NFT: 2 | Cincinnati Reds vs. New York Yankees (GM1) - TGIF Ed.

of Todd Frazier with Derek Jeter after his Toms River, NJ team won the LLWS in 1998, and with Derek Jeter at his first ASG and Jeter's last.

but WTF happened to Kelly Johnson??? He has played lousy in the field, and can't hit. I thought his swing would be perfect for the right field porch.

puts Jeter past Visquel for the most ever games played by a short-stop.

about a player being able to take advantage of the short porch?

How many have literally screwed up their swing trying to take advantage?

I think it is a disadvantage so far.

1-0

just a clean up at this point but microfracture surgery still might be kneeded. Damn shame.

Tanaka with elbow soreness still and we'll have to cross our fingers for a few weeks.

Braves to eat about 20mm over the next season and a half.

Kick the tires on someone with pop who hits .150?

the Yankees fangraphs page is embarrassing.

I have no clue how we are .500. Then again, with a -37 run differential, it's mostly due to a lot of luck. Our "expected w-l record" (using the runs allowed/scored formula) is 43-51.

Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. Unsurprisingly, our two big FA acquisitions have been terrible for their contracts in their first season, which I attribute to the pressure of living up to the new contracts and the adjustment. On top of that, the rest of our offense can't hit a lick, and 80% of our starting rotation is injured, including our big import who was one of the top pitchers in baseball in the first half of the season.

I don't expect the Yankees to be within 5 games of the WC by the end of the season, but I will be amazed if they can show some sort of life during the second half.

Ichiro gives himself a wall-wedgy

1-1

2-1

I can smell a 20 game win streak!

What else can you say at this point? Brutal.

Johnson - joke
Jeter - old and rather horrible
Roberts - old
Teix - old and recovering from injury

We need strike-out pitchers and we are stuck with exactly the opposite.

time to get him wheeling around the bases.

4-2

Jeter can just trot.

love baseball.

4-3

to get that last K.

All homegrown pitching staff gets the win, the juice supplied in large part by the three offseason bats they signed.

and hopefully the start of a weee winning streak.