{"id":324,"date":"2012-07-04T13:53:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/?p=324"},"modified":"2012-07-04T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T14:02:30","slug":"the-new-york-yankees-success-and-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/2012\/07\/the-new-york-yankees-success-and-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Yankees: Success and Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was May 21, 2012, and the Yankees had a problem.\u00a0 A big one.\u00a0 When people think of the New York Yankees they think of dominance.\u00a0 However, the Yankees had a 21-21 record, and were worr\"\"<\/a>ied about keeping a winning record.\u00a0 They had lost their best closing pitcher, Mariano Rivera, to a torn muscle.\u00a0 The team struggled when they had runners in scoring position, and they only had two starting pitchers that were reliable, but they sometimes didn’t recieve run-support.\u00a0 Then all of a sudden the offense clicked.\u00a0 They went onto a five-game winning streak and their offense and Mark Teixeira broke out of it’s slump.\u00a0 The Yankees also got another plus.\u00a0 Former starting pitcher, Andy Pettite returned from retirement better than before he retired, which is pretty darn good.<\/p>\n

After a few more wins, the Yankees became unstoppable.\u00a0 Their offense went on a tear, and their rotation (CC Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda, Phil Hughes, Ivan Nova, and Andy Pettite) didn’t allow more than four runs, and their bullpen for the first time all year was spotless.\u00a0 This greatness led to a ten-game winning streak, before a tough three-game losing streak where it’s starters struggled.\u00a0 However, in the blink of an eye, this roughness smoothed back out to start a five-game winning streak that fixed the Yankees pitching back to normal.<\/p>\n

However, on the last day of the five-game winning streak, Andy Pettite and CC Sabathia both went on the disabeled list.\u00a0 Now you may think that may cool the Yanks down, and at first it did.\u00a0 The Yankees bullpen became horrendous, and a rookie pitcher couldn’t fill in for Sabathia or Pettite.\u00a0 Then once again, the Yanks pitching straightened out.\u00a0 Freddy Garcia made a quality start, and the Yankees offense stayed as good as ever, and that’s what’s happening with the Yankees today.<\/p>\n

Now, the major question is how did the Yankees turn from good to bad?\u00a0 And the answer is actually quite simple.\u00a0 Adjustment.\u00a0 The Yankees had gotten some new players, and some were from the National Leauge.\u00a0 This meant that batters had to face new \"\"<\/a>pitchers, and pitchers had to face new batters.\u00a0 Once these players adjusted, they helped the Yankees get where they are now.\u00a0 The Yankees bullpen also had to adjust to the loss of Mariano Rivera, and Rafael Soriano and David Robertson (who just came off the disabled list) taking his spot as the closing pitchers.\u00a0 The Yankees had new relief pitchers, so they had to adjust while they got switched around to fill other spots.\u00a0 Considering how much adjustment has been done all season, the Yankees are looking incredible.\u00a0 All the Yankees need to do is continue their good offense, and fix some-minor pitching quirks, and they’ll be, once again, a nearly unstoppable team.<\/p>\n

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It was May 21, 2012, and the Yankees had a problem.\u00a0 A big one.\u00a0 When people think of the New York Yankees they think of dominance.\u00a0 However, the Yankees had a 21-21 record, and were worried about keeping a winning record.\u00a0 They had lost their best closing pitcher, Mariano Rivera, to a torn muscle.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,13],"tags":[50,308,56,304,55],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-sports","tag-50","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}