Izenhart wrote:Player / Series Avg B. Gardner .000 I. Suzuki .667 M. Teixeira .000 R. Cano .000 R. Ibanez .000 R. Martin .000 E. Chavez .000 C. Granderson 000 E. Nunez .000
lol
That's not right. Nunez, Teixeira and Cano got base hits in the top of the ninth., but yeah, they suck.
I happened to post that just before Nunez hit his solo homerun in the 9th
Team Izzy C Mauer 1 E5 2 Cano 3 ARam S Rollins CI LaRoche MI Altuve O Melky, Pagan, Morse, Hunter, Ruggiano SP Lee, Fister, Estrada, McCarthy, Lohse RP Chapman, Jansen, Frieri, Fujikawa Bench 1 Hart S Cabrera O Eaton U Ortiz P Marcum P Miller P Fernandez
mweir145 wrote:Who benches ARod and Swisher based on seven game sample size and then doesn't use one of them to pinch hit for Raul Ibanez when he's facing a LHP in a crucial situation (.492 OPS vs. LHPs in 2012)?
The Yankees deserve to lose this series for more reason than one.
Ibanez has been their hottest hitter and in a walkoff HR in ALDS Game 3 off a LHP. I have no problem leaving him in there...he's basically the only guy in the lineup who's done anything at all. I would have started A-Rod though...I don't understand benching him. It's not like Chavez has done anything.
Am I the only one who thought the Yanks made a big mistake by not throwing CC out there? That was a game they had to win to really stay alive in this series, and CC was on, I believe, 4 days rest, meaning he woulda be pretty good to go. This series would have a majorly different tone if it were 2-1, instead of 3-0. I was of the mind that getting your best guy to even the gap would be smart. However, I don't think anyone can argue with him being the last line. Yanks are done after tonight methinks though.
m16a wrote:Am I the only one who thought the Yanks made a big mistake by not throwing CC out there? That was a game they had to win to really stay alive in this series, and CC was on, I believe, 4 days rest, meaning he woulda be pretty good to go. This series would have a majorly different tone if it were 2-1, instead of 3-0. I was of the mind that getting your best guy to even the gap would be smart. However, I don't think anyone can argue with him being the last line. Yanks are done after tonight methinks though.
m16a wrote:Am I the only one who thought the Yanks made a big mistake by not throwing CC out there? That was a game they had to win to really stay alive in this series, and CC was on, I believe, 4 days rest, meaning he woulda be pretty good to go. This series would have a majorly different tone if it were 2-1, instead of 3-0. I was of the mind that getting your best guy to even the gap would be smart. However, I don't think anyone can argue with him being the last line. Yanks are done after tonight methinks though.
Wouldn't have mattered. You can't win if you don't score. Their starting pitching is the only reason any of these games have been close. Kuroda, Pettitte, Hughes and the bullpen have all been great in their own right. You couldn't have expected much more from CC than what those guys gave you.
m16a wrote:Am I the only one who thought the Yanks made a big mistake by not throwing CC out there? That was a game they had to win to really stay alive in this series, and CC was on, I believe, 4 days rest, meaning he woulda be pretty good to go. This series would have a majorly different tone if it were 2-1, instead of 3-0. I was of the mind that getting your best guy to even the gap would be smart. However, I don't think anyone can argue with him being the last line. Yanks are done after tonight methinks though.
Wouldn't have mattered. You can't win if you don't score. Their starting pitching is the only reason any of these games have been close. Kuroda, Pettitte, Hughes and the bullpen have all been great in their own right. You couldn't have expected much more from CC than what those guys gave you.
mweir145 wrote:Who benches ARod and Swisher based on seven game sample size and then doesn't use one of them to pinch hit for Raul Ibanez when he's facing a LHP in a crucial situation (.492 OPS vs. LHPs in 2012)?
The Yankees deserve to lose this series for more reason than one.
Ibanez has been their hottest hitter and in a walkoff HR in ALDS Game 3 off a LHP. I have no problem leaving him in there...he's basically the only guy in the lineup who's done anything at all. I would have started A-Rod though...I don't understand benching him. It's not like Chavez has done anything.
And none of that really changes the fact that Ibanez is nothing more than a platoon player at this point in his career who struggles significantly against LHP. With the options they had on the bench and the ability to turn the matchup in their favor, I can't excuse leaving him in there.
mweir145 wrote:Who benches ARod and Swisher based on seven game sample size and then doesn't use one of them to pinch hit for Raul Ibanez when he's facing a LHP in a crucial situation (.492 OPS vs. LHPs in 2012)?
The Yankees deserve to lose this series for more reason than one.
Ibanez has been their hottest hitter and in a walkoff HR in ALDS Game 3 off a LHP. I have no problem leaving him in there...he's basically the only guy in the lineup who's done anything at all. I would have started A-Rod though...I don't understand benching him. It's not like Chavez has done anything.
And none of that really changes the fact that Ibanez is nothing more than a platoon player at this point in his career who struggles significantly against LHP. With the options they had on the bench and the ability to turn the matchup in their favor, I can't excuse leaving him in there.
No way. You've got to go with the hot hand, and there's nothing to suggest that Arod is all of a sudden going to break out of his slump in a key spot. Ibanez got you there, you've got to give him his chance.
A Fleshner Fantasy wrote:No way. You've got to go with the hot hand, and there's nothing to suggest that Arod is all of a sudden going to break out of his slump in a key spot. Ibanez got you there, you've got to give him his chance.
2012 vs lefties: .197/.246/.246 2011 vs lefties: .211/.232/.353 Career vs lefties: .264/.314/.421
I don't care if he's the "hot hand". He's absolutely terrible against lefties and leaving him in to face one with the game on the line was a mistake. I realize the backlash would have been pretty bad if he had pinch hit Arod and failed, but you have to make the best baseball decision and letting Ibanez hit there was not the best baseball decision.
A Fleshner Fantasy wrote:No way. You've got to go with the hot hand, and there's nothing to suggest that Arod is all of a sudden going to break out of his slump in a key spot. Ibanez got you there, you've got to give him his chance.
2012 vs lefties: .197/.246/.246 2011 vs lefties: .211/.232/.353 Career vs lefties: .264/.314/.421
I don't care if he's the "hot hand". He's absolutely terrible against lefties and leaving him in to face one with the game on the line was a mistake. I realize the backlash would have been pretty bad if he had pinch hit Arod and failed, but you have to make the best baseball decision and letting Ibanez hit there was not the best baseball decision.
I think it was. Even if you think he's only a .200 hitter in that spot, that's still better than what Arod is right now.
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by Izenhart » Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:25 am 
