Those pumpkin seeds have Arod relaxed and locked in.
Or maybe it just another "Diaz" in the life of a top notch player.
The wind kept #12 from going out.
Congratulations "are" due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
-
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- matsuigoesMo
- Posts: 617
- First: 11/5/2009
- Last: 9/20/2011
-
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- Benamn
- Posts: 2464
- First: 2/10/2010
- Last: 5/3/2011
In Response to Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011:Teams can only have one "Ace"...
Posted by beavis
really, only one............then why did so many sox fans claim to have six on the sox last year? -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- Hfxsoxnut
- Posts: 8458
- First: 5/30/2008
- Last: 5/25/2013
In Response to Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011:With thanks to mr. mojo: "Here’s something to watch for on Tuesday. In the live ball era (since 1920), the Red Sox have allowed three or more home runs in four straight games only once in a season. That came in June 2000, when the Blue Jays and Yankees combined to hit 14 home runs in four games." ------------------------------------------------------- I'll go on record as saying I'm A.O.K. with having the Indians and Rangers join the Yankees and Blue Jays on that list.
Posted by matsuigoesMo
And I'll go on record that it was very enjoyable seeing Hughes and Colon get lit up and I hope Nova gets lit up tonight. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- ConcernTroll
- Posts: 280
- First: 9/23/2010
- Last: 5/4/2011
In Response to Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011:I have noticed "tons" of comments on this board that the mods let ride concerning the girth of a few Yankee pitchers. Funny, how the 3 guys with the skinniest ERA's on the Sox have a collective 150+ waistline.
Posted by matsuigoesMo
You're kidding, right? Fans saying that a player is overweight is not a violation of forum rules. Doctors say to your face that you are overweight and it is not a insult but is fact. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- matsuigoesMo
- Posts: 617
- First: 11/5/2009
- Last: 9/20/2011
"Regardless of how intense the competition was or wasn’t (during spring training), Ivan Nova felt that he was ensconced in a serious skirmish and treated every outing as if it were more than a spring appearance. Nova felt that he had to be as precise as possible to convince the Yankees of his value. Even after Nova secured the fourth spot, he isn’t changing his approach. He is hauling that competitive philosophy into the season.
“I had to fight for a spot,” Nova said. “That helped me a lot. Every time I go out there now, I’m thinking that way. I have to fight.”
Nova is thinking and acting like a pitcher who expects to thrive.
“I have to feel that nobody is going to hit me,” he said. “I have a plan.”
For Nova, the plan is to attack hitters with a sinking fastball that averages about 93 miles per hour and produces bushels of grounders. Nova also has a changeup that dives and is a great complement to his fastball, a solid curveball and a decent slider. When Nova experimented with a cut fastball this spring, he ended up with a pitch that acts more like a slider by having a bigger break. Nova, who puts more pressure on his middle finger when throwing the cutter that masquerades as a slider, called it a “new toy.”
In a spring where young Yankees like Manny Banuelos, Dellin Betances and Andrew Brackman were discussed and dissected every day, Nova, another young pitcher who actually had a great chance to be on the Opening Day roster, didn’t receive nearly as much attention. In some ways, that was odd. Nova, who is 24, is one year younger than Brackman and one year older than Betances. Banuelos is 20.
“When everyone talks about the young pitchers, he flies under the radar a bit,” said Damon Oppenheimer, the Yankees’ Vice President of Amateur Scouting. “He shouldn’t. People should talk about him.”
Jack Curry
-----------------------------------------------------------
No starts and impresses with movement on every pitch
JoSo hold
Mo saves
JoSoMo = Nova wins
I wonder what the betting line was for Nova to notch a victory before any of the top 3 in the Sox rotation?
Can Nova make it two wins before one of the top 3 discover a way to record a single victory? If so, that would take place in Fenway this weekend. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- matsuigoesMo
- Posts: 617
- First: 11/5/2009
- Last: 9/20/2011
Enjoy it while it lasts brother. Cause you know deep down what's going to happen this season. Way too much talent on this team to stay in the basement for long.
Posted by RSNS14
There is no doubt that the Sox have plenty of talent.
They also have a decent amount of question marks, much like other teams.
Believe you me, after months of talk where a team that totally missed out on postseason play last year was declared as overwhelming favorites, I thoroughly enjoyed this past weekend.
The headlines on ESPN today have been fun too:
Power Brokers
The Yanks and Phils have swung the bats with authority. Which one grabbed the top spot in our first rankings of 2011?
(Why no Rangers pictured after they beat the preseason overwhelming favorites to a pulp?)Nation Of Panic
The Red Sox are 0-3. Are folks already worried? Of course they are. After all, it is Boston we're talking about. David Schoenfield »Pedroia: 'We're all frustrated'
Will enjoy the heck out of tonight with the Yankee game on ESPN, and the Conn./Butler matchup.
