Is pitching overrated?

Dr. Detfink · Post #1 » by **Dr. Detfink** » Sat Oct 8, 2011 7:51 pm

I admit at first, I was skeptical with Montero's value but with a sweet swinging 22- year old kid who could offset the power depleted A-rod & Teixiera...he might be more valuable than trading for a pitcher. Consider the Yanks won the East with a duct taped rotation, Yanks have proved there are ways to make up for wins...

What do you think, is Montero worth King Felix?

TKF · Post #2 » by **TKF** » Sat Oct 8, 2011 8:00 pm

Dr. Detfink wrote:I admit at first, I was skeptical with Montero's value but with a sweet swinging 22- year old kid who could offset the power depleted A-rod & Teixiera...he might be more valuable than trading for a pitcher. Consider the Yanks won the East with a duct taped rotation, Yanks have proved there are ways to make up for wins...

What do you think, is Montero worth King Felix?

pitching was not the yankees problem.. Hitting was.. we had a ton of oppotunities to blow that game 5 open.. I am not trying to take much from detroit, but they had no business beating the yankees.. heck even a healthy A-rod batting anything more than .111 and we win this series..

I would have loved to see montero up in a couple of those key situations in game 5.. the yankees have montero and cano who is already a superstar... Jeter still has good baseball left in him.. gardner is one of those guys who has proven he can play in the spotlight.. we just need to add to that.. get back to the yankees of the mid to late 90's.. the dynasty team.. gritty, tough and talented... No huge ego's and no steroid freaks..

BAck to pitching. Pitching is huge, look at what carpenter did to the phillies... I like king felix, but I think we can develop nova and if hughes can get it together, we should be fine.... strenghted the back end of our rotation with some young power arms and we will be fine..

GnarlesOakley · Post #3 » by **GnarlesOakley** » Sat Oct 8, 2011 9:32 pm

The Yankees definitely lost because of hitting, even with their flawed rotation...it was funny with Burnett, as awful as he was he was consistent in his inconsistency and some of his few good moments of the season came during important times...but the hitting let us down when we needed it, and the Phillies show that great pitching isn't everything.

The Yankees need a 2nd rotation guy though, I think the bullpen being so good is how we overachieved, and we can't assume it's going to be that dominant next year, or that we can luck out with lightning in a bottle like with Colon again to get us threw the first half of the season.

Hughes deserves another chance but I really don't trust him, I hope he proves me wrong.

Pharmcat · Post #4 » by **Pharmcat** » Sun Oct 9, 2011 4:25 pm

this team needs a #2

you always need pitching

as for montero, imo he is a keeper with arod tex and swish becoming stiffs in the POs