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KTE - Subway Series I

Frayed Knot May 18 2007 07:49 AM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on May 18 2007 09:03 PM

NYY (18 - 21; 9.5 GB) visit NYM (24 - 16; 1.5 GA) for 3 games As you may have heard, the Yanx are a team reeling at the moment, currently having fallen to their worst ¼ pole record of any time in the Torre era. They still lead MLB in runs scored, but can no longer count on having the better of the pitching match-up 75% of the time like they could in their late-90s hey-day. Now, they just sit like some damsel in distress waiting for Sir Roger of Clemensia to rescue them. A Tuesday rain-out threw a further wrench into their pitching plans and will force them into their 11th different starter this year on Sunday in just their 42nd game, including 6 of them who were making their ML debut. Friday: 7:10 - SNY & YES - Pettitte vs Perez Pettitte: (8 starts; 2-2; 2.68; 1.41; 29 K, 21 BBs) has pitched better than his W/L record, but rarely deep into games Met batters vs Pettitte (not necc as Mets): Player ABs Hits HR BA OBA SLG Ks Delgado 58 21 5 .362 .456 .672 15 Easley 54 16 0 .296 .345 .407 7 Green 33 8 0 .242 .265 .273 8 Franco 17 8 1 .471 .526 .706 3 Reyes 15 3 0 .231 .231 .231 3 Wright 10 5 1 .500 .545 .900 0 Saturday: 3:55 - FOX (Regional Network Telecast) - Darrell Rasner vs Glavine Rasner, (5 starts; 1-2; 3.28; 1.42; 11 K, 8 BBs) one of the slew of pitchers brought up to cover April injuries, has never pitched against the Mets NYY batters vs Glavine: Player ABs Hits HR BA OBA SLG Ks Abreu 67 15 1 .224 .297 .313 6 Jeter 25 9 2 .360 .407 .600 2 Giambi 10 4 0 .400 .500 .400 3 Sunday: 8:05 - ESPN National Telecast - Tyler Clippard vs Maine Clippard, 22 y/o and making his ML debut, has moved up and down the NYY prospect lists over the last few years. Not a hard-thrower, but has an assortment of breaking pitches and usually good control. DH/1B - Jason Giambi: .273/.389/.438 - 5 HRs, 18 RBI OK, so he was never signed to be a speedster. But you've got to see him (try to) run recently to really appreciate just how fuckin' slow he's become. He's like Molina slow. In fact, he's like Benjy carrying Jose while pulling Yadier in a sled slow. And now he's battling bone spurs in his heel just as he has to play the field all weekend. 2B - Robinson Cano: .235/.276/.324 - 1 HR, 16 RBI I think maybe we can put the Cooperstown plaque on hold for now following his near batting title last year. No gold glove, but an improved fielder. SS - Derek Jeter: .368/.444/.477 - 2 HR, 21 RBI yadda, yadda, yadda 3B - Alex Rodriguez: .318/.400/.675 - 15 HRs 39 RBIs Great overall numbers obviously, but check out these splits: 1st 75 ABs: .400 BA, .453 OBA, 1.053 SLG, 14 HR, 34 RBI, 7 2Bs next 75 Abs: .236 BA; .347 OBA; .297 SLG, 1 HR, 5 RBI, 2 2Bs Still leads MLB in HRs & RBIs C - Jorge Posada: .371/.428/.581 - 4 HR, 22 RBI Defying the aging catcher syndrome by having some of his best seasons - both offensively and