Wayne Countryman wrote:
Wabberjocky wrote:
An AP lead today:
NEW YORK — A day after Randy Johnson gave up four home runs in one inning during a loss at Chicago, the Yankees admitted the Big Unit has struggled during his first season in New York.
Aging pitcher with a bad back changes leagues and plays in a big market for the first time. Some of us predicted this in the spring.
And as a recovering Red Sox fan, I still fear Johnson and his team.
Glad you do, Wayne. I and many other Yankee fans have resigned ourselves to taking whatever Johnson--and the other Yankee starters, for that matter--gives us on any given night. We expect nothing and thus are not disappointed when we get it.
Johnson and the other Yankee starters are just as likely to be fair to middling or to get outright shelled as they are to be extremely effective.
The Yanks' starters' ineffectiveness and/or inconsistency will probably spell the team's doom in the postseason, should it get there.
Interestingly, Wabber, I saw an article in the Daily News Sunday that quoted an expert from Baseball Prospectus who before this season started predicted the Yanks would finish with 87 wins. They were on pace for 88 before Sunday's games. The analyst, a hard-core Yankee fan, ruefully said he hated being right in this case.