Yes, it is early in the season, but still...

I fully understand that this is only the end of the 2nd week of baseball... that being said, I'm still angry.


How many times is  Girardi going to send Wang out to the mound to pitch 1+ innings?  At some point you've got to realize that Wang hasn't worked his issues out yet.

 

Why not bring Phil Hughes up to replace Wang for a start or two while Wang corrects his delivery? The main thing with Wang is that his body is getting out in front of his arm and when a sinker ball pitcher drags his arm through the delivery, the result is a sinker that doesn't sink. Its not a major issue, as a major leaguer, Wang should be able to fix that rather quickly, but he hasn't.

 

Anthony Claggett, poor guy, was called up today. It's unfortunate for him that he had to stay out there for so long even though he was getting rocked. I can't even imagine how this will affect his psyche.  I hate when young guys get used like that... basically the way they treated Claggett tells me that they don't care about his development as a pitcher, they only care about getting someone in to take some slack for the other guys on the pitching staff no matter who it is or where he's at in his development. It's disheartening.

 

I don't fully blame our pitching staff either. Our outfielders made a few errors today.  The hitters are leaving way too many people on base. It seems like the only time we score is when we hit a homer. The Yankees cannot survive on homers alone. The way the Yanks are playing right now is so reminiscent of last year... No consistency!

 

I know you want to protect your guys late in blow out games (rest and all that) Girardi, but when you take everyone out, it just shows that you have no faith in your team and you've given up... If I paid hundreds of dollars to go sit in a new park, you better try everything you can to win and you dang sure better not give up in the 4th inning!!!

 

I would not be surprised one bit if Pavano came out and shut out the Yankees tomorrow. C.C. isn't doing as great as he could be, Wang is really bad, Joba is doing ok, A.J. is amazing, and Andy is doing ok... In the pen, Mo and Bruney are the only guys I trust, and our hitters still have yet to learn how to manufacture runs. Oh and don't forget about Girardi, the manager who just sits in the dug out ignoring the fact that his team is getting their butts kicked...

 

Oh I guess a congratulations is in order, Congrats Eric Wedge on your 500th win as the Indians' manager.

 

FINAL WHISPER: This is crap something needs to be done and it needs to be done quick or else I'm going to scream. Oh and I like how the Yankees are now the laughing stock of the majors... deserve a new stadium my ---beep----.

 


Baseball Nerdish as Always,
- Brit

 

2 Comments

I agree about Claggett. They threw him to the wolves and I hope it didn't traumatize him for life!

- http://janeheller.mlblogs.com

Yea it was pretty bad... I sorta feel bad for Cody too.

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