A few bit ago I checked my Twitter feed (because I am very Web 3.0) and saw this:
And threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Am I overreactting? Of course I am. It’s what I do! Well, one of the things I do. But in any case, the reason this specifically bothers me is that [...]
Chien-Ming Wang might continue to be bad-to-awful – This, on the surface, is a somewhat valid reason. But the next question is, why did you activate him early you idiots? The other problem with this is Phil Hughes needs to be working consistently (he’s not a complete product!) and if Wang is merely average and [...]
My baseball marathon for the week ended last night. Unlike the team itself I have an off day today before going again on Friday which is good, because I need to do laundry.
The crowd on Tuesday (at least in my section) was hands down one of the most annoying I have dealt with, ever, at [...]
The Yankees are facing Baltimore for the first time at New Yankee Stadium in a three game series that starts tonight. The Orioles are still a flawed, in transition team with a scary good offense and scary bad pitching (except Jeremy Guthrie and to a lesser extent, Koji Uehara). Whether or not the series comes [...]
Well, I was honestly mystified by the decision to bring up from AAA Anthony Claggett of all people. He is honestly, not very good, as I assume anyone who watched the game noticed.
Anyway, for the third straight game Chien-Ming Wang was awful. He looked pretty good in the first, not great, but okay. Then in [...]
Today’s matchup was interesting, because it gave the pitchers for the Yankees some looks at real upper level big league talent. Some of them fared better than others (which makes sense, as a few of them spent the whole year at AA).
Phil Hughes – 2.2IP, 3H, 2R, 0BB, 2K, 0HR, 3AO, 3GO
A good outing, throwing [...]
Progress! Progress is very important, especially when you are a young glasses wearing pitcher for the Yankees who had some major problems with being bad at the start of the year. Phil Hughes was pretty not awful, but there are a few things I was concerned with specifically:
Not using his curve to get batters out. [...]
Phil Hughes – 8IP, 4H (all singles), 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 11K
He’s going to the Arizona Fall League to get his innings up since he missed so much of the year. Hopefully the injury magic does not repeat itself in 2008.
Carl Pavano – Trenton Thunder- 6IP, 6H, 1R, 1ER, 1BB, 6K
Pavano might actually make an appearance with the Yankees this year if things keep going the way they are. It depends on how badly they need a starter and whether his arm is ready or not, of course.
Phil Hughes – Scranton-Wilkes Barre Yankees – 3.2IP, [...]
I’m mildly freaking out here after yesterday’s game and some bad news for the lineup.
Phil Hughes’ fastball was still way below where it should be, and his command was off. He wasn’t hitting where he wanted because of the movement but now that it’s start #2 I am starting to get concerned about him. There [...]
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