According to Kat Obrien of News day this "oblique strain" that has Hughes shelved for at least a month is lejit. http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/blog/2008/04/hughes_to_the_dl.html
All I have to say is the Yankees are FULL OF IT.
You can't really blame the Yankees though. This whole situation is a little embarrassing .
If it is really an injury, than Phil Hughes was placed on the DL two years in a row with two separate injuries.
Injury prone ??? I sure hope not.
This morning Boomer Esiason said that in the NFL when Qbs complain about miscelaneos injuries such as hamstrings, obliques etc... Most of the time the real problem is the shoulder , but they dont want to publicize an injury such as that. I pray that this isnt the case for our ("so called") future.
(Special thanks to Max S for the Boomer info)
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE PHILLY PHRANCHISE???
I would like to start this post by saying that in no way shape or form am I writing off Phil Hughes. That would just be irrational and stupid.
At the same time its not fair to look at the other side of the coin. Phil Hughes has just been Awful. There is no way to defend the young hurler, he's just been putrid.
I don't think the answer is to send him down to the minors that would just not look good on the Yankees part and in my opinion stunt his growth. If this is done you can hardly blame them especially because he is burning the pen and we have Rasner who is just tearing apart AAA and just won the honors of International League Pitcher Of the Week.
The Yankees have to live there decision of not parting with Hughes for Johan. That point is moot and its not fun to beet a dead horse. We have to just live with Phil and his (what I hope to be) growing pains.
For what its worth, Greg Maddux at this point of his career sucked as well (www.baseball-reference.com/m/maddugr01.shtml) and for your information wasn't that great either (http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/santajo02.shtml)
At the same time its not fair to look at the other side of the coin. Phil Hughes has just been Awful. There is no way to defend the young hurler, he's just been putrid.
I don't think the answer is to send him down to the minors that would just not look good on the Yankees part and in my opinion stunt his growth. If this is done you can hardly blame them especially because he is burning the pen and we have Rasner who is just tearing apart AAA and just won the honors of International League Pitcher Of the Week.
The Yankees have to live there decision of not parting with Hughes for Johan. That point is moot and its not fun to beet a dead horse. We have to just live with Phil and his (what I hope to be) growing pains.
For what its worth, Greg Maddux at this point of his career sucked as well (www.baseball-reference.com/m/maddugr01.shtml) and for your information wasn't that great either (http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/santajo02.shtml)
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
ANEMIC OFFENSE MANAGES TO SPLIT
It just doesn't make sense to me that an offensive juggernaut such as the Yankees have struggled this badly to this point of the season. It mainly is due in part to the fact that All Star second baseman Robby Cano is batting a measly .153 with 5 RBIs and just one HR. Whats also not helping is that our one time capn clutch has turned into capn Double play. I know that Giambi has 5 hrs but other than that his numbers are close to pathetic. Abreu is doing just ok, and if it weren't for that mini hot streak that Damon had last week his numbers would be in the pits as well. The only Yankee that is having an acceptable year thus far is Hideky Matsui.
If there ever was a time for these players to step it up, now would be a good time, mainly because we are down our starting catcher and starting third baseman who just so happen to be arguably the best at there position.
In game one Pettitte was just not effective and Traber continued to disappoint. The only positive to take out of that game was Alabadejo started making strides toward filling in for Bruney who unfortunately is probably lost for the year.
In game two, IPK was ok. He definitely was better than what we saw but that's really not saying much. The Hawk and Farnsworth put up zeros. But Rockin Ross Ohelendorf was in effect punching his ticket to triple a. A good reason why they didnt win is because the offense was no where to be found.
In game three, Wang was just brilliant. What really got me pumped was those gaudy strike out total of 9 in just 7 innings. Suddenly Wang has become a strike out pitcher thanks to his new and improved breaking "stuff". If it weren't for Melkys blast to left that just cleared the fence, the Yanx would have been shutout.
While I'm talking Melky, I must say I am truly shocked and surprised with the production we are getting out of him. I didnt see melky hitting more than 12 HR this year. The theme of the year in my eyes isn't the ineffectiveness of the youngsters. I think its the ineffectiveness of the offense.
In game Four, Moose once again put together a solid start. That's two in a row since Hank called him out. Mussina gave up a pair of runs in
A Yankee rally which consisted of one ball that left the infield. I know the Yanks will take any offense they could get these days. I was very happy with what I saw out of Alabadejo and out of Krazy Kyle.
Overall, this series had more negatives than positives. The loss of Po and Bruney along with Alex reaggravating the quad injury hurts allot.
Lets hope the yanks could get their offense started at the expense of the Detroit pitching staff.
If there ever was a time for these players to step it up, now would be a good time, mainly because we are down our starting catcher and starting third baseman who just so happen to be arguably the best at there position.
In game one Pettitte was just not effective and Traber continued to disappoint. The only positive to take out of that game was Alabadejo started making strides toward filling in for Bruney who unfortunately is probably lost for the year.
In game two, IPK was ok. He definitely was better than what we saw but that's really not saying much. The Hawk and Farnsworth put up zeros. But Rockin Ross Ohelendorf was in effect punching his ticket to triple a. A good reason why they didnt win is because the offense was no where to be found.
In game three, Wang was just brilliant. What really got me pumped was those gaudy strike out total of 9 in just 7 innings. Suddenly Wang has become a strike out pitcher thanks to his new and improved breaking "stuff". If it weren't for Melkys blast to left that just cleared the fence, the Yanx would have been shutout.
While I'm talking Melky, I must say I am truly shocked and surprised with the production we are getting out of him. I didnt see melky hitting more than 12 HR this year. The theme of the year in my eyes isn't the ineffectiveness of the youngsters. I think its the ineffectiveness of the offense.
In game Four, Moose once again put together a solid start. That's two in a row since Hank called him out. Mussina gave up a pair of runs in
A Yankee rally which consisted of one ball that left the infield. I know the Yanks will take any offense they could get these days. I was very happy with what I saw out of Alabadejo and out of Krazy Kyle.
Overall, this series had more negatives than positives. The loss of Po and Bruney along with Alex reaggravating the quad injury hurts allot.
Lets hope the yanks could get their offense started at the expense of the Detroit pitching staff.
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