi takes it to an even more ridiculous level. That was one good thing about the real Billy Martin. He was flexible and adaptable, at least with on the field decisions.
Again, as we have said, the current coaching staff needs to be re-examined immediately. Slumps should not last this long and although that's primarily on the player it's not entirely on the player.
In that regard, I'm concerned about Kahnle. He had the luxury of working with Cooper, and Rothschild isn't nearly as good. I think he's vulnerable because he hasn't had a multi-year stretch of good performances.
Via RLYW
Monday, August 21, 2017
The Ringer: What’s Wrong With Aroldis Chapman?
Throwing from a slightly lower arm slot, with a slightly more exaggerated elbow angle, is not per se an indicator of injury, and normally it could be attributed to a minor mechanical blip, the likes of which fellow Yankee—and new closer—Dellin Betances experienced earlier this summer. But combined with Chapman’s recent injury history, it represents a more serious sign of concern. In the book Complete Conditioning for Baseball, collegiate strength and conditioning coach Steve Tamborra writes, “There is no ideal angle between the arm and the head during the throwing motion, but pitchers tend to lower their angle when protecting a weak or injured shoulder.”
This is still just an observation, and it’s impossible to link it explicitly to Chapman’s struggles—again, his aggregate velocity and location are doing just fine, and both Chapman and Girardi contend that the lefty isn’t hurt. But it’s a new Chapman, and it’s a worse Chapman, so it’s reasonable to suppose that some connection exists.
If it’s an injury, we can count on the Yankees’ crack medical staff to get to the bottom of it.
Whatever it is, the Chapman contract is already looking like a dud. Not as bad as the Smellsbury contract, but a dud.
I miss Mariano Rivera terribly.
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Greg Bird is already one for one with a single off another lefty tonight.
So Judge has a left shoulder issue that may or may not be affecting him. He says it isn't.
Getting the Nets pick is huge for Cleveland, and obviously they will never trade that for Melo. That may have been the worst trade in the history of basketball loads the firsts for aging veterans...dumb as shit.
Without looking at the stats, this seems like the best offense output in months.
Girardi leaves a starter in too long again.
Eh, disagree. The score was a blowout, and he was under 100 pitches. Save the important bullpen guys.
So we have wondered about some other organizational coach fixing Judge:
http://nypost.com/2017/08/23/aaron-judges-old-hitting-coach-knows-why-his-ex-pupil-is-off/
“For me, the biggest problem is his head movement,” Wilson said before the Yankees’ 13-4 blowout win over the Tigers on Tuesday night. “He’s coming forward just a little bit and going up and down and that changes his ‘read mode.’ Your eyes are giving you bad info and you end up chasing more.”
RAB
Following last night’s performance Sanchez is hitting .304/.375/.739 (183 wRC+) with nine home runs in August, and .274/.348/.536 (131 wRC+) with 25 home runs overall. The franchise record for home runs in a season by a catcher is 30 by Jorge Posada (2003) and Yogi Berra (1952, 1956). Sanchez might get there by the end of August despite missing just about the entire month of April with a hamstring strain.
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Is that hyperbole? Premature, maybe? No. It’s not. Sanchez, even with the passed ball issues, is an impact player on both sides of the ball. He’s the best power hitting catcher in baseball and one of the best throwers and pitch-framers. Gary’s blocking is an obvious deficiency he needs to work to improve, and he will. And you know what? Even if he never improves, he still does enough to help the Yankees win. More than enough.
RF, they said they were giving Tanaka an 80 pitch limit since he was just off the DL. That's why I brought that up.
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