A Dire Yankees Forecast
Posted on May 20th, 2008 in Uncategorized |
Are the Yankees through for the season? Holy cow, it could be possible.
In the NY Sun, Steven Goldman writes…In both 2005 and 2007, the team stubbornly stood pat and rallied to make the playoffs. This season, though, the odds seem longer, and the long-term implications of trying to hang in the race are more damaging.
As Goldman runs down the Yankee lineup, things look pretty bleak—and pretty old.
Jason Giambi is hitting .191 over the last year. Andy Pettitte and Bobby Abreu are 35 and their performance is declining. Mike Mussina is 40 and rarely goes more than five innings. Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui are both around 35. Jorge Posada’s around there too—older, even, I think. Even Derek Jeter is getting on; Yankee fans can’t count on him to be productive forever.
And Jon Lester threw a no-hitter last night. Argh. These are the salad days for Red Sox fans…
Is it time for the Yankees to throw in the towel on the season and start rebuilding? Not quite. (And their options would be limited anyway.) But it’s getting there.
8 Responses
Holy cow indeed! Are you addressing the cow? Because that would explain the overabundance of apostrophe in the title.
Sheesh, SE, what do you want? Grammatical perfection at 7:30 AM? Well, point taken…and apostrophe vanished.
I am for one am missing the Yankees. And will miss them if they keep doing what they’re doing. Hard to get excited about beating the Rays.
It’s called parity, folks–and its finally here.
Off topic, but someone needs to explain: http://www.economicprincipals.com/
No, no one needs to explain. What needs explaining is how, even with A Rod back, the Yankees are going to get anywhere with only one bona fide ace.
What “bona fide ace” would that be, Anonymous? Surely you’re not referring to Chien-Ming Wang, who just gave up 7 runs to the Mets on Sunday?
Yeah, Chien has looked shaky in several starts. I was at the Stadium when he got hammered by the Red Sox. It was not pretty.