According to Girardi they’re shutting Gardner down for at least 10 games and he doesn’t think he’ll be back for a month.

Goddamnit.

Poop on the Gardner news, but hooray CC for a big game when needed!  Very close to sweeping Tampa this week, even with evertyhing going on - not too bad.  And Boston is, well I don’t know what it is they’re doing….but I like it!

So, if he’s out that long (and possibly longer?), who is available for trade?

Or do you just play Jones, with Wise coming in for D?

They need to trade for an OF

Doesn’t Gardner miss a bunch of games every year?

If Gardner’s a 5.0 WAR player, missing a month costs the team less than a win.  I don’t think you trade now.  Platoon Wise and Jones in LF, keep Ibanez as a strict DH and they can probably get by.

I-man is the fourth or fifth most potent bat in the lineup up to this point. Mind boggling. I want him to replace that #25 guy.

[7]  You mean, get by as a .500 team?  Yes, yes they can.

CC is not quite there in his honey-badgerish glory yet, but I hope he is getting there.

Great that we witnessed two MVPs by the Rod during his tenure as a Yankee (Jeter robbed multiple times, one by Justin Freaking “RBI” Morneau still rankles me). Would love to see a Cy Young from CC.

Jeter was tied for 7-9 in AL bWAR that year.  In 1999, I would have voted for Pedro and his 300+ Ks and 8.5 K/BB ratio, but Jeter was certainly the best position player, though fangraphs has Manny and Alomar with equal fWAR.

In 2000, the AL bWAR leaders were 11.4, 10.1, 8.2, 7.4.  The order those players finished in the voting was 5, 3, 8, 1.

Morneau was 20th in bWAR in 2006.

[7] I don’t think they will trade for anyone, but if there were someone worth having as a Swisher replacement next year, they could try to get him now.

Corey Hart could be someone to inquire about.

Joe Sheehan opines that if Soriano gets another 25 saves he will opt out and we will save his salary next year (plus a couple of mill on Robertson as his Arb salary will be impacted hugely if he has 30 saves this yr).

Given the marginal difference between closer / set up seems like a no brainer (plus the phychobabble nonsense that Soriano has the closer mentality etc)

By the way, someone in the game thread called it last night. I mostly listened to the game on the radio, but when I saw the highlights my first thought was: “where the @#$#@ are the fans?”

I shouldn’t complain though. It’s the reason these games are going for $1.99 on Stub Hub. Imagine that: Yankees tickets for the price of two double cheeseburgers.

[16] Imagine that: Yankees tickets for the price of two double cheeseburgers.

Depending on the starting pitcher, it’s a toss up as to the better deal #complaint

Would anyone be upset with more Stewy and less Martino?

I don’t mind Soriano being the closer for the reasons mentioned, but I don’t want to mess with Robertson’s head, since he presumably WILL be the closer once Mo retires in 2016.

once Mo retires in 2016 2026.

That’s better.

[18] Yes.

What has Martin hit as a Yankee if you take away his first month?

Less than if you include his first month.

[22] I hate when we do this.  Take away all the player’s best months, BUT make sure you include all his worst months.  Then assume that is his true talent level.  If we take away April 2011 why can’t we also take away April 2012 as a slump?

Also looking at FanGraphs, Martin is .4 WAR in about 1/5th of a season…or 2 WAR over a full season.  And his defense is currently listed as average.  Or basically…his first 6 weeks he’s played (roughly) like an average catcher.  With a BABIP of .203, and his BIP profile looks like it should support something upwards of .280.  I see no reason why you’d want to remove an average catcher who seems to be having some bad luck with a replacement level one…

I wanted to know what his average has been over the last 162 yankee games. Don’t get so holier-than-thou.

And soemtimes bad luck is actually a bad player. Tex has been hitting into bad luck for about two seasons.