Someone warn PETA a dead horse is about to get kicked again

Posted by Abbey Pendleton on September 23rd, 2017

Someone warn PETA a dead horse is about to get kicked again. That horse, obviously, is Joe Girardi and the endle s capability to place a le s than ideal Yankee team on the field in critical situations.

If you haven  t heard, tonights Yankee line-up features both Jerry Hairston Jr playing right field in lieu of Nick Swisher and Jose Molina catching rather than Jorge Posada. Now, ordinarily, this could you need to be a bad move, an overreaction to last nights poor offensive showing against an excellent pitcher. But, given the match-ups, this really is borderline malpractice.

The Phillies are sending Pedro Martinez towards the hill tonight. Pedro, while you probably know, is right-handed. Also right-handed? Hairston and Molina. You know who has the ability to hit from the left hand side? Posada and Swisher. If youre going to put Darren Keyton Jersey Hairston in for Swisher, you e sentially have to do it against an LHP, where the disparity in talent is minimized. If only a LHP like Cole Hamels was starting game three on Saturday. Oh, wait, he's.

Against a lefty, a minimum of the two sub-par reserves po se s the platoon advantage. Putting Hairston in for Swisher against a right-hander is just nutty.

The Molina thing perhaps shouldnt be as surprising, since A.J. Burnett takes the hill for brand new York tonight Ian Wells Jersey . Girardi has tied the above together because of an irresponsible reliance on catcher ERA when there is a stat that showed the misdiagnoses of correlation and causation, here it is even as Burnett got bombed with Molina behind home plate in the first inning of his last start. However, Joe thinks that the convenience of his starting pitcher is more important than having a good hitter in the line-up.

The problem, however, would be that the Yankees took Francisco Cervelli from the playoff roster before the World Series began. Now, New York is only carrying two catchers, taking away the security net that Khyri Thornton Jersey allowed Girardi to pinch hit Posada early in previous games that Molina began. If he is doing that again tonight, hes e sentially gambling that Posada will not get hurt after he enters the game, because with Molina already out of the game, theres no viable alternative to Posada at that time.

Regradle s of whether he takes that risk or not, the price of starting Molina is higher without Cervelli on the roster. Girardi needed to know he would do this in game two, so then swapping out Cervelli for Brian Bruney doesnt really make much sense. Obviously, that just makes this fit in with the remainder of Girardis postseason maneuvers.

The Yankees continue to be likely to win tonight. But man, their manager seems intent on tying their hands behind their back. You dont get points for degree of difficulty, Joe just place your best team in the game Ameer Abdullah Jersey and obtain out of the way.

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