|
|
Post by kaybli on Apr 11, 2019 22:50:25 GMT -5
This can't be good news about Sanchez. This season gets more absurd by the day. I don't know what to say anymore.  |
|
|
|
Post by pippsheadache on Apr 12, 2019 7:29:04 GMT -5
I don't know. Bad luck can only explain so much. This team has too many young players getting injured, and the injuries never seem to be of the 10-day variety.
I don't know if the Yankees are just cautious in the extreme with injuries or if they just have a very poor strength and conditioning regimen, but this is way beyond normal for this early in the season.
|
|
|
|
Post by chiyankee on Apr 12, 2019 12:15:54 GMT -5
Ugh!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by kaybli on Apr 12, 2019 12:41:37 GMT -5
Our IL lineup is fast approaching being better than our regular lineup now.
|
|
|
|
Post by pippsheadache on Apr 12, 2019 12:44:47 GMT -5
Hey, up to an even dozen on the IL. What's your problem, Judge?
Sanchez on the Aaron Hicks career path of going on the DL every season.
|
|
|
|
Post by greatfatness on Apr 12, 2019 12:53:01 GMT -5
When and how the hell did that happen? He got hit in the nuts and sprained his calf? |
|
|
|
Post by greatfatness on Apr 12, 2019 12:53:45 GMT -5
This can't be good news about Sanchez. This season gets more absurd by the day. The corresponding move is that the season is over. |
|
|
|
Post by kaybli on Apr 12, 2019 13:00:30 GMT -5
This can't be good news about Sanchez. This season gets more absurd by the day. The corresponding move is that the season is over. I'm not giving up on the season on April 12th. |
|
|
|
Post by maizeyanks on Apr 12, 2019 13:11:00 GMT -5
Sanchez - C
Didi - SS
Andujar - 3B
Hicks -CF
Florial - LF
Stanton - RF/DH
Severino - SP
Montgomery - SP
Betances - BP
Ellsbury/Tulo - Bench
It's almost impressive at this point.
|
|
|
|
Post by michcusejoe5 on Apr 12, 2019 13:50:20 GMT -5
Unmitigated disaster.
|
|
|
|
Post by pippsheadache on Apr 12, 2019 13:56:31 GMT -5
The corresponding move is that the season is over. I'm not giving up on the season on April 12th. I'm not giving up on the season either, but an awful lot of players are going to have to get hot simultaneously -- including players we wouldn't expect it from -- for the Yankees to stay in the race for the long haul. This would be a real good time for Romine to have his annual one week hot streak. How weird is it that we have 12 players out, and one of them isn't Greg Bird? Calf strains don't necessarily heal in 10 days. Don't the Yankees have a stretching or flexibility program? I will check again, but last I looked no other team had more than 7 players on the IL. Jeez, NFL teams don't have this many injuries. |
|
|
|
Post by chiyankee on Apr 12, 2019 14:00:05 GMT -5
When and how the hell did that happen? He got hit in the buts and sprained his calf? Maybe he ran too hard on a routine ground ball because so many people were busting on him last year for jogging down the line? |
|
|
|
Post by pippsheadache on Apr 12, 2019 14:15:10 GMT -5
Just by way of comparison, Boston has 4 players on the IL. One is third baseman Marco Hernandez, who I never heard of. The others are utility player Brock Holt, platoon first baseman Steve Pearce, and middle bullpen guy Brian Johnson. Injuries like that you can sustain.
|
|
|
|
Post by kaybli on Apr 12, 2019 15:56:21 GMT -5
Just by way of comparison, Boston has 4 players on the IL. One is third baseman Marco Hernandez, who I never heard of. The others are utility player Brock Holt, platoon first baseman Steve Pearce, and middle bullpen guy Brian Johnson. Injuries like that you can sustain. I was just thinking why doesn't this crap ever happen to Boston? |
|
|
|
Post by pippsheadache on Apr 12, 2019 16:40:33 GMT -5
Just by way of comparison, Boston has 4 players on the IL. One is third baseman Marco Hernandez, who I never heard of. The others are utility player Brock Holt, platoon first baseman Steve Pearce, and middle bullpen guy Brian Johnson. Injuries like that you can sustain. I was just thinking why doesn't this crap ever happen to Boston? Boston had a fair number of key players spend some time on the DL last year -- just off the top of my I can think of Betts and Bogaerts and Sale and Price -- but none was gone for an extended period. Well, Pedroia was, but at this point I think he falls into the old and beat up category. It would probably be more the equivalent of the Yankees losing Gardner. And they didn't all come at once either. The Dodgers did have an enormous number of injuries last year -- I think all of their starting five pitchers were on the DL and much of their bullpen, including their closer Kenley Jansen. Plus their best player Corey Seager and others like Puig and Turner and Utley. They had enough depth and got contributions from guys like Hernandez and Muncy to tough it out. I heard the other day on one of the MLB shows that the last team to have eleven guys on the DL this early in the season was the 2016 Dodgers, and they still managed to win the division. I realize these are not exact comparisons, but it's something. I do remember one of those years -- it was 2012 -- when Boston was slaughtered with injuries. I think Pedroia was the only starter not to go on the DL and he was the only player to play at least 140 games. Ellsbury was part of that hit parade as well -- I looked it up, 75 games -- even Big Papi only played 90 games. Only three starting pitchers made it through the year without going on the DL. Of course, that was the Bobby Valentine era, and the team clearly just quit on him and was rewarded with a last place finish. That was also the last time the Yankees won the division -- isn't that hard to believe? But still, this is nuts with the Yankees. Remember that year that players kept going down with hamstring and muscle pulls? Around 2005 I am guessing. It seems to me they did fire the conditioning guys in that case. Maybe all of this really is just mathematically improbable bad luck, but this is two years in a row with this crap (and this year is worse.) |
|
