2. Speaking of lies... Showtime Shohei! There's something wondrously fulfilling about watching the Dodgers - what the Yankees used to be - frying in Vegas grease. Isn't it refreshing to be bystanders, while MLB "investigates" its biggest attraction? We can stand around like Bart Simpson, just saying, "I didn't do it." Sure, we may have colluded on the Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery front, but nobody blew $4.5 million betting on Knicks scores. We're also-rans, but we're innocent.
3. Also, three cheers for the Yank front office in surgically avoiding the flop known as Yoshi Yamamoto. Guy threw one inning, gave up five (5) earned runs - an ERA of, hmm, 45.00. The Tax Dodgers have him for 12 years and $325 million. He won't win many Cy Youngs with an ERA of 45.00, eh? Not that I'd ever gloat. We at IT IS HIGH might occasionally complain about Yankee cheapness and bad trades, but we dodged a bullet train by finishing third in the Yamamoto Derby. Some numbers nerd should get a raise.
4. Based on last night, the Yankee opening day lineup is taking shape.
Gleyber Torres, 2B
Juan Soto RF
Aaron Judge CF
Anthony Rizzo 1B
Giancarlo Stanton DH
Alex Verdugo LF
Anthony Volpe SS
Jose Trevino C
Kevin Smith/Impending scrap heap signing 3B
This will change if Bad Foot LeMahieu returns. (Over three MLB years, Kevin Smith has never hit higher than .185. Last night, he also blew a grounder.) Also, Trent Grisham could play CF, sending Verdugo into therapy.
5. As for the pitching staff:
Carlos Rodon
Marcus Stroman
Clarke Schmidt
Nestor Cortes
Luis Gil/Will Warren
Luke Weaver
Clay Holmes
Jonathan Loaisiga
Ian Hamilton
Nick Burdi
Your Name Here: Impending scrap heap pickup
How far does this team go? Depends on the next last-minute scratches, I guess.
2016 opening day lineup:
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1B- Teixeira
2B- Castro
3B- Headley
SS- Gregorius
LF- Hicks
CF- Ellsbury
RF- Beltran
DH- A Rod
SP- Tanaka
This team won 84 games. 2024 over/under is probably the same. Baseball reference has a page that shows every years stating lineup. Fun looking at if you want.
I’ll take the over on that one, Soto and Judge would add at least six wins to that 2016 line up
ReplyDeleteAnd the pitching staff will give those six wins right back.
ReplyDeleteI expect a lot of late inning losses.
Booooone needs relief by the fourth and fifth inning as the alleged starters melt down early. The bullpen falls apart by July.
Tax Dodgers - NICE!
ReplyDeleteYesterday’s Booth Banter with KayJo and O'Neill was about as exciting as it gets. Throw Marakovits into the mix and the entertainment will be so electric that no body is going to give a rat’s arse about what’s going on on the field.
YES has finally assembled a TV team that I cannot listen to. Though, to be fair, as soon as O'Neill settled in to his job, that's been true. Kay is just insufferable. His voice is like fingernails on a blackboard.
ReplyDeleteJust as well. If I listen to the radio broadcast, I get to hear that great commercial about the union that's rebuilt New York, delivered by a guy who sounds like a New York union should sound. And where would any of us be without a Peerless Boiler? Plus, we get Suzyn and The Master (for a limited number of games).
Radio is a wonderful medium. Which you wouldn't know, listening to most radio.
A Peerless Boiler mean maw money in yer pahcket.
ReplyDelete> > > all eyes on Rodón today as he tries to rebound from a great start and return to form < < <
ReplyDeleteand who doesn't wahnt maw money in der pahcket
Looking at that projected Opening Day lineup, and the overall roster, this sure looks like an 80-something amalgam with far more downside than upside, the lack of bench depth and mediocre pitching the biggest holes in the ship’s bottom. The season should hinge on the ability of the younger players to surprise and make meaningful contributions.
ReplyDeleteRodent did not do well.
ReplyDeleteOut pushing product today at this event run by the NYC, Casey Stengel chapter of SABR (of which I am a proud member), and got to hear Anthony McCarron—a thoroughly nice guy, by the way—talk about how he was truly stunned that the Yankees didn't do anything to get more pitching.
ReplyDeleteUh-oh.
Rondon’t
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ReplyDeleteCody Poteet was not so sweet, 8 runs in 2 innings ? Gotta love that pitching depth
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ReplyDeletees indeed it does in fact appear that Rodón has succeeded in his bid to return to last year’s form.
ReplyDeleteAll of us here at IIHIIFIIC salute you Carlos on a job well done.
Trey Mancini is available for the MLB minimum salary. How about as a back up 1B for Rizzo?
ReplyDeletewe're doomed
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