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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Watched Swish and Aaron Judge play yesterday in Syracuse and... hmmm...

What can be said about one game? Nine silly innings. Three stupid hours. Not even a small sample size. More an eency-weency sample molecule. There is nothing to say. One game. Screw it boys, we'll get 'em tomorrow! Right?

Let's hope.

Yesterday, in Syracuse - winner of 2015-16 Golden Snowball - we saw the leviathan: Tall as the wall in right field, the gigantic Aaron Judge came to play at the city's famed Your Name Here Stadium. And that's where the story turns ugly: He fanned swinging three times - once on a pitch in his eyes - and popped up harmlessly in the fourth at bat. Each time, Judge swung mightily, with long, buttery, unraveling strokes, sending thick waves of air in the direction of Canada. It was not pretty.

Meanwhile, Nick Swisher patrolled first base like the ghost of Dick Stuart. Ground balls went by him, under him and through him. The official scorer - a cousin? - awarded Swish only one error. That was a gift basket from the Syracuse Up-Downtowners. He deserved three. At one point, it almost seemed Swisherian brain-lock - he batted down a ball, couldn't pick it up, and pretzel-ed himself into sort of a backwards semi-cartwheel. The crowd enjoyed it. Very entertaining. It led to two runs.

OK, it's just one stupid, ridiculous snapshot of a game, right? Certainly, we all understood that Swisher needs a few innings at first base. And Aaron Judge is an emerging project who - get this - is still hitting .303... not too shabby.

But they didn't look good, folks. Maybe today.

By the way, Gary Sanchez smacked two hits, including a double. And Rob Refsnyder still technically exists, though he now plays third-base and is hitting .200. (That's 41 points higher than Chase Headley, but don't get me started...) 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW....THANK YOU FOR THE SCOUTING REPORT, (ALTHOUGH I'M PRETTY CRUSHED BY IT).....THE SWISH REPORT REALLY DOESN'T INTEREST ME, I KNOW WHAT WE MAY GET WITH HIM....IT'S THE JUDGE REPORT THAT SADDENS ME....WAS IT ALL RIGHT HANDED PITCHING THAT STRUCK HIM OUT?....WAS THE PITCHER ANY GOOD WHO FACED JUDGE?...(IF YOU KNOW, WAS HE A GOOD "PROSPECT", OR A JOURNEYMAN)? ...... GEEZ....I KEEP READING HE HAS A "PLAN" AT THE PLATE?....I THOUGHT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO SURPRISINGLY BE A "CONTACT" HITTER FOR SOMEONE WITH HIS SIZE AND POWER?........ WE NEED THIS GUY TO BE "REAL".....SANCHEZ TOO...

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