New or Hughes'd....?

Sorry, that was the best title I could come up with. Phil Hughes just got knocked around for the second start in a row. While it's not fun to lose or watch our top prospect get mauled on the field, it's certainly understandable. Cold weather-experience+the Red Sox lineup+angry Royals=disaster for a young pitcher. I'd be more worried if he continues to get knocked around when the weather gets a little warmer. Obviously, pitching in cold weather is something players have to get used to, but the guy's younger than me and that places me at the opposite ends of the happy/sad spectrum at the same time. Final note: Phil Hughes has a lot of potential and I'm not worried at all.

You heard this here: A-Rod is going to have only a second tier ridiculous season and will not be an MVP candidate. It's a pattern of his with the Yankees on even vs. odd years. Go check out his stats.

This is an odd season overall. Baseball philosophy has always dictated that you cannot rebuild and compete in the same year, but I would argue the Diamondbacks were a top notch example of just that last year. The Yankees still have a solid lineup (and anytime you have the largest payroll in the game, you have to be considered as trying to compete), but they also need to dedicate this year to giving a lot of the young guys playing time with all the contracts that are expiring after this year.

I'm cool with just watching how the season plays out and giving the kids a chance to develop (though we'll see if my answer changes around September). There's also the whole sentiment of wanting to make some sort of playoff run for the last year in the Stadium, yadda yadda, etc.

At any rate, it's been an interesting season thusly and a fresh one as well, owing much to our new High Overlord Girardi. I'm looking forward and you should look forward to more updates from me...maybe...

Everybody Loves the Raymonds

I realized I have no more excuses not to update the blog as the season has commenced. Here's to hoping I regularly update this once more.

Anywho, the Yankees are currently playing the Devil Rays. Apparently, I'm not supposed to call them that as they're now just the Rays. But, here's my issue with that: what is a Ray? To protest this, I'm going to continue calling them the Devil Rays. Scratch that, just to push the point even further, I'm going to call them the Tampa Bay Fallen Raymonds. Just because.

As we speak, said FR's are giving it pretty hard to the Yankees. Some people may see this as a sign of bigger things to come for said Fallen Raymonds. I don't know. They give it to us pretty hard on/off every year. Edwin Jackson's having his obligatory game where he pitches as well as his "stuff" would dictate. One down, maybe six or so to go and probably five of those will be against us. They've always had a very good lineup, but I still don't think their pitching is good enough to take them very far. Maybe I'm wrong.

As for the Yankees, I mostly like our roster this year. It could be better, but it could be worse. Our hitting's more or less the same and still good. I think our bullpen is better being younger. Our rotation's a little too young right now, but everyone knows that. But, as they say in baseball: you never know. I don't know who says that. Maybe I should've said as no one says in baseball. I digress.

Hopefully this will be the first of more than one post every several months. Until next time...