NFT: The Losing Ends Tonight // Yanks vs Angels // 7:05PM EST

Any kind of win. It is getting thru the seventh and eighth innings that have killed Yanks recently.

Need to put up a ten spot and bury the crappy Angels. A winning streak starts tonight!

It will eventually expose or reveal what a team really is.

Yankees weren't suppose to be a serious s contender this season.

I get the best Indians vs Orioles.

I guess it's porn for me tonight!

makes it clear they don't want to hurt his trade value.

shockey: good point about hiding Austin. You don't want to over expose a guy like that.

A nice test for Montgomery to see what kind of stopper potential he has.

It HAS to be that, right? Either that or he took a dump on the clubhouse floor.

Monty has got to get tough tonight. You could tell from the body language last night that the Yankees are tired of this nonsense. Get a nice lead and never look back.

No Carter tonight? Sign me up!

Or at least make him earn an end of the game/set up role spot again.

In comment 13506616 shockeyisthebest8056 said:

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makes it clear they don't want to hurt his trade value.

This makes absolutely zero sense. First, he's already played in he bigs, so teams have seen what he's done at this level (and it wasn't good so far). If anything it's hurting his trade value. Teams see what a pile of dung we have playing first base and see we prefer that over Austin.

In comment 13506616 shockeyisthebest8056 said:

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makes it clear they don't want to hurt his trade value.

I hope your wrong. I can't believe they would rather weaken the team so they can make a trade.

I think the Yanks have their reasons. Read this RAB article about Carter/Austin (and they obviously hate Carter too).
Carter/Austin - ( New Window )

In comment 13506616 shockeyisthebest8056 said:

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makes it clear they don't want to hurt his trade value.

Really? And what exactly is Austins trade value? I'm guessing it's almost non existent right now. And they've brought him up before, so why suddenly would they want to "hide" him? This isn't a top 100 prospect here. Austin would likely bring very little back in a trade right now.

Straight up. Make it happen Cash

good article. Not what I wanted to see. However, he makes some good points.

1. Cameron Maybin (R) CF .279/.380/.433
2. Kole Calhoun (L) RF .247/.331/.391
3. Albert Pujols (R) DH .240/.288/.388
4. Yunel Escobar (R) 3B .277/.328/.411
5. Andrelton Simmons (R) SS .273/.332/.400
6. Martin Maldonado (R) CA .257/.330/.382
7. C.J. Cron (R) 1B .217/.266/.304
8. Danny Espinosa (S) 2B .174/.247/.308
9. Eric Young Jr. (S) LF .303/.395/.485

Ricky Nolasco (R): (79 IP, 5.01 ERA)
vs.
Jordan Montgomery (L): (69 IP, 3.78 ERA)

1. Brett Gardner (L) LF .262/.340/.476
2. Aaron Hicks (S) CF .302/.414/.549
3. Aaron Judge (R) RF .333/.443/.704
4. Matt Holliday (R) 1B .271/.377/.518
5. Starlin Castro (R) 2B .322/.359/.507
6. Gary Sanchez (R) DH .288/.374/.556
7. Didi Gregorius (L) SS .323/.344/.489
8. Chase Headley (S) 3B .242/.328/.361
9. Austin Romine (R) CA .218/.241/.300

Did and Castro in the order.

has the highest percentage of homers on fly balls in the league (about 55% this season). He is only 150th in the league in percentage of fly balls.

I hope he keeps hitting line drives but if he arcs up that swing a bit its going to be nasty.

Ball washing is really pissing me off

Bird might come back now?

WTF is going on with this guy? It is a between the ears thing?

2-0 Didi goes yard!!!

Followed up by a awful at bat by Headley

Damn, that felt good.

going in to the 7th.

just found their new 7th inning guy.

Looks like they found their hitting shoes again, too.

good grief Joe, give him a week off

No idea why Joe even went to him here...quick hook, thankfully

Thank God he took him out. He's looking toasty.

Thank You Zim.
8-4 chappman needs out of the 7th inning.

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In comment 13507050 River said:

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Thank You Zim. 8-4 clippard needs out of the 7th inning.

meant Clippard.

Wow. Didn't think that was allowed anymore.

OK, I am a big Girardi supporter but I can't go for that.

So, a productive day all around.

Austin heating up, went yard again today. 5 RBI last 2 days. I know Austin isn't the savior, but i really hope to see him in the city. He would be much more fun to watch then Carter.

