New York Yankees News: Girardi Backs A.J.
by Lord Duggan on Aug 21, 2011 6:00 AM EDT
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If you've followed this blog with any regularity, you're aware that I've never been shy to disagree with the in-game moves of New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi. But, for the duration of his time in New York, one thing has been beyond criticism: He sticks up for everyone on this roster. The superstars, the role players, the guys who are playing well, and the guys who are playing horribly. Nobody goes under the bus, there's no passive aggressive messages being sent in the media, and nobody in the doghouse.
Make no mistake, A.J. Burnett is running out of rope in his current role with this team. If the wheels were not already spinning on what to do about Burnett for the rest of the season and [hopefully] the playoff run, he's starting to force the organization's hand. The Twins are a dismal offensive team (second fewest runs scored in the AL, and do the Mariners really count?), and Burnett couldn't finish two innings, making only a handful of good pitches in a very abbreviated outing.
As he was being removed from the game, Burnett was visibly upset, muttering as he walked off the field and being animated in the dugout. For a brief moment, he and Girardi disappeared into the clubhouse together, and speculation blossomed about if there was any "heat" in their private exchange. Speculation that Joe Girardi had little patience for after the game:
This is silly. This is really, really silly. You know what, we had a fistfight is what we had. No. I came and looked at the pitch. There’s a camera, our video room is right down there, and everyone always seems to want to blow up about A.J., A.J., A.J. Nothing happened between me and A.J...
I think people are always looking for A.J. And I’m tired of it. Case closed on that.
I have no idea what happened behind the closed doors of the clubhouse, and that's exactly how it should be. For his part, Burnett echoed the sentiment when asked if he had any issues with Girardi:
Absolutely not. No matter how mad I get, that guy's (had) my back every day I've been here.
He's right. But, even if all of the comments can be taken at face value and the New York Yankees are still a big, happy family, A.J. still needs to pitch a whole lot better for any of this to be more than an empty gesture. He need to find the command of his fastball and the deception on his curveball. And he needs to find them now.
Other things:
Alex Rodriguez is expected to return to the lineup today. Look for Eduardo Nunez to shift back into his utility role and for Eric Chavez to vanish into the ether.
Some encouraging words on Phil Hughes. While he has avoided the Master Chef title the last bunch of starts, his inability to miss bats and his lack of ground balls has me tempering my enthusiasm.
Milestone accomplishments from Derek Jeter and Jim Thome.
The Yankees will look to right the ship this afternoon with rookie Ivan Nova, who will himself be looking to bounce back after a rough start in Kansas City.
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Nicely put, Duggan
This could have been a (worse) media circus if Girardi had left one ambiguous message in his presser. He didn’t, and the speculation remains just that. I AM worried about AJ, though. We’ll need him for the playoffs, and I hope he gets his shit together.
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by Hasan Paliwala on Aug 21, 2011 6:55 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
AJ officially sucks and is a bust
I’d venture to say that his signing may just surpass any other past Yankee “bad signings” as the worst. I hope to God he isn’t slated to start in the post season.
I bet it's good to be playing again, huh?
that's the dumbest thing I ever read
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Doubt it
I like how you have adopted the lower case technique. Your buddy has been quite the influence.
Anyway, he sucks. That’s not disputable.
"Rude Internet Guy"
it is, but its been done ad nausem.
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I don't think AJ can top Pavano or Igawa no matter how bad things get over the next 2 years
I mean at least he pitches…in the major leagues.
by Let's Talk About Tex Baby on Aug 21, 2011 9:48 AM EDT up reply actions
AJ saved the Yankees season in 2009
And helped the team win a championship. I don’t care if he never wins another game the rest of his Yankee career- you can’t take that away from him. I don’t see how AJ can be compared to those guys when he actually had a good year here and helped the team win a title. He is NOT EVEN CLOSE to the worst signing this team has ever had.
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You know what I meant
We still have 2 more years of this nonsense and we paid him 82+ million for this?
"Rude Internet Guy"
We're also paying A-Rod 30 million million to go to the DL at some point every year
Posada 13 million to hit like a bench player, Soriano 11 million to pitch as a middle reliever, Igawa 5 million to sit in AA, Russell Martin 4 million to hit like a backup, Jeter 15+ million to hit .260 for a good portion of the year…
He’s not the only bad contract the Yankees have- not even close to it. And I don’t understand how the contract means anything. If you don’t like him because he’s not performing right now, thats one thing. But the contract shouldn’t mean anything. It’s the Yankees money. And honestly, I’m not upset over the contract. Because he was a huge part in a World Series title. Can’t take that away- he earned every penny in 2009.
