NFT: 2 | Baltimore Orioles vs. New York Yankees (T-7)

does Chen have a 16-4 record?

What a season.

with 7 games left.

Atleast this team never called it quits, Girardi deserves credit for that.

but he had a great year considering he didn't decide to overpay old guys in the post-PED era. Watching Betances, Greene and Tanaka emerge was a lot of fun - at least.

for the offense to get hot. The old and overpaid trio of Teixeira/Beltran/McCann was the downfall of this team.

I really thought Beltran was going to be a strong bat for us when we signed him, I'm just really disappointed at him in particular. I know he's old but damn.

He may never recover, but prior to running into that wall he was fine.

in that trashbag stadium.

before that, but it was also in April so who knows how he would've hit the rest of the way if he was healthy.

But it probably had an impact on Beltran's bad season. Sucks.

looks good. May be fantasy but, Tanaka and Pineda healthy for the entire season would be nice next year.

way to go

with a triple in his first big league AB

3-bagger

we may have nothing there, but every time I've seen him he has made hard contact and he's versatile.

triple and an RBI. Yeah, he's happy to be up after 8 years in the system.

1-0

July or so? Guaranteed if we shitcanned Brendan Ryan/Stephen Drew/Kelly Johnson and brought up these two, we're probably talking playoff contention.

Tanaka, Pineda, CC, Greene and McCarthy?

We could have great depth again on the staff next year.

Hitting and IF defense will be the issue.

but if we had Tanaka the whole way, by itself, I think we make the playoffs.

We'll be in the hunt for next season. I hope we can still afford McCarthy lol.

Unless he's our #5 pitcher.

if we could somehow sneak into the playoffs with this team. Man we can dream.

2-0 and Big Mike continues to look solid.

per Jawn and Suzyn. If they're healthy, Nova, Pineda, Greene and Tanaka could be 4/5s of a very good rotation. CC will probably suck, unfortunately, and McCarthy might come back as insurance, but I feel pretty comfortable with that going forward.

He's been really solid for us.

I'm a bit concerned about Pineda's velocity tonight. Seemed to be only hitting 91 last inning. Was he faster early in the game?

thank god we didn't give him a chance this year.

range all year since coming back. Somehow he is able to make it work. Lots of movement helps.

SUCK THE UNIVERSE HATERS!!!!

4-0

He has turned it on the last couple games, making much better contact.

sign this Jeter guy for another year.

In comment 11877197 RasputinPrime said:

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range all year since coming back. Somehow he is able to make it work. Lots of movement helps.

Thanks, RP. I hadn't followed his velocity since he's come back, just the results, which have been damned impressive.

loving it. Great energy. Glad to see buts in the seats.

than an aging Brendan Ryan has all year. Ryan's defense is decent and Pirela isn't a whiz at any position, and no one doubts that if you gave Pirela 100 ABs on this team he might struggle for some or even much of that, but if he excels you may have something going forward. If Ryan "excels" (hits .200+) you've got a 32-year old, bat-light middle infielder.

really helps. It also makes his slider just philthy.

Really exciting to see how solid he has been.

let's take this one to the bank.

Jeter with another great AB. He has looked 5 years younger this home-stand.

i'd love to know what the argument for keeping Ryan around - on a multiyear contract no less - over giving Pirela a shot. Alot of guys are able to step up when given a chance.

7.1 IP 1 BB 1 H 8K

thank you and good night.

maybe the best a Yankee has pitched all year.

of innings/starts since Guidry.

yeah, i'd say he has shown enough to get excited for next season.

1 hitter. Cmon Angels.

In comment 11877288 RasputinPrime said:

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7.1 IP 1 BB 1 H 8K thank you and good night.

If Pineda was healthy all year the Yanks would be in one of the wild card positions, even with the crappy offense

pitching wasn't an issue much this year. More often then not this team would be lucky to score two runs in a game. They were at the bottom for most of the year in runs scored in the American league. That is pathetic and I am really surprised this team even has a winning record. Brian Cashman has his work cut out for him this off season. The middle of this order needs to be fixed in the worst way.

In comment 11877624 sinctybldh said:

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pitching wasn't an issue much this year. More often then not this team would be lucky to score two runs in a game. They were at the bottom for most of the year in runs scored in the American league. That is pathetic and I am really surprised this team even has a winning record. Brian Cashman has his work cut out for him this off season. The middle of this order needs to be fixed in the worst way.

agree with sincty - pitching was not the problem this year, production from the 4-5-6 slots was the problem.

In comment 11877643 Del Shofner said:

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In comment 11877624 sinctybldh said: Quote: pitching wasn't an issue much this year. More often then not this team would be lucky to score two runs in a game. They were at the bottom for most of the year in runs scored in the American league. That is pathetic and I am really surprised this team even has a winning record. Brian Cashman has his work cut out for him this off season. The middle of this order needs to be fixed in the worst way. agree with sincty - pitching was not the problem this year, production from the 4-5-6 slots was the problem.

Production from 2-6 was a problem. Ellsbury and Jeter were not nearly good enough as 2-3 hitters

even with this offense.

That said, Ellsbury leading off with Jeter in the 8-9 hole would with correspondingly worthy players hitting 2-3 would have helped tremendously.

In comment 11877658 RasputinPrime said:

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even with this offense. That said, Ellsbury leading off with Jeter in the 8-9 hole would with correspondingly worthy players hitting 2-3 would have helped tremendously.

The problem, contra Jon Heyman, is that until August it wasn't obvious that we had a better #2 hitter than Jeter, at least according to the conventional wisdom that #2 should be a top OBP guy who doesn't clog the basepaths. Jeter was probably 3rd best on the team at getting on base heading into his horrendous August. That is sad in its own right, but until Jeter slumped and Prado came along it wasn't the big deal people made it out to be. And by the time Jeter was headlong into that skid they were as much about selling tickets as about anything else because our playoff chances were pretty miniscule.

four seamer averaged 93.2 in April, 94.3 in August and 92.8 in September. As usual, you don't know what the hell you're talking about.