Yankees 10, White Sox 0: Backup Plan Indeed
by jscape2000 on Aug 29, 2009 5:13 PM EDT
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PrintSergio Mitre didn't need no stinkin' backup plan.
He carried a one-hit shutout into the seventh, pounding the zone, and drawing grounder after grounder off the White Sox bats with his sinker. If everyone's favorite player to hate (AJ Pierzininkowitzquy) hadn't hit Mitre with a comebacker, Mitre (73 pitches) might have finished the game.
This is the fifth starter, ladies and gentlemen. Pick up his option.
The relentless offense won another series, and Robbie might finally be rolling- 3 hits, 2 RBIs.
Is Jerry Hairston Jr. an important free agent? The righty went 1-3 with 2 RBI, and played center, right, and shortstop. Give him a Jose Molina-esque 2 year deal. Partner him with defensive youngsters like Cervelli and Pena, and a pinch hitter with a little more pop (Matsui?); the Yanks will have their strongest bench since the legendary Chili Davis.
The Yankees are 19-7 in August, 30-11 since the All-Star Break.
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if he could even come close to doing what he did today on a somewhat regular basis he could be a playoff pitcher and then we wouldnt worry about joba
Exactly!
At this point, I trust a Mitre/Gaudin Frankenstein monster as a 4th starter much more than I trust Joba, who is best suited for 1 inning of lights out stuff. Keep Aceves as the long man.
by PortlandYankee on Aug 29, 2009 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Wrong.
Joba is a starter. Joba will do what Mitre did today far more often than Mitre will.
"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
Maybe for his career…but for the rest of the season?
Where does it make sense to put him right now…ineffective 4th starter or possibly dominant late-inning man? Are 5 more 3 inning starts really what we want from Joba for the rest of the season, or 15 1 inning stints to close down the 7th or spell Hughes in the 8th?
He can always be slotted back into the rotation in the Spring, and the Joba Project can move forward. But doesn’t have it right now, and the trends aren’t good.
3 bad starts to finish the 1st half (15 ER, 13 IP).
3 really good starts to start the 2nd half (14 ER in 27 IP).
3 bad and 1 mediocre starts since Aug. 1. (19 ER, 20 IP)
Mitre has shown he’s no reliever (4 ER in 2 IP against Boston last weekend), but in his last four starts (since Aug. 1) he’s allowed 7 ER in 23 IP.
The competition has been a bit weaker (both started against SEA and TOR, but Joba also started against BOS and TEX, while Mitre started against TOR [again] and CHW) but I would say there’s enough evidence to suggest that Joba and Mitre are about a wash as starters at this point, and Joba has just hit his wall for the year as a starter, and should be shut down for September and re-purposed as a reliever for the playoffs.
by PortlandYankee on Aug 29, 2009 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Mia Culpa
I think I misunderstood what you were saying.
Joba should be a starter for his career. But if they were going to move him to the 8th, why not swap him with Hughes?
"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
Hairston is really earning his pinstripes
such an underrated pickup
Greatest play at 2B I have ever seen!
I have been watching baseball since I was 7 years old, ah that’s a lot of years LOL!
But I have never seen a second baseman make the play Cano did today.
Oh I have seen the same play made before, but not that deep in center field as Cano was, and no where near the type of throw he made. He must be strong as hell LOL!
you know things are going our way
Question: Did aliens abscond with our Sergio Mitre – and who is this pitcher of impressive bearing?
On a day when he one hit the White Sox, Mitre saved yis pinstripe career. The guy might have a future, nu?
ONE HIT!!! who’d a thunk? Girardi, that’s who. He predicted Sergio’s ball had movement, once he kept it down in the zone and it was moving, zip, zip, zip. Eiland gets credit, too, for sure.
The White Sox got zippo. Contreras continues to confound logic; pockets full of money, heart empty, fastball in decline.
Peavey’s arm won’t rescue the Chicago southsiders’ season. The Sergio+Chad turns out (for now, remember) to be a good debut, a filthy gambit. It takes pressure off of The Two.
Now, if only Joba learns to throw the four seamer when it calls for the four seamer and the two seamer when the situation needs, gets first pitches in for strikes and the offense hits when he pitches, and watch out, baby.
Robbie, as predicted, stopped pouting and started producing. Good going, CYC. Here’s to more pie-ing.
ejs
Before Everone Gets All Crazy
Sergio “Valente” Mitre needs to do this again! I don’t want to come back to this site in 5 or so days and see everyone pissed b/c Sergio sucked again. Kinda like Joba and his good days BAD DAYS! It drives us crazy so before we turn Sergio “CyYoung” Mitre into this awesome pitcher lets wait and see.
Great start by Mitre
As a 5 starter, if he pitches anywhere close to this good on a regular basis than he definately deserves to stay in the 5 spot until Chien-Ming Wang returns to form. Jeez if Cano was in a slump before, I wonder what he’ll look like on a hot streak? .320? .325? Regular base hits with RISP?
Agreed
was today and yesterday Invasion of the Body Snatchers?? Who are these people and what did they do with Mitre and Cano?
"I don't want one of those guys who'll drive in two but let in three every game." Casey Stengel
by tnredneckyankeesfan on Aug 29, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Mitre...
don’t know, but I’ve mentioned a few times that he was due for a game similar to this.
Cano’s BEEN gold in late innings like that. During the regular game time, with RISP he’s Coco Crisp…but at the end of the game he’s been Pujolsian.
Cano’s simply one of the weirdest hitters in the game. The guy has the talent to be (insert HOF lefty’s name) good, but there is something in that brain of his that makes him not.
One of these seasons, Robbie’s gonna have a .350 30HR 100RBI type season. People will call ROIDS, but its just Robbie being Robbie……
GODZZIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
by FreeBradshaw on Aug 29, 2009 10:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Mitre was due
maybe not THIS good, but he was definitely due for a good start. He’s been extremely unlucky all his starts (a lot was his fielding fault tho…).
Mitre is NOT a bad option for the 5th starter….hopefully whatever the hell happened to him will not keep him out for his next start.
GODZZIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Lucky strike
No, wouldn.t call Mr. Lucky, unlucky, that implies what happedned today has less to do with ability.
Unlucky, perhaps coming off arm surgery, probably inactivity. Very probably it’s been his mechanics, throwing from the center of the mound. Kepner in the NYT reports Eiland has Mitre throwing from the left edge of the rubber in practice.
Mitre is not the life of the party, and doesn’t overpower, which is obvious based on his previous starts,
Whether he continues to do well is up in the air. I know fans live and die with every win or loss, but, for once,
Mitre, the unknown quantity, owned the day in the Bronx.
Now, let’s see, the next game is….who
ejs
Catcher?
Has Mitre ever pitched with Molina catching before? I can’t remember, but the two of them really seemed in sync today. Remarkable outing. Surely if he’s done this well once he can do it again. I still think Joba belongs in the bullpen. He needs to gain emotional maturity. It’s hard to imagine going into the payoffs with a pitcher who needs so much handholding. By this time either he should be expected to go the distance or he should be relieving not starting.
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Does anybody but me notice that we have some great young arms? Also when jorge doesn’t catch these pitchers pitch better… Omg start grooming cervelli. Please
by BrownHornet . on Aug 30, 2009 12:21 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Please stop with the Jorge bashing!
With Posada behind the plate this year the Yanks are 49 and 24, without there 33 and 24!
End of story!
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