Thoughts at the All Star break

Now that the season is at it’s half way point this is a good time to voice my opinions on the season up to this point for the Yankees.

  • Grandy needs to be Grander.  At this point in the season Granderson is batting 30 points below his career average, and 9 points lower than last season.  Curtis is on pace to hit 13 home runs this season which would be less than half of what he hit last season.  Now I do understand that he was injured for a month of the season so let’s just hope he can pick it up and go on a tear in the second half.

  • Brett Gardner = Most improved player in the Majors?  Gardner’s average is 39 points higher than it was last season.  He’s shown he has a little pop in his bat with 5 home runs. Including an inside the parker of course.  Brett already has 25 stolen bases one shy of his last season total, but you can’t tell how improved he is just by the numbers.  If you watch the way he hits this year compared to last year he goes the opposite way much more, and he hits the ball on the ground instead of upper cutting.  This let’s him use his speed to his own advantage. 

  • Derek Jeter . . . Please come back!  Jeter seems to be hitting a mid-season slump.  Jete’s hitting SIXTY POINTS below what his average was at the end of last year, and he seems a bit lost at the plate.  Hopefully the All Star break will turn things around for him.  Remember Derek your an all star, now start hitting like one!

 

  • Hopefully A-Rod won’t hit his usual mile stone slump.  When Alex went for 500 it took him almost a month between #495 and #500.  But it seems that A-Rod is a changed player since 2007 so hopefully this won’t happen again.

  • Starters shining in the summer sun.  Due to AJ’s resurrection, CC’s streak (Of 8 wins), Pettitte’s career season (and possibly last), Javy’s great pitching (But crappy run support), and Hughes’ hot start but cold summer.

 

 

 

  • Red Sox slipping away.  The AL east is turning into a two-team race between the Rays and Yanks.  The Red Sox are now 5 games out of first.  I know that they have more injuries than I can count on my fingers and toes, but five games is tough to overcome even without all of the injuries.
  • Eight All Stars!  Nice job Yankees on the 8 AS players (Even if Joe G had a bit to do with that) And Good Luck to Swisher in the Home Run Derby!

  • May the second half be just as successful as the first half. LET’S GO YANKEES! 

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