Pitching, Pitching, Pitching?

We hear the noise about pitchers in the minors like Phelps and Warren being ready and it doesn’t sound like Betances or Banuelos will get a call until later in the season, if at all. Than Cushman makes the remark about starting pitching being the off season focus. This is what’s frustrating to me…doing nothing. If he would have stated earlier that its going to be a wide open from the guys in the system, I would be ok with that. Do they not trust the younger guys?

I would prefer to try Noesi, Banuelos or Betances. I suspect that at least one of them is as good as Ivan Nova in mid-2010. I am not knocking either Oswalt or Kuroda, both of whom are professionals. But younger pitchers often are stronger down the stretch because of their lack of accumulated wear and tear. In retrospect, trading Tyler Cippard for Albaladejo was an error. This might be a somewhat similar case although we would not have to give up a player this time.

Say what you want about papa George. But he did whatever was necessary, regardless of cost, to put the most competitive team on the field every year. He cared about the fans and wanted to give them a winner. It’s obvious that the brothers S don’t care about the fans, just money. When all of these long term contracts expire, you will see the Yankees revert back to the pre-George days of the late 60s. Horace Clarke is coming back and with it, our former losing ways.

CC is a lock. AJ is locked into the rotation unless Cash can somehow trade him. Nova should be a lock. I assume that they want Garcia to be a starter. The only move I could see is upgrading from Hughes, but I still hold out hope that we will come back strong, have a good 2012, and then go on to have a good Yankee career. If they are going to upgrade the rotation at all, the only spots where I could see them doing that are Garcia (but the new contract makes that unlikely) and Hughes.
I suspect the reason they didn’t pursue Darvish or Wilson was because they can see what the rotation will look like in a couple years when we replace AJ and Garcia with Banuelos, Betances, and/or one of the other prospects. At this point, a patch-job rotation may be what we go into the season with, and any upgrades will be of the Garcia/Colon type: just enough to be competitive until the young pitchers are ready.

Problem is Yanks have tied up the house in Long term contract’s to Jeter,A-Rod,etc.and now the ownership is becoming penny conscious.I would make some trades i.e.Cervelli and Swisher,Burnett,for a number # 3 starter.I agree with u I would sign Kuroda and Oswalt pending physicals of course.I notice many teams have number 3 or 4 starters available any one or two of them would seem to fulfill our needs.Why now the $$$$$ concern ???? only Cash knows.

Now they aren’t. They used to throw huge bucks at Kenny Rogers/ Kevin Brown/ Carl Pavano – type starters. Now they aren’t. Which strategy is better?

If I add Denny Neagle and Jaret Wright, does that help?

With the kids in the minors, if they don’t work out you can send them back down, trade them, or drown them like a litter of kittens, and nobody cares. People would be angrier about the kittens.

Except that they’ll cost 10 million more each at least. That’s a big difference, especially since they could also not be 2012’s Freddy Garcia and Bartolo Colon.

We need 2 good middle men in the pen. Lets try Wood he is good and you pick the next one Cashman, your going to need them.

That the Yanks intend to give the AAA guys a shot this year. So they’re doing what many of us asked for, but this seems to make many folks antsy?

1) AJ is who we need to dump, but no takers, and we won’t ‘Igawa’ him and send him to the minors. And who knows, maybe he gets his head out of his ass and wins 60%+ of his decisions…one can always dream.
2) All these young guys, Noesi, Warren, Phelps, Betances, whoever, how in the hell are they ever going to get meaningful chances to pitch if we keep busting Freddy Garcia deals to guys like Oswalt and the LA guy?
3) Not saying Freddy isnt groovy, just that we dont need any more one-year stop gap contracts if it means barring the door on the AAA farm guys.
4) If Phil can come in in great shape and have a rebound, it will take pressure off the fifth starter, thereby ideally freeing management up to giving Noesi/Warren/Phelps/Betances opportunities to win that slot.
5) Hell, if AJ sucks, I say pull him and put two AAA guys in the five-man and see what happens. I wouldn’t guarantee AJ shit except the $32M remaining on his contract.

i’m at the bar since noon so i’ll say this as delicate as possible without trying to offend you panty wearers out there. Noesi is the man the Yankees need and got. Warren, Phelps, Betances, and Banelous are a year or less away. so STFU we’re going to be okay.