Releasing Chan Ho Park and signing Kerry Wood looks like a good piece of business for the Yankees right now but before that happened there was July. July when Andy Pettitte went down injured. July when Phil Hughes was relying on high-levels of run support to gain his wins. What was good, bad and indifferent before Park was released?
| New York Yankees – Pitching – Month – July | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name | GP | GS | GF | IP | H | RA | ER | BB | SO | W | L | Sv | ERA | OBA | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Marte, Damaso | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | .000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rivera, Mariano | 10 | 0 | 8 | 9.1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0.96 | .206 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Logan, Boone | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.80 | .211 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Burnett, A.J. | 5 | 5 | 0 | 27.0 | 24 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 | .242 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sabathia, C.C. | 6 | 6 | 0 | 43.0 | 46 | 16 | 11 | 17 | 35 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2.30 | .282 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Robertson, David | 11 | 0 | 2 | 11.2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3.09 | .200 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Moseley, Dustin | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16.2 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3.24 | .200 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Vazquez, Javier | 5 | 5 | 0 | 32.1 | 28 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3.34 | .237 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Albaladejo, Jonathan | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.38 | .222 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Park, Chan Ho | 9 | 0 | 7 | 10.1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3.48 | .225 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pettitte, Andy | 3 | 3 | 0 | 16.1 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.86 | .258 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gaudin, Chad | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9.0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.00 | .286 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Hughes, Phil | 5 | 5 | 0 | 29.1 | 31 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5.52 | .270 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chamberlain, Joba | 11 | 0 | 3 | 12.2 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6.39 | .288 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mitre, Sergio | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6.1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7.11 | .308 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 86 | 26 | 26 | 234.0 | 219 | 99 | 90 | 77 | 183 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 3.46 | .251 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Good
C.C. Sabathia. Sabathia is rolling towards twenty wins and very little is getting in his way and when something does 90% of the time he finds a way to get the win regardless. His 2.30 ERA on the month was good enough but his resilience shows up in the Wins column where he added four more.
A.J. Burnett. A.J. Burnett had his best month of the season, finishing ahead of Sabathia in ERA and OBA. He still is unlucky in not getting the run support he needs but this month managed to pull in 3 wins
Mariano Rivera. Mo gave up one run this month and that is high by his standards.When the meltdowns come, they are not pretty but they are so very few and far between as he continues to make his way through an amazing and seemingly never-ending career.
Boone Logan. With the injury to Damaso Marte, Logan has become the left-handed specialist out of the bullpen and he is carrying that weight very well. In a very good month for the pitching staff, he was third in ERA.
Bad
Sergio Mitre. Mitre looked like one of the obvious candidates when Pettitte went down with a groin strain but he failed to take his chance and Moseley is now the guy just about hanging on to that slot. His one start was a primary cause of his ERA ballooning to 7.11 this month.
Chad Gaudin. Gaudin continues to be persistently ordinary. He eats up two innings per appearance – mainly in games that the team has already lost but his OBA on the month was only saved from being the highest on the team by Mitre’s disastrous start and his ERA was once more in the five run region.
Phil Hughes. It is hard to call Hughes bad but it really is only the run support he gets from the team that is making the outcomes less ugly. Whilst he managed to have a 2-2 month, his ERA for the month was 5.52 and he rarely manages more than five innings per start.
Joba Chamberlain. It seems so long ago now that he was going to be the next young phenom on the team. It hasn’t worked out that way and July 2010 was a particular low point and if the rumours are to be believed the month when the Yankees almost gave up on him and traded him away.
Surprises
David Robertson. Robertson has regained whatever it was he lost in the early months of the season and has managed 18 strikeouts in his last 11 innings pitched. The increasing stability in the bullpen is largely down to him.
Dustin Moseley. Moseley produced a good first start for the team and some quality outings as a reliever. He lacks consistency but with Aceves, Marte and Pettitte out, we’ll take one good game in two at this stage of the season.
Damaso Marte. Marte only managed three games on the month before being added to the disabled list but let’s not overlook the fact that they were all good performances. He has not had a smooth time with the Yankees. He’s had times when he looked like he couldn’t pitch and too many injuries but I’m not going to be slow pointing up the good stuff.
Jonathan Albaladejo. Albaladejo has had an outstanding season at Scranton and looked like he was finally to be rewarded when he was called up. Whilst it wasn’t the smoothest outing, he recovered but was sent back to the minors the very next day. There are better candidates for reassignment who are still on the roster.