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LOL
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by Rorschach44 on Aug 21, 2011 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions
he's right though
Martin’s a backup catcher who happens to be starting. You’d pay a backup 4 million?
I really don’t care what he makes- I’m just pointing out that AJ’s not the only player on this team who is overpaid.
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I didn't like
Soriano’s contract/signing either. Posada was signed long ago and performed well at the time. Igawa? Well, he, and others, is the main reason I say stay away from handing out big contracts to pitchers who pitched well anywhere other than in MLB.
"Rude Internet Guy"
Why do you say this?
Beacuse he had 1 good game in the post season?
In 2009, at 13-9 he had a 4.04 ERA, a 1.4 WHIP, he led the league in walks and WP’s. What was so great about it? I don’t get your constant defense of him. My whole thing is we have better options, you deny that?
"Rude Internet Guy"
Right at this moment?
He’s pitching like shit and we have better options- no I’m not denying that. He’s also never being taken out of the rotation and the Yankees chances of winning is a lot higher if he pitches well, both from now on and in the postseason. I also realize that.
But his 2009 season was very good year and he was a good #2 starter. The Yankees were able to win the championship with him as a #2 starter and he pitched the way people expected him to. The Yankees gave him a contract to be a #2 starter and help them win a title- he did both those things. Thats why he earned the contract.
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Granted, the Yankees chances of winning go up when any of their pitchers pitch well.
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by Frank Campagnola on Aug 21, 2011 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions
AJ is a mediocre pitcher who is on his way to pitching himself out of the playoff rotation
But this is the worst kind of hyperbole. For reference, Pavano pitched to around a 1 WAR over 145 innings in four years. AJ has pitched 550 innings in 2.5 years to a near-6 WAR, and came up HUGE in World Series Game 2. He was one of the 20-25 best pitchers in the AL that year. It’s fine to dump on AJ because he hasn’t earned his contract at all since last year, but a little perspective is in order.
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by Captain_Mick on Aug 21, 2011 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions
No one can top Pavano in my opinion
At least Burnett tries and actually pitches. Pavano was a pathetic waste of a roster spot while with the team, which was almost never.
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THat's a good article on Use
his last 4 starts have been solid, he’s earned his way back in the rotation. Over the course of these 4 starts he might be pitching better then any of the other 5 SPs. If the playoffs started today he’d probably be in the rotation. Just given his fly ball rate I’d be starting him in the away game, preferably at Comerica.
AJ needs to get back to the pitcher he was in June and July. He pitched good enough to win in plenty of those games. I’m hoping his spot in the rotation isn’t set in stone tho, cuz I’m starting to see more 6’s and 7’s in the run column instead of 3s and 4s.
I still wish he’d start using that fastball and changeup a lot more. When this guy was in Toronto he’d just spot the fastball and sinker and he was very good. He’s not throwing 98 anymore, why…who knows, but 93-94 should still be enough. I hope he doesn’t even throw one single curveball against Baltimore.
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This argument makes me laugh.
Pick any pitcher and you could find a good start or two, or week, or month, or whatever. The excuses for AJ are getting stale.
"Rude Internet Guy"
the blind bitching about AJ is hilarious
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Oh, please
If he pitched for any other team you’d be criticizing him too. He’s horrible.
"Rude Internet Guy"
Oh, and it's not "bitching"
It’s called my opinion and his numbers prove me right, not you. Check out Frankie’s comment.
"Rude Internet Guy"
That's dumb
This (from Frankie) sucks
Of qualifying AL starters, he’s:
35th of 45 in ERA
38th of 45 in FIP
42nd of 45 in HR/9
43rd of 45 in BB/9
14th in K/9
28th in xFIP (which takes into account things that don’t happen).
"Rude Internet Guy"
That’s probably worse now. I posted that before last night’s start
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by Frank Campagnola on Aug 21, 2011 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Fun thing about qualifieds, there is a reason why 25+ pitchers (at five per team) are not listed, they were less valuable. Some got injured, which aj hasn’t, and others got benched for being so terrible. Aj has been average if you expand the field beyond what proves your point
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by ZigKitsune on Aug 21, 2011 1:52 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
You want non-qualifiers?
