riveraveblues.com - 7/13/2009
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At 51-37, with the third best record in baseball, leading the Wild Card and just three games back in the AL East, the Yankees had a fine first half. Yet it was a tumultuous three months, wrought with streaks and injuries and strange trends, causing mass panic at times among Yankees fans. Over ...
Breaking Down the Yankees for the Second Half--The Rotation
puristbleedspinstripes.com 7/15/2009 — So the All Star Game is officially over--and we can thus consider ourselves in the second half. This is where it gets fun. All of those days players got rested in the first half? Well, now they have to play. Now the pennant races start to heat up, and every move a team makes, be it a trade, a ...
How Reactivating Chien Ming Wang Messed With Phil Hughes
puristbleedspinstripes.com 7/13/2009 — Recently, I've been seeing a lot of posts suggesting that to solve the rotation problems, the Yankees should move Phil Hughes back from the bullpen to the rotation. On the surface, it's hard to disagree with this. As a starter, Hughes this season was showing improvement outside of one disastrous ...
Second Half Issue: Stop Overworking the Bullpen
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 7/14/2009 — To continue today's pitching theme, I bring up another one of the Yankees second half issues, their overworked bullpen. The Yankees bullpen has thrown more innings than just three other AL teams; the A's, the Orioles, and the Indians. If you haven't looked at the standings lately, those are ...
What to do with the fifth starter spot?
riveraveblues.com 7/6/2009 — Once Chien-Ming Wang left yesterday’s game in the sixth after pointing to his shoulder, this post was inevitable. The Yanks will have a few decisions to make in the next few days. They’ll need a spot starter this Thursday in Minnesota, ...
Would Wang have been so bad in the bullpen?
riveraveblues.com 6/5/2009 — Yesterday the Yankees announced their first solution to the good problem . With six starting pitchers for five rotation spots, the Yanks opted to place Chien-Ming Wang back in his rotation spot at the expense of Phil Hughes . The latter will go to ...
Yankees Protecting Their Wang
mysportsrumors.com 7/18/2009 — New York Yankees pitcher Chien-Ming Wang has declared that his right shoulder is pain free. One would think this means a rehab assignment is on the way and he can get himself quickly back to the majors, but not so. Marc Carig at Newark Star-Ledger says that Wang refused to put a date on a ...
Yankees at stalemate with six starters
lennysyankees.blogspot.com 5/29/2009 — A six-man rotation is not a realistic option, but I am having trouble figuring out a different solution. The Yankees have been hot in Wang’s absence, but now he is back and could actually help the team this time. If Chien-Ming Wang is back to being the reliable Chien-Ming Wang of 2006-07, the ...
Wang, Hughes and the Yanks’ final rotation spot
riveraveblues.com 6/6/2009 — Through seven starts and 34.2 innings, Phil Hughes ‘ season numbers are nothing special. The Yanks’ promising young right-hander may be 3-2, but he sports a 5.45 ERA and a 1.50 WHIP. Those numbers, though, do not tell the entire story: ...
The Saga of Phil Hughes and the Yankees Bullpen
advancedfantasybaseball.com 6/5/2009 — He was supposed to be the new ace of the New York Yankees. A young star for a franchise with a long history of winning and turning good baseball players into media icons. But that did not happen for Phil Hughes as we expected. Instead he struggled, he got hurt, and he was replaced. But the ...
A tale of two pitchers
riveraveblues.com 7/1/2009 — On April 26, 2007, the Yankees found themselves without a starting pitcher, and so a few months — or possibly a year — ahead of schedule, they handed the ball over to a 20-year-old right-hander named Phil Hughes . A few months later, on August 7, ...
FAN POLL: YANKEES MORE POPULAR THAN METS —
NY Post: Sports 7/13/2009
> Pinstriped pride rules New York City on and off the field. According to a Marist poll, 53 percent of registered voters in the city support the Yankees compared to 36 percent whose allegiance falls in Flushing. And even Mets were forced ...
