The Yankees are off tonight. They take action again on Tuesday against the Angels. In the mean time, please use this as tonight’s open thread.
While we’re on subjects only tangentially related to the Yankees, we have an announcement here at TYA. On Saturday many of the TYA writers will be getting together at Bleecker Heights Tavern in the West Village in Manhattan to watch the Yankees play the Rays. The game starts at 4pm, and at least myself, Larry, Matt I. and Matt W. should be there. We welcome any friends of the blog who’d like to get together with us to watch and talk baseball and slam a few (hundred) beers.
Enjoy.
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Who’s carpooling from CT?!
I’m coming from CT, but taking the train in.
Well what good are you? Train is definitely the right way to go, but I’m up in the Farmington area so it’s not as easy as it once was.
Oh you’re way up there. If anything, you should be picking me up on the way to the city, haha.
If someone is willing to pick me up from Omaha I am down!
Don’t forget to toast Jorge and bid him bon voyage. Thanks for the memories, Georgie. (…Hip hip Jesus?)
It’s a bad move to skip Hughes. There’s absolutely no reason for him not pitch – I do not by any means believe this has anything to do with the Yankees not wanting to push it with him. 13 pitches is nothing ………..and the Yankees already had said that he could still start if he threw an inning. No, the reason Phil is not starting is because he is the odd man out, the low man on the totem pole. Nova has a spot in the rotation locked up and clearly the Yankees wanted to keep him on a regular routine. AJ is not going anywhere – and I don’t think he deserves to lose his spot in the rotation as he hasn’t been THAT bad. Phil has almost no rope left with the organization and I think he’s just going to have to prove a lot to them. Now I don’t mind the decision of picking Nova, but it’s stupid for Phil now to be sitting around waiting for the odd opportunity to start. IF he starts Saturday, it’s 11 days since his last start. If he doesn’t, then it will be even longer. I don’t see how that helps him – he needs to start; that’s why I think he should be in AAA now. Unfortunately I think it’s clear that in order to get him work, the Yankees are going to have Phil pitch out of the pen. The pen, IMO, should not be an option for him at all – you’re either a starter or you’re not. They don’t know what they are doing with him.
Make no mistake, I don’t think Hughes is very good and I have no problem with him being the low man on the totem pole – I just hate that he’s really not getting anything out of it by being up with the team.
Can I get clarification on his option situation? I was positive Hughes was out of options, and in order to send him down he would have to pass through waivers. Which even as bad as he has pitched, he would be picked up, as he is young and cheap. However I read Joel Sherman (I believe) tweet that he did have one option.
Does anyone know for sure what his option situation is?
Texas is a little far to travel, but if you guys want to hop a plane down here we can meet at the nearest bar. Hahaha.