A-Rod's early season tear continues, as he has 31 RBIs in his first 16 games and a ridiculous holy crapola! slugging percentage of 1.030. That's not a missprint; I checked in two places. For the record, a slugging percentage of .750 is considered to be awesome. So, A-Rod's early season numbers are just plain ridiculous. He also has a 16 game hitting streak to start the season. Watch out Joe DiMaggio!
Kidding. Of course, I won't neglect to mention that the Yankees suffered a horrible loss to the Sox on Friday night, when Torre panicked yet again and took out Andy Pettitte too soon and went to Mariano Rivera with 1 out in the 8th inning. Hours early on an interview with Mike and the Mad Dog on WFAN, Torre said he wouldn't do that if faced with that decision. Just ridiculous.
Yesterday was another bad loss. While it's apparent that the Yankees will win a lot of games with their tremendous offense, yesterday's loss really shows you just how important good starting pitching is. It's comforting that the Yankees are at 8-8 when they have 3 of their 5 starting pitchers on the disabled list. Hopefully when Wang, Mussina and Pavano come off the DL, the ship will be righted.
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