Time for A Chat.....

Everyone settled in?

Got a beer, a shot of something 100 proof, some Earl Grey tea perhaps?

I just turned off CC,  struggling in the 5th inning, to keep Houston to 5 runs.  It already seemed like a 4 hour game, and 100 pitches, by our 37 year old lefty.

We have shown nothing on offense since Gardy's lead-off homer, and the consecutive hits by our third and second basemen.  All the big dogs are striking out. And we have logged three errors.

The team has lost 4 of the last 6 and is losing ground to Boston.

What can this portend?

I am requesting that the Yankee brass hold firm.  I implore them not to panic, and succumb to the promises of trading for help.  It is now clear that our starting pitching is as follows ;

1.  We have a legitimate, young ace.
2.  In Tanaka we have a guy who often pitches like an ace.  He has a weakness;  the three run homer. But he wins more than he loses.
3. In Sonny, we have a failure, who pitched one good game and then gives 2-3 clunkers.
4.  CC is doing today, what CC can do  Usually, 5 innings and 5 runs.
5.  German maybe has a future, but not likely this year.
6.  Montgomery will come back when it is too late to matter.

So the obvious move is to trade the great young talent, which cannot get at-bats with the big club,  for pitching.

Here is the problem;  there is no starting pitching available that can match or exceed the talent potential we would have to give up.  And we have succeeded, in a major way, using our youth in positions on the field.  We cannot revert to trading youth for age.  Potential stardom for past glory.

It is the organization's bad choices and poor planning which have failed to develop the pitching staff, and they have to bite the bullet, and pay their price, through patience.  We have some young guys emerging.  But likely not until next season.

I say this;  the only reason everyone is in a stew about the current Yankee dry spell is because the expectation became; " we are going to win it this year."   That is understandable;  we came within a game of the big dance last year and we signed the NL MVP.  But the pitching staff does not allow that expectation.   It didn't from the very beginning.

We should be content to do what we can and not worry about it.  It is our bad fortune to have Boston and Houston both in the AL.  Not to mention some fine teams in Anaheim and Cleveland.  But we need to stay with the plan.  Try some of the younger pitchers.  Bring up "Red Thunder."

Use the season to learn and get right for next year.  We can surely buy some FA pitching in the off season.

We must hold the line.