CC Sabathia is now out until at least July, leaving the Yankees' rotation as:
Kuroda (ancient)
Tanaka (as good as advertised thus far, surprisingly)
Nuno (lol)
Phelps (lol)
Whitely (is a reliever, what the fuck
)
Why surprisingly for Tanaka? I really had no doubt.
Players, especially pitchers, from Japan bust just as frequently as they succeed. For every Darvish, there's a Masato Yoshii. Tanaka had a hell of a run in Japan, but he was still a gamble -- a very
expensive gamble. I'm also concerned about his arm ... he's thrown a
lot of innings for his age.
Tanaka didn't have his best outting last night, but the Yankee bats are on the DL with Sabathia... eessshhhh...
Gonna have to make a deal or two for some more pitching. I think CC will be out for the year.
When the fucking
Cubs get six runs off you, you know there's a pitching problem. That being said, I don't think the Yankees have any legitimate chits
to trade -- the farm is essentially barren, and they're currently relying on their best minor-league pitchers to fill the holes in the rotation. And they really need to hang onto guys like Bird, because the entire infield is old, broken, shitty, or some combination of the three.
We'd shift, they'd hit it there. I think Tanka gave up three... he wasn't bad, but not as consistant as he had shown in his previous starts.
