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******* Lindor is killin us :smh:


i honestly could see why Girardi ain't put DB as the closer this year. dude is awesome but has the tendency to give up heart breakers ...
 
CC is likely DL bound -

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/08/24/cc-sabathia-knee-injury-yankees/

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — New York Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia exited in the third inning Sunday with right knee pain and could be headed for the disabled list.

Sabathia struck out Cleveland’s Yan Gomes with a 91 mph fastball for the second out of the third. After the pitch, Sabathia stepped off the mound, visibly unhappy, and was visited by athletic trainer Steve Donohue and manager Joe Girardi, then left the game.

“I felt a little bit of pain warming up in the bullpen and when I was in the game,” Sabathia said. “I just couldn’t finish my pitches like I wanted to.”

“It’s been a watch for us all along,” Girardi said. “I actually thought it was his side the way he leaned, but he said it was his knee.”

After coming out of the game, Sabathia underwent an MRI and visited with team physician, Dr. Christopher Ahmad.

“I’m guessing it’s a DL off the bat because he left the field without throwing another pitch,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. “It seems to imply that it’s something serious.”
Sabathia (4-9, 5.27 ERA) said he was dealing with “some kind of a sharp pain.”

“Just want to see how we can fix it. What can I do? What’s the next step?” he said. “I know I can pitch at this level, at a high level. It’s just a matter of getting out there and being healthy enough to do it.”

New York is already without Bryan Mitchell (concussion and nasal fracture) and Michael Pineda (right flexor forearm muscle strain). Ivan Nova is in his first season back from Tommy John surgery and Masahiro Tanaka missed time earlier in the year with a right forearm strain and right wrist tendinitis.

Sabathia was limited to only eight starts in 2014, undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right knee in July.

“CC is tough,” Cashman said. “He’s been pitching through a lot of stuff over the last numbers of years, so I’m just assuming we’re looking at a disabled list instead of having him for another start.”
Mitchell is scheduled to throw a simulated game early either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Pineda is expected to be activated from the disabled list and start on Wednesday. With Pineda available, the Yankees were planning on going with a six-man rotation in the short-term, but could now be forced to alter those plans.

“When you have six guys that are capable of doing it, there’s some benefit to it,” Cashman said. “But if we don’t have that, we don’t have that and we’ll go back to five. Whatever we need is right here for us.”
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Could work out for the team and him.
 
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50 million over 2 years for a left handed reliever, that's not going to happen. Our best case scenario is that he has a shoulder injury in 2016 so we can buy him out that last year of his contract.
 
@Yankees: #Yankees place LHP CC Sabathia on 15-day DL (right knee inflammation); sign LHP Chris Capuano.

Capuano has gotten DFA'd & re-signed more than anyone in recent memory :lol: :smh:
 
Is there no one out there we could have signed better than Capuano? Jeez. Would love to hear that phone call though :lol: .

Warren must be livid.
 
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Gotta leave Warren in the pen permanently. He's too good there.

I'll take a guy who can give you 2 very good innings in the bullpen to get you from the 5th to the 7th. Or even just a reliable inning. Over a number 5 starter which is what he'd be.

Especially in the playoffs.
 
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Stephen Drew just had a swinging 80-foot bunt :lol:

he's at .200!!!! :wow:
 
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With CC going down for probably the rest of the season -

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/08/24/luis-severino-yankees-palladino/

Whether the Yankees make the playoffs or not, something good will have come out of this season. And we’re not talking about Alex Rodriguez and his semi-inspirational return from steroid jail at age 40.

No. This is about a 21-year-old kid who GM Brian Cashman refused to give up. By the time this is over, Luis Severino may prove that the moves a lifelong trader doesn’t make are sometimes the best.

Actually, Cashman didn’t have to bite down hard at all to resist his trade instincts and keep the right-handed Dominican. And Severino showed he was worth keeping around Saturday in a 107-pitch performance against the Indians that resulted in his first careerwin.

Looking past that, here is what the kid can contribute for the rest of this year and beyond.

Poise.
Every team in the league needs a good dose of that, and the Yanks are no different. Having gone from running away with the AL East to looking up at Toronto in what seemed a half an eye blink, the rest of this season is sure to be a rocky ride. It’s bad enough that they failed to maximize the just-ended four-game series with the last-place Indians, but the road ahead is filled with winners, from the first-place Astros next up, to the Orioles and Blue Jays the second week of September.
Even two games with the Mets Sept. 18-19 now takes on the appearance of a potential powder keg to the Yanks’ playoff chances.

It’s entirely possible that Severino will have to shoulder a representative number of those starts, especially if CC Sabathia lands on the DL after injuring his knee and Michael Pineda’s rehabbed right forearm needs babying for the rest of the schedule.

One way or another, the Yanks appear to be in for a nail-biting final month, so an added shot of poise on the mound won’t hurt. And that is something Severino appears to have in surplus.

The kid impressed veterans like Carlos Beltran with his confident comportment in spring training. On Saturday, he impressed Joe Girardi when he got out of a two-on, two-out jam by getting Roberto Perez to ground out to Didi Gregorious.

He has a few control problems to iron out. And like any pitcher, he needs run support. The fact that he went into Saturday 0-2 wasn’t all his doing. The Yanks had scored just six runs in his three previous starts while he was giving up an equal number of earned runs in 17 innings.

Severino, of course, isn’t the only one who has no trouble with the size of a major league baseball game. Cashman’s other minor league gem, Greg Bird, is showing some poise of his own at the plate, having contributed two homers and six RBIs in the nine games since his Aug. 13 callup.

He provided all the offense in the Yanks’ 4-3 win over the Twins last week with a pair of two-run homers. And Girardi has already compared him to Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera, noting his “slow heartbeat” that indicates a quiet, professional confidence.

So while Severino adds his own uncommon brand of youth and composure every sixth day, Bird can do it every day as either a starter at first or, once Mark Teixeira comes back from a bruised leg, as a bat off the bench.

Rookie can never be relied on to bring a team over the top. But between Bird and Severino, the Yanks might just regard their final stretch as a little less daunting as they try to hang onto the division.

Especially with Severino.

It’s always nice to run a kid out there who thinks he owns the joint.
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