New York Yankees News: 8/31/2011

by Lord Duggan on Aug 31, 2011 6:00 AM EDT in New York Yankees News

From yesterday's game preview:

Here's hoping that the Yankees win so that the overreactions will at least be positive.

Thanks for having my back, Andrew Marchand. The Yankees winning behind CC Sabathia (with the Red Sox blowing numerous comeback chances and losing two runs because David Ortiz runs like Jorge Posada carrying Mark Teixeira) means that the rivalry is back, Sabathia has solved the Red Sox, and Adrian Gonzalez has no chance against any left handed breaking ball.

Now that we've got all that settled, here is some more even keeled praise of Sabathia, who made some great pitches and showed some brass cajones last night.

The last two games of this series will be pitched by Phil Hughes and A.J. Burnett, with one of them facing a likely booting from the starting rotation. I'd ask, for the thousandth time, who you think should get demoted, but to (slightly) lessen the chance of being drowned in a cavalcade of "A.J.," I'll cheat a little bit: If Good A.J. shows up and he throws eight shutout innings, while Phil Hughes gets bombed in the third inning, does A.J. still get the axe or do you give him a chance to build on a good start? Does Good A.J. even exist anymore, or are there just varying shades of Mediocre and Bad A.J.?

Also, if you were holding out hope that Pedro Feliciano would make his Yankees debut at some point this season, it looks like that's not going to happen. His plan of attempting rehab instead of immediately opting for surgery seems just as silly now as it did then.

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Sometimes I feel like teams should have more control over their players' health

not ‘Carlos Beltran’s knee’ control but if you just signed someone to a contract and they need surgery, they should have to get the surgery because rehabbing a serious injury is absolutely ridiculous.

by jetanumba2 on Aug 31, 2011 9:21 AM EDT reply actions

Lefty

Yanks need to add a lefty to 25-man before midnight tonight (or have any pitcher fake injury for October). Question is who? Would have been nice to see if Garrison or Banuelos could get out Sox lefties :(

And they should also add a baserunner and maybe an outfield glove. Do you really need 13 pitchers in the post season with games off every other day?

Piss poor roster management.

by steelerwheeler on Aug 31, 2011 12:26 PM EDT reply actions

lol Garrison

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by Jedi Master A-Rod on Aug 31, 2011 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Why would you trust Garrison?

And for that matter, why position an untested rookie for the playoff roster? Yanks’ bullpen doesn’t need a major overhaul at this point.

by waw on Aug 31, 2011 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions

Do you know how ignorant this is?

The Pissants lefties hit lefties as good or better then they hit righties. Given that, can you come up with a good reason other then Binder belief that it makes sense to have more lefties to get their lefties out?

Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows

by Rorschach44 on Aug 31, 2011 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions