The 2009 New York Yankees Thread

in my estimation, they've got to be one of the luckiest .500 teams in history. They've had losses where they gave up 22, 15 and 16. The bullpen is the worst in baseball and has two late-inning guys on the DL. Three starting position players are on the DL and one starting pitcher, who has 47 wins over the past three seasons is on the DL while two hired guns have yet to find their groove.

I have no idea what will happen when players start coming back, but considering everything so far, they're very lucky to be a .500 team that frankly even when at full strength and normal performance might not be better than the Red Sox.

Solat13 wrote:

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

in my estimation, they've got to be one of the luckiest .500 teams in history. They've had losses where they gave up 22, 15 and 16. The bullpen is the worst in baseball and has two late-inning guys on the DL. Three starting position players are on the DL and one starting pitcher, who has 47 wins over the past three seasons is on the DL while two hired guns have yet to find their groove.

I have no idea what will happen when players start coming back, but considering everything so far, they're very lucky to be a .500 team that frankly even when at full strength and normal performance might not be better than the Red Sox.

You know what they say - $200 million doesn't always get you a very good team.

It apparently doesn't get leave you very much money for a good bench, (nothing says rally time in the eighth when brett gardner pinch hitting in the eighth is your move) and a good bullpen, especially when you spent all that money putting a martini bar, a streakhouse and a hard rock cafe in your new stadium. But hey, at least I got a foul ball..

The last time the Yankees opened with five straight losses to the Red Sox was 1985. That was part of Yogi Berra's 6-10 start, which led to his firing and ushering in of Billy 4. I'm pretty sure that won't happen here since the Steinbrenner in charge doesn't fire people like a bodily function.

Holy Cow!!! Back to back homers (crawford and longoria) off rivera!!!! He loses the game.

im giving girardi a month!

Rivera's velocity is diminished following the offseason shoulder surgery.


To show you how much they miss Rodriguez take a look at this telling comparsion

Evan Longoria, 10 home runs, 38 RBI
Yankee fill-in third baseman 0 home runs, 8 RBI

Another injury tonight, Jose Molina. They don't have another catcher on the 40-man roster, meaning that someone will have to be purchased from Triple-AAA. That could be either Kevin Cash or Chris Stewart (barring trade).

The last time Rivera gave up two home runs was 7/18/1998 at Toronto when Mike Stanley and Ed Sprgue connected.

Yankees are 6-for-43 with RISP the last five games and have fallen behind by three runs in each of the last four games. The last four games have seen them allow a combined 15 runs before they scored their first run.

right that was the first time. Good call on Lowell, as well. I just cited Longoria since they were playing Tampa Bay.

What also gets lost in this game is the run that Jose Veras gave up in the seventh. That made it 6-4 and if it stayed 5-4, Damon's home run would been the likely game-winner assuming Rivera closes it out.

JonnyPistachio wrote:

i'm thinking of sending over my resume for middle relief. I think i can still hit about 78 on the radar guns.

but can you locate your pitches properly?

CROJAM95 wrote:

Obviously the Orioles suck, and its 1 game........it was crazy to see him take the 1st pitch out on a ball with velocity on the inside half. The best part was that the Yankees looked like they were having fun again, they need to relax and wear out starting pitchers. Guys will be comin back as the season goes along, even though a lot of the youngers guys in the bullpen are not gettin it done, its good to take ur lumps early


and CC looked awesome...I'm not worried about him, last year he started slow

I've never been worried about CC. You do get concerned when A-Rod says it's 50-50 he will need another hip surgery though.