Also.. keep an eye on this AA Ivy League 1B we got. He is interesting.. already 25 but is maybe in the mix

I'd love to hear Cashman's excuses tomorrow. I'd rather him just tell the truth.

he is actually putting up some seriously good numbers. He's not an ace (yet) but he's doing very well. FWIW, he loves pitching to Romine. And having both Romine and Sanchez in the lineup along with Holliday beats seeing our favorite, Carter.

If anyone is interested


He talks about a lot of stuff including the Yankees

He comes across great
Nooney - ( New Window )

He's playing really, really well right now. Just throwing more fuel on the fire for his case in being called up. Should be interesting to see what happens there.

So get used to him in big spots.

hence forth.Hope Joe's loyalty will not become a burden. With the quick hook Joe probably knows it

Or atleast trending that way. He looked great today

In comment 13507116 DennyInDenville said:

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Or atleast trending that way. He looked great today

yeah, my takeaway from tonight is that Green is the 7th inning guy, and Clippard will take some kind of a rest. Girardi made clear in the post game presser that he's missing Warren.

Think that Girardi is trying to get Clippard right. It was the perfect situation. Up by 6 runs. Right now Clippard is n a pitchers slump to say the least. He pitched very good in April and May. Getting Clippard going again is good for the bullpen and the Yanks. When and how that happens I have no idea.

In comment 13507132 mitch300 said:

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Think that Girardi is trying to get Clippard right. It was the perfect situation. Up by 6 runs. Right now Clippard is n a pitchers slump to say the least. He pitched very good in April and May. Getting Clippard going again is good for the bullpen and the Yanks. When and how that happens I have no idea.

I agree and I know Clippard would likely say no, but he could use a week or two at AA or something to get it right..he looks that lost

In comment 13507134 DennyInDenville said:

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In comment 13507132 mitch300 said: Quote: Think that Girardi is trying to get Clippard right. It was the perfect situation. Up by 6 runs. Right now Clippard is n a pitchers slump to say the least. He pitched very good in April and May. Getting Clippard going again is good for the bullpen and the Yanks. When and how that happens I have no idea. I agree and I know Clippard would likely say no, but he could use a week or two at AA or something to get it right..he looks that lost

After tonight, he might not mind going down or at least going on the DL. Especially now that the DL is only 10 days.

Don't know what the fascination with Clippard is at this point. Yankees have plenty of live young arms witness Chad Green. Clippard is a two pitch pitcher who isn't fooling anyone anymore. He's a has been who wasn't a been for very long. He's blown up four games in recent weeks and that is starting to add up. When Joe brought him in last night I couldn't believe it. It didn't take very long for him to almost blow last nights game up either.

Why Girardi is so hell bent on this guy being so instrumental in whether the Yankees are successful or not is beyond me. The Yankees have a pecking order they stick too come hell or high water most of the time and in this case because he is a veteran he trusts him more then the young guns waiting in the wings. I don't know how you trust this guy. Even if he does straighten out you know he's going to blow one up again. He's not that good.

bc he's a changeup pitcher, which is a good contrast to our other flamethrowers. He was pretty good early, but at this point he's just lost it...it's past time for the Yanks to bury him for a little while

Green and Holder are much better options now behind our big 2

What would really help is if our starters could more consistently get the game into or through the 7th at least, so we didn't need 3-4 innings from the bullpen every single night. The whole staff looked a lot sharper when that was happening in April and May. Tanakas slump plus CCs injury have really hurt

He throws that change up more 50% of the time. It's more like 60% and teams are sitting on it. If you've noticed all the balls that have been hit hard are off his change up and his curve ball. His fastball is fast enough I just don't think he uses it enough. Plus when he misses the strike zone half the time he's not even close.

I wanted to start that response by saying On Clippard. Not what.

In comment 13507379 blueblood'11 said:

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I wanted to start that response by saying On Clippard. Not what.

Yup good points.

put him in the pen. The stuff is filthy and so far he's been pretty unflappable.

Before that Western swing the starters were going deep. Then CC came up lame and the rest of the trip went to shit. But there were three occasions prior to that when Joe called on Clippard when they were either ahead or tied and it didn't take him long in anyone of those situations to yak it up.

Sometimes you aren't going to score a ton of runs and your bullpen needs to keep you in the game. Granted the entire bullpen has slipped especially on the west coast swing but Clippard keeps pitching in those high leverage situations and has set a bad tone the led to a lot of the bullpen difficulties.

is that we've had years where we had no choice but to roll with struggling BP arms. This year we have legitimately talented bullpen guys - German & Green, among others - who could take over leverage situations while Clippard tries to get right.