Cleveland Indians... lire la suite
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Now that Spring Training has started, we're continuing on with Season Previews. Last year, they began as a serious analysis and ended as half-assed haiku, which we're just gonna keep rolling with. Next on our agenda is the Cleveland Indians. The flies bit Joba That's not how to spell Jhonny
CLEVELAND INDIANS Grady Sizemore, CF Jamey Carroll, 2B Jhonny Peralta, SS Ryan Garko, 1B Franklin Gutierrez, RF Travis Hafner, DH Ben Francisco, LF Kelly Shoppach, C Andy Marte, 3B W-L G SHO SV BS IP H R BB
CLEVELAND INDIANS Grady Sizemore, CF Jamey Carroll, 2B David Dellucci, DH Jhonny Peralta, SS Ben Francisco, LF Franklin Gutierrez, RF Ryan Garko, 1B Casey Blake, 3B Kelly Shoppach, C W-L G SHO SV BS IP H R BB
CLEVELAND INDIANS Grady Sizemore, CF Ben Francisco, RF David Dellucci, LF Victor Martinez, DH Jhonny Peralta, SS Asdrubal Cabrera, 2B Casey Blake, 1B Kelly Shoppach, C Andy Marte, 3B W-L G SHO SV BS IP H R BB
This list was originally posted January 14th, 2008. THIS IS NOT A NEW LIST! THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE OLD LIST AND OLD GRADES! Adam Miller, RHP, Grade B ERA with 20/12 K/BB in 29 innings for Triple-A Buffalo, before going on the DL, his home away from home, with a finger injury.
Bronx Banter: Cleveland Indians
Since the Yankees and Indians split a four-game series in Cleveland a week ago, the Yankees split a pair of three-game sweeps and the Tribe went 2-3. All five wins, by both teams, came against the hapless Mariners, who are now nursing a five-game losing streak. The rain erased a sixth Cleveland contest, conveniently pushing C.
It goes without saying that everyone here in the Bronx Banter community is sending best wishes to Harlan Chamberlain today.
Getting to know Pat Jordan has been one of the highlights of my brief time hanging around sports writers. First, Pat was candid and funny in an interview I did with him for Bronx Banter back in 2003, then he occasionally gave me writing tips as I worked on my first book, a biography of Curt Flood.
I don't drink so I don't go to bars. But I like the idea of the local bar, where you can go watch the game and yes, where everybody knows your name. In many ways, blogs like Bronx Banter are on-line bars, community meeting spots, where a host of like-minded people can get together to follow, in this case, the Yankees.
I've souped-up a series of exclusive Bronx Banter takes on thesummer gatheringof the New York Giants Nostalgia Society. They are intended to be little nuggets of Noo Yawk Lovliness.
Editor's Note: I love reading long interviews and during the first few years here at Bronx Banter was able to conduct a series of them myself. For a number of reasons I wasn't able to keep doing them. So I'm happy to present the following, a QA with veteran baseball author Harvey Frommer, that was done by Hank Waddles, who is no stranger to indepth interviews.
This is sixth season I've covered the Yankees here at Bronx Banter and the first time they've missed the playoffs, which only goes to underscore just how fortunate we've been. However, just cause our boys won't be playing ball in October, doesn't mean that we're going anywhere. Like Earl Weaver once said, This ain't football, we do this everyday.
Unlike the Rays, the Red Sox haven't changed a lick since the Yanks last saw them. Of course that was just two days ago in Boston. Both the Yanks and Sox swept two-game series on the road to start the week (the Sox doing so in Cleveland while the Yanks were in Tampa). The two rivals reconvene in the Bronx tonight with a rematch of the last series opener that saw Chien-Ming Wang outpitch and outlast Clay Buchholz as the Yanks won 4-1 behind Wang's two-hitter.
On the morning of May 19, the Royals were a game under . and just two games out of first place in the American League Central division. That night they were no-hit by Jon Lester at Fenway Park, a humiliating loss that kicked off a 12-game losing streak. That streak was snapped last Saturday when tonight's starter, Kyle Davies, in his first major league start of the year, beat C.
Jonathan Mahler, author of The Bronx is Burning, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, has a long profile on the Steinbrenner clan in the latest issue of Play. It is a detailed, behind-the-scenes look at the changes that have taken place in the Yankee organization over the past calendar year.
The game was been postponed until tomorrow night. A major drag for all those fans who schlepped up to the Bronx and stood around in the rain. Now, they wouldn't have wanted to schedule the series in Toronto to begin with, no that would have made too much sense.
My wife and I trekked out to Yankee Stadium yesterday, shelled out about $25 a piece on train and subway fare, then and sunk another $25 or so into some eats at the ballpark as we sat in the cold, misting rain for two and a half hours waiting for a ball game that was never played. Back in New Jersey this afternoon, the rain seems to have finally ceased and the sun is starting to filter through the still-overcast sky, but I'm not going back to the Bronx tonight.
The Yankees wrapped up four-game split with the Rays just a week ago, but the Rays have undergone a lot of changes since then, most of them injury-related. Matt Garza didn't pitch in the Bronx and wasn't scheduled to pitch in the brief two-game set against the Yankees that opens at the Trop tonight, but it's still worth noting that the team's big off-season addition hit the DL with a nerve issue in his pitching elbow and is expected to miss at least four weeks (home-grown pitching prospect Jeff Niemann pitched well in his place last night as the Rays beat the O's 6-2).
Today was the first great warm spring day of the year. It was downright hot in the sun. Dude, there was a lot of giggling out there if you know what I saying. It was just great. Beautiful night for baseball. Best of the season so far. Let's hope we get good Moose and not stewed Moose.