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07/11/2007 12:00 PM ET
Yankees midterm report
Rodriguez, Wang lead inconsistent club in first half
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- Joe Torre acknowledges that his Yankees made it look easy during
their run of four World Series titles in five years, in memories that grow
foggier by the day. Maybe it was a little too easy.
For the first time in Torre's tenure at the helm of the Yankees, the team
has struggled deep into the calendar months of the season.
The Yankees started 11-19 in 2005, and it appeared as though the Bronx
walls would crumble before the roster pulled it together and peeled off
another division title; with the calendar turning to July, this is
unprecedented ground for a Torre Yankees team.
He understands why the fan base -- spoiled, in a good way, as he says -- is
growing more restless by the day.
"You can't win that game yesterday anymore," Torre said. "The only problem
is nobody really wants to know why and if and how. They only look at the
record. It's the Yankees, and that's your record -- how did this happen?
"You don't watch what's happening. The relationship with losses and Yankees
is something you shake your head at, which I'm proud of. I've been here for
12 years, and the assumption everybody's had, we've been able to live up to."
In intermittent periods, the Yankees' energy and personality has been
satisfactory, but there have been far too many outages, top to bottom,
in the lineup.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has said that he will not sacrifice
the organization's top prospects -- which include pitchers Phil Hughes,
Joba Chamberlain and Ian Kennedy -- for what could be perceived as a
quick fix to help the Yankees regain footing in the American League East.
"If there's a trade that I can make that's satisfactory and I can
recommend, I'd do it," Cashman said. "Up until this date, you haven't
seen anything materialize because there hasn't been anything that I'd
think was fair value.
"There are things that I can do. But I'm not trading Hughes, I'm not
trading Chamberlain and I'm not trading Kennedy. If I wanted to trade
those young kids, I could, but I'm not doing that."
That means that the roster, as currently comprised, needs to find a way
to figure out what ails them and shake it -- quickly. Can they?
"We'll find out," Derek Jeter said. "We can't worry about Wild Cards or
the division or who we're chasing. We've got to concern ourselves with
winning games, and all the rest of that takes care of itself."
Club MVP: Alex Rodriguez has led the American League in RBIs in two of the
season's first three months and is having a spectacular all-around season,
pacing the big leagues in homers. Unfortunately, he says he can't enjoy
it all that much because the team is not winning.
Call him 'Ace': Chien-Ming Wang went 4-0 with a 3.56 ERA in June,
regaining the form that helped him to 19 victories last season and
a second-place finish in the American League Cy Young voting behind
Minnesota's Johan Santana.
Greatest strength: If the Yankees could ever get their hitters on the
same page and find consistent strokes, they have the potential to blow
other clubs out of the water. A lineup that was projected to approach
1,000 runs this year hasn't changed all that much.
Biggest problem: Consistency. When the Yankees have been hitting, too many
times they're not pitching well. When they pitch, the hitting falters. And
sometimes it rains.
Biggest surprise: The projected first-base platoon of Doug Mientkiewicz
and Josh Phelps somehow morphed into Andy Phillips and Miguel Cairo by
midseason.
Team needs: The talent is on the team. The Yankees need to figure out
what they can do to tweak the relief corps, which shows signs of overuse
and general ineffectiveness, but those are smaller bandages on the whole
body of the club. The Yankees desperately need to challenge their run of
14 of 17 wins, and July is a perfect time to do it -- after the All-Star
break, they won't see another team with a winning record until Aug. 10 at
Cleveland.
Oh, doctor:
‧ Johnny Damon -- For a while, it was another day, another malady for the
banged-up Damon, who has seen his reliability improve since moving to the
DH role. Damon has battled calf cramps all season, as well as a sore back
and a mild abdominal strain that was eased when he had four ribs realigned
during a recent Yankees off-day.
‧ Jason Giambi -- Giambi recently had a walking boot removed from his left
foot. He had a partial tear of his plantar fascia while running out a home
run at Toronto; no return date has been announced.
‧ Phil Hughes -- The organization's top pitching prospect suffered a
strained left hamstring while pitching a no-hitter on May 1 at Texas,
then rolled his left ankle while performing conditioning drills and had
a severe sprain. He has resumed throwing.
‧ Derek Jeter -- Ice has been his friend this season, as Jeter consistently
makes himself available for the lineup. A left hip flexor and knee tendinitis
have been among his ailments.
‧ Jeff Karstens -- Karstens had his right leg fractured by a Julio Lugo
comebacker on April 28 at Yankee Stadium and has resumed throwing at the
club's facilities in Tampa, Fla.
‧ Hideki Matsui -- A strained hamstring forced him out of the lineup in
the season's first homestand, but he returned on April 23 at Tampa.
‧ Mientkiewicz -- He was steamrolled by Boston's Mike Lowell on a play at
first base at Fenway Park on June 2, suffering a concussion and a fractured
right wrist. He is targeting an Aug. 1 return.
‧ Mike Mussina -- Moose suffered a strained left hamstring in an April 12
start at Minnesota and missed three weeks.
‧ Carl Pavano -- The hurler's career with the Yankees is likely over
after undergoing Tommy John elbow surgery in early June. The club's
$39.95 million investment yielded just 19 starts and six victories,
including one in two starts this season.
‧ Jorge Posada -- The catcher has quietly been gritting through pain in
his right knee that Torre periodically reports is "barking."
‧ Darrell Rasner -- The hurler fractured his right index finger on a ball
hit back to him at Shea Stadium by the Mets' Endy Chavez. The right-hander
is slated to resume throwing in early July.
He said it: "We've got a group of guys here that we have to win with. If they
make changes, they make changes, but we can't sit around here and think about
players who aren't here. Guys need to do the job." -- Jeter
Mark your calendar: Aug. 10-12 at Cleveland; Aug. 28-30 vs. Boston;
Sept. 14-16 at Boston; Sept. 28-30 at Baltimore
Fearless second-half prediction: Thinking back to their string of 14
victories in 17 games in June, the Yankees have at least one more
similar run left in them this season. Two runs of that nature would
vault them right back into serious contention.
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball
or its clubs.
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