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[jon abbey]

It looks like lurkers aren't allowed to start threads in this section for now, so I'll take this one...

Smyly is a 22 year old rookie who has only given up 2 ER total in his first three starts over 16 innings. Garcia gives up 2 ER every seven minutes or so that he's on the mound, so should be quite the duel. This will be Garcia's first start since the Pineda news, meaning for the first time since Pettitte announced he was coming back, there is hope for him to stick with the team longer than another week or two. Maybe this will inspire him to stop pitching batting practice during actual games, we'll see.

[jon abbey]

Whoo, another episode of The Eduardo Nunez Shortstop Experience. At least I don't have to watch Ibanez out there again today...

Derek Jeter DH
Nick Swisher RF
Robinson Cano 2B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Mark Teixeira 1B
Curtis Granderson CF
Andruw Jones LF
Russell Martin C
Eduardo Nunez SS

[Jed Zeppelin]

Smoked and mirrored to death. Garcia is throwing some serious meatballs but so far Detroit can't pull the trigger.

edit: Dirks is the first to realize Garcia throws everything slow as shit.

Edited by Jed Zeppelin, 28 April 2012 - 03:22 PM.

[AMS25]

Garcia gives up 2 ER every seven minutes or so...

An accurate description, I'd say.... Andy Dirks?

[TheYellowDart5]

Well, it took a full season, but Garcia has finally morphed back into the sack of shit we all expected him to be.

[Wingack]

I an pretty sure Michael Pineda and his bum shoulder would be better than Freddy Garcia.

[TheYellowDart5]

DAT CONTRACT YEAR

[Sampo Gida]

Garcia throwing BP.

[RIrooter09]

This is very entertaining.

[Saby]

Don't get the point of booing him. He just has nothing out there. Feel for the guy.

[Sampo Gida]

I like that Girardi does not hold to the 7 run rule that most managers adhere to before pulling their starters. Many people don't remember, but back in the day when there were 4 starters, starters were on a shorter leash than today, since the 5th starter, who was called the spot starter, was usually available out of the pen for long relief.

[Saby]

NY has actually hammered the ball off Smyly. Lot of hard contact in the first inning, but this is a pretty big hole to climb out of.

[TheYellowDart5]

I wonder if Hughes is paying Garcia to suck so that he can keep his rotation spot when Pettitte returns.

Also, pretty sure Hughes tore Pineda's labrum.

Edited by TheYellowDart5, 28 April 2012 - 03:48 PM.

[Wingack]

Does David Phelps get Garcia's next start?

[Foulkey Reese]

I LOVE when Kay and company talk like 2004 never happened. Especially when they feel the need to start bashing Boston while getting hammered by another team.

[TheYellowDart5]

Watching Nunez slide into first base when he would've beat out the throw if he'd run makes me happy. He seems like a phenomenally dumb baseball player.

[rembrat]

Well, it took a full season, but Garcia has finally morphed back into the sack of shit we all expected him to be.

You can't see it but I'm smugly nodding my head.

[Van Everyman]

I LOVE when Kay and company talk like 2004 never happened. Especially when they feel the need to start bashing Boston while getting hammered by another team.

The years 2005-2008 were so sweet because every time you heard Kay (admittedly, I still tried not to), he sounded rattled -- as if the Yankees had been permanently stripped of their birthright. Even if he's returned to triumphalism since 2009, it was worth it to see Jeter, Posada et al celebrate like they'd never been there before.

[Sampo Gida]

Watching Nunez slide into first base when he would've beat out the throw if he'd run makes me happy. He seems like a phenomenally dumb baseball player.

Remember that the next time Pedey does the same.

[jon abbey]

Time to end the Garcia experiment, give Phelps a chance.

[Saby]

Time to end the Garcia experiment, give Phelps a chance.

Cut him entirely?

[deconstruction]

Time to end the Garcia experiment, give Phelps a chance.

