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Brackman: "I think his mechanics are cleaner"

"He looked good. He was down in the zone all day today, which is encouraging. I think his mechanics are cleaner. He's had some physical ailments that he's had to deal with, and this is not an easy game, and when you're 6'11", there's a lot that can go on mechanically that shorter guys don't have to deal with. But I thought he looked really good today."

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REPRESENT BIOTCH!!!

TMS wrote:one thing i question w/these small signings... Cash said he had no room in the budget to accomodate Damon... he ends up signing for 1 year $8 mil w/the Tigers... Yanks end up spending $9 mil on signing Nick Johnson, Randy Winn & Chan Ho Park to 1 year deals... so in essence we did have the money to spend on Johnny Damon, we just chose to go a different direction, or Damon & Boras overplayed their hand & tried to play hardball w/the Yankees this is the result... either way, both parties lose... Damon could have & should have been a Yankee this year.

They had a budget and have stuck to it. Before they signed Johnson they probably had that money available to sign Johnny, but his demands were much higher then. Obviously circumstances have changed now.

Not a Chan-Ho fan, but at those dollars why not. He had a great 2nd half last year and had been a lot better out of the pen. I think he turned down a much offer from the Phils earlier in the offseason

holy crap, that didn't take long

djsunyc wrote:

jusnice wrote:Cervelli has a concussion. Hopefully he can recover and be an asset to us this year.

he has a big role this season.

here's a revisit to an old question:

do we keep both hughes + joba in the pen.

cc + aj + vasquez + andy + #5 (mitre/gaudin)

it would give us a bullpen of park + robertson + marte + hughes + joba + mo with aceves and mitre/guadin as long relief. i mean that bullpen would be stizzacked.

at some point the yanks need hughes and/or joba to be a full-fledged starter. andy is probably in his last yr, burnett has a history of injury problems, and mitre/gaudin are certainly not long term solutions. unless neither is up to par coming out of spring training, it would be a waste of time in my opinion to put both into the pen, esp for the whole year.

BigSm00th wrote:at some point the yanks need hughes and/or joba to be a full-fledged starter. andy is probably in his last yr, burnett has a history of injury problems, and mitre/gaudin are certainly not long term solutions. unless neither is up to par coming out of spring training, it would be a waste of time in my opinion to put both into the pen, esp for the whole year.

i agree but i also think that cliff lee will be a yankee next winter so that will solve one spot in the rotation.

jusnice wrote:Re: Austin Jackson....Let's stop lamenting about what we don't have. The future is bright and let's talk about the team we DO have here. Hughes will be the 5th starter and that puts everyone else in the pen for now. We have a great pen and if Joba can solidify the set-up role, this team can be dominant. Jaavy will eat innings and provide the BP some rest so they can step in for CC, Andy, AJ when needed. We have a better rotation this year than last and our lineup will score plenty of runs. I'm excited.

sorry, still don't like that Javy trade one bit... we didn't need to trade assets to get a #4 starter at that level money, there were other options out there we could have had for just a money contract... this would be like trading Danilo Gallinari for Zach Randolph this summer, what's the point? the guy didn't work out here the first time around, no use giving up young talent to bring him back especially when there are better FA's out there to be had at similar money... i'm not a Cashman hater but this move made no sense to me.

Austin Jackson, dunno if he's the real deal yet for sure yet but so far he's looking good in ST... obviously that can change during the regular season & i'm not lamenting his loss to bring in Granderson cuz i think he's going to be a nice addition for us.