Of 115 AL starters pitchers to have appeared, AJ ranks:
81st in ERA
83rd in FIP
45th in xFIP
93rd in HR/9
95th in BB/9
22nd in K/9
24th in IP
50th in WAR
And that’s including everyone else’s small sample sizes. No matter which way you spin it, he’s been bad.
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by Frank Campagnola on Aug 21, 2011 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions
starting* pitchers
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by Frank Campagnola on Aug 21, 2011 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Free doesn't like stats that disagree with his hyperbole
by HappyLuckyGoldenDragonNumber1! on Aug 21, 2011 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't like stats that mean nothing
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Here are the updated numbers
Of the 46 qualifying AL starters:
ERA: 42nd (4.96)
FIP: 42nd (4.72)
xFIP T-30th (4.02)
HR/9: 44th (1.33)
BB/9: 42nd (4.04)
K/9: 14th (7.62)
IP: 24th (156)
WAR: 39th (1.0)
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by Frank Campagnola on Aug 21, 2011 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions
At the All Star break
Burnett’s numbers were and 8-7 record, 4.15 ERA, a 1.25 Whip and a .222 BAA. Those are very solid mid-rotation numbers, and thats after OVER THREE months of good pitching. It’s not a week or two. It was over three months of good pitching that Burnett has given the Yankees this season. Since he’s been a disaster, but pretending that AJ hasn’t been a reliable pitching for most of this season is delusional.
Am I worried about him? Yea, I am. He’s been awful in the second half and he needs to get his shit together. I continue to believe in the guy because if you pitch well for 3.5 months, you’re doing something right and it doesn’t just go away. The Yankees need this guy to pitch well if they want a good chance at a championship. But there’s a difference between being worried, and calling for his release and calling him the “among the worst signings in Yankee history” because he’s struggled for a month.
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This is not a solid argument for keeping him in the rotation
especially since August is far from over
I saw that interview after the game on Yes
I thought Girardi came off very aggressive. If that was his way of down playing what happened between him and AJ I think he failed miserably. Why say anything about a “fist fight”? No one was saying they had a fist fight. I thought it was incredibly immature. I was excited when the Yankees signed AJ Burnett because of the pitcher he was in Toronto, but his career as a Yankee has been incredibly disappointing. The Yankees have 5 starting pitchers that are better than this guy. He is pitching himself out of the rotation. I predict another lousy start in Baltimore and that’s all she wrote. If the Yankees don’t do that they will pay for it in the playoffs.
by bronx joey on Aug 21, 2011 8:58 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Too bad
I love ‘em. I guess you’re saying this because some of us disagree with you? Or because some of us aren’t robotic homers? Why do you hate our fan base? You’re part of it. The only ones I dislike are those who think their opinions mean more than someone else’s and can’t reply with something intelligent or at least something other than “lol”…
"Rude Internet Guy"
Every fanbase has stupid commenters
And some of the clowns that post on Yahoo, SI, etc are epic failures of evolution that I refuse to believe can actually post their comments without someone’s help. By comparison, this place is pretty tame, since the mods can and do ban the worst offenders.
Personally, I like the arguments. This place would be much less interesting without them.
You’d know
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by Jedi Master A-Rod on Aug 21, 2011 6:28 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I can't believe I'm looking forward to Garcia coming back.
Send AJ to the pen. Maybe they can get lucky and ship him off to an NL team next year (will probably have to eat mad salary though).
by upstateNYYFan1984 on Aug 21, 2011 9:48 AM EDT reply actions
i love the analysis
Explain why someone with plus stuff and good numbers the first time through the order would be bad in the pen? Forget salary and explain why he couldn’t pitch the sixth
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by ZigKitsune on Aug 21, 2011 1:56 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Love it even more -- cuz the first time through the order in a start
is cake compared with inheriting a game of which you immediately have to take and maintain control. The simple math is that the middle and late innings offer 33 or 66% less opportunity to overcome mistakes you might make in a start. (If you don;t understand the concept yet, just ask your grandparents to invest their life savings in a high-risk investment idea you have coming out of college)
Unless you are talking mop-up (the one position I trust AJ with entirely as long as we’re losing), relief is not the domain of headcases, the emotionally unstable or the fient of heart. That eliminates AJ absolutely.
