DONE on May 2

As predicted in my March 27th post, the Yankees are in for a very long season. At 2 games under .500 (14-16) today the Yankees are not too far away from the Division leaders (Rays/Red Sox) but things are not looking good.

If there is a bright side, it is this. The Yankees have not pitched well at all, they have gotten nothing out of Hughes or Kennedy, the offense has been asleep and they still are only 2 games under .500. To be fair, they were 21-29 last year and proclaimed "done" by many experts. We all know what happened but to climb out of that hole was a daunting task. They had to be the best team in the 2nd half of the season, by far, and needed help from the Tigers who stunk for a long stretch in August.

Realistically, it won't happen again. No one is running away with anything yet but the team just looks very poor. Posada will be out for an extended period of time which obviously hurts the offense but more importantly - it hurts the young pitchers. Now that won't matter as Hughes is out until at least July and Kennedy will soon be out of the rotation. Arod is hurt and only has 11 RBIs so far. At this time last year he had 30! No one on the team hits for power (Melky leads the team with 5 HR). Giambi has power but he stinks. In my opinion he is one of the worst hitters (for average) in baseball and will continue to be that way all year. Cano will hit but he has been brutal so far and looks clueless at the plate.

The worst part about this is the fact that Hughes (0 wins, ERA over 9) and Kennedy (o wins, ERA over 8) could have been packaged for Santana. What a disaster. I understand the whole "youth movement" but Cashman should be fired. Unless Hughes can be a dominant #1 within the next 3-4 years, the Yankees are fools. Imagine a rotation of Santana, Pettitte and Wang.........

Hopefully the offense wakes up and hopefully the pitchers can just be better but it does not look good right now. The Yankees are not better than the Red Sox, Indians, or Tigers. Even if they start playing better they can kiss the playoffs in 2008 goodbye. I know it's early but the Yankees are DONE.