Tampa dodged the hurricane... But not the Toddnado.
It's over for the Rays.
Monday, September 11, 2017
That was a big Yankee win.
Tampa dodged the hurricane... But not the Toddnado.
It's over for the Rays.
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Nice win. Though I wonder if this is the moment that Greg "The Fabulous Invalid" Bird finally reaches Nick Johnson status.
Out with back spasms.
Another kind of injury. An injury despite the fact that he's barely played this year.
So glad, too, that Garrett Cooper remains down in Trenton, and Mike Ford finished off the Iron Pigs with a homer yesterday. That's what matters. Take that, Pigs!
Personally I think Bird was out with an acute case of "Tyler Austin keeps lining doubles and the Yankees want to give him a shot at first for a day or two."
IF BIRD KEEPS MISSING GAMES THIS TIME, WITH THIS BACK "SPASM" ISSUE, IT'S TIME TO SERIOUSLY CONSIDER WHAT WE HAVE HERE....
HE SHOULD BE AS FRESH AS A DAISY.
HE HASN'T PLAYED IN 2 YEARS, NOT 1.
HE SHOULD BE SKIPPING UP TO THE PLATE.
ODERIZI, A RIGHT HANDER, PITCHED TONIGHT.... A GUY THAT SEEMED RIGHT FOR BIRD TO FACE.
VERY DISCOURAGING.
I don't think it would be amiss to give Austin, Cooper, and Ford a chance to win the position next spring.
One or two of those who don't win it can be traded for something useful. If Bird can't stay on the field, there's no use going through another years-long, Nick Johnson soap opera.
I wonder if Bird was actually out because, while everyone else in the line-up was partying yesterday, and popping off, Bird was constantly popping UP. His swing has been starting to look like Teix's upper-cut swing, to which he stubbornly adhered. It didn't serve Teix well, and it won't serve Bird well, either. I hope he gets it...after all, Judge seems to have levelled out his swing somewhat, to my relief, and his BA's benefit. LB (No J)
YEAH, BUT HOSS....
BIRD IS THAT LEFTY BAT THAT WE REALLY NEED, AND MUST HAVE IN OUR LINEUP....
COOPER AND AUSTIN (WHO I BOTH LIKE), ARE NOT LEFTY BATTERS.... FORD MUST BE HATED BY OUR "MYSTERY SCOUT" SO FORGET ABOUT HIM, HE NEVER EVEN MAKES THE RADAR.
You are as usual the voice of reason, ALL-CAPS. But if Bird can't stay on the field...
And you're right, Ford seems to be another of their mystery hatreds. The guy's still just 24, and all he's done is hit everywhere he goes, and with increasing power.
But the Binders Brigade gives you the expected dismissals:
'Ah, he's old.'
(No older than most of our team.)
'Ah, he went to some Ivy League school.'
(Gee, what storied Yankees first baseman do we know who went to an Ivy League school?)
This guys has Mattingly written all over him, somebody who works and works, and learns and learns. And don't get me started on Cooper, a guy who was hitting .366 in the PCL, but who the Yanks seem to have written off.
('Ah, it's a hitter's league! He'd probably only hit .330 or so in the majors!')
To quote the great Lou Costello, Oh, boy.
It is all political. Cashman and Girardi don't want to look bad.
So they look bad anyway.
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