defensively - in his mid-30s. With the late afternoon start on Saturday I'm sure he'll start all three games. LF - Hideki Matsui: .275/.385/.440 - 2 HR, 18 RBI Slow start due to injury. Looks worse in the field with each passing season CF - Johnny Damon: .256/.358/.359 - 2 HR, 18 RBI Had a good 1st year in the Bronx, but struggling now with a variety of injuries (back, calf) and has been stting and/or DHing lately. Also was the only guy they could get and still manage to downgrade their CF throwing arm from Bernie Williams RF - Bobby Abreu: .236/.306/.304 - 2 HR, 21 RBI Worst slump of his career right now. Has a .400+ career OBA but isn't even drawing walks at this point and check out that (non)Slugging Average!. Bunts even more than the other #3 hitter in NYC. The Pen: Mariano Rivera: 13.2 IP, 16 H, 13 K, 4 BB, 6.54 ERA: Two 9th inning HRs are the most glaring early-season problem. And, while the wails over his demise are certainly overblown and based on relatively small samples of random closer blues, he's certainly not on a roll that inspires "game over" confidence. Kyle Farnsworth: 16 IP, 16 H, 9 K, 8 BB, 4.41 ERA: Should have better results with his stuff Scott Proctor (1.18 WhiP) - Luis Vizcaino (1.57 WHiP) - Brian Brunney (1.14 WHiP): Proctor served his 4-game bean-ball suspension during the week so as to be ready just for little 'ol us. They are collectively Torre's main [over]work[ed]-horses in the pen (21 appearances each) and are being relied on a lot as the starters frequently fail to clear the 5th inning. Mike Myers: Side-arming LOOGY who's not having very good success against LHBs. Kind of like having a pesticide that doesn't kill bugs. Ron Villone has just been called up to replace Sean Henn as the extra LHP Bench: Melky Cabrera: .226/.286/.322 - 2 HR, 13 RBI The darling of '06 fans and the poster child for the fantasy of a home-grown talent revival, he has 2 HRs in his last 250+ ABs dating back to last August Doug Mienkiewicz: .231/.297/.396 - 3 HR, 12 RBI Playing mostly full-time only because they feel Giambi in the field is like Michael Jackson: they wear one glove for no apparent reason. Hitting better lately, but will probably be relegated to late-inning defense this series. Miguel Cairo (IF/OF) 2 for 16; Will Nieves (C) 1 for 27; and Josh Phelps (1B/OF/DH) 11 for 43, 1 2B, 2 HR easily comprise the worst NYY bench in memory. Injuries: Mets: Valentin (knee), Alou (knee), O.Hernandez (shoulder), Sanchez (shoulder) Yanx: Hughes (hammy), Karstens (busted up leg), Pavano (everything, both real and imagined) Weather Outlook: Friday: Not Good, Rainy, windy, upper 40s. Decent chance of delay and/or postponment Saturday: A little better. Scattered showers mid-upper 50s. Could affect the timing though will probably get the game in. Sunday: Showers early but drying as the day goes on. By evening game time rain is gone and around 60. * A Friday rain-out will probably be made-up as a Sunday day/night DH Yanx lead all-time reg season subway series 32 - 22

