El Marciano has been activated from the IL and will bat leadoff tonight for AAA Scranton Wilkes Barre. Interestingly, they aren’t making him work his way up thru the minors to begin the rehab.
Thankfully, there’s no longer any nonsense about not having any space for him in the Majors. Hopefully he stays healthy and performs well enough for a quick call up to the Bigs.
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and we didn't get Ruocco calling it. I'll never forget him calling Judge's statcast-breaking bomb in Seattle.
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They may, need to go out and get a closer.
About a dozen trades, some big ones, today and nothing from the Yankees.
Just horrific shit tonight
Then the worst closer comes in and shits the bed in two pitches.
You cannot even blame Boone for BP mismanagement because no matter who he puts out there is rubbish. No trades to find help. It is almost that Cashman is wasting Hal's money to spite him.
Soto is not re-signing with this bunch.
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Then the worst closer comes in and shits the bed in two pitches.
You cannot even blame Boone for BP mismanagement because no matter who he puts out there is rubbish. No trades to find help. It is almost that Cashman is wasting Hal's money to spite him.
Soto is not re-signing with this bunch.
Soto is gone and you can not blame him. This is the same shit year after year.
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
They got their hearts ripped out. Totally expecting a Boston sweep this weekend.
This is a manager who had Jones pinch-hit and Wells pinch-run in the same game.
Still, he isn't the biggest problem for this organization.
How much longer do those two get Hal?
What's fascinating about this collapse is that despite having the worst record in MLB over the past month and a half, they are still somehow only 2 games out of first place.
They just can't stick with Clay Holmes anymore. Flushes the game in just two pitches, and has now blown 25% of his save opportunities for the season.
Has his OPS up to .754. Very respectable for a C.
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Cortes is the worst choice of the starters. He doesn't have the stuff to be a closer.
What stuff? Getting people out stuff? Having balls stuff? Cortes would be better than Holmes. He throws strikes. His control is rarely off. He works the batter. You don't need 98 to be a closer. He gets it up there 92/93 as a starter. We have seen 95. Probably can sit 95 for an inning and with all his junk, batters would have trouble.
Yeah, great idea. Turn your young star SP, the guy that has been far and away your best SP all season and turn him into a RP. Jeezus man
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In comment 16560917 Matt M. said:
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Cortes is the worst choice of the starters. He doesn't have the stuff to be a closer.
What stuff? Getting people out stuff? Having balls stuff? Cortes would be better than Holmes. He throws strikes. His control is rarely off. He works the batter. You don't need 98 to be a closer. He gets it up there 92/93 as a starter. We have seen 95. Probably can sit 95 for an inning and with all his junk, batters would have trouble.
Point out the closers whose fastball sit 92-93. Even 94-95. (And when he gets it up to 95 his control gets shaky). And with all his junk, batters haven't been having too much trouble.
While I'd hate to see Gil pulled out of the rotation, he's thrown more innings than ever before. Are you willing to risk what hopefully will be a long career to make the playoffs this year with a team that has major issues?
With Stanton coming back, what’s the over/under on the games Dominquez has to play down in AAA to hone his grit?
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In comment 16560917 Matt M. said:
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In comment 16560908 DC Gmen Fan said:
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Cortes is the worst choice of the starters. He doesn't have the stuff to be a closer.
What stuff? Getting people out stuff? Having balls stuff? Cortes would be better than Holmes. He throws strikes. His control is rarely off. He works the batter. You don't need 98 to be a closer. He gets it up there 92/93 as a starter. We have seen 95. Probably can sit 95 for an inning and with all his junk, batters would have trouble.
Point out the closers whose fastball sit 92-93. Even 94-95. (And when he gets it up to 95 his control gets shaky). And with all his junk, batters haven't been having too much trouble.
While I'd hate to see Gil pulled out of the rotation, he's thrown more innings than ever before. Are you willing to risk what hopefully will be a long career to make the playoffs this year with a team that has major issues?
Asking Gil to get up and come into games and throw as hard as he does 3-4 times per week is very likely worse for his arm than pitching him once per week. If he goes to the pen it will be in long relief where he can keep the schedule he’s used to
With Stanton coming back, what’s the over/under on the games Dominquez has to play down in AAA to hone his grit?
What's amazing is they let Stanton dictate that he won't play in any rehab games. No matter how advanced the pitching machine technology is, it's not the same. The machine doesn't change the time between pitches. The machine does alter speeds on the same pitch from one pitch to the next. You don't have to worry about the machine missing up and in. You don't break out of the box to run to first after making contact.
So what we're going to see is 8 to 10 games of Stanton looking like crap. It happens every time he comes back.
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In comment 16560917 Matt M. said:
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In comment 16560908 DC Gmen Fan said:
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Cortes is the worst choice of the starters. He doesn't have the stuff to be a closer.
What stuff? Getting people out stuff? Having balls stuff? Cortes would be better than Holmes. He throws strikes. His control is rarely off. He works the batter. You don't need 98 to be a closer. He gets it up there 92/93 as a starter. We have seen 95. Probably can sit 95 for an inning and with all his junk, batters would have trouble.
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In comment 16560928 Matt M. said:
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In comment 16560919 section125 said:
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In comment 16560917 Matt M. said:
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In comment 16560908 DC Gmen Fan said:
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Cortes is the worst choice of the starters. He doesn't have the stuff to be a closer.
What stuff? Getting people out stuff? Having balls stuff? Cortes would be better than Holmes. He throws strikes. His control is rarely off. He works the batter. You don't need 98 to be a closer. He gets it up there 92/93 as a starter. We have seen 95. Probably can sit 95 for an inning and with all his junk, batters would have trouble.
It's not all about velocity. It is about getting swings and misses as a closer. Cortes struggles to put batters away outside of his first year here.
No, he does well thru 5 innings most times. As closer he only needs to do it for 1 inning. And he needs to have the balls to do it, which he does.
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Yeah, great idea. Turn your young star SP, the guy that has been far and away your best SP all season and turn him into a RP. Jeezus man
The majority of ‘Yankee Fans’ here are dumb fucks. This is nothing new.