Mr. 3000

First Yankee to achieve 3000 hits!







Sunday, October 24, 2010

Hot Stove wish list

By Frank Solares

We are all fans, we are all experts, we are all general managers, we are all hard on our favorite teams, but we are not Brian Cashman and we do not make the decisions.

That said I will take a look at the Yankees off season of change and redemption and attempt to help Cash on how to spend his cash


First Base Tex needs a backup that can play around 25 games at first, hit off the bench and DH. Lance Berkman is the Perfect match. Keep him and show Nick Johnson the door not the Bench.

Second Base Canoo is young enough to play 162, but that said we need to keep Ramiro Pena can sub at 2nd, 3rd and short.

Shortstop Sign the Face of the Yankees Sign the greatest winner since Joe D, sign the icon sign the Captain and sign the first Yankee in history to hit 3k as a Yankee. Yes he had a bad year but his D was great enough. To warrant keeping him at SS at least two more years, if you wish move him after wards. Pena is the backup..

Third Base The Hall of Famer will finally have an off-season that does not require surgery or drama (we hope). Pena is the backup..

Catcher I love Jorge Posada he is in my top 5, but we need a new face and a fresh young legs and bat. Jesus Montero should be our opening day catcher next season. Posada can be the teams DH and Pettitte personal Catcher, give Cervelli one more year as the back up.

Outfielders Granderson in Center, Swisher in Right and in left sign Jayson Werth. Stay away from Carl Crawford and make Brett Gardner one of the Key Bench Players.

Starting Pitchers Trade AJ, they will need to eat most of the contract.

CC Sabathia
Cliff Lee Sign him to a long term deal
Brandon Webb Sign him
Andy Pettitte
Phil Hughes

Relief Pitchers

Mariano Rivera
Sign Rafael Soriano groom him to become your next closer/
Kerry Wood
David Robertson
Boone Logan
Joba Chamberlain

Them mix in the rest of the invited players to camp and the 2011 team will win with pitching.

Make Larry Rothschild pitching coach.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

AJ Pitches for his Yankee Career

By Frank Solares


AJ Burnett is 1-1 with a 5.27 ERA career in his postseason. Now he will make the biggest start of his career, a start that might determined if he will remain a Yankee. With Lee on the free agency market at the end of the year and with Nolan Ryan saying “Ask the Yankees how much they will pay him”, they might not have room for him in the roster next year. He can be traded to at least 5 teams in the National League, as long as the Yankees are willing pick up the rest of the contract and or eat 90 percent of the 3 years left on it.

That will allow them to Go hard after Lee and have CC, Lee, Pettite, Hughes and Nova. The pitching staff will be an upgrade from this year and might even be as good as any pitching staff in Baseball.

No pressure AJ, but tonight might be your last start as a Yankee so make it a good one or you will become a distant memory and just another name Yankees pitching history that never made it.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Yankees vs the Rangers pitching staff

The quest for number 28 continues Friday October 15, Game 1 in Texas. The Yankees will have CC, The Franchise, Andy and AJ. The Rangers will counter with CJ Wilson, Colby Wilson, Cliff Lee and Tommy Hunter.


Lineup vs Texas Pitching

Yankees batting .248 vs C.J Wilson
.167 vs Colby Wilson
.280 vs Cliff Lee
.364 vs Tommy Hunter

Jeter .417 vs Cliff Lee has 15 hits and 6 RBI
.357 vs C.J Wilson
.500 vs Colby Lewis
.667 vs Tommy Hunter

Nick .320 vs Cliff Lee has 2 HR 3 RBI
.300 vs C.J Wilson 1HR 6 RBI

Teixeira .320 vs Cliff Lee has 1 HR 6 RBI
.333 vs Tommy Hunter

A-Rod .272 vs Cliff Lee 2 HR 7 RBI

Cano vs Cliff Lee 6-28 1 RBI 6 Hits
vs C.J Wilson 4-14
vs Tommy Hunter .400 Avg

Granderson .286 vs Cliff Lee 1 HR 3 RBI
.667 vs Tommy Hunter

Berkman .375 vs Cliff Lee has 3 RBI
vs C.J Wilson 3-13 4 RBI 1 2B
vs Tommy Hunter 2-4 1 RBI

Gardner .375 vs Cliff Lee has 1 RBI

If your wondering Posada had horrible numbers vs the Rangers (so he will win the ALCS MVP)

Monday, October 11, 2010

Captain Clutch

By Frank Solares,

The pundits and baseball experts will tell you Derek Jeter is overrated, they tell you he is not a Hall of Fame player and they will even tell you that his stats in the postseason are inflated due to more opportunities in games played and AB.


The latter might be true but they still need to hit the ball and perform at the highest level. Yankees still needed to win games and play the next series. He would have to do it at the highest level for 15 years and maintain an Avg that ranks in the top 10 all time.

In every category as you can see Derek ranks in the top 10 all time, doing this research you come to several conclusions DJ is a great player and Bernie Williams was great as well.

Everyone in the media made a big deal out of MO numbers and his achievement of getting 600 combined hits in his career, both in the regular season and postseason. Yet not even one mention of Jete getting over 3000 hits as a Yankee, Jeter has 2926 hits in the regular season 179 hits in the postseason he has a combined 3105 hits in his career.

The Man is cool hand Luke under pressure and looks relaxed.

(This is why DJ is always relaxed under stress, thanks to Minka)

http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/10/11/minka-kelly-named-esquire-magazines-sexiest-

Might be that his personal life has always been personal, in contrast to Alex Rodriguez who is always in the spotlight, something to be said about his upbringing, his work ethic and desire.

He is a free agent after the season he will command millions not for his great numbers, not for his postseason heroics, it’s due to everything he stands for