New York Yankees 2011

[MedicCook]

The Yankees are showing interest in Jeremy Bonderman.

[MedicCook]

Originally Posted by MedicCook

Yankees Trivia:

Which graduate of Dartmouth College was the first Yankees thrid baseman to start an MLB All-Star game?

Answer is Red Rolfe (1937)

No one guessed it so the prize will roll over to the next time.

[MedicCook]

Yankees Fact:

Fritz Maisel is the only Yankees plaer to ever steal 50 or more bases in a season yet fail to score 100 runs. He accomplished the feat twice: 1914 and 1915.

January 5th Birthdays: Henry Cotto, Ron Kittle

[jonumberone]

Ryan did you get a Yankees trivia calendar for Christmas?

If so, you're now on the hook for another 360 tidbits of Yankee's facts and fun!

[MedicCook]

I did.

[BigAsh]

Originally Posted by jonumberone

Ryan did you get a Yankees trivia calendar for Christmas?

Originally Posted by MedicCook

I did.

Like a wise man once said..."Now you got toilet paper for the year!"

[MedicCook]

Originally Posted by BigAsh

Like a wise man once said..."Now you got toilet paper for the year!"

Right now it looks that way. The Red Sox are very deep this year.

[BigAsh]

Originally Posted by MedicCook

Right now it looks that way. The Red Sox are very deep this year.

just gotta stay healthy...

[MedicCook]

I wish Pettitte would make up his mind. Then there is only one hole to fill in the rotation.

[Subvet642]

Originally Posted by MedicCook

The Red Sox are very deep this year.

Yup!

[BigAsh]

Originally Posted by MedicCook

I wish Pettitte would make up his mind. Then there is only one hole to fill in the rotation.

You think he comes back?

[jonumberone]

Originally Posted by MedicCook

Right now it looks that way. The Red Sox are very deep this year.

Don't crown them yet!
A-Gon is a big addition, and I am not going to diminish his value, but let him prove his worth in the AL east first.
Lots more pressure now and they will pitch him different than in the NL.
The Crawford signing was one of Theo's worst.
He's a GOOD player, but a player who's main + attribute (speed) will be diminished playing left in Fenway.
Also if you watched any Red Sox baseball last year, the team MVP was Beltre!
Lester was brilliant last year and I thought Bucholtz was better, but he still hasn't pitched a full season.
Beckett is another year older and never made his money in the regular season.
And one of these years Papi won't be able to turn around his awful start.

[Starscream]

Originally Posted by jonumberone

Don't crown them yet!
A-Gon is a big addition, and I am not going to diminish his value, but let him prove his worth in the AL east first.
Lots more pressure now and they will pitch him different than in the NL.
The Crawford signing was one of Theo's worst.
He's a GOOD player, but a player who's main + attribute (speed) will be diminished playing left in Fenway.
Also if you watched any Red Sox baseball last year, the team MVP was Beltre!
Lester was brilliant last year and I thought Bucholtz was better, but he still hasn't pitched a full season.
Beckett is another year older and never made his money in the regular season.
And one of these years Papi won't be able to turn around his awful start.

As a Reds fan, trust me when I say that A-Gon is NOT a big addition. He'll be a headache for the fans most of the year. He could be a great player but is on the DL a lot, goes into big-time slumps and his range is overrated.

[Subvet642]

Originally Posted by andysutherland

As a Reds fan, trust me when I say that A-Gon is NOT a big addition. He'll be a headache for the fans most of the year. He could be a great player but is on the DL a lot, goes into big-time slumps and his range is overrated.

Perhaps, but you have to look at the whole line-up; they will be all mutually supporting, in that, until you get to the 8 and 9 spots, it'll be "pick your poison". Just who would you pitch around? The two weak spots, as I see it, are V-Tek and Scutaro, and they most likely will bat 8 and 9. Also important to remember is that they'll play 81 games in our little band-box in Boston; the wall giveth and the wall taketh away. If Crawford and Ellsbury bat toward the top of the line-up (as I suspect), imagine the base running possibilities.

[MedicCook]

Yankees Trivia:

Who hold the Yankees record for the highest single-season batting average by a catcher?

[VirtualSmitty]

Originally Posted by Subvet642

Perhaps, but you have to look at the whole line-up; they will be all mutually supporting, in that, until you get to the 8 and 9 spots, it'll be "pick your poison". Just who would you pitch around? The two weak spots, as I see it, are V-Tek and Scutaro, and they most likely will bat 8 and 9. Also important to remember is that they'll play 81 games in our little band-box in Boston; the wall giveth and the wall taketh away. If Crawford and Ellsbury bat toward the top of the line-up (as I suspect), imagine the base running possibilities.

Varitek is a big hole, and Saltalamacchia can't throw or hit for beans. At least the Yanks have options with their catchers. Crawford got overpayed big time, but i'm happy Boston did it and not the Yanks

[zappaFREAK]

TRIVIA ANSWER:
Bill Dickey in 1936 with a .362 average!!
Never saw him play but hall of famers can't be bad!!!

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by MedicCook

The Red Sox are very deep this year.

The Rod Sux are very deep every year . . . and we all know in what.

[MedicCook]

And we still wait on Pettitte. At least he is not pulling a Brett Favre and holding press conferences every 5 minutes.

Scott BorASS stated that the Yankees are the only team Soriano would be willing to play for and not close.

[MedicCook]

Originally Posted by MedicCook

Yankees Trivia:

Who hold the Yankees record for the highest single-season batting average by a catcher?

Originally Posted by zappaFREAK

TRIVIA ANSWER:
Bill Dickey in 1936 with a .362 average!!
Never saw him play but hall of famers can't be bad!!!

Congrats on the correct answer. You prize will be maing fun of REd Sox fans.