jay destro is a yankees fantag:jaydestro.mlblogs.com,2008-03-29:/981112009-06-18T13:57:38ZMovable Type Pro 4.25the one that got away...tag:jaydestro.mlblogs.com,2009://98111.9975612009-06-18T13:30:22Z2009-06-18T13:57:38Zjaydestro Wang's performance was an improvement, but Phil's was flat out great. While you see all the unfulfilled potential Hughes has and assume that he could fill the starting role much better than Wang can RIGHT NOW, you sitll have to assume that as he gets more starts Wang will perform to his ability. Wang is a key to this rotation, if he gets going along with Sabathia and Burnett we could see a very formidable rotation come together.
Kay brought up a good point about the pitching on his show the other day. The ballpark does yield runs and you need to have pitchers that pitch against the park's strengths. So sinkerballers (Wang) and strikeout pitchers (CC, AJ and Joba) are the key to building a pitching staff. But Andy doesn't really fit in to that mold. He gets killed at Yankee Stadium lately because of the amount of long fly balls he gives up. His stuff right now hasn't been great, he's walking way too many guys and overall not avoiding the longball.
This is why the development of a guy like Phil Hughes is so important for next season. With at least three or four of your rotation slots filled up for next season, you can almost assume that it will be time for Hughes to take a full time spot into the rotation. This could ultimately save money on starting pitching and let you focus on the OF and some relievers.
Speaking of the OF spots, if Boston doesn't lock up Bay, it's really time for the Yankees to consider him as an option for left field next season. Dude seems to be really coming into his own in the American League. While Matt Holliday is also an option on the free agent market, it seems that Bay has really been a guy you can count on in the moment. A middle of the order lineup of Tex-Alex-Bay really seems to work for me.
Finally, some thoughts on last night's game, baseball and other assorted junk:
You know your team is bad when you call up Corey Patterson to help improve it.
Manny Acta doesn't deserve to lose his job.
Another young pitcher once again befuddles a team of Yankee veterans. I will never understand it.
The MLB At Bat App for the iPhone is so great. The streaming video quality over WiFi was really impressive.
Hey fans, quit booing when Alex doesn't do something, it makes you a bad fan. Regardless he is a Yankee. Booing seems to be the "cool" thing to do, I don't get it. I never boo guys on the team I root for.
Today's weather in the tri-state area plain out sucks. How are they going to get this one in?
Elijah Dukes has all the talent in the world but doesn't belong in the Majors. He really should be at AAA learning how to be a ball player.`
Nick Swisher sometimes really lets you down in big spots. He's a good guy to have around but seems to have been exposed playing every day. Xavier Nady could be back soon, which could help a lot.
Melky just isn't the same batter since that bump into the wall in Texas.
If I had to pick a Yankees pitcher is going to get a base hit in a NL park, I guess I'd have to go with CC after seeing what he did last season.
Phil Coke seems to have figured it out as of late. Nice to see considering that Marte is a total wash this season.
That's all for now, see ya on the trail...
Listening to: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted Drinking: Seltzer
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Holy Hell, another blogtag:jaydestro.mlblogs.com,2009://98111.9948012009-06-17T15:04:29Z2009-06-17T15:14:34Zjaydestro Went to last night's game at Yankee Stadium and left with a few thoughts...
Why can't the Yankees hit nobody pitchers? Martis had a 5+ ERA and managed to only give up 2 runs on four hits.
There were tons of cute girls there at the game. This is not the norm on weekend games.
The Nats are just really poor fundamentally. In the 7th inning they were playing the outfield way too shallow for the hitters the Yankees had up in those spots.
The boo birds are back out and in full force when Alex doesn't hit. His K in the 7th was pretty brutal considering the go ahead run was on base.
Sabathia tends to have that "one bad pitch" a game. He has to limit those. Anderson Hernandez is a major leaguer, I get that. But let's not give him too much credit.
Jeter was playing hurt as usual, sometimes rather than make an injury worse it's smart to lay off and sit. I guess that's why he is the captain.
Ryan Zimmerman is going to suffer a long time with that terrible team. They have nothing coming in the minors and keep putting together bad team after bad team.
Not enough people realize you can save a few bucks and bring your own food into Yankee Stadium.
Ran into Mark Newman from MLB.com last night, he was actually told by an usher he couldn't sit briefly in the seat next to me. Mark identified himself as an MLB employee and showed his badge. This didn't amount to anything as the usher still gave him a hard time.
That's all for now. I don't plan on doing anything else than speaking my mind with this blog. I am not going to report news or follow big stories. There are enough blogs that do that and I've tried it. I am not qualified to get news nor do I just want to repeat other's work.
Listening to: Elvis Costello - This Year's Model Eating: banana Drinking: seltzer ]]>