vs YANKEES, 4/07

[Going Underground]

Like I said coming out of spring traing, Schoop still struggles with the breaking ball and until he starts to hit them that's all he's going to see. He saw three sliders and a knucklecurve in that AB. He needs more time in AAA to work on that.

Flaherty sees mostly breaking stuff. Not too many fastballs thrown at the bottom of the order.

[Tony-OH]

Flaherty sees mostly breaking stuff. Not too many fastballs thrown at the bottom of the order.

Absolutely. It's been the book on Flaherty as well. When he struggles like this, he really doesn't see the off speed stuff very well.

[FlipTheBird]

Yes.

A Lombardozzi bunt would have likely resulted in a run. Much better than a predictable 0-3 from Lombardozzi/Flaherty/Schoop. No one says you need to make up whole deficit in one inning.

Agreed, wholeheartedly. Our 7-8-9 is abysmal. Very much a "take what you can get" group right now.

[scOtt]

Flaherty sees mostly breaking stuff. Not too many fastballs thrown at the bottom of the order.

He's really getting worked down and in.

[Don Quixote]

That is due to the nature of the plaques, they indicate which year the number was retired. Because the Yankees didn't have a separate number retiring ceremony for Rivera they didn't have much of a choice.

What I find more interesting is that his plaque says "He amassed the most saves in postseason history" and "He retired as baseball's all-time saves leader". That seems to indicate that one of those records is eligible to be broken while the other is not.

Could be the case, considering that single-season and career statistics on which records are based don't include postseason numbers anyway. Are postseason marks just unofficial records or by-the-way sorts of things?

[Tony-OH]

Is Britton getting squeezed? Both pitches looked like strikes on the pitch tracker.

[scOtt]

Amazing that Britton is so night and day this year. New man.

[Moshagge3]

That's weird that they didn't have a number retiring ceremony since his 42 would have been retired regardless.

[Mayor McCheese]

I can pretty much assume that MW will be in pinstripes next year.

[LAOSfan]

Agreed, wholeheartedly. Our 7-8-9 is abysmal. Very much a "take what you can get" group right now.

At least Lombardozzi has hit the ball hard. I'd like to see him keep second base when Manny and Hardy return.

[scOtt]

That's weird that they didn't have a number retiring ceremony since his 42 would have been retired regardless.

It would be in pretty bad taste if they did.

[Going Underground]

Britton has been damn good. The problem is if you want him to start ,he won't be stretched out as it gets later in the year.

[pollaxt]

Is Britton getting squeezed? Both pitches looked like strikes on the pitch tracker.

Yup. When Britton's stuff is on, his strikes look like balls. I'll take it.

[weams]

Could be the case, considering that single-season and career statistics on which records are based don't include postseason numbers anyway. Are postseason marks just unofficial records or by-the-way sorts of things?

Oh, they are records. It's just that no one except for Yankees and Yankee fans ever pay any attention to them any more.

[Going Underground]

I can pretty much assume that MW will be in pinstripes next year.

They have McCann.