May 14: Yankees back in town

[HowAboutThat]

Reading the recent comments it seems that I complain about Hyde’s use of the starters, everyone else complains about how he uses his relievers.

I came in late, and I also don’t know why he didn’t give Plutko another inning,  but I don’t have a particular complaint about not letting Kremer start the sixth. 77 pitches is plenty for now.

But  everyone has a legit complaint about SOME aspect of Hyde’s misuse of the pitching.

[scOtt]

Just now, Ripken said:

Awful at bat after awful at bat.  Team chases everything.  

In their defense, Kluber had some good stuff tonight. Sick change and good breaking stuff.

But yeah... Over and over and over, chasing pitcher's pitches.

[HowAboutThat]

I wish the beats would ask pointed yet polite questions about this stuff.. but they don’t dare.

[scOtt]

Just now, Philip said:

Reading the recent comments it seems that I complain about Hyde’s use of the starters, everyone else complains about how he uses his relievers.

I came in late, and I also don’t know why he didn’t give Plutko another inning,  but I don’t have a particular complaint about not letting Kremer start the sixth. 77 pitches is plenty for now.

But  everyone has a legit complaint about SOME aspect of Hyde’s misuse of the pitching.

Good point!

[scOtt]

We should be mostly done with the Skanks after this series. Won't it be 12 or 15 games already???

 

Seems like 50...

[bpilktree]

The issue Hyde has is all the relievers are the same and the guys we thought would be the back end are Harvey who is on DL, Scott who can’t throw the ball over the plate, Armstrong who has been worse guy in the pen all year, Fry who has been good and might be the new closer, Valdez who has blown 3 saves.  It isn’t like the days of Brach, Oday, Britton and company where you knew if it got late you could count on them.  

[HowAboutThat]

1 minute ago, bpilktree said:

The issue Hyde has is all the relievers are the same and the guys we thought would be the back end are Harvey who is on DL, Scott who can’t throw the ball over the plate, Armstrong who has been worse guy in the pen all year, Fry who has been good and might be the new closer, Valdez who has blown 3 saves.  It isn’t like the days of Brach, Oday, Britton and company where you knew if it got late you could count on them.  

Fair point but Plutko was good. Why pull him? No need.

[Aristotelian]

horrible ABs by Mountcastle all night

[Ripken]

Just now, Aristotelian said:

horrible ABs by Mountcastle all night

Brutal.  No idea WTF he's doing.

[spiritof66]

I didn't see it, but it appears Mountcastle made contact to end the 7th. Now there's some progress for you.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

9 minutes ago, scOtt said:

We should be mostly done with the Skanks after this series. Won't it be 12 or 15 games already???

 

Seems like 50...

I"m a fan of the balanced schedule. I don't like watching nearly half the games being against the AL East. 

[SteveA]

5 minutes ago, Philip said:

Fair point but Plutko was good. Why pull him? No need.

Just a guess...Plutko pitched Monday (24 pitches) and Wednesday (17 pitches).  Maybe he didn't want to overwork him or maybe he thought by keeping him to one inning he would be available tomorrow too?

I don't know, that's the best I can come up with.

[Aristotelian]

I can see why Buck wanted him to work on pitch selection. .243 OBP is just pathetic.

[spiritof66]

1 minute ago, Ripken said:

Brutal.  No idea WTF he's doing.

Watch what you say about Mountcastle. He's one of the future offensive stars we're going to build a contending team around, even if we can't identify a defensive position he can play.

[Il BuonO]

Garceau calling Scott’s slider a “slide piece”. Huh?