metirish May 18 2007 07:54 AM

Great stuff,gotta love some of those numbers the Mets have against Pettitte . Kyle Farnsworth has spoken out against the Clemens family deal,check any NY area sports pages... The media is hysterical today,it's doomsday for the yankees according to them....Torre rolled out his old nugget about how the yankees can't win in the subway series...they have more to lose ,yyybbb...

HahnSolo May 18 2007 08:10 AM

I read this morning, and I can't remember the source (the Daily News maybe) that Torre will not be playing Giambi at 1B during interleague, so I guess we'll see Phelps at 1b at least for the first two games.

Frayed Knot May 18 2007 08:26 AM

Kewl, a $20mil/yr platoon player who needs to sit against LHPs !!

Kid Carsey May 18 2007 08:29 AM

I've really grown to dislike the Mets/Yanks series. Too much hype, too much bullscrap, too much everything. Haven't been to one in a awhile now and that "let's go Yankees, Yankees suck" is still ringing in my head like a cracked school bell. Gimme three against the Phillies any weekend over this nonsense. (good KTE, covers everything)

Kid Carsey May 18 2007 08:30 AM

Oh, and one of the ESPN's is running Clemens first minor league start in case anyone wants to tivo it at 7est.

metirish May 18 2007 08:33 AM

I've not grown tired of it,maybe I like to think I have but when today rolled around I got all excited for it.... regarding what was said about Giambi...from the News.. ] BENCH WARMER: Jason Giambi won't be in the lineup tonight against the Mets, as Torre isn't comfortable using the banged-up slugger at first base. With no DH being used during the three-game set at Shea, Giambi may be relegated to pinch-hitting duties this weekend. "Maybe by the end of the weekend it's a possibility," Torre said of Giambi playing first base. "I'm not going in planning on it."

iramets May 18 2007 08:56 AM

If you play the "expectations" game, this series is a loser for the Mets. if they sweep the Yankees, it's "Of course, everyone expected that" and if they lose even a game to them, it's going to be "Well we expected that sweep, that knockout punch, and you couldn't do it." If the Yankees win 2 of 3, fuhgeddaboutit!

Kid Carsey May 18 2007 09:43 AM

I don't have any real expectations, I've just grown weary of it and inter- league play altogether. If I had to pick an expectation or two I'd say that McCarver will go down on Torre at least once during Saturday's broad- cast and Morgan will make a couple of unnecessary gratuitous remarks about Derek Jeter and/or Roger Clemens that will piss us off.

Johnny Dickshot May 18 2007 09:45 AM

I just want us to play well. You know, not make dumb plays, and we should beat these guys. It's that simple.

Gwreck May 18 2007 09:46 AM

]If I had to pick a guarantee or two I'd say that McCarver will go down on Torre at least once during Saturday's broad- cast and Morgan will make a couple of unnecessary gratuitous remarks about Derek Jeter and/or Roger Clemens that will piss us off. Fixed it for you.

iramets May 18 2007 10:59 AM

Kid Carsey wrote: I don't have any real expectations, I've just grown weary of it and inter- league play altogether. If I had to pick an expectation or two I'd say that McCarver will go down on Torre at least once during Saturday's broad- cast and Morgan will make a couple of unnecessary gratuitous remarks about Derek Jeter and/or Roger Clemens that will piss us off. "Take me to the station, Put me on a train, I've got no expectations...." What I wouldn't give for a good re-alignment, to be in the same division as the Yankees, Phillies, BoSox, and play them most of the season, say, twenty games apiece, in game that would meant everything to each organization....

metirish May 18 2007 11:16 AM

Trivia. 1) - Who was the ex Met that threw the first pitch in interleague history? 2) - Who was the ex Met that faced him in that first AB,he singled. Name of players and teams.

TransMonk May 18 2007 11:24 AM

Darren Oliver of the Texas Rangers pitched to Darryl Hamilton of the San Francisco Giants. Hamilton singled to rightfield.

metirish May 18 2007 11:28 AM

TransMonk,you are correct ,cool bit of trivia that.

TransMonk May 18 2007 11:33 AM

The second interleague game ever was the following afternoon between the Cubs and Brewers. Jeff D'Amico pitched for the Brewers and Brian McRae led off for the Cubs. I almost chose that matchup until I realized the game was in Chicago. Gerald Williams led off for the Brewers, but Terry Mulholland never played for the Mets.

metirish May 18 2007 11:41 AM

MLB.com says that on June 12th ,1997 Texas played San Francisco ,It was the first of four Interleague games that night, the other three being played later on the West Coast. Delgado leads all players with 131 RBI in Interleague play.

seawolf17 May 18 2007 12:00 PM

[chipper] That's because Delgado, as a Blue Jay, got to play all the easy teams like the Mets and the Braves... and then as a Marlin, got to play all the easy teams in the other league, like the Yankees and Red Sox. [/chipper]

TransMonk May 18 2007 12:45 PM

metirish wrote: MLB.com says that on June 12th ,1997 Texas played San Francisco ,It was the first of four Interleague games that night, the other three being played later on the West Coast. You're right..I lied...Milwaukee at Chicago was the next day.