IPK Postgame

by matthaggs on Aug 9, 2008 2:23 AM EDT

I got home in time to see IPK on the YES postgame show.

I wanted the Yanks to give him the ball tonight, but there's no defending that performance, unless of course, you're Ian Kennedy.

Yes, he gave up a few bloop hits and some ground ball singles. But he also got ROCKED. And of the six outs he recorded, one was a rocket that took a lucky bounce off the pitchers mound, and the other Melky caught about 5 feet from the centerfield fence.

And he stands there in the locker room afterwards thinking he pitched pretty well, "and that's all that matters". Um, not exactly Ian.

KIM JONES: Were you surprised that Joe Girardi took you out of the game?

KENNEDY: A little bit, yeah.

Are you kidding me? You're a rookie, you enter the game with an ERA above 7, you give up 9 hits in 2+ innings and you have the balls to say you were surprised that your manager pulled your ass out of the game?

Gimme a break. In his head he thinks he's Mike Mussina. Too bad he's got the arm of Mike Maddux.

You have to see the postgame reaction of IPK to believe it. It's getting harder and harder to want this kid to do well.

Pete Abe has a good writeup of it. Nice Pettitte reference:

http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/08/09/kennedy-im-just-not-real-upset/

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After his Toronto game last year

I thought he had a good chance. Not any more. I remember when Mark T was going to be traded from Texas last year and I wanted IPK and some others thrown in to get him.
Cashman did well to get Nady and Marte w/o trading the high ceiling prospects, well when you can get a good young MLB ready talent in return you take the sure thing.

You can’t trust what Cashman says on Santana because now when he talks about it he says Minny wanted IPK, Hughes, Wang, and ARod for Johan. ,,,but throwing only 90 mph, if he can’t paint he can’t win. He only has a 10 mph differential. He needs to work on another pitch. Maybe a splittter…I don’t know. I don’t think he has the mental toughness to play in NY anymore..

by John Amato on Aug 9, 2008 1:43 PM EDT 0 recs

Can't trust what Cashman says?

Now it’s certainly true that the Yanks aren’t exactly forthright in relinquishing guarded information from behind the scenes, especially the injury status of his players, but that’s completely different than calling the man a liar based on his answer to a question on a radio show.

We have no reason to believe that he was lying to M&MD about the details of the proposed Santana deal. I wasn’t in the room when the deal was discussed so I have no evidence to suggest the man’s a liar.

What Kennedy did last night on and off the field was troubling to say the least, I’m not going to write off his entire career just yet.

Kennedy’s performance last night shouldn’t have anything to do with Santana because he was no centerpiece of any deal.

But since we’re on the topic of Santana, he isn’t exactly lighting up the NL right now – so I would cringe to think what kind of numbers he’d be posting in the AL over the next few years.

Sabathia has gone over to the NL and has been completely unhittable in a big hitters’ ballpark. Even more dominant than he had been the last few months in Cleveland. But Santana’s numbers this year are going in the opposite direction – and in a pitchers’ ball park no less.

Santana’s velocity is down, his K totals are down, and his HR totals are trending up. Most importantly, he’s doing all of it in an inferior league.

Santana should be dominating the NL. He’s not. He’s been good and very good for the most part, but he’s not putting up CY Young numbers that he should be.

by anaconda on Aug 9, 2008 2:24 PM EDT up 0 recs