Gothamist: Here Come The Yankees

SP

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:29:05 -0500

"the red sox aren't exactly full of glaring weaknesses this year" Uh, maybe not after you've had a tall glass of milky white Rod Sux kool aid. Their starting rotation is not exactly earth shatteringly amazing, and their bullpen is a desolate wasteland of dead arms. If they can somehow get the ball to Pepelbon, they will have to pray his shoulder doesnt fall off (again). The Sux should really be concerned with Toronto and not finishing in third (again).

ricky

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:36:40 -0500

Igawa soft-throwing? Just cause the man throws a curve and a change doesn't mean his ~93mph fastball should be completely disregarded. He's no Jamie Moyer!

Tim N.

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:18:18 -0500

Umm... you're not exactly right. Pavano is pitching because Pettitte wanted an extra day of rest and Mussina is very exacting in his schedule so they didn't want to move him up a day or two. And Pavano, despite the past two years, had a good enough spring to warrant this. So would they rather have had Wang start? Of course, but it's not like they had to "settle" for Pavano. Their rotation is fine. And with Clemens and Hughes warming up in the bullpen, they will best whatever comes their way, certainly anything from Flushing or Southie.

josh

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:47:38 -0500

october is never a given, and hughes didn't exactly impress in spring training; plus, the red sox aren't exactly full of glaring weaknesses this year, not on a par with the yankees' pitching problems. don't count your chickens/rings yet.