Um ok. Didn't realize that posts about Yankees wouldn't be welcome in the Yankee thread. This feels like the Pete Rose thread all over again.

Yankees playing great baseball under Arods leadership. Don't understand why a Yankee fan wouldn't be happy with that. Close to 900 OPS? What's not to like.

Apparently certain guys are getting hung up on his batting average.  Or else just trying to be dicks.  More likely the latter.  And it's really only one guy, so far anyway.

Posted by The Taint on 5/5/2015 1:17:00 AM (view original):
Yankees playing great baseball under Arods leadership. Don't understand why a Yankee fan wouldn't be happy with that. Close to 900 OPS? What's not to like.

I'm not sure who the "leader" of the Yankees is these days, on the field or in the clubhouse, but I doubt that it's ARod.  It's difficult to imagine a team rallying behind a person who has shown himself to be all about himself.

Yankees waste a great start by Chase Whitley, who tossed 7 shutout innings with 90 pitches, and watched the bullpen turn a 1-0 lead into a 3-1 loss in the series opener in Toronto.  Chris Martin and Dellin Betances surrender four hits to the Jays in the bottom of the eighth to lose the game.

Yanks offense was shutdown by R.A. Dickey, who allowed only three base hits over 8 innings of work to pick up his first victory of the season.

Reported Yankee leader ARod goes 0-4.

Game 2 of the series tonight as Michael Pineda (3-0, 3.73) faces off against Jays starter Marco Estrada (1-0, 0.84), who is making his first start of the season.

They should have let Arod close. He would have locked that one down.

Posted by tecwrg on 5/5/2015 7:50:00 AM (view original):

Posted by The Taint on 5/5/2015 1:17:00 AM (view original):
Yankees playing great baseball under Arods leadership. Don't understand why a Yankee fan wouldn't be happy with that. Close to 900 OPS? What's not to like.

I'm not sure who the "leader" of the Yankees is these days, on the field or in the clubhouse, but I doubt that it's ARod.  It's difficult to imagine a team rallying behind a person who has shown himself to be all about himself.

Not hard to imagine, they rallied behind Jeter for years.

Um, Jeter's retired.

Dumbass.

Posted by tecwrg on 5/5/2015 2:13:00 PM (view original):
Um, Jeter's retired.

Dumbass.

He did? When?

Wow, I can't believe MLB didn't acknowledge it somehow.

24 strikeouts, 19 hits.

The only reason he's providing value is because 10 of those 19 hits were for extra bases.    Not very many .229 hitters provide value these days.   So congrats to him on that.

TYVM

15  walks help.

Also, so what if he has more strikeouts than hits?  Chris Davis in his big year in 2013 had a lot more strikeouts than hits.  Last year Mike Trout won the MVP with more strikeouts than hits.  And the top NL vote-getter among position players has had more strikeouts than hits every season of his career.  If the guy's also walking and hitting for power, you can live with it.