Yeah, that really should be it. Seems like he (Phelps) has a pretty decent repertoire and can keep the ball on the corners. Seems like he's had success in the minors as keeping the ball in the park, but so far's been tagged with 4 HRs in fewer than 20 innings.

[TheYellowDart5]

Always weird to hear Jeter drop an f-bomb. At least, I think he did after that strikeout.

[AMS25]

One hit by the Yanks? Oy. This happens from time-to-time against these young, unknown pitchers.

[jon abbey]

Cut him entirely?

That or phantom DL, they can't keep sending him out there and they can't get anything for him in a trade at this point.

[Wingack]

If only the Boston bullpen was coming in right now.

Too soon?

[rembrat]

If only the Boston bullpen was coming in right now.

Too soon?

You jelly of our vastly superior starting rotation, brah? Yea, you jelly. We got Aaron Cook sitting there and we like kinda want this dude pitching but then again we don't cause we are so stacked.

[jon abbey]

If only the Boston bullpen was coming in right now.

Too soon?

Boaton hasn't lost since that torching this time last week.

[deconstruction]

If only the Boston bullpen was coming in right now.

Too soon?

Ha. If by "too soon" you mean "henceforth not as likely to be the doormat they have hitherto been," then, yes, too soon. They won't be a good bullpen, but they're not going to be the 10 ERA group of the first 17 games.

In my opinion, of course.

Too much?

[TheYellowDart5]

Thank God for the double play there.

[Wingack]

You jelly of our vastly superior starting rotation, brah? Yea, you jelly. We got Aaron Cook sitting there and we like kinda want this dude pitching but then again we don't cause we are so stacked.

A little jelly.

And no deconstruction not too much.

[jon abbey]

Granderson still cares.

[rembrat]

On a more serious note, why wasn't Bartolo Colon re-signed? Did the FO evaluators simply pick Garcia over Colon?

[rembrat]

"This is my meatball."

[deconstruction]

A little jelly.

And no deconstruction not too much.

OK, cool. It's amazing how much Melancon and Aceves have skewed the bullpen numbers, too.

Ex-Yankees: 24.4 ERA
Ret of 'pen: 4.03 ERA

Fuckers.

[Wingack]

On a more serious note, why wasn't Bartolo Colon re-signed? Did the FO evaluators simply pick Garcia over Colon?

I was actually wondering this earlier today. I wonder if one of the reasons was the fact that Bartolo wore out towards the end of the year.

[jon abbey]

Colon sucked in the second half last year, it seemed like a pretty easy decision.

[jon abbey]

5 to tie, 6 to win!

[TheYellowDart5]

I can't wait to see Papa Grande's insane fist pump after closing out a five-run game in April.

[TheYellowDart5]

Swisher is absolutely raking.

[jon abbey]

4 to tie, 5 to win!

[rembrat]

Big Papi should take Papa Grande to court for copyright infringement.

[deconstruction]

Is Swisher going to left field (as a LHH) with more power than he has in previous years?

Edited by deconstruction, 28 April 2012 - 05:42 PM.

[Sampo Gida]

Swishers having quite a start.

Colon sucked in the second half last year, it seemed like a pretty easy decision.

He actually had a lower 2nd half ERA than Pineda in a tougher park. Obviously. nowhere near the upside, but his decline was understandable given he had not pitched much in previous years.

[AMS25]

Valverde.... I almost feel sorry for Tigers fans.

[jon abbey]

I bet that's the first time anyone has hit HRs from both sides of the plate in this stadium with both going to LF.

[jon abbey]

He actually had a lower 2nd half ERA than Pineda in a tougher park. Obviously. nowhere near the upside, but his decline was understandable given he had not pitched much in previous years.

Colon's OPS allowed in the second half was something like .865.

[jon abbey]

Valverde.... I almost feel sorry for Tigers fans.

But then you remember they're in a division where 87-75 will likely be enough to win it?

[Saby]

Valverde is on my top 5 most hated MLB players list.

[soxhop411]

Is he really going to blow this?