A Colon first half followed by a Pettitte mid-season appearance would have been pretty sweet way to capitalize on a pair of low endurance warhorses with something less than a full season to give.

And completely illogical to plan on. But at the time they were choosing between Garcia and Colon, they were expecting a Joba return mid-summer, so maybe it wouldn’t have been so far fetched.

I fear…Yanks will give up on Hughes sooner or later and package him to a club with a big yard and he will do an Ian Kennedy on us. He may not be suited to Yankee Stadium and its short porch. As hot as the M and M boys are along with Willingham who hits us like Ty Wiggington btw, we are in for a battle tonight.  We simply have to get the rust off of our middle of the lineup.

As to Bartolo, last year’s first half was amazing, perhaps it was fatigue in the second half, but after he had that injury in June IIRC, he wasn’t quite as sharp thereafter.  Yanks can’t afford to ignore their youth and depend on old timers.

As to the retro-uniforms.  None of the unis look authentic as long as players wear polyester and pull their pants down to the bottoms of their shoes. They need to display the socks and hose as the old timers used to do.  If there is anything non-uniform today is the lousy way players vary in the way they wear their pants and hose. I’ll take the uniforms of the late 60’s over anything today.

Bring back stirrups.

[2] Too lazy to look, but do we have home/away splits for Fuse ?

I don’t recall forming an image of him as a road warrior who gets rocked at home.

He may not be suited to Yankee Stadium and its short porch.

Joel, I’m not sure why I never picked up on this, but you may be right.

231.1 IP at home, 39 HR, 82 BB, 198 K, 5.17 ERA, 4.68 FIP, 4.24 xFIP
220.1 IP on the road, 17 HR, 79 BB, 183 K, 3.88 ERA, 3.64 FIP, 4.31 xFIP.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=hugheph01&year=Career&t=p

Hughes seems better at home but I don’t have time to parse the numbers into starter v reliever.

[5]  Well, that blows away my lazy link.

[5] This suggests that the right thing to do with Fuse may be to trade him to Oakland for Calzone.

He would spend his days beating TEX and LAAaaaAaaAAa to a pulp, and when he shows up in DNYS we rock him like a hurricane. Win-Win.

Ibanez in left tonight-should mishandle a few in the left center gap..provided he even gets close to the ball.
I noticed all spring that a journeyman player named Dewayne Wise was hitting the crap out the ball. He’s continued it at AAA last checking in at a mere.517!
Can he field his position. Why not bring him up with Gardy out? I know that our pen’s been taxed but this Cody so and so probably isn’t any good anyway as they got him on waivers. Just saying..
If anything why not bring up DJ Mitchell as he’s been good of late.

we rock him like a hurricane.

But “there’s calm in your eye” is clearly Jeter.

[9] RAB talked about him a little when addressing the Gardner issue.  He’s supposed to be a defense-first OF - has about 2 years worth of innings, split between all 3 spots with +11 TZ, +18 UZR - but he’s an offensive black hole.  In 879PA over 11 seasons he’s got a wRC+ of 62.  He’s also not on the 40-man roster, so that move would have to be made as well.  I suppose they could try to catch lightening in a bottle…

For the 8th guy out of the pen I’d rather they NOT bring DJ Mitchell up.  So far in his first 3 starts of the year his K/9 is up, BB/9 is down, and his FIP is down to 3.08.  I don’t know if there is any underlying reason for it; new pitch, greater velocity, improved command.  Or just plain SSS.  But I say leave him as a starter.  Either to build value for a later trade, or as of right now he’s probably starter #9.  With Freddy and Phil’s holds on rotation spots tenuous and Pettitte and Pineda uncertain if/when they’ll be ready…