State of the Yankees

So it's August 15. There's only 46 games left this season and we're 6 games up on Boston in the loss column. That is a very good place to be...This time last year, weren't we on our way to missing the playoffs for the first time in forever? Yup, we were.

But this isn't last year. This is a whole different team. CC and Burnett are both coming around and pitching amazingly well right now. A.J.'s pitching better, in my opinion, but it's hard not to be content with either of them on the mound. Teixeira? Probably the best sign. Not only can he hit, but guess what, he can play defense! Yankees didn't see any of that with Giambi out there.

Anyway, we have an amazing team right now, don't take it for granted. But enjoy it, because if we keep winning, this could be a World Series-bound team.

Yankees Roster

http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/12/24/the-roster-at-the-moment/

Right now, Our roster is looking really good.

For Pitchers, we have Sabathia, Wang, Burnett, Joba, and Hughes/Kennedy.

1B-Teixeira
2B-Cano
3B-Rodriguez
SS-Jeter
LF-Damon
CF-Gardner/Cabrera
RF-Nady
C-Posada
DH-Matsui

Potential Batting Order-
Damon
Jeter
Teixeira
Rodriguez
Matsui
Posada
Nady
Cano
Gardner/Cabrera

Looks good enough for me.


In other news...I just found out that the Orioles and the Blue Jays left the AL East and went to the AL Central. I don't know when that happened, but it wasn't publicized well at all.

Merry Christmas

Mark Teixeira, the greatest Christmas present since CC Sabathia!


We needed him bad. If you don't think so, I'd like to know why, because I can't make any argument against him. He has good defense, he puts up great numbers. And he plays First. The Yankees need all of those things. And we got all of those things. So everything seems good.