15.3%, compared to 18.8% in his regular season career and 20.0% this season. Thus my point, it was only a matter of time before he started hitting this year.
The funny thing is, Swisher was hitting. From the right side of the plate. I can't recall the number right now, but it was over .300 and may have even been close to .400 at some point. His problem was he was hitting under .100 from the left side for a while. Obviously, that's going to wreck your overall average, especially when you face mostly righties. He's also a reasonable outfielder. Not great, but reasonable. Hell, he's better than Abreu was. Swisher struggled, but when the whole team is hitting, it allows him to see better pitches and he's good at hitting mistakes.
http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2011/06/29/yankees-add-mitre/ Sergio Mitre : Joe Girardi :: Enrique Wilson : Joe Torre
Yeah I told someone that last night. He's been killing lefties this year. That's why he even batted leadoff earlier.
AJ Burnett: 1.27 WHIP Jon Lester: 1.29 Clay Buttholz 1.29 Interestingly Tim Wakefield aka Father Time 1.20 WHIP
AJ has been fantastic this year. He still gets a lot of shit, but he's pitched great. The whole key is that he hasn't let innings get out of control. Even when he makes a mistake he shrugs it off and continues to trust his stuff. (Having a solid defensive catcher to block those breakers in the dirt doesn't hurt either.) Speaking of Martin, how about that knock last night? They were talking about him putting them in the seats during BP yesterday. Maybe he's finally getting back on track too. What a lineup this will be when the last piece is hitting consistently too. Wow. Of course, Girardi is now giving him the day off, which I understand the whole "day after night" thing, but why not rest him tomorrow? Especially since both ARod and Granderson are out of the lineup today too. Yeah, I know we won the series already, but I'll just never understand the whole rest-multiple-guys-on-the-same-day thing. Anyway, it's hard to really complain about anything right now. Except Mitre. I wonder if there's a single person who follows the Yankees that didn't think Mitre would be back in pinstripes the second the Brewers dumped him. I wonder what this does to guys like Ayala and Noesi. Maybe one of them will be slotted into the 7th inning role? It looks like Robertson has locked himself into the 8th man job. It's going to get really interesting when it comes time for Feliciano and Soriano to return. It's scary to hope, but if they come back healthy and can pitch effectively this team will be sick.
Burnett admitted he's using his change-up more than ever before.... He's become more of a pitcher, and when you couple that with his still outstanding "stuff", you have a reliable starter. Let's hope it continues. I will be fucking livid if Noesi gets sent down because of Mitre. If anybody should be going down to make room for him, it's C Wade. Ayala has been very reliable.
Isn't Wade on the DL? I thought I saw that the other day. In an interesting twist, Girardi is actually considering a 6-man rotation when Hughes and Colon return! I don't see why not. You keep everyone on a relatively normal schedule and at the same time cut off a couple of starts from their year's total. To be honest, it's better for Noesi if he gets sent down. Unless they're willing to give him up as a starter. The plan has been for him to be a starter, but unless he's working regularly, we're looking at yet another guy who will need extra time to be stretched out. Personally, I'd like to see Noesi prepped as a starter. Colon and Garcia are nice stories this year, but will the magic last into next year? I'd much rather prep Noesi to try for a spot next spring along with Warren and Phelps. Then again, they could always just rely on Warren and Phelps as the fill-ins next year, or go out and try to find another back-end guy, and promote Betances and Banuelos to AAA next year in anticipation of 2013. I have to admit, as much as I knock Cashman, the minor league system has some pretty great pieces spread around it. He definitely deserves a lot of credit for that.
I like the rest multiple starters on one day thing. I would rather have one game with a shitty lineup then 2 or more missing one or more missing starters
The one thing I hadn't mentioned in that post was that at least it was CC on the mound, so losing a few bats isn't going to have the same effect as someone else on the mound. In the end though, it looks like it didn't even matter. They're still scoring runs. Interestingly, as bad as Cervelli can be, the guy drives in runs. 12 RBI on 13 hits is something. Of course that's in more than 60 at-bats, so his average is below .200, but it's interesting how he hits with men on base. He's got ridiculous statistics with runners on. With RISP, he's a .312 hitter. First and third, .357. Bases loaded? .529 For a guy who is a .263 hitter overall, those are some crazy averages.
The Yankees are in an impressive groove right now. Swisher is hitting, Texiera is going yard on a regular basis, Cano is solid as always, Posada is on fire, Granderson is still on fire, A-Rod is batting .300, Gardner is getting on base, and Nunez is doing a fine job subbing in for Jeter. If Martin is starting to get hot again...WOAH. And when Jeter gets back? Yikes!
@BNightengale Bob Nightengale #mlb #Yankees ace CC Sabathia is the 1st pitcher to win at least 11 games in first 11 seasons since Tom Seaver in 1967-1977. Unless there's a major philosophical change in baseball, CC's probably the last guy who has a real shot at 300 wins.
sportsguy33 Bill Simmons Another dominant performance in progress from CC Sabathia. He might run the table the rest of 2011, I wouldn't be shocked. How awesome would this be?
Pretty awesome but extremely unlikely, and Bill Simmons is a fuckin goomba. That guy should not be paid for his opinion, and is unfunny as hell.
Haven't seen anything of the sort on the interwebs, I believe he is active. But I, too, would like Noesi groomed as a starter. If that means he should be sent down so be it, I just feel his good work to this point has merited him a spot on the big club for the next while.
The lineup with everyone healthy is one of those "can't pitch to anyone, so you have to pitch to everyone" lineups. I think we'll see 300 winners again. Not in the very near future, but at some point. If nowhere else, in Texas. Running the table would be amazing, but I doubt it. That's tough to do even for the elite. That said, 20 wins looks like a nice target. I thought I read that the other day on Twitter from a beat guy, sorry. I am usually big on giving guys who showed something their fair chance, but in the case of Noesi, I'd rather he went back to Scranton and remained a starter than turning him into another Hughes/Joba. Same for Nova if they decide to go 5-man with CC, AJ, Colon, Hughes, Garcia. Wow. Looking at that, how crazy is it to imagine a rotation where if everyone is healthy, Phil Hughes is your number 4 pitcher?!
