They have also played mostly the garbage of the AL during this run, I am not going to kill the Yanks for that because teams are suppose to beat up on the weak, but lets not make this Yanks run more than it is
I love the fact that the Yankees can't pull off said ".660" ball, which they don't have to do anyway but the Twins did that last year and no one bats an eye. I truly believe this team will have the inteligence to not mortgage a Joba Chaimberlain in a deal for Texiera, but rather give up a lesser tier talent for say an Akinori Otsuka. This teams main need is bullpen, I fully believe the rotation will be dangerous when Hughes gets back. By the way when your talking about Pettitte and Wang your talking about two of the best second half pitchers in the game. The bats are awakening, and if you think Giambi and the .380 obp isn't going to help, well then haha you know nothing about the game. MORE BASERUNNERS FOR AROD! 4 and a half going into August is very doable. When your the Yankees its even easier.
Minnesota, Toronto and the Angels are hardly garbage, KC just won a series against Boston. I'll give you that Tampa Bay is garbage though.
How long has it been since we heard that? all we have heard is how awful the farm system is yet in the past 2 seasons we have churned out a bunch of good players and alot of promising guys are on the horizon.
I was thinking post-All star break with the current streak and I'm not sold on Toronto at all, and KC has the 2nd worst record in the AL
They did beat Minny and LAA 5 of 7, took 6 of 8 from a decent jays team before beating up TB and now KC so it hasn't been all against bad teams.
Just saying Toronto isn't garbage. They have won 5 straight now. KC has a bad record but was playing good ball until the Yankees came into town.
"The Yankee GM's patience is not going to work in landing Mark Teixeira before Tuesday's trade deadline. A person familiar with the Rangers' thinking said, "The Yanks have zero shot at Teixeira," because Cashman has taken the organization's main pitching prospects - notably Hughes, Joba Chamberlain and Ian Kennedy - out of play." Great news. http://www.nypost.com/seven/07262007/sports/yankees/mark_it_down_yankees_joel_sherman.htm
Absolutely correct. Honestly, we don't have many problems, as long as we play like we've been the past couple weeks the rest of the year. We could use some relief pitching, but otherwise, we're good. Tex is just a "nice to have" and we don't want him going to, say, Boston.
Not to mention he has a lower career BA, SLG and OBP then Giambi who we already owe 23 million to next year. Who would you rather have batting between say Matsui and Posada or Posada and Cano anyway? Assuming Giambi is healthy. And while Gimabi is going to replace Duncan no matter what they do, Teixiera would replace Phillips and while that "may" be an upgrade in the long run, it's not right now. For starters Teixiera would have to prove in can play in Ny which Phillips has already done and then there is that little matter of 9 million vs. 380,000 if he even makes that.
Umm, I'm not on board with trading the farm for Tex either. But he's a hell of a lot better than Andy Phillips now and tommorow.
Again you guys come back with false numbers. The Twins played .616 ball over their last 60 games last season not .660 and not .671 which is what the Yankees will need to equal the Twins record of last season. Compare last years Twins at 100 games to this years Yankees at 100 games and you see the 2006 Twins have a 5 game lead over the 2007 Yankees. What makes Wang one of the best second half pitchers in Baseball? Sure he's pitched well over his WHOPPING 25 second half career starts with a 15-5 record but his 3.40 ERA hardly qualifies him as one of the best in baseball. Yes because the Yankees have a super magical power that no other team has... EVERYTHING is easier for them :breakdance: :breakdance:
There are exactly 0 great teams in baseball this year. The only two with a winning percentage over .600 are exactly at .600 and .604. Who cares what the Twins did last year? This year everybody is mediocre and the Yankees won't need to play .671 to make the playoffs, and that's all that really matters. This sure as hell isn't 2001 where the wildcard won 102 games and finished 14 games back in their own division.
My comments about the Twins were a responce to somebody else who brought them up as a reference to this 2007 NYY team. Let's assume you guys are right and this team doesn't need to win 95 games to get the wild card (despite every ALWC team in the past 5 years needing 95 wins)... let's say the mark is 93 games. Well then they'll have to play on the same pace as the 1998 Yankees did the rest of the way... good luck. And for the record... Don was beating his chest about easily being the hottest team in baseball over the past 2 months... over your past 60 you've played 36/24... even if you continue at that pace (highly unlikely) you only get 90 wins.
The Indians are playing .584 for the first 101 games 59/42. They need to play .590 36/25 ball the rest of the way to reach 95 wins. So yes, I'd say they're a 95 win team.
