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Post by kaybli on Jun 15, 2019 16:23:55 GMT -5
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 3B 2. Luke Voit (R) 1B 3. Aaron Hicks (S) CF 4. Gary Sanchez (R) C 5. Didi Gregorius (L) SS 6. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B 7. Clint Frazier (R) DH 8. Cameron Maybin (R) RF 9. Brett Gardner (L) LF
There should be a window to play this game according to the forecast.
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 15, 2019 16:45:20 GMT -5
The Yankees have lost four out of five to the White Sox. Time to right the ship and pound this bum pitcher whose name I don't recall. We need a couple of wins before facing the Tampa Bay/Houston stretch of the schedule.
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Post by inger on Jun 15, 2019 17:02:35 GMT -5
Reynaldo Lopez had much better results last season with a 3.91 ERA. He’s actually a young pitcher I like quite a bit in spite of the 6 ERA thus far in 2019.
I like him because he has a fastball that usually sits 94-97, and has topped 100 a time or two. It doesn’t have a ton of movement, but it does have a bit of fade on the back end. I like him because he throws a nasty spike curve, and a filthy, whorish changeup. I like him because he’s also now added a slider that looks like one that only needs to be harnessed to become his best pitch if it’s not already.
The problem is that there are many games where the only one he can control to any degree is the fast ball. He seems to have a tendency to over-stride and overthrow. He’s a sort of A. J. Burnett/ Daniel Cabrera clone that may someday put all of that together and become one of the game’s best pitchers. Or, he may always tease with the amazing potential and never achieve squat. I always want to imagine the Yanks will get these guys and turn them around.
I used to imagine that would happen with A.J.. it did, in flashes...Perhaps had he been healthy when younger it may have happened...
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 15, 2019 17:05:44 GMT -5
Where do you get this stuff, Inger? Sounds like you have your own staff of scouts.
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Post by inger on Jun 15, 2019 17:26:34 GMT -5
Where do you get this stuff, Inger? Sounds like you have your own staff of scouts. I look first to FanGraphs. When there is only a small amount of info I Google various sources for scouting reports, often bringing up sites I didn’t know existed that are specific to the teams or their local newspapers. I find quite different info on different sites at times, so I put it through my memory bank and then shake it out with what seems to be the most logical and informative twist I can on them. It’s not all that much work. I often read them while Ruthie is watching the stuff on TV that bores me, or after she goes to bed and I’m still awake. I usually just start out by Googling the pitcher’s name and “scouting report”... |
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Post by kaybli on Jun 15, 2019 17:36:38 GMT -5
Don't let the goofy persona fool you, inger is very knowledgeable.  |
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Post by inger on Jun 15, 2019 17:38:19 GMT -5
Where do you get this stuff, Inger? Sounds like you have your own staff of scouts. I send Utah out to check them out for me. Nothing like an experienced scout that’s in full retirement and loves baseball... (: It would be cool if I had a scout in every state that was named after the state...”Hey, Texas! I got a kid you have to look at for me over in Arlington”...Wisconsin! Get ready to run down to Walkee for me...”Iowa... never mind”... That must be what it’s like to live in Iowa. I’ve never been there. I imagine you have. It’s low on my list of states I’ve missed and would like to see... A lady that lives next door to me has relatives in Iowa. They were in the car one day and her brother-in-law stopped the car and pointed to a five-story building and told her that was the tallest building in the state. I can imagine him driving me hundreds of miles on dirt roads through corn fields to look at gourds with unusual shapes... If I lived there, I might attempt to beat the world’s biggest ball of string record... |
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Post by rizzuto on Jun 15, 2019 17:41:07 GMT -5
Well, at least we know in advance our starting pitcher isn’t going five innings...
