4/5 - Kikuchi at Stroman

[ThePrideofShiner]

Day baseball for the home opener, which gives me something to do at work today.

Torres, 2b
Soto, rf
Judge, cf
Stanton, dh
Rizzo, 1b
Volpe, ss
Verdugo, lf
Berti, 3b
Trevino, c

 

[jon abbey]

And NY just had a small-ish earthquake to mark the occasion.

 

[jon abbey]

4.8

 

[luckysox]

Epicenter was near Lebanon NJ. We felt it down here south of Philly as well.

 

[jon abbey]

Yep about 50 miles due west of NYC.

 

[Wingack]

Very appropriate for Soto's debut.

 

[ThePrideofShiner]

Yankees just signed Rougie Odor to a minor league deal.

 

[jon abbey]

Their AAA team is pretty thin on talent.

 

[ThePrideofShiner]

I'd love to watch Verdugo and Odor homer back-to-back and see who can pimp it better.

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

That was a bad steal quadfecta by Volpe:

• Fastball count
• Slid to the middle of the bag
• Jammed his left hand slowing him down
• Helmet fell over his face so he couldn't see anything

 

[AMS25]

Haven't watched much Yankees baseball yet. Am I correct in my impression that Stanton still sucks?

 

[EvilEmpire]

Not watching anything but the box score, but damn, I hope this isn't more day baseball bullshit with these bats.

 

[BigSoxFan]

Haven't watched much Yankees baseball yet. Am I correct in my impression that Stanton still sucks?

Stanton needs to be DFA’d. Just absolute toast.

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

I feel like this exact kind of pitcher has plagued both the Sox and Yankees for a long time.

 

[Wingack]

Trevino feels like an automatic DP every time he is up.

 

[ThePrideofShiner]

This game sucks.

 

[jon abbey]

Stanton needs to be DFA’d. Just absolute toast.

Dominguez should be ready by June 1 so Stanton probably has until around then.

 

[BigSoxFan]

Dominguez should be ready by June 1 so Stanton probably has until around then.

Yeah, easy decision once Jasson is back. Today has been one of the more listless performances from the Yankees I can remember.

 

[jon abbey]

Yeah, easy decision once Jasson is back. Today has been one of the more listless performances from the Yankees I can remember.

Soto and Volpe and Cabrera have masked the fact that the rest of the lineup has been almost entirely dead all season so far. Now Soto is cold too, one hit in his last four games.

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

Umpires just have no ability to identify the outside part of the plate, probably because there is a whole ass human blocking their view. Such a dumb system.

 

[BigSoxFan]

Soto and Volpe and Cabrera have masked the fact that the rest of the lineup has been almost entirely dead all season so far. Now Soto is cold too, one hit in his last four games.

Yup. He and Judge are going to get walked a ton until Rizzo/Stanton prove that they can be productive. I’d be tempted to bat Volpe cleanup right now just to have someone putting up good ABs behind those guys.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Dugie almost had one of his clutch moments.

 

[cheekydave]

I got woke up this morning by a EARTHQUAKE in Hoboken NJ.

Really

The chances of that are about the chance of the Yankes getting shut out at a home opener for the first time in
66 years.

Wish I had the parlay.

 

[normstalls]

Soto and Volpe and Cabrera have masked the fact that the rest of the lineup has been almost entirely dead all season so far. Now Soto is cold too, one hit in his last four games.

And yet they are 6-2. When two thirds of the lineup isn't hitting and you still won 75% of your games, that's impressive.

 

[jon abbey]

NY has scored in just 1 of their last 33 innings (not counting extra innings with the Manfred Man already on 2nd).

 

[jon abbey]

Now we’re up to TOR 3, earthquake 2, NYY 0.