Tuesday, August 28, 2007
**Breaking** BBTN: Kennedy to Start Saturday
Looks like all those obits for Mussina were warranted because according to Baseball Tonight, the third of the Yanks three young aces - Ian Patrick Kennedy - will make his big league debut on Saturday.
This is significant for three reasons - first, a cup of coffee will do the kid good, and he’s pitched his balls off this year - Kennedy sports a combined 12-3 record with a 1.91 ERA and a roughly 3-to-1 K/BB ratio at three levels, so he obviously knows what he’s doing.
Second, it underlines the fact that Joe is probably Dead Torre Walking. Less than 24 hours ago, he was saying that Kennedy definitely wouldn’t come up, and now, boom here he is. Joe’s systematically had his toys taken away and his authority undermined from on high… looks like he’s a goner for sure.
And finally, it sets up an interesting situation, one that Yankee fans should relish. They are competing for a playoff spot with three homegrown starters under the age of 27 and two of them being under 22. Their most effective non-Panamanian reliever is a 21 draftee. All of their up-the-middle players are homegrown, and two are in their early 20s.
Despite how this season might turn out, it’s an exciting time to be a Yankee fan.
In other gratifying news, slug and former Yankee Drew Henson was cut by his 100th NFL team the other day.
UPDATE: Pete Abe confirms. Adds that Moose won’t be DL’ed or relegated to the ‘pen, he’ll just continue working on the side.
UPDATE TWO: One of the commenters at River Ave Blues (who all must be losing their minds with joy right now) said this was Cashman going all in. I think that’s an appropriate characterization of the move and in fact I was thinking of another NY sports guy and his “going all in moment.” and that somebody on the Yankees needed to do something to fire up the troops. The situations are similar, a team, hits a slide about 3/4 way through the season, but then *bang* has this moment and off they go. The first clip is good, but my guy takes the stage at the 1:19 mark.
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