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Post by rizzuto on Jun 15, 2019 17:43:56 GMT -5
Where do you get this stuff, Inger? Sounds like you have your own staff of scouts. I send Utah out to check them out for me. Nothing like an experienced scout that’s in full retirement and loves baseball... (: It would be cool if I had a scout in every state that was named after the state...”Hey, Texas! I got a kid you have to look at for me over in Arlington”...Wisconsin! Get ready to run down to Walkee for me...”Iowa... never mind”... That must be what it’s like to live in Iowa. I’ve never been there. I imagine you have. It’s low on my list of states I’ve missed and would like to see... A lady that lives next door to me has relatives in Iowa. They were in the car one day and her brother-in-law stopped the car and pointed to a five-story building and told her that was the tallest building in the state. I can imagine him driving me hundreds of miles on dirt roads through corn fields to look at gourds with unusual shapes... If I lived there, I might attempt to beat the world’s biggest ball of string record... Just in case you weren’t joking...I think it’s 45 stories tall. |
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Post by inger on Jun 15, 2019 17:44:43 GMT -5
Don't let the goofy persona fool you, inger is very knowledgeable. Lol. Thanks. At least knowledgeable enough to fool you... (: I rank somewhere on the intelligence scale between karl and Russ. Actually, that’s not true. We ride Russ, but he doesn’t suffer from lack of intellect. He’s extremely smart, but he seems to have a rather large portion of his mental filing cabinet crammed with mathematic information that I couldn’t begin to process and retain. If he ever retires, look out... So maybe I should have said between karl and ... miggator. That might do it... |
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Post by inger on Jun 15, 2019 17:50:24 GMT -5
I send Utah out to check them out for me. Nothing like an experienced scout that’s in full retirement and loves baseball... (: It would be cool if I had a scout in every state that was named after the state...”Hey, Texas! I got a kid you have to look at for me over in Arlington”...Wisconsin! Get ready to run down to Walkee for me...”Iowa... never mind”... That must be what it’s like to live in Iowa. I’ve never been there. I imagine you have. It’s low on my list of states I’ve missed and would like to see... A lady that lives next door to me has relatives in Iowa. They were in the car one day and her brother-in-law stopped the car and pointed to a five-story building and told her that was the tallest building in the state. I can imagine him driving me hundreds of miles on dirt roads through corn fields to look at gourds with unusual shapes... If I lived there, I might attempt to beat the world’s biggest ball of string record... Just in case you weren’t joking...I think it’s 45 stories tall. She wasn’t joking, but she IS about eighty years old. He might have said in the county...Forty-five stories is pretty tall. I stayed on some like the forty-second floor in a hotel once. It’s up there...I think that was in Rhode Island. Some casino I had to stay in for a meeting at for work... I like the stories these old folks (she and her husband) tell, but some of them do seem to lack credibility. Even the fifteenth time they tell them...Although they always believe them and tell them in all sincerity... |
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Post by inger on Jun 15, 2019 17:58:10 GMT -5
Well, at least we know in advance our starting pitcher isn’t going five innings... On those rare days when he can control three of those pitches he can get into the eighth. Two, he makes it through 6. Only one? About 4 innings on 100 pitches. All four? I doubt that’s ever happened... The Sox usually let him throw about 100-105 pitches unless he’s getting pounded very, very badly (he threw 118 once this year in a game that should be called “Boone’s heart attack”). I hope we don’t help him out by being over-aggressive. The team seems to be pressing and chasing a lot lately... |
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Post by kaybli on Jun 15, 2019 17:59:33 GMT -5
Don't let the goofy persona fool you, inger is very knowledgeable. [img alt=" " src="//storage.proboards.com/6828121/images/GQenTev0hfkprTOBBlGu.gif" class="smile"] Lol. Thanks. At least knowledgeable enough to fool you... (: I rank somewhere on the intelligence scale between karl and Russ. Actually, that’s not true. We ride Russ, but he doesn’t suffer from lack of intellect. He’s extremely smart, but he seems to have a rather large portion of his mental filing cabinet crammed with mathematic information that I couldn’t begin to process and retain. If he ever retires, look out... So maybe I should have said between karl and ... miggator. That might do it... You remember miggator? Hahahaha, he was such a tool. |
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Post by kaybli on Jun 15, 2019 18:04:49 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Jun 15, 2019 18:05:08 GMT -5
Lol. Thanks. At least knowledgeable enough to fool you... (: I rank somewhere on the intelligence scale between karl and Russ. Actually, that’s not true. We ride Russ, but he doesn’t suffer from lack of intellect. He’s extremely smart, but he seems to have a rather large portion of his mental filing cabinet crammed with mathematic information that I couldn’t begin to process and retain. If he ever retires, look out... So maybe I should have said between karl and ... miggator. That might do it... You remember miggator? Hahahaha, he was such a tool. Who could forget him? I recall him trying to get under my skin by telling me once when I described “The Catch” of my lifetime and said what a thrill I got out of making it that it was obvious I couldn’t hit or I’d be talking about my hitting... what a turd. What a maroon...LOL... |
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