AJ
he’s not been too impressive but it’s not as if you can’t start him at all. at this point, he may be the 4th starter in the playoffs, but that’s not not even guaranteed. he’ll start throughout the rest of the year and in October it will be assessed whom is starting in the postseason. not in August
I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee fan.
AJ
The new definition of insanity is running AJ out to the mound every 5 days and expecting a different result. If the Yanks use him in round 1 of the playoffs, they’ll have to win 3 out of 4 to advance. If he wasn’t making $16.5 million, they’d DFA him. Trade him even up for Zambrano.
At least AJ hasn't packed up his stuff and stormed out of the clubhouse in mid game
Or, started a fist fight with his catcher in the dugout…
If Nova has a decent game 2day, Burnett is headed 4 oblivion.
Both Cashman & Girardi are something else.
Yanks haven’t had a 1st round pick make a significant impact
since Jeter?
Chamberlin is all that he was projected 2 be prior to
the draft-an unorthodox delivery that will translate into arm
trouble in time.
Just how does Cashman evaluate talent?.
Vasquez, Pavano, Burnett, Igawa, Marte,- wow a lot of $
spent with no return
There's a double header on the 27th
So we need 6 starters for another week. Nobody’s coming out of the rotation right now.
I understand it’s frustrating to listen to Girardi and Cashman defend a guy who was horrible last year and who’s been horrible for the last 6 weeks or so this season. It feels like they’re insulting our intelligence. But what do you want them to do? Bash a guy who they have $35 mil still invested in? That would be dumb.
You can throw Pedro Feliciano and Rafael Soriano and a dozen others onto the bad contract list. Unfortunately all teams give out bad contracts and the Yankees have more money so they’re going to give out more of them. We’re just lucky that they don’t cripple us like they do other teams.
by Let's Talk About Tex Baby on Aug 21, 2011 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions
Gardner? Cano? Nova? Robertson? Not to mention the bevy of talent on the horizon in Banuelos, Betances, Noesi, and Montero. Considering the Yankees’ 1st pick isn’t usually until the 29th or 30 pick I think he’s done well in the draft. Who cares if the guy is a first rounder? Mattingly was what, in the 29th round? Oh, and he traded for Granderson, that was a pretty good evaluation, no?
And as far as the money spent and no return, all teams get burned. See Werth. Or Crawford. The list goes on and on.
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by david d on Aug 21, 2011 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Cano, Nova, Banuelos, Betances, Noesi, Montero weren'
by Let's Talk About Tex Baby on Aug 21, 2011 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions
Cano, Nova, Banuelos, Noesi, Montero weren't drafted
Those were international free agent signings. The Yankees have done fairly well with those which has made up for what’s been poor drafting, at least early in the draft, over the last couple decades.
Things have turned around a bit the last few years with Hughes, Kennedy and Robertson. Still when it comes to American scouting the Yankees have lagged far behind a lot of other teams.
by Let's Talk About Tex Baby on Aug 21, 2011 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, I know
But they were hired under Cash, and that was kinda the point I was trying to make. I should have been clearer.
"Rude Internet Guy"
you still scout them and you still develop them
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by Rorschach44 on Aug 21, 2011 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions
Since Castro and Andrus are free agents this winter.
We don’t need to make good draft choices.
BTW. It’s spelled Chamberlain.
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Hughes
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by Rorschach44 on Aug 21, 2011 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions
If the Yankees brought back Sergio Mitre
Someone on this board would drum up some stat to say how effective he was.
Mitre sucks, PERIOD!
You don’t need stats to prove that.
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No, Mitre sucks...everyone knows that
Burnett has been good for a good portion of the season, yet when he has a bad start the bitching comes out in droves.
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by Rorschach44 on Aug 21, 2011 10:47 AM EDT up reply actions
"yet when he has a bad start the bitching comes out in droves."
Welcome to Drove Central – Obama’s answer to our laggard economy. Bitching about WHEN AJ has a bad start offers full-time employment to millions of Americans.
Careful, that sounds like a political remark. Those don’t fly.
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by ZigKitsune on Aug 21, 2011 1:59 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Not politics. Just framing
in the context of a president needs a jobs program and bitching about AJ would provide enough to go around.
I don't know?
I seem to remember the almost exact same thing happening to Burnett last year. I don’t know why you guys get angry when people get frustrated at him. He has been a disappointment for a long time now and people are getting tired of it.
