Does The New York Yankees Answer To Their Rotation "Problem" Lie Within?

I would be thrilled if Noesi was shown the same patience that Nova received. Nova had many haters until he got over his initial problems with getting through the batting order a third time. He gradually lengthened out to the point where he routinely got into the 7th, or even 8th. It took several starts in 2010, and half of 2011.

I’m not concerned about Hughes, since he has shown he can be a top flight set up man, throwing an inning of 95 mph heaters and sliders. I’m also not concerned about Garcia’s ‘guaranteed’ spot in the rotation. If he’s terrible in Tampa, they will either DFA him or put him on a very short leash in April.

Bringing up youngsters and living with their early inconsistencies is what other teams have learned to do. The Yankees can do this also, the way they are learning to live with AJ Burnett.

Yes i agree we won the league with 97 wins, But it was not our starting pitchers that one all of them. Really do Yankee management or fans think this pitching staff will last again this year, Joe made so many trips to the mound he worn a path out there, and what if CC goes down with a injury and nova does not live up to last year whats left is not much. I thinkthe yankees should have thought about this a few years back and had much better choices than they have now.Oh well Big trouble ahead, Now A jones is looking elsewhere but then again as i have said before MAYBE A BIG TRADE IS UP THERE ALLEY. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL.

don’t forget about colon

remember we easily won the division with what we have now if we had hit we would have
won it all
our pitching is better than most teams

ATTENTION YANKEE FANS: DON’T PANIC
ATTENTION YANKEE HATERS: BE AFRAID

First: signing Cliff Lee was not actually important if you break it down. If you gauge what Andy Petite would have done with a full season last year Andy wins 17-20 games. Lee in NY is probably a 20-23 game winner. So Lee only brings 3 extra wins to the rotation from last year seriously is that worth 160mil??? No it ain’t. Lee’s Phillies did not win with the best rotation

Two: with CC, Philthy and Burn Unit the Yankees still have a rotation that can and will compete. You gotta remember NY only had 3 pitchers in 2009. Now if Petite does not come back and at this point let’s go on the
fact he won’t. Yankee brass is very confident that over a full-season Ivan “Super” Nova will take up the slack of Javier Vazquez with about 20 quality starts out of around 27 starts. A trade for a quality starter that can eat innings. Or letting one of the young guns come up for brief stints such as giving the Killer B’s about 5 consecutive starts just for the experience would give NY a fifth starter by committee. Plus give them a chance to compete for the eventual number 3 when Burn Unit’s contract expires. Nova did as predicted CC and AJ remained about the same and solid contributions from Garcia and Colon also not Noesi begins his emergence.

Two B: The bullpen which is a bigger question mark than the starting rotation is being address. Fixing the bullpen will add 10-15 wins per year much more cheaper as oppose to adding a Lee type pitcher for either an extravagant amount of money or emptying the farm system again. And now that Joba knows his role he won’t have to hold back and just bring the heat to bridge to Mo and eventually in two years become the closer.The bullpen got stronger and Joba while he was around pitched stellar-stop hating Joba

Three: The starting line-up is built like if not better than the same team that won 4 out of 5 World Series between 1996-2000. The current line-up of starters can play offensively and defensively with any team in baseball. There is still a solid threat from A-rod, Cano, Tex, Posada, Swisher, Granderson to go deep and drive in a ton of runs. With the rest Gardner, Martin, Jeter and the bench to make solid contributions. This a line-up that will compete year in and year out until the expiration of Jeter’s contract. a down year for A-Rod, Tex and Posada only showed for 3 games but still a potent offense that with the addition of Monetero just got stronger,

Four: The Yankees are loading the farm system with a considerable amount of top talent that very shortly should be in position to make serious contributions to the major league squad. Meaning do not expect the Yankees to depend upon the free agency and or trades that have not always proven to work favorably for NY. I told you so.the long term plan is to get younger and cheaper.

Five: What the Yankees need most is 1) Better game management by Giradi for starters he’s a capable manager I just think at times he has a tendency to either under or over manage a game. if Giradi starts managing the game better NYY can add another 5-7 wins per year. 2) Better conditioning of the players as this has been a mild annoyance over the past few seasons. 3) And lastly but more importantly PATIENCE by the FRONT OFFICE and by THE FANS especially with new acquisitions and young talent. Everybody has bad days even the veterans. Joe is still costing us about 8 wins a year.

So actually heading into 2011 by not signing another unnecessary marquee talent the Yankees are and have positioned themselves towards the building of a dynasty that will compete for multiple titles over the long haul and not just “a title now” approach. I’m not predicting 28 in 2011 but NYY will at the end of the year be one of the 8 teams involved and judging by the last two WS having Lee doesn’t guarantee a title. So with no guarantees in either the free agency, trades or the farm the smart money is still to develop talent from within the system to get you where you need to be by developing homegrown talent.I told you we’d be there. And Lee didn’t make it either.

In short the Yankees are finally doing what they are suppose to be doing and that’s building from within. They have the nucleus now as I said 3 years ago to begin rebuilding by adding a piece here and there from the farm or a good trade (Granderson) that makes long term sense. And if you’re a Yankees fan that’s what you should want. The more the Yankees can get out of their farm system the more dominating they will be and have the fiscal capabilities to re-sign their star farm players which give them the edge over teams that cannot afford to re-sign