Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 24, 2004
Collective Slump

I don't ever remember a team as talented as the Yankees going into such a collective slump. Posada is the only player hitting, and Torre still has him batting 6th. They still have their batting eyes; most of the regulars have OBA's 100 points above their batting averages. But their batting averages are so low that even with the walks they are not getting on base enough, and they are not generating enough power to drive those runners around. I suppose if they all come out of the slump at the same time, they might win 20 in a row. But right now, they just keep getting bombed in the Bronx.

And to add to it today, Kevin Brown made errors on consecutive plays that led to an unearned run for the Red Sox, as Boston is up 2-0 in the 2nd.


Posted by David Pinto at 01:40 PM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
Comments

They're snakebit right now. The Red Sox had 1 on & no outs, a 3-2 pitch with the runner moving resulted in a walk. The Yankees, bottom of the first inning with the exact same situation, wind up in a strike'em out, throw'em out double play. Yeesh.

And now Bernie grounds into an inning ending dp to end the seventh. 8-9 record while being snakebit is alright, it's early and they'll come around. But as Yogi said, it gets late early in NY.

Posted by: Robert at April 24, 2004 03:20 PM

looks like a-rod might be coming round. giambi isn't terribly far off from what you can expect from him; neither matsui, wilson, or bernie (if you assume he's cooked, which might be overreacting). sheff needs to start hitting for power and jeter just needs to start hitting. eventually that's going to happen, but the yankees are going to stay a disappointment to the people who thought this was going to be the best offense of all time, as espn kept hyping it.

Posted by: yanquis at April 24, 2004 03:22 PM

heh heh heh.

paper and reality are not necessarily the same thing. i guess joe is obligated to use salary to determine batting order instead of who's getting the job done.

i'm tampa-ted (hahaha) to root for the rays in this division. just to be different.

Posted by: lisa gray at April 24, 2004 05:00 PM

It's going to be very interesting to watch this season play out. Gone are the days when Detroit, Baltimore, Texas, and the Rays were considered gimmees for Boston, the Yanks, Seattle and Oakland. Baltimore actually looks like a real good team about to happen to me.

Posted by: steve g at April 25, 2004 09:21 AM