The Tools of Ignorance: Wednesday News

by jscape2000 on Sep 1, 2010 6:00 AM EDT in New York Yankees News

Victory masks many concerns for the Yankees and Phil Hughes.

Hughes has had a couple of bad starts now with no command. Frankly, it couldn't come at a worse time for the Yankees.

A lot of attention has been paid to the recent struggles of Cliff Lee: 29.1 IP over 5 starts, 47 baserunners against 35Ks.

Let me put that in context for you:

CC Sabathia- 36.2 IP in 5 starts, 40 baserunners and 33K.
Phil Hughes- 27IP in 5 starts, 38 baserunners and 20K.
Javy Vazquez- 20.1IP over 5 games, 34 baserunners and 17K.
AJ Burnett- 30 IP over 5 starts, 51 baserunners and 21K.
Dustin Moseley- 26IP over 5 games, 44 baserunners and 16K.
Andy Pettitte- 0IP over 0 starts because he's still on the DL.

Cliff Lee hasn't been great lately, but I'd pay him $20M per year for 5 years to have those struggles.

While it's certainly nice to have AAA MVP Jesus Montero as a backup, I think the Yankees are making the right move by leaving him in the minors and putting Chad Moeller back on the 40-man for the September call-up instead.

The other callups and activations include Greg Golson, Lance Berkman, Alfredo Aceves and Jonathan Albaledejo.

Over at the Daily Dish, Brandon shares his early opinion on which team figure to go into next season in a strong position to contend.

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Ted Lily?

Have not seen anything up on this, we were awarded him yesterday and are trying to get a deal done, but Dodgers are hesistant because they feel they are still in it. Since we were awarded him before September could be a loophole where he could be part of our postseason if we get a deal done. Link – http://baseball.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/21538/20100901/yankees_awarded_lilly_trade_unlikely/

by FruDaGod2010 on Sep 1, 2010 10:48 AM EDT reply actions

I hadn’t seen that. I believe that yesterday was the drop-dead deadline for waiver deals.

"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

by jscape2000 on Sep 1, 2010 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions

I don't know if the Dodgers are out of it or not, but they made a major upgrade already by getting rid of ManRam.

by designatedquitter on Sep 1, 2010 10:56 AM EDT reply actions

They got rid of a guy hitting .311/.405/.510. That’s an upgrade?

Strikeouts are boring- Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic.

by CasanovaWong on Sep 1, 2010 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions

How?

by Yankees10 on Sep 1, 2010 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions

so its opposite day huh

by FreeBradshaw on Sep 1, 2010 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions

Curious as well about the whole Lily affair ever since I saw the tweets about it last night on the NY Times Bats blog, and haven’t seen any discussion of it here either. So there’s still a possibility that this might go through, after the Dodgers pulled him back last night?

by Yankee Frankee on Sep 1, 2010 11:15 AM EDT reply actions