only thing that bothered me somewhat about last night’s game was A-Rods AB where he hit into a double play. The slider Tomko threw him wasn’t a pitch to swing at if you’re first-pitch swinging. It did not start out over the plate and then break down and away sharply. It was low and away before its break and after it broke it was a pitch that could not be hit hard anywhere. He should not have been fooled by that. It was never in a good hitting area. I know the stats show A-Rod has gotten many hits that have either put the Yanks ahead or tied the game and that stands for something, but a lot of times when he’s up with RISP I expect pretty much what happened last night or twice last week against Scott Richmond. He just seems too jumpy. Other than that they hit some balls hard last night that were caught and it’ was their 14th game in 14 days and there’s been some travel (NY-Seattle, Seattle-Oakland). It was a strange game.

We have 2 highly touted catchng prospects almost ready now, Pasada is now 38 years old. We also have emergency temp fill-in (Cervelli), why even draft this JR unless he is so special, and if he is, me bad? I think he may go for the pitching that wasn’t available in the draft this year. Don’t be surprised if he isn’t traded in the near future.

Unless the twins keep him, the yankees should consider mauer.
That would be a hell of a lineup.
Cervelli can be molina’s replacement/ maybe DH if he turns out to always hit as well as he did.

In case anyone’s coming to Boston this weekend for the series, Bar10 (my fave in Boston) at The Westin Copley Place in Back Bay is having a huge pre-game event, a NY vs. Boston battle of the beers and chowder. Beers are only $2, Brooklyn Lager I think.
Safe travels.

Lots of people have brought up his lack of arm strength: I have two things to say regarding that.
1.) He’s only 19 years old, his body and strength are still a work in progress that will increase over time.
2.) If you frequent baseballprospectus.com or have read Baseball Between the Numbers, you know their thoughts on a catcher’s defense. Their study narrowed what a catcher does on defense to ten things, one of these was throw out runner, while the other 9 dealt with working with the pitcher. They also looked at CERA (Catcher’s ERA) and whether or not a catcher influences the way a pitcher performs. All their findings pointed to a very very small correlation between pitcher performance and who was catching. Even if Montero winds up a poor defensive catcher, he’s likely to only be a couple runs below replacement. However, if he has the power bat he’s shown in the minors along with the patience and on base ability we’ve already seen, a couple dozen runs above replacement is easily attainable.

Of course, this whole point is unimportant if we give Mauer $200 million.