mlb.mlb.com - 4/27/2008
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CLEVELAND -- The Yankees are doing the right thing. They are simply getting the wrong results. The Yankees' emphasis on player development, as opposed to player purchase, and the resulting reliance on young pitchers, is the intelligent long-term approach for this organization to take. At the moment, it's just not producing a flood of victories. To be more precise, it is not producing any ...
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BASEBALL HOT CORNER —
The Yankees lost an ugly game to the Indians yesterday. Losing happens, but when you go 2 for 13 with runners in scoring position supporting a pitching staff that is hanging by a thread, you deserve to lose. Here's some notes from a disturbing day: "If he had some success in his pocket, he would understand."--Tim McCarver on Ian Kennedy. MLB quotes Girardi, "You guys ask me these questions before we have a chance to talk as a group and to my general manager," he said. "You guys are asking me to make decisions without talking to anyone. "He's in our rotation. I don't mean to get irritated, but we talk as a group, as an ...
The Week In Quotes: April 21-27 by Alex Carnevale
Baseball Prospectus —
... , on his secret campaign to become manager of the Yankees through reverse psychology. (Mike Bauman, MLB.com ) WHEN WOMEN ASK HIM FOR HIS NUMBER, HE WRITES DOWN "125...OR MORE" "More than anything, pitch count-wise, its how you get to the number. Do you throw 50 in the first inning and cruise after that? Do you throw 12 in each inning? Do you have guys on base grinding the entire time? Mentally, its where you fatigue more than anything." -- ...
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Kennedy's better
newsday.com 4/27/2008 — But that's still not enough, as Ohlendorf loses game in ninth
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yesterday. But they didn't lose ...
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nypost.com 4/27/2008 — CLEVELAND - Ian Kennedy was effective in four of five innings. Johnny Damon had four hits. LaTroy Hawkins and Kyle Farnsworth combined for three scoreless innings. Jorge Posada delivered a pinch-hit, three-run triple. Still, the Yankees were even...
MARQUEZ FEELS GROWING PAINS —
NY Post: Sports 4/27/2008
TWO prominent mem bers of the Yankees' youth movement, Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy, have spent the first few weeks of the season struggling to adjust to starting the season in the major leagues for the first time. Another pitcher in that youth...
IAN BETTER - BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH —
NY Post: Sports 4/27/2008
CLEVELAND - Ian Kennedy was better yesterday than he was the last time he pitched. But according to Yankee manager Joe Girardi, there still is room for improvement. "I am not happy with what he did today, but it's in the right direction,"...