That said, the Sox getting hammered on the way to a sweep was a sweet start for a lifetime Yankee fan from Mass. Yes, there is long season ahead, and the Sox should prove to be a force to reckon with.
I promise to slow way down in my posting. I have been stuck at the computer all day waiting on some business updates.
Will be checking in every now and then all season long, win or loss.
Looking forward to next weekend.
The games have begun. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- carnie
- Posts: 10917
- First: 5/26/2008
- Last: 5/4/2013
In Response to Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011:Allowing 11 HR's in the very 1st series of 2011 is full worthy of recognition. Tain't easy. Congrats are also due for Carl Crawford. The man put together the first 2 hits for the 7,8,9 positions in the Sox loaded lineup, thus RAISING the avg. ALL THE WAY to a lusty .0666 for the bottom 3rd. Again, tain't easy.Let's see how much smack you're talking after this weekend.
Posted by matsuigoesMo -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- matsuigoesMo
- Posts: 617
- First: 11/5/2009
- Last: 9/20/2011
Dennys: "Can you believe that I own the "skinniest" ERA on this team?"
Agon: "I hear you brother slim. What did we get ourselves into here?"
www.sportsherniablog.com/.a/6a00d83451b84f69e2014e5f8f4a5d970c-pi">
-
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- ConcernTroll
- Posts: 280
- First: 9/23/2010
- Last: 5/4/2011
Gardner .167
Jeter .200
Cano .231
Granderson .182
It is true that our game thread has much infighting and is embarassing. We will never know if Andrewmitch and Georom are embedded Yankee fans. They sure act that way or are terrible Red Sox fans. In either case that thread is not worth going to. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- jeanmean
- Posts: 32
- First: 4/1/2011
- Last: 4/16/2011
the yanks have one ace. Hughes can't throw hard anymore. So there real #2 will be a bust. Burnett has never won many games and is on the verge of self-collaspe at the age of 34. Nova is nothing to be scared of. He gives up lot's of hits. Garcia and Colon are shot. And the yanks just hit home runs, not base hits for rallies. Gardner is a mediocre player with no stick at all. Jeter has already make like 2 or 3 errors. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- jesseyeric
- Posts: 13687
- First: 6/15/2007
- Last: 5/24/2013
MM - Hughes was bloody horrible - end of conversation and his FB was about 5 mph short and considering we have Nova and Garcia as our 4 & 5, maybe us Yankee fans shouldn't be worrying about the Sox rotation miscues at this point. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- J-BAY
- Posts: 14617
- First: 4/8/2009
- Last: 5/25/2013
MR?
M & M. 75 pitches after 3 innings. 2 home runs by Miggy. knocked out after 4 innings. just the facts sir. an update of the yankee game on the sox game thread. i also posted the final score. why even take notice of it, is there something unusual about that?
-
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- hill55
- Posts: 7699
- First: 1/14/2006
- Last: 5/24/2013
In Response to Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011:I recall a guy named Cliff Lee taking the mound back then. Didn't notice him in Texas this weekend. I also recall the Yankees actually winning the 2 games that C.J. Wilson started.
Posted by matsuigoesMo
The postseason pitching star for the 2010 Rangers was Colby Lewis, who won three postseason games, including two against the Yankees, whom the righthander held to three runs over 13.1 innings.
Cliff Lee was 3-2 in the 2010 postseason, including eight shutout innings in his only start against the Yankees. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- matsuigoesMo
- Posts: 617
- First: 11/5/2009
- Last: 9/20/2011
NAME GP GS L IP H ER HR BB SO K/9 WHIP ERA Dennys Reyes 3 0 0 1.2 2 0 0 1 1 5.40 1.80 0.00 Bobby Jenks 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 Matt Albers 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 1.00 0.00 Tim Wakefield 2 0 0 2.0 1 1 1 1 0 0.00 1.00 4.50 Clay Buchholz 1 1 1 6.1 5 4 4 2 3 4.26 1.11 5.68 Jon Lester 1 1 0 5.1 6 5 3 1 0 0.00 1.31 8.44 Jonathan Papelbon 1 0 0 1.0 2 1 0 1 3 27.00 3.00 9.00 Dan Wheeler 2 0 0 1.1 4 2 1 0 1 6.75 3.00 13.50 John Lackey 1 1 1 3.2 10 9 2 2 3 7.36 3.27 22.09 Daniel Bard 1 0 1 0.2 4 4 0 1 1 13.50 7.50 54.00 -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- hill55
- Posts: 7699
- First: 1/14/2006
- Last: 5/24/2013
In Response to Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011:In Response to Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011 : Lol. It's funny how you're avoiding the obvious number that mattered for NYY fans last year. How'd your pitching do against Texas last year? Do you want me to post that number for you? It's not hard to find...look for the huge team ERA.
