Awesome headline at Espn: Yankees’ Oam Kennedy on schedule to pitch this season

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4354343

I again predict success for Joba.

I again predict success for Joba.

I’ve been wondering lately if he shouldn’t simply change his name to Jobu.

So, the Sox get to lick their wounds at Fenway with the Orioles for the next few days.  Good for them.  If the birds are to take one, tonight seems like their best shot.  Go Bergesen!

the O’s play tonight, win tonight.

Anybody here ever tried making cracker before? I’ve become fed up with the ridiculous price of crackers and am gong to try to bake some myself.

Clay, there was a Good Eats episode about making crackers. Saltines, water crackers, grahams, lavosh.

It was a pleasure watching Anderson in person mow through the Sox lineup.  He could be a tough matchup for the Yankees tonight.
Although, I keep thinking of what my dad told me about snakes - they’re more afraid of you than you are of them.

From previous entry.

[70] Usually after TJ surgery there is a short-term increase in velocity.

As I said two years ago, the Yankees were foolish to draft Brackman where they did, he was known to be damaged goods. He would have been around long after the Yankees selected him, and at far less money. And without that ML contract as well.

Go Joba. Back-to-back good outings.

Free bases.

Not terrible.

Can’t complain much about that inning.

...hmm.  Two k’s in seven pitches.  I guess Anderson is dealing tonight?

Congratulations to Brett Anderson on the 2nd perfect game of 2009, as well as striking out 22 batters.

Wow.  That was a dominant inning.

A-Rod, first pitch home run next inning.

haha, O’Neill making fun of the guy who played him in the Torre movie.

Do not walk Ellis, Joba.

hip hip!

Nailed

Joba throwing the slider and the curve for strikes is a very good thing.

Nice.  Now he gets to pitch to Ellis again in the third.

19 strikes, 11 balls isn’t terrible for Joba either.  Let’s go O!  Can they put the ball in play this inning?

I’m right in alternate universe #3046.

Baby steps.

BIP!

This guy is tough. Gotta make him throw pitches.

Next innging’s goal: get the ball out of the infield.

Wow, Joba works quickly.

Runs…

That inning was more than satisfactory.

Very nice.

O’s on the board.

A hit! A very palpable hit.

Go Cano!

Unfortunately Cano is going to try to steal and get thrown out.

Bad Swish.

You just can’t figure out Melky Cabrera.

The Melkman!!!

Wow, you guys should have watched the MLB Network, just for the sheer moron that Jon Heyman is, and he was thoroughly exposed by the players that are there.

Apparently, Bert Blyleven is not a Hall of Famer, and so isn’t Jim Thome according to Heyman. The arguments he came up with are simply ludicrous.

“Compiling statistics” is apparently a knock against you. Thome and Blyleven are apparently compilers, but Jack Morris is apparently a Hall of Famer.

What a moron!

Any time Melky gets an extra base hit RH, I’m impressed.

In play! In play! In play!

Go Jetes!

We could sure use a cheap hit right here.

Boo yah!!!

Go Jeet!

Anderson has nasty stuff and great command. I saw him at Fenway, just awesome.

Expensive hits are nice too.

Jeterian.

I’ll take a cheap run…

Yet another run scored by the Yankees without the benefit of a HR.

Anderson has nasty stuff and great command. I saw him at Fenway, just awesome.

You should have told me you were there.  We could have grabbed a beer after.

Damonian…

“Anderson has nasty stuff and great command.”

What’s he missing?  Better defense?  Consistent focus?

What’s he missing?  Better defense?  Consistent focus?

Apparently, the weight of age.  He’s 21.

“Anderson has nasty stuff and great command.”

What’s he missing?  Better defense?  Consistent focus?

Experience - he’s only 21.  He’s got nice stuff and we’ll likely only get better.

You should have told me you were there.  We could have grabbed a beer after.

Cool, let me know when you come next. I will be sure to hit it up with you if I am at Fenway.

I could be at one of the White Sox games later in August. Let me know if you are around.

Ah - “hasn’t learned to pitch”, “fighting with the catcher”, “isn’t coachable”.

