Much like he did in 2010, Boone Logan started the 2011 season terribly. He allowed runs in each of his first 3 outings, giving up the winning run in extras innings in one contest while turning a slim single run gap into a 3 run deficit in another. In total, he notched just 4 outs while allowing 3 runs plus an inherited runner to score, walking two while striking out one batter. Subsequent performances were scoreless but far from flawless, as Logan was struggling to retire left handers, and there were calls for Logan to be taken off the roster. However, since those first 3 outings, Logan has turned things around.
In Logan’s last 14 appearances, which span 10.2 innings, Logan has held hitters to a .162/.225/.270 line, with just 9 batters reaching base (6H, 3BB) and 3 runs scoring against him during that time. Even more impressive is Logan’s record with inherited runners. Logan has inherited 13 runners this season, and only one (the first one), has scored. Last night provided the greatest example of Logan’s success in this area, as he entered with the bases loaded in extra innings and got Luke Scott to strike out and Matt Weiters to fly out to end the threat.
Logan’s numbers against lefties are still shocking inflated (.830 OPS) by his first few poor outings and a handful of extra-base hits, but he has done a better job lately in that department, and I would expect him to return to his lefty-killing ways over the season’s final 4 months. Of course, that will likely be offset by a regression against righties (.328 OPS), such that I doubt Logan is going to be much better than what he was last season or what he is right now. What he is is a solid LOOGY who should only face left-handers when possible, and is therefore better suited to being the 2nd lefty in a good bullpen. For now, he is the best the Yankees have available, and as the numbers above illustrate, his recent performance has certainly been good enough.
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Go, Posada!
9-0 Yankees. Now this here is a ballgame.
Nice to have a blowout. Hopefully CC can go the distance and give the bullpen a night off.
Time to sit the starters and put in the bench
o.k. why is girardi pushing CC..what can the logic be now..they do not want to burn sanit??? hey chris what do you say
108 or so pitches isn’t pushing CC… Joba isn’t available, and all of Sabathia’s innings have been stress free since he’d been pitching with a giant lead since before he took the mound.
Joe’s an idiot for not pushing Colon, Joe’s an idiot for leaving in CC, Joe’s an idiot for anything he does.
People need to understand that how many pitches thrown is much less important than the situations that those pitches are thrown in. Each pitch in a 1-0 game is much more stressful than any pitch thrown in a game that started out 5-0.
We’re not talking about him throwing 120+ pitches, and we aren’t talking about CC struggling at any point in the game.
At best the only argument you could have agaisnt him going out for, and finishing the 8th would be rain. But the rain didn’t effect him at all, he looked as good as he has all year, and he never faced a single batter that would have tied the game.
The Girardi hate is really getting out of control… He isn’t perfect, and he isn’t the best manager of all time, but he is far from awful.
what does joba have to do with an 11 0 lead? 93 pitches in the rain, a 45 minute delay, he did warm up before the delay chris..162 games.