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Yankees News for June 8
Topic Started: Jun 8 2005, 07:10 AM (10 Views)
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Bombers bats hit a new low
June 8
New York Daily News: For years, Joe Torre has preached pitching as gospel, but even he has to admit that isn't the Yankees' biggest problem right now.
To put it simply: They can't hit.
So after the Bombers dropped a 2-1 decision to the Brewers last night, Torre - who has called team meetings and altered the lineup in an attempt to jolt his team - tried a different approach.
He canceled organized batting practice today.
"We're getting some base hits in BP. Maybe we'll save it for the game," he said.
At this point, anything is worth a shot. During this stretch in which the Yankees have lost nine of their last 10 games, they've scored a total of 23 runs - and that includes the four they put up against the Twins in the lone victory. They were shut out for eight innings last night and Derek Jeter stranded the tying run in the ninth for the second straight game after the Bombers finally managed to get on the scoreboard.
A year ago, the Yanks were 38-20 and held a 3-1/2-game lead in the AL East; this morning, they are 28-30, seven games behind the Orioles. It's the latest in the season they've been under .500 since Sept. 5, 1995, when they were 60-61.
"We're right where we deserve to be," Jeter said. "We haven't played well."
He's not kidding. The litany of numbers that demonstrate the Bombers' futility seems endless. They've lost four straight series; they're 0-22 in games in which they've scored three runs or less; they're 0-28 when trailing after eight innings; and, in case you were wondering how they're doing with runners in scoring position, the Yankees are 0-for-their-last-25 with the bases loaded, which is the longest such skid since the DH was introduced in 1973.
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Boss jolts Torre with Billy club
June 8
New York Daily News: In the old days, George Steinbrenner's answer to any Yankee crisis was to re-hire Billy Martin to be the hard-edged taskmaster he wanted to browbeat his underachieving players. So all George needed to hear was Michael Kay invoke Martin's name on a Yankee telecast recently to have him begin questioning Joe Torre's style.
More than he usually does, that is.
There have been rumblings from Tampa that Steinbrenner has been telling Yankee people Torre needs to be more like the fiery Martin of the late '70s - to the point where at least one person with the team here had heard of it.
"Sounds like the owner is on the warpath," was the way he put it.
It's hard to imagine that Torre will get fired this season, no matter how bad it gets for the Yankees, at least partly because of the $12 million Steinbrenner is contracted to pay him over the next two seasons. But who knows, this could sour the relationship between manager and owner the way Steinbrenner's public carping did in 2003.
The Yankees have tried to portray last Friday's conference call as a supportive session because the owner asked Torre and GM Brian Cashman what they needed for this team to play better.
But not all versions of the call are so warm and fuzzy. At least one person with knowledge of the conversation says the offer was more like an outburst of frustration. As in: "Tell me what the hell we need."
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Oh Henry! Yank Pick Shortstop
June 8
New York Post: While the Yankees selected C.J. Henry, a very confident 19-year-old high school shortstop yesterday in the first round of the draft, the real intrigue lies over why they allowed St. John's right-hander Craig Hansen get past them at No. 17 and to the Red Sox, who took him with the 26th pick.
According to sources, the Yankees and other teams were wary of the price tag agent Scott Boras put on all three of his college pitchers and decided not to take Hansen, whom many experts believe will be in the big leagues next season.
"We let everyone know the price each player wanted at the top level," said Boras, who represents Mike Pelfrey, the Mets' first-round pick at ninth and Luke Hochevar, whom the Dodgers took at No. 40. "The Red Sox were on board on where we were at with this guy."
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Davey certain Torre can find the answer
June 8
Newark Star-Ledger: Davey Johnson was two years removed from a 100-victory season and a division title, four years removed from a World Series championship, when it all went sour with the Mets.
"It was tough, my last years in New York," Johnson said yesterday by telephone from his home in Winter Park, Fla. "(Gary) Carter and (Keith) Hernandez were on the downside, and we couldn't play at the level we'd been used to playing at before, the (minor-league) system wasn't feeding us anything. It was tough."
Sound familiar?
Johnson isn't about to compare himself to Joe Torre -- he's too far behind in World Series titles and Hall of Fame credentials. But he can make a comparison between the way he felt just before being fired as Mets manager in 1990 with the way Torre must be feeling now.
"I know what Joe's going through," Johnson said. "You lose six in a row or seven out of eight or whatever they've had ... those are things they haven't had to face the last 10 years.
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Yankees' struggles throw Pettitte off
June 8
New York Daily News: Perhaps that's why Pettitte could say that the plight of the Yankees has not exactly been high on his radar, other than a daily scan of the box scores. He and the Astros have plenty of problems of their own - the end result of Houston owner Drayton McLane not having a Plan B after failing to re-sign Carlos Beltran at the 11th hour over a no-trade clause and allowing Jeff Kent to also leave as a free agent.
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Shoulder throws Kevin off schedule
June 8
New York Daily News: Kevin Brown said he doesn't know if he'll be able to make his next start on Friday, but it certainly wasn't a good sign when he said yesterday that he couldn't even imagine throwing right now.
The Yankees' righthander, who injured his left shoulder falling awkwardly near first base on Sunday, said he felt "a little better" yesterday than he did Monday, but didn't think he felt well enough to even play catch on flat ground.
After last night's loss, however, Joe Torre said Brown would try to throw a bullpen session today, which seemed to indicate the righthander had improved.
Approached by reporters moments later, Brown wasn't interested in answering questions, saying, "Nothing's changed in three hours. I've got nothing new to say."
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Wang Likely to Step In for the Injured Brown
June 8
New York Times: Kevin Brown said his bruised left shoulder needed to improve significantly in the next two days for him to pitch for the Yankees on Friday in St. Louis. If it doesn't, the Yankees will have the opening they were looking for to put the rookie Chien-Ming Wang back in the rotation.
Brown said he injured his shoulder and his surgically repaired back by sprawling backward for a throw to first base by Rey Sanchez on Sunday in Minnesota. Brown's back is now fine, he said, and his shoulder felt better Tuesday, although it remained sore. A Milwaukee team physician examined Brown on Monday.
"When I reached back, it really jammed," Brown said of his shoulder. "He doesn't think I tore the labrum. It's headed in the right direction."
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Bomber Bats
June 8
New York Post: Sun comes up. Sun goes down. Yankees lose. Play the looping tape again today. See the flat Yankee eyes. Notice the tight jaw lines as they look at one out following another. Here the same cliches they uttered last night.
What else is there to say? The Yankees reek. They know it. You know it. And a lot of people are producing rib-splitting laughs at George Steinbrenner's expensive barn of underachieving talent.
The latest fiasco took place last night at Miller Park, where Ben Sheets and the Brewers toyed with the Bumbling Bombers on their way to a 2-1 victory that thrilled the crowd of 35,611.
If you care and are scoring at home, the 28-30 Yankees have dropped nine of 10 games. In those nine defeats the Yankees have scored 19 runs.
"We are right where we deserve to be," Derek Jeter said, repeating the words he uttered Monday. "There is a long ways to go but we have to turn things around soon."
But can they? There is too much dead wood for one trade to make a difference.
"Eventually we will find out who we are," Joe Torre said.
Will they? And what happens if the Yankees discover they are old and in the way?
Those who see life through rose glasses and for who the mug is always half full - not George Steinbrenner - the Yankees didn't lose ground to the Orioles. The AL East-leading Birds lost to the Pirates and remain seven lengths ahead of the Yankees. The Red Sox lost and are three games up on the Yankees. And Carl Pavano pitched well enough to win.
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