Things Are All Wright In New York

Yankee starter Jaret Wright had another quality start tonight against the Blue Jays.

As I said before, I was not very excited about his last win, it was against the Devil Rays.

But here's the deal, the D-Rays had just come off a sweep of the Cleveland Indians when they lost to Wright. They came back to beat the Yanks in the next two.

After the Yankee series they completed a 3 game sweep of Texas.

In the last 10 games, Wright is only one of two pitchers to hand them a loss. While the D-Rays are still a last place team, they seem to be playing quite the spoiler.

Cleveland is at the top of the stack of wild-card hopefuls, as are The Yankees, and Texas may have held onto wild-card aspirations, had they not been swept by the Rays.

So I have a little more faith in Jaret today, and The Yankees in general.

The Blue Jays were blanked tonight, partially due to an infield in grounder that resulted in Shea Hillenbrand being thrown out at the plate by 2nd baseman Robinson Cano. The following double play got Wright out of the forth with a shutout intact.

With tonights win his return from injury has amounted to 13 1/3 innings with 2 earned runs, giving him a 1.35 ERA, and two wins.

It looks like The Yankees actually have a starting rotation that you could call respectable, with Mike Mussina, Randy Johnson, Jaret Wright, Al Lieter, and Shawn Chacon.

I'd love to ask Brian Cashman and The Boss if Randy Johnson is all they hoped he would be.

Of course I'm kidding, that would surely get me whacked.

I am surprised myself, he simply got old in the off-season. He is nothing like he was last year.


Johnson hasn't won any of his last four starts, and his last start against the White Sox was just ugly, he gave up 4 homeruns in one inning.

He has already given up 29 homeruns, he has only given up 30 homeruns once in his career.

With 39 games left in the season, and 7 or 8 of them his games, he's going to destroy that record.

Geez, the only pitcher that has given up more homeruns this year is Cincinnati's Eric Milton with 35, add in Johnson's bad back, and he could lead the MLB in homeruns allowed.

Not bad for winning 5 Cy Young Awards.

But I digress.

The Yankees are looking good going forward, they have their pitching staff getting healthy, you couldn't ask for a scarier offense, and they have one of the best closers in the game.

Any concerns?

Uhh, how about some middle relief?