This Week on the Blog

Alright, Yanks and Giants both won last night and Vitali Kravstov went off in his first U20 Game. Not bad.  Now let's take a look at this week.

Yankees: JA Happ is outpitching all of the Yankee mid-season starters since David Cone.  That's a frequency of 23 years. Something to think about. Short season teams end their seasons over the next few days, and a few of them might move up for the last ten days of the short season teams. The rest will either head to Tampa for instructs or head to the DR for Dominican Instructs. Boone has been problematic, particularly with his lineups and his feel for the pitching staff.  But there have been big injuries to crucial players and he'll probably get a new pitching coach and perhaps some other new coaches next season,

Giants: The Giants have to start making cuts this week, and will play their final game, against the Pats, on August 30th. That game could feature the final battle between Davis Webb and Kyle Lauletta.  In fact, in fairness, Lualetta should get a chance to run with the ones early in the game. All that said, and perhaps even more importantly, other teams will start making their cuts, too, and the Giants have the #2 pick in the waiver order - so should really be able to swap out some talent between now and the regular season.  In last night's game Evan Engram was concussed and Rhett Ellison got poked in the eye. Those are both scary as you can recall what a poke in the eye did to our old C Brian Williams. Rings of harmony around those two.

Knicks: The Knicks are up in Westchester with their super psyched Coach. Hopefully, the culture is conforming to winning expectations and demands.  Courtney Lee's name came up as a trade piece in the past few days and it's unknown if that's real or just his agent trying to market him. Maybe they can get something done there.

Rangers: Vitali Kravstov continues to crush.  Yesterday, against Sweden and Ranger a couple of other Ranger kids, Kravstov had a goal, and primary asssist on another goal, and scored again in the shoootout. Impressive.  In other news the Rangers still haven't made a trade since the draft. It's been a pretty slow trade season all around the NHL. Perhaps it will pick up as camps open next month,

So there we are.  The Yanks need to keep winning, the Giants need to stay healthy and make good roster/waiver decisions.  The Knicks need to keep doing what they're doing and the Rangers can stand pat as long as the kids like Kravstov keep improving.   Have a great week.