Nightly Links: Kuroda, Cust, Montero

By On March 28, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Link Dump
  • was strong yet again in today’s 7.0 innings of work, giving up 6 hits,  2 runs, and 6 strikeouts. struggled again and went 2.0 innings, earning 3 strikeouts, but blew the save by giving up 1 hit, a 2 run homerun off the bat of . Offensively, Eduardo Nunez and had big days, each picking up a double amongst multi-hit days. had a single and was robbed of a homerun by Heyward. He certainly looks better at the plate following his homerun on Saturday. It was an interesting game that saw hitless Cito Culver, Tyler Austin, and Abraham Almonte appearances. (Box Score)
  • The Yankees made a few minor league moves today, to a minor league deal. The catcher off waivers; the 29 year old has hit .223/.291/.264 in his major league career.
  • According to , Manny Banuelos has added a cutter to his pitching repertoire. If he hasn’t already, he’ll surely get some time working on it with and . The organization needs a guy to carry on the devistating cutter tradition once Mo and Andy retire.
  • it’ll only be 3 or 4 more days until he announces the rest of the 5 man rotation, and he added, “somebody’s going to be disappointed.” It’ll be me who’s disappointed if the decision includes starting .
  • Beyond the Boxscore has their 2012 preview of the New York Yankees. Amongst the issues of age in their lineup, Matt Filippi believes that after settling their rotation issues, “there isn’t really anything holding this team back.” Ass goes for anything from Beyond the Boxscore, it’s a great analysis.
  • Williams Tasker at It’s About the Money really took the words out of my mouth following the ridiculous late night/early morning first game of the season today. Jesus Montero went a big 0 for 4, which means the Yankees win the Montero trade. Following the thousands of tweets and comments I’ve seen about the Mariners winning the trade because is only hitting 94, this logic is probably more coherent.
  • And today’s workouts, which includes throwing session by and Pineda today, with and Pettitte going tomorrow.

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One Response to Nightly Links: Kuroda, Cust, Montero

  1. T.O. Chris says:
    March 29, 2012 at 5:42 am

    I like the Cust signing, having a decent backup plan for a LH DH is a good idea. He really struggled last year but he fits in with our lineup really well as far as taking walks and working counts.

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