Tagged: Raphael Soriano

I’m Jones-in for a reason behind this one

Yankees signed Andrew Jones. This wouldve been HUGE 10 years ago. Now its a big question mark. We let Austin Kearns and Marcus Thames walk but we throw 2 million at Andrew Jones? What, was his 2 homer game against up last year that impressive?

Really though-was signing another bat really neccessery?
Seriously, we have the most complete infield in baseball, a pretty solid outfield, and our catchers are currently in the changing-of-the-guard stage. What we really need to throw money at is one more starter, or at the very least sending Andy Pettitte another gift basket with a miss you/thinking of you card attached.
Hell, trade AJ and see what we can get to replace him. Cant be any worse.
I’d rather roll the die with Greg Goslon. Guys already got fielding skills and a killer arm, teach the kid to swing the bat and presto, theres our 4th outfielder.

I guess what with Nick Johnson gone, the Yankees need someone new to frequent the DL.

Just add it to the pile of storylines for the 2011 Yankees:
Will Nova be able to handle an entire season in the rotation?
Will Hughes give us a repeat season?
Which AJ will show up this time?
How badly will we miss Pettitte?
Joba?
Will Sorianos ego stay in the 8th inning?
…and now…
Will the Yankees regret signing Jones?

Everybody can chill the hell out now, we signed Soriano

What with Boston aquiring a bunch of high priced people over the winter, you’d think there was a reason to panic? Yet, that coupled with the Yankees lack of a Lee and Pettitte being all indecisive and the next thing you know Yankee fans are reaching for the “abandon all hope” signs for 2011. You guys realize that the Yankees won 95 games last year, right? Its not like we NEEDED to upgrade as badly as Boston did…now theyre as good as we were last year. bravo…

 

Yeah, I dunno either.

 

Not so fast I guess, seeing how the Yankees have signed Raphael Soriano to a 3 year deal, effectively setting up the most dominating late inning duo in baseball.

This is drawing comparisons to the 1996 Rivera-Wetteland duo
…and it could very well conjur images of what Quan-Go-Mo (+10 to anyone who can understand that) did to effectively end games after 6 or 7 innings for Yankee wins.

 

Does this replace the potential hole that Pettitte leaves? No.
Does this strengthen our bullpen that dropped sooooooo many leads on us last year? Yes.
So does the wins gained in the bullpen make up for the win lost by Pettitte leaving? I guess so.

Can we all stop worrying now? Boston isnt gonna run away with the division now? Ok?
Hell, 2 or 3 key injuries to them and its all over, amirite?

 

Anyway…Im gonna try and trademark the Soriano-Rivera duo nickname right now…suggestions are as follow:
-Rapha-mo
-Soriamo
-The 2nd most popular Soriano to wear pinstripes…and Mo!
-The future all time saves leader…and his 8th inning sidekick (yeah, that one was a stretch)

 

Actually-lets make Joba into the 7th inning guy…call it Job-Ra-Mo!

 

ok, ill stop.

Fantasy Draft #2

Fantasy baseball is like a drug. You cant make just one team.

Ive got multiple teams in the works this year. 1 in a money league, 1 for kicks, 1 to test a theory I have, and 1 that I created with some friends to test another theory.

Earlier tonight, I drafted for my money league team. Ive been in this league a few years now and Ive always ended up falling in the semis, finishing 3rd overall. I got stuck with a crappy middle of the pack pick again, getting Longoria as my number 1. Rounding out my starting lineup are the likes of Adam Dunn (again), Andre Ethier and Mark Reynolds to drive in some serious runs, Jimmy Rollins to score me those runs, and Michael Bourn to steal me an insane amount of bases, all making for a nice balenced attack on offense. Tim Lincecum highlights my pitching staff. The second to last round found me and 2 others all picking sides on the “Whos the Yankee #5 pitcher” Someone mindlessly chose Joba, and with every day that passes Im more and more convinced hes going to the pen…someone else chose Hughes, which Im ok with because Im putting my money on the longshot Aceves…and even if Aceves ends up in the pen, he makes a solid reliever that might just win 10 games again…maybe…

Anyway, heres my projected lineup for

“F*cking Lozers”
C: B. Molina
1B: Reynolds
2B: Zobrist
3B: Longoria
SS: Rollins
OF: Dunn
OF: Ethier
OF: Bourn
U: Kubel
U: Hawpe
SP: Lincecum
SP: J. Johnson
RP: Soriano
RP: Wilson
P: Aceves
P: Francisco
P: Cain

 

…2nd draft…
This one is the one I do for kicks. No pressure, follow my gut 100% take some chances and if they pay off it helps my other teams. Ironic that it is, Ive won a league using this extremely laid back managing style.

The team name is “cpDOOM 2.0″…and if you have no idea what cpDOOM is, I suggest you check out newgrounds and search “My God Robots”…I believe episode 10 would contain cpDOOM, but anyway…

Waiting on the draft…once again a middle-of-the-pack draft position of 5…

…and over.

I attempted to shake things up a bit, seeing how I had some similar choices in this one.
My #1 was Ryan Braun.
I grabbed Crawford and BJ Upton. My required Yankee pick was Swisher.
I went with the Braves pitching this time, seeing how theyre like the Yankees a la theyve got a stacked rotation…I also grabbed Brian Roberts despite the injury concerns. Might as well, right?

Anyway, Im tired. Back-to-back drafts can do that to ya…here my projected lineup…

cpDOOM 2.0
C: M. Montero
1B: Sandoval
2B: Roberts
3B: Blake
SS: Bartlett
OF: Braun
OF: Crawford
OF: Swisher
OF: Upton
P: Atlanta Braves

 

….thank God my computer didnt glitch up on me again tonight…