Experience - he’s only 21.  He’s got nice stuff and we’ll likely only get better.

Pretty much sums it up. He doesn’t have Clayton Kershaw’s upside, perhaps, but a lefty with mid nineties fastball and nice slider change combo is very good. Plus, he had a reputation of being very polished for his age.

40 pitches through four.

beautiful.

40 pitches through four.

I think it’s 51.  But who’s quibbling?  I particularly like the 4/0 K/BB thing.

I think that’s 51 pitches through 4.  Very nice, nonetheless.

[59, 60] Ah, Yahoo! put up a zero for the inning before updating the PC. Thanks.

96 on that last fastball to Suzuki.  I like this Joba a lot more than that other Joba.

increasing velocity Joba makes me happy.

[62], you we’re talking about that Joba? Four pitches walk…

Re the Gardner/Cabrera platoon, or rather more generally, it obviously helps the platooners to not hit from their weaker sides (assuming both are in fact hitting from their stronger side) [or maybe not to have to maintain two swings for switch hitters] but there’s also probably some negative effect due to sitting on the bench and not getting ABs to stay calibrated.  Anyone seen studies on this?

I could be at one of the White Sox games later in August. Let me know if you are around.

I’m covering two of those games, actually.  I’ll let you know as they near.

Bad Joba…

Sox have 2nd and 3rd with no outs to start the 4th…

without fail, every game….posada lets more then one by!

Ball 4 to Barton looked like a strike on gameday.

At the end of the top of the first inning in Houston after the Mets scored one run, Gary Cohen remarked right before the commercial break, “There’s your run, Johan.”
I couldn’t believe it.
And of course Santana gives up a run in the bottom of the inning.

Very professional, Gary.

Birds and Sox tied at 1

Waldman has decided that Hughes isn’t going to get enough innings to be a starter full time next year. arrrgggghhh…

Nice. One more.

Joba would make an awesome Gorilla!

[73] That must be the growing meme that is being discussed by the people that cover the Yankees. Feinsand made a similar point with Kay today, and then opined that Hughes will be the heir apparent to Mo.

yes, he was just on the radio, which is why it came up.

Joba Joba hey!

6:2 is an an okay K/BB ratio, but I liked it before at 4:0.

This Joba is awesome. Fortunately idiots like Waldman and Feinsand don’t make actual decisions.

74 through 5 innings.  Not bad.  Keep the walks down, and he could go 7.

I really resent having to watch the Amstel Light commercial with the old guy screaming at me in dutch. Bring back the “other” beer commercial from Holland.

Nick knows OBP.

Cash better nip this Hughes remaining in the pen thing in the bud.

Sox up 2-1… top of 5th

I’d bunt here with Jeet but he hardly ever bunts…

Not a DP? I’m shocked, SHOCKED!

Another cheap run… i’ll take it…

6:2 is an an okay K/BB ratio, but I liked it before at 4:0.

You can’t beat infinity!

Infinity^2

Infinity^2 +1

Drat!

Two things, as a math man:
1-Please, it is a pet peeve, but shouldn´t it be 3 K/BB ratio.
2 - There exists several infinities, some larger than others, but infinity^2 is as large as the infinity you began with.

Time for a productive out!

Tonight has been a productive out festival.

Has it occurred to the YES jackasses that Anderson could have a disorder?

I’m unfortunately covering the Mets from home tonight.  What are they saying about Anderson?

[92] - I think when you’re talking about a single game, I like not reducing the ratio by the largest common denominator.  It gives you more data.  2.0 K/BB ratio is a lot different if it’s 2 and 1 or 8 and 4.  Over the course of a season, obviously it makes sense to give it as a decimal answer.

And yes, I understand (as much as the normal human consciousness can) infinity.

There exists several infinities, some larger than others,

Serious question, because I am not aware of this. How do you define several infinities?

7 good innings from Joba.

One compares sets by mapping their members to each other.  Some sets are infinite - the integers - but can’t be mapped one-to-one to the real numbers.  Google Cantor’s Diagonal Proof for example.  There are afaik three known infinities.