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May 13, 2006 16:58

right now, mainly because of injuries, the yankees have a lot of young players. and i have been saying for at least the past year, that they need to have young talent, instead of buying all these big-name, old people. and guess what. it's finally starting to work. andy phillips, bubba crosby, wang, robinson cano, and the rest of them are really ( Read more... )

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jewbacca9000 May 14 2006, 01:28:37 UTC

Crosby was only playing because Sheffield was/is hurt. I don't know about Phillips recently, but he's had 37 at bats on the year, and is hitting .139. If that's stepping up, I shudder to think about what he was doing before.

In the short term it's working, but keep in mind that they've only played two games without Matsui and Sheffield, and they've been against 17-19 Oakland. Mussina has been the only consistent starter, and I don't know whether their pitching or outfield trouble is more worrying. If Crosby and Cabrera/Williams have to be in the outfield for an extended period of time, the Yankees will be many games out of it by the time Sheff and Matsui return.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if in the next two or three weeks the Yankees trade for an overrated starter (Barry Zito maybe) or outfielder to try to plug up a hole.

imjustthisgirl May 14 2006, 18:12:56 UTC

if you didn't notice, i DID mention in the beginning that most of the young players were playing because the regular starters were hurt.
andy phillips has barely had any time to play the entire season. even last season, he was third to jason giambi and tino. now that matsui and sheff are hurt, bernie has been playing, and giambi has been dh'ing. so andy is finally getting a chance to play. you can't be amazing straight off of the bench that you've had to sit on for almost two seasons.
they've been playing without sheff for a couple of weeks now, it's just matsui that got hurt recently. and they may have been playing against a team that is under .500, but if you look at stats, they usually have more trouble with those teams, like for example the devil rays. while it may just be a temporary fix, it seems to be working at the moment.

jewbacca9000 May 14 2006, 18:44:11 UTC

The "moment" is two games of a 162 game season. And Danny Haren is peeing on them today, as Bernie, Bubba, and Melky are a combined 0-6 as of now.

imjustthisgirl May 14 2006, 19:23:33 UTC

except bubba got a hit, and melky just threw someone out from left field? yeah...

xosincerelymexo May 14 2006, 03:26:32 UTC

were you at tulip fest today? because i know i saw chris but i didn't know if you were with him. or maybe i imagined all of this. who knows?

imjustthisgirl May 14 2006, 18:13:18 UTC

haha you made it up. chris was working all day and i had a cara-alison day.
=)

no5lies May 18 2006, 00:27:29 UTC

living every day as it comes, and not thinking about the end of summer.

^^^that's basically the best idea i've heard all year