Posted by soups
New York Yankee pitchers had a 4.20 ERA against the Texas Rangers in 2010:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=p&team=NYY&year=2010
In the ALCS, the Yankees had a 6.58 ERA against the Yankees. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- Hfxsoxnut
- Posts: 8458
- First: 5/30/2008
- Last: 5/25/2013
Texas is a pretty good team now. You guys already proved that. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- Hfxsoxnut
- Posts: 8458
- First: 5/30/2008
- Last: 5/25/2013
Cmon, matsui, the NY press is no different...they love to be doomsayers when the Yankees are struggling. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- matsuigoesMo
- Posts: 617
- First: 11/5/2009
- Last: 9/20/2011
I have noticed "tons" of comments on this board that the mods let ride concerning the girth of a few Yankee pitchers.
Funny, how the 3 guys with the skinniest ERA's on the Sox have a collective 150+ waistline. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- snakeoil123
- Posts: 5803
- First: 4/4/2011
- Last: 5/16/2013
In Response to Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011:Allowing 11 HR's in the very 1st series of 2011 is full worthy of recognition. Tain't easy. Congrats are also due for Carl Crawford. The man put together the first 2 hits for the 7,8,9 positions in the Sox loaded lineup, thus RAISING the avg. ALL THE WAY to a lusty .0666 for the bottom 3rd. Again, tain't easy.
Posted by matsuigoesMo3 games are 3 games. Act like you know this. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- nhsteven
- Posts: 11473
- First: 9/23/2005
- Last: 5/23/2013
In Response to Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011:Duely noted. As for being "lit up", feel free to compare: Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA J Lester 5.1 6 5 5 1 0 3 88-49 8.44 D Bard (L, 0-1) 0.2 4 4 4 1 1 0 32-19 54.00 Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA J Lackey (L, 0-1) 3.2 10 9 9 2 3 2 86-50 22.09 D Wheeler 0.2 4 2 2 0 1 1 30-20 13.50 Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA C Buchholz (L, 0-1) 6.1 5 4 4 2 3 4 86-56 5.68 Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA P Hughes (L, 0-1) 4.0 5 5 5 2 1 2 90-58 11.25 B Colon 4.0 6 4 4 1 5 1 69-45 9.00 Colon did K 5, and the 2 HR's that Hughes allowed were to a guy who can hit with the very best of all time. As bad as Hughes line was, it was matter of 2 pitches in 2 different 2 strike counts against Miguel Cabrera, whom many consider 1 of the top 2 or 3 best hitters in the game, if not the very best, that cost him 4 runs. Seeing as how Vmart wasn't in sync this past weekend, it's hard to understand why the Yankees didn't pitch around Cabrera.
Posted by matsuigoesMoI don't think you can sugarcoat how Colon and Hughes did. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- glumandrew
- Posts: 313
- First: 10/2/2010
- Last: 5/6/2011
Soups, Hill is a Seattle fan first and a Yankee fan second. For some reason he dislikes the Red Sox and comes in here with a small needle and enjoys pricking. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- RSNS14
- Posts: 255
- First: 6/3/2008
- Last: 4/21/2013
In Response to Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011:Allowing 11 HR's in the very 1st series of 2011 is full worthy of recognition. Tain't easy. Congrats are also due for Carl Crawford. The man put together the first 2 hits for the 7,8,9 positions in the Sox loaded lineup, thus RAISING the avg. ALL THE WAY to a lusty .0666 for the bottom 3rd. Again, tain't easy.
Posted by matsuigoesMoEnjoy it while it lasts brother. Cause you know deep down what's going to happen this season. Way too much talent on this team to stay in the basement for long. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- matsuigoesMo
- Posts: 617
- First: 11/5/2009
- Last: 9/20/2011
With thanks to mr. mojo:
"Here’s something to watch for on Tuesday. In the live ball era (since 1920), the Red Sox have allowed three or more home runs in four straight games only once in a season. That came in June 2000, when the Blue Jays and Yankees combined to hit 14 home runs in four games."
-------------------------------------------------------
I'll go on record as saying I'm A.O.K. with having the Indians and Rangers join the Yankees and Blue Jays on that list. -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- beavis
- Posts: 4478
- First: 12/13/2004
- Last: 7/5/2012
Schilling, P.J. Martinez, Clemens all wanted the ball and relished that fact of going against the opposing team NUMBER 1...I thought Lester could be that guy...verdict still out....under advisement... -
Re: Congratulations is due to the overwhelming favorites and their full "ACES" staff. 11/2011
posted at 4/5/2011 7:11 PM EDT
- matsuigoesMo
- Posts: 617
- First: 11/5/2009
- Last: 9/20/2011
In the ALCS, the Yankees had a 6.58 ERA against the Yankees.
Posted by hill55
That means they literally beat themselves.
Darn, they shouldn't be playing the game like that.
That was so 2010.
How did the Sox staff fare in the 2010 postseason?