- It’s time to panic folks, the Yankees have lost two straight games. The long awaited debut of the new Phil Hughes happened today, and the results on the field were less than encouraging. Of course, you can’t take much from his four hit, two run, 1.1 IP, and Joe Pawlikowski has the reason why. Hughes was hitting 93 quite often, which is definitely progress from where he was last year. It was a tough game for Sabathia as well, but Brett Marshall did impress with 1.2 innings pitched, a strikeout, and a walk. (Box Score)
- The buzz around Yankee land yesterday surrounded Michael Pineda‘s velocity. Dave Cameron of FanGraphs concludes that Pineda’s velocity during the season in 2011 consistently began at similar speeds we saw in his spring training debut.
- Michael P over at Yankee Fans Unite has a word on the impact of the new playoff system and how it will impact teams around the league.
- River Ave Blues has some extensive numbers on the ever changing DH situation during the Cashman era. Koestler predicts that the Jones/Ibanez duo will be a formidable bat at the DH spot.
- Guess what Chad Jennings has! Yup, today’s workouts.
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I’m not at all concerned with Pineda’s velocity. It was clear even without a radar gun reading he wasn’t popping the mit as hard as he was in the middle of last year, but power pitchers tend to take more time in ST to build up velocity anyone. He looked to be well ahead of schedule with his location, hitting location extremely well for the first game of ST. Even if he isn’t at top velocity until a week or so into the season he has the kind of control to make up for it.