If you're spending your Friday night watching the game and reading this, I thank you.
Here's the latest news from Toronto:
-- The Yankees were not concerned by the results of an MRI on Octavio Dotel taken today, but they are sending the results to James Andrews just to make sure they're not missing anything. Dotel, meanwhile, is headed to Tampa, but will not be able to throw until the Yankees hear back from Andrews. So right now it just looks as if the righthander simply isn't ready off Tommy John surgery yet, and that it will probably be a few weeks before you can expect to hear talk of Dotel arriving in the Bronx.
-- Alex Rodriguez, perhaps heeding the advice of many of your comments to my last blog entry, was on the field before the game taking extra grounders and working on his throws. He and Joe Torre agree his problem recently has been that he is sidearming the ball instead of coming over the top and throwing it.
-- Sidney Ponson was set to arrive in Toronto Friday night after his visa issues were cleared up. The Aruban righthander will be with the team tomorrow and make his second start in pinstripes on Sunday afternoon opposite Shaun Marcum.
-- Spent some time this morning walking around the huge mall they have here in the middle of the city, and saw a guy wearing a C.W. Post shirt. Thought that was funny.
Comments (7)
The closer it gets to Monday, July 31st the more it seems like the Yankees MUST do some dealing.
Sure, the hurt players are getting closer to coming back but waiting until then could be a mistake. The season itself seems to be getting shorter and the waiting game is not the answer. Plug the holes that need it and let's get moving. Pretending that all will be OK is falsehood.
A-Rod should stop taking extra infield practice, and start taking outfield practice. "Cash" should meet with A-Rod and give him the choice of either waiving his no trade clause, or playing in the outfield for the Yanks. He could give "Cash" a list of 2 or 3 teams he would agree to be traded to. If he balks at both, we suspend him. We need to remedy this situation before the trade deadline of July 31. His errors at 3rd are due to his current mental state, not this sidearm baloney we are now hearing about. Give A-Rod the choice of either playing the outfield for the Yankees, or playing for some other team of his choice.
can people just shutup already on not wanting arod on the yankees. hes the freaking mvp whos had a bad week in the field. everyone says david wright is the nl mvp, look at their numbers, very similar, and thats with arod having a sub-par first half.
and i think the throwing is both mental and physical. you try throwing a ball sidearm/underhand and see what direction it goes in. then try throwing it over the top and see. everyone gets in bad habits sometimes and hes in a bad throwing habit that more practice will change.
oh yea, congradulations arod for becoming the fastest player ever to 450 home runs. thats the problem with you people. he makes an error yesterday and that goes completely lost. he brought us back in the game. if we won that game, he woulda been a big reason why, but since we lost, his error is the big story.
A-Rod is a great player and great players can throw sidearm, over-the-top, and submarine if necessary and be accurate. A-Rod's problems are all mental. First it was the home-crowd booing that effected his play. Now that he's on the road, and his problems have persisted, it's a mechanical problem. His problems are now all in his head. A-Rod hasn't had a bad "week," he's had a horrible "year" defensively. Put the guy out of his misery and give him the choice of playing in the Yankee outfield, or playing elsewhere.
Hey guys if you have been a Yankee fan for any length of time. You might want to rethink about our previous third basemen. A-rod having a subpar offensive year is better than the whole lot. Yes, he 's has a fielding issue which will get corrected. So, stop this talk about a trade or move to the OF. He will have a ws ring on his finger with a yankee logo in the near future.
I think all this focus by the fans and the media on A-Rod's errors and play @ third base is really affecting him.
He played fine last year and it's only been recently that the throwing problems just arised.
There's no other reason other than that to explain for this sudden surge in bad throws.
A-Rod in the outfield? Don't you think having an outfielder who can't catch fly balls would be a bit of a problem?