He's sucked his past few starts, that's true
but when he was pitching very solid for a good portion of the year, no one makes a peep. I’d rather he be more consistent throughout the season but its all this “AJ sucks, he’s never good, he’s the worst signing ever” that shit is annoying.
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by Rorschach44 on Aug 21, 2011 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions
No, he's not the worst signing ever.
it is a combination of things. He signed a big contract and people were expecting him to be the number 2 in a 1-2 punch with CC. That has never really happened.
Last year he pitched well for a longer period of time before losing it
Last year it was only until the end of May. This year he had solid numbers all the way through the All-Star break and really through his Chicago start before they really started looking ugly.
He’s been really bad these last few starts but the majority of the season he’s been a solid guy to have in the rotation. The fact that so many Yankee fans look right passed that and simply call for his release is annoying.
CALL UP JESUS MONTERO!
Did you not see
the stats from Frankie I posted above? Where are you getting he’s been “a solid guy to have in the rotation”?
"Rude Internet Guy"
I said "for the majority of the year he's been a solid guy to have in the rotation"
Again, at the All Star break he was 8-7 with a 4.15 ERA and a .222 BAA in 119 innings pitched.
His second half has been a train wreck in 36 innings pitched. I’m pretty sure 119 innings is bigger than 36, so that counts as a majority?
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A-Rod at third today
Laffey down to AAA. Credit the Yankees for knowing to keep Noesi around.
by long time listener on Aug 21, 2011 12:07 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
holy shit
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by Rorschach44 on Aug 21, 2011 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Laffey said "But ... I throw lefty."
by long time listener on Aug 21, 2011 12:14 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
We’ve seen what Laffey has (pause). He can go away forever now.
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by Jedi Master A-Rod on Aug 21, 2011 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Hooray!
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by WhatwouldJeterdo on Aug 21, 2011 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions
AJ Burnett has sucked since he came to NY.
The only good thing he ever did was hit his teammates with shaving cream towel-pies because they saved his miserable performances on the mound with late game heroics. That’s great and all for team camaraderie, but don’t get it twisted, when it comes to pitching, he has been garbage since day one.
Everyone keeps treating his ’09 playoff performance like the highlight of his career as if he was lights out. He gave up 16 walks and 16 earned runs in 27 innings. How is that even remotely good? And that was him at his best?
It’s one thing if you like the guy for whatever personal reasons you have, but it’s another to act like he’s ever been good in pinstripes. He hasn’t. He sucks. He’s been a bust. The sooner you come to terms with that, the less painful it’ll be for you when he gets removed from the rotation, traded, or sent to AAA.
C'mon Hawk - You are completely ignoring his...
quality starts, bad luck, ability to induce swinging 3rd strikes and the fact that once the ball leaves his hand anything that happens isn’t his fault.
All you offer is what has happened in real games when he takes the mound, gives up runs in bunches and we lose – usually on nights that Boston loses as well.
There are a number of us here who can show you a veritible Billy Beane-ry of stats as to why the later means absolutely nothing and the former means just about everything when judging the value and performance of our “above average” go-to guy #2 starter, AJ Burnett.
You really ought to get with the program!
AJ...
…certainly stirs up a lot of emotions in everyone.
The guy has good stuff, it just seems like he’s mentally fragile…I don’t have data to support this, but it seems like once AJ struggles in a game, most of those times he gets knocked around pretty hard.
Think about the times PSA has posted about CC or Nova going out without their best stuff and still winning; this seems tougher for AJ.
AJ is paid like a #2, and I recall Yankees brass positioning him to fans as a #2 starter or 1-B/co-ace even, and he isn’t really close to living up to it. His 2009 postseason performance was good enough, but wasn’t the stuff of legend. He seems like a good clubhouse guy, but he simply doesn’t get it done as much as his stuff or contract calls for.
Having an even win-loss record on a team that is almost 30 games over is a sign that you are responsible for some of your own troubles, regardless of how much stat-spewing anyone does.
The good news is he’s been able to go out every fifth day, and seems to my untrained eye to have good pitches he can throw. It just seems like his problems are between the ears, which for some players never changes. Here’s to hoping he can make the adjustments needed to be more successful. I was hoping once he got a ring, he’d settle in and just throw, but that hasn’t happened.
We need you AJ, which scares the living shit out of me…
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