Via Pete Abe, we get word that Derek Jeter has a pulled oblique muscle and will not play tonight. I wonder how long he has had this nagging him, as he has not been driving the ball over the last week or so. More as it becomes available…
Update: According to Sweeny Murti of WFAN, Jeter hopes to play tomorrow. Sounds like something small, although Jeter is known for trying to tough his way through injuries. If he is not going to be able to drive the ball with regularity, it might just be better for the team if he sat for a few days.
Update: According to Jim Baumbach, Jeter has been fighting with this since Saturday. He says that he is “a little sore.”
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You can probably kiss Jeter good bye for about a month. These usually can take a while to heal, depending on the severity. I have no statistics in front of me to back this up, but the way he’s been hitting and plays defense, Pena is probably an upgrade at this point.
Jeter was hitting great until about a week ago, and his defense had been adequate. This is a major downgrade in my book.
Clearly I exaggerated, what I should of said was I don’t think its as big of a downgrade as people will make it out to be. But obviously I rather have Jeter in the lineup than Pena. Curious to see how Pena does in the field and we have enough quality bats in the lineup who should be able to step up in Jeter’s absence.
They really don’t have that many bats for an AL East team. They’ve got 3 guys in the lineup tonight who are pretty close to automatic outs with little power in Gardner, Pena and Cash. I’m a firm believer that you can’t “carry” automatic outs in the lineup for situations just like this, i.e. when the inevitable injuries occur. Granted, I know the Yanks have had an inordinate amount of injuries so far, but they’re a relatively old team, so this shouldn’t be a complete surprise.
They need their pitching to show up for the season now. It’s about time the supposed strength of the team arrives for the season.
Damon, Teixeira, Arod, Cano, Matsui, Swisher…if healthy these players should be able to produce 3-4 runs a night. That won’t light up the scoreboard, but the pitching is there, it just needs to step up. If they do this team should be able to make a run.
3-4 runs a night for the whole team? Welcome to the worst offense in the league, if that’s the case.
Okay maybe I should said 4-5 on average. Really if they can’t win with this pitching staff by scoring 5 runs, then there are bigger problems then just Jeter going down.
I agree. If they score 5 runs a game and they don’t win with this pitching staff, then it’s all on the pitching staff. They need to step up and carry this team for a bit.
They definitely don’t have the long lineup that the off-season promised, but no one else has that lineup, either. The Sox went through a period where Varitek and Nick Greene were in the lineup every night. The Rays have Navarro and Upton both below the Mendoza line right now. Hopefully, some guys will get hot to make up for it
The difference is that Kevin Cash and Ramiro Pena could only hope to be half of what Navarro and Upton are. There is no way that Navarro and Upton are going to continue to put up those numbers, which makes me scared of what the Rays will do when they snap out of it.
Varitek is no great shakes, but his OPS is .767 and I don’t expect anything really close to that from Cervelli (.606 OPS) and Cash (.534 career OPS). Green’s OPS is .770 and I can only hope for that from Pena (.643 OPS). I know these are small sample sizes, and Green especially would have regressed to the mean, but I’m not expecting Cervelli/Cash and Pena to be much better than near automatic outs with regular playing time. I hope I’m wrong.
The Sox definitely have a longer lineup than the Yanks now without Posada and Jeter. Hopefully, the pitching staff can carry them for a bit and maybe the Sox will have a few injuries and Big Papi will continue to completely suck and stay in the 3rd slot.
The Yanks need some solid pitching to take them through this period.
He has also been lobbing balls to 1st for a few days too. This is not good at all.
Well, if Pena can’t produce many runs, maybe he can save some. There are things Pena does well, other then hitting that can help the team win games.
I think Kevin Cash is still playing for the Redsox – he’s just wearing a Yankee uniform. That throw from Melky should have been caught. He didn’t really seem to do much for AJ either. Basically he ranks no. 1 as a shitty replacement patch.
For us to get going I am less worried about some missed time from Jeter as I am about A-Rod and Teixeira not performing up to normal levels. Robbie looked really awesome at the beginning of the season and looks to be back to his crappy ways of swinging at junk again.
Ultimately, I think this team will play to their capabilities. If they do so I still think we are the best club, even minus some production from the backup guys.