NYY Rotation – What The **bleep** Is Going On?

Now I could drag out all those Rusty metrics that go beyond the basics of ERA and WHIP but why bother as they are available of even the most pedestrian of baseball site’s.   Not necessary.  Just think Mitre and Nova as the bottom end of the rotation or are they?  You also have AJ Burnett who in previous yankee years would have either been shipped out or relegated to the lower end of the staff let alone the rotation. Phil Hughes is the poster boy for how misleading a W/L figure can be and his second half was not what one could call pristine.  The only anchor is the real CY in CC whose importance last year was magnified by the dismal group that made up the rest of the staff and that group is even a notch worse this year.

Enough pounding on the yankee staff no matter how much delight it brings but it brings about what most fans in baseball are wondering – especially in NY and Boston – and that is W-T-F  is going on? You have Cashman publicly distancing himself from the Soriano signing.  Is he trolling for a firing? Free has aptly pointed out the obvious weakness and the fact that one potential starter after another is gobbled up by others. This is not the NY way of aggressively pursuing talent to shore up a weakness.

IMHO I still feel NY will be around the 95 win mark and get into the playoffs.  Maybe Andy will return?  Maybe a salary dump?  Maybe someone will step up?  But based on what has happened it is still W-T-F is going on?