Don't make the mistake and be mesmorized by "name recognition". Those "names" seem impressive, but unless Kuroda can move beyond the "one good game, one bad game", unless Pineda can add a couple of mph to his fastball, unless CC can truly get back to his mid-2011 form, this could be a long season---

-- and it could finally determine Girardi's near term job security. At some point guys like Warren and Mitchell should be given the chance.. and Yankee brass need need to determine why Betances and Banuelos are going backward not forward at the AAA level.

...and for Gawd's sake, get Jones out of there and bring up Wise.

It amazes me that some teams have excellent starting pitching. And the Yankees almost always have an excellent bullpen but the starting staff is usually so-so.

I was hoping that Rothschild would be the Yankee version of miracle worker Dave Duncan. I actually thought he could turn Hughes into a decent starter. Maybe he still can given time?

Guess that's why I was all for improving the staff with Pineda or Felix or Ubaldo Jimenez or Gio Gonzalez or even Johan. Cliches like one could never have too much pitching ring true.

The bright side for me so far are Soriano and Logan. And of the other players Jeets, Teixiera (who seems to be making an effort to make contact and not just swinging for the fences) and Ibanez.

Soriano is a bright spot? He's been pretty putrid so far.

Piotching?

Is that like, Irish baseball?

Everyone who makes an out has to down a Guinness? The Red Sox might be good at that. Maybe they should relocate to Dublin.

Meanwhile, it is, as rightly aforesaid in the thread, April. I'd actually be more concerned if they looked amazing out of the gate. Few teams carry April momentum forward til September.

WOWOWOWOWOW YOU'RE SOOOOOOOO RIGHT!

AFTER 3 STARTS KURODA IS NOOOOOOT WORTH $10 MILLION!

Good thing he gets to make like 29 more starts to earn his money, huh?

No team carries momentum April through Sept., but for some reason, many of the posters here feel it is only April, and these games don't mean much. There could be nothing further from the truth. My biggest, concern is not necessarily our record, but the way we are playing and especially our lack of pitching. These things don't just turn around in a heartbeat. We are not pitching and we are not getting timely hits! That is a sure fire recipe for failure. Now can it be turned around, Certainly by most. I don't think Highes or garcia have the talent to turn it around. How long are we gonna wait for hughes to be the pitcher we thought he was, and Garcia should be throwing Batting Practice, (wait a minute, that's what he is doing)! To lose to the Twins is embarassing. Jeter has stepped up, now its the pitchers turn!

"Personally, I am on the edge of my chair already in anticipation of the Battle of the Titans this evening. Hughes vs. Schwarzak!"

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LOL. Wonder how much runs the Yankees will be down by before the 3rd inning and have to play catchup yet again with this offense and its approach to hitting a baseball. HR's or bust more often than not.

Oh stop being a drama queen troll.

Nothing you've said there is true. These things do turnaround in an heartbeat. The pitching will be completely fine. The hitting will come.

There's more than a few slow starters on the team. When the Yankees are firmly at the top of the division in June, you'll be eating crow while watching your Mets lose their 10th in a row.

Depends on where he bought them that day. Once he stopped going to Washington Square Park more of the lines were cut with high amounts of Ex-Lax

>Everyone who makes an out has to down a Guinness?

Sounds like a win win to me. Good game to think of Owl.

First of all u Boston Troll, everything I said is accurate, not that ur opinion counts. E1 on this board knows what kind of an idiot you are. I have no words to eat, I want things to get better. B eing concerned about the current situation is every fans right except for u Sox fans. Go back to your own board and leave us alone.

Of course the games in April count, but even the best teams are going to lose 50 to 60 games in a year no matter what, so we can't get too bent out of shape over a few losses. The point is not to win every game now (perhaps at the risk of losing a player for the year) but to run the team in a manner that most likely guarantees (1) winning at least 90-100 games by the end of September, and (2) having the team playing its best ball of the year, and being healthiest, in the last 2-3 weeks of September and going into the playoffs.

Whether we like it or not, in this baseball world of relative parity, any team or manager who plays "win at all costs" baseball in April or May is likely to find itself/himself unable to meet those season-long goals, and the losses in October will be just as costly if not more so than the losses in April or May.

Yankees started 6-6 (were 9-10 through 19 games) while giving up 84 runs through 12 games in 2009. Little too early to make any kind of judgments.

Do you expect the Yankees (or any team for that matter) to avoid a 6-6 stretch completely? I don't. It just so happens that this stretch came at the beginning of the year, so its magnified. If it came in June or July would you give it a second thought?

The idea that we can make an accurate assessment of ANY of these starters based on 2 or 3 starts is absurd. I don't see how anyone can do so and call themselves a knowledgable fan of the sport. Its such a long season and so much can and will happen.

BTW... The fact that the team does this EVERY single year doesn't help your case. Off the top of my head, I can't remember the last time we got off to a blazing hot start and we've still only missed the playoffs once since 1996. Its always the same people making these complaints threads. You would think when the team proves them wrong year after year after year, certain people would just take their meds, relax and enjoy the ride...

>Little too early to make any kind of judgments.

If the Yankees lose tonight, is it still too early to make judgments? Just curious since I want to beat the rest of the board to declaring the season over but do not want to seem too over eager in doing so,

Nothing you've said is accurate. You are just being a drama queen. It's not the first season you've trolled these boards, so you know fine well -- as cleanup rightly says -- the Yankees rarely ever start the season like a bulldozer.

There's no reason to think this season is any different. The pitching will be fixed. The hitting will come.

Being .500 is ok in April. They'll tear up the joint as the season goes on. Happens every year. They will make the playoffs. And hopefully they are hot and have luck in the playoffs.

There's no real reason to be concerned. It's not like they just sent down a reliever for having one of the worst outings in history. As long as the team stays relatively healthy they will be fine.

What do you think of the Angels rotation? Pretty decent right? But the Angels have started the season 4-8.

How about the Phillies rotation? Lots of stars in that one too, but they are 5-7 so far.

I am not stating a "case"! I am just expressing my displeasure and disappointment in the way things are going right now. The Twins came into the Stadium with the worst record in BB and are beating up our Yanks. That doesn't sit well with me. The starting staff has been horrendous! Will they turn it around? I certainly hope so or it will be a long season. BTW as far as I am concerned, just because they have gotten off to bad starts b4, doesn't make it alright this time. They should be beating up on the Twins, Like they have in the past. For the Record, I am not passing judgement on the season, just the first 12 games!

Well since you don't understand the concept of having 150 games left, preferring a sample size of 12 games to make your knee-jerk judgements, I will simply write off your concerns as biotching about piotching