You heard me, where the hell is Johnny Barbato? At one point
this season the New York media, bloggers and such were calling Barbato the
Yankees “secret weapon” and now these same journalists are writing about how
thin the Yankees middle relief is outside their three-headed monster. So I say
again, where the hell is Johnny Barbato?
Barbato made the Yankees out of spring training this season
and pitched many meaningful and effective innings for Joe Girardi at the
beginning of the season. In an extremely limited sample size Barbato, ignoring
the small sample sizes in ERA and FIP and instead focusing on things that
aren’t ballooned up by one or two bad innings of relief, Barbato struck out
over 10.0 batters per nine innings while limiting his walks and hits allowed. Does
he have the Robert Refsnyder going on or something?
Listen. I fully realize that Barbato only faced 53 batters
in 15 appearances and I am fully aware of his 4.14 FIP and 5.54 ERA and I am in
no way saying that he will be the savior and the absolute answer to the Yankees
middle innings relief problem. What I am saying is why do you give a guy a shot
and he proves himself only to snatch the rug out from under him after a bad
outing or two? That doesn’t happen when Stephen Drew goes a season and a half
and couldn’t hit water in an aquarium and that doesn’t happen when Esmil
Rogers, Chris Capuano and other veterans couldn’t strike out a little league
team but it seems to happen to the Yankees prospects and I’m fed up.
I say one last time. Where the hell is Johnny Barbato?
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)