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Post by chiyankee on Mar 9, 2019 17:02:06 GMT -5
But what about the #4 & #5 spots?
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Post by inger on Mar 9, 2019 18:48:41 GMT -5
But what about the #4 & #5 spots? I’m thinking German and Loaisiga, but not sure #5 won’t be a surprise starter... |
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 9, 2019 19:05:13 GMT -5
But what about the #4 & #5 spots? I’m thinking German and Loaisiga, but not sure #5 won’t be a surprise starter... We could be taking a page from Kevin Cash and go with an opener. |
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Post by inger on Mar 9, 2019 19:18:53 GMT -5
I’m thinking German and Loaisiga, but not sure #5 won’t be a surprise starter... We could be taking a page from Kevin Cash and go with an opener. Yes. We might. <pauses to vomit>...before creating post... |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 9, 2019 19:43:45 GMT -5
We could be taking a page from Kevin Cash and go with an opener. Yes. We might. <pauses to vomit>...before creating post... It makes me want to vomit too, but its really not that radical of a change. Just use your good reliever in the beginning before handing off to the mediocre starter so he can avoid the top of the lineup one time over. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 9, 2019 20:43:15 GMT -5
Even with April off-days, the Yanks won't be able to get too far into the season before needing to go five deep. There must be some way they can play the CC 5-game suspension to their advantage -- maybe activate him five games before they intend to actually use him and clear that out of the way.
But sure, if they don't use the stupid "opener" magilla, it would almost have to be the German-Lasagna tandem. German Lasagna sounds like you take regular lasagna but top it with bratwurst and sauerkraut.
Either that, or go really old-school deadball era and tough it out with a three-man rotation, like when Iron Man McGinnity was in his heyday. Why, for the Giants of '03, in a 140 game schedule, three pitchers started 121 of those games. Iron Man Joe started 48 of them, even though he completed only 44 (and pitched in seven others in which he did not start, knocking off after 434 IP.) The girly man Christy Mathewson started only 42 and completed only 37 of those. We don't need no stinking relief pitchers.
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Post by kaybli on Mar 9, 2019 20:57:16 GMT -5
Either that, or go really old-school deadball era and tough it out with a three-man rotation, like when Iron Man McGinnity was in his heyday. Why, for the Giants of '03, in a 140 game schedule, three pitchers started 121 of those games. Iron Man Joe started 48 of them, even though he completed only 44 (and pitched in seven others in which he did not start, knocking off after 434 IP.) The girly man Christy Mathewson started only 42 and completed only 37 of those. We don't need no stinking relief pitchers.  Pipps was a spry young lad in those days. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 10, 2019 5:43:05 GMT -5
Either that, or go really old-school deadball era and tough it out with a three-man rotation, like when Iron Man McGinnity was in his heyday. Why, for the Giants of '03, in a 140 game schedule, three pitchers started 121 of those games. Iron Man Joe started 48 of them, even though he completed only 44 (and pitched in seven others in which he did not start, knocking off after 434 IP.) The girly man Christy Mathewson started only 42 and completed only 37 of those. We don't need no stinking relief pitchers. [img class="smile" alt=" " src="//storage.proboards.com/6828121/images/udcwFqPimnXDtjoTmoVL.gif"] Pipps was a spry young lad in those days. Yeah, wearing my knickers and watching the game through a hole in the wooden fence until the cop walking the beat chased us away. Those were the days. All seriousness aside, even though that was a bit before even my day, I did know somebody who was watching the games back then and would definitely have seen that Giants team play. In fact when the sad news about Tom Seaver came out a few days ago, it reminded me of how the man I knew could actually compare Seaver to Christy Mathewson from having watched both of them pitch. He used to say that Seaver's on-field demeanor reminded him of Mathewson. It was kind of like having "Field of Dreams" come to life. |
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Post by greatfatness on Mar 10, 2019 13:35:27 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Mar 10, 2019 13:38:03 GMT -5
That is the really cool thing about talking to the old-timers. They pass the stories along. You never saw Christy pitch, but you got to see him through that older fellows eyes. He gave you a story that you can pass on to younger folks (like me?) like kaybli and mich. one day they may be continuing that lore to someone else even younger, maybe they already have.
I recall when the Yankees got Granderson and I told the forum I thought he might hit 40 HR in Yankee Stadium. One or two called me crazy, but I could see those long slender, sinewy arms in my memory bank and he reminded me of a left-handed young Henry Aaron (and to be fair, also Alfonso Soriano)...
As it turned out I was right, for once (actually he did it twice)...
I’ve correctly predicted surprising YS pop now for Gardner, Granderson, and Didi.
I missed on Eduardo Nunez though... ):
Probably Roger Repoz, too... but c’mon. I was ten years old... (:
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Post by greatfatness on Mar 10, 2019 13:40:32 GMT -5
I’m thinking German and Loaisiga, but not sure #5 won’t be a surprise starter... We could be taking a page from Kevin Cash and go with an opener. In the words of Jack Nicholson’s character Jonathan in “Carnal knowledge”....”jesus, Susan I hope not”. |
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Post by greatfatness on Mar 10, 2019 15:00:01 GMT -5
Sweeny is right. They signed him for a reason, OF defense being part of it. Having a LH bat in the lineup is part. Resting Stanton is part.
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Post by noetsi on Mar 10, 2019 16:08:16 GMT -5
Almost certainly modern pitchers are physically stronger than in the past. The population as a whole is and in the old days things like weight lifting, special diets and the like were not part of the game.
They pitch less now in part because they throw far harder at weird angles and because as you pitch longer you pitch worse.
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Post by anthonyd46 on Mar 11, 2019 1:32:28 GMT -5
The minor league season hasn’t started yet ? It’s not over yet?... Just like inger to bump some old post |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 11, 2019 1:36:04 GMT -5
Just like inger to bump some old post |
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Pipps was a spry young lad in those days. 
