Pineda v. Harvey

[Edgy MD]

Michael Pineda struck out 16 yesterday, the most in a game for the Yankees since Ron Guidry struck out 18 in 1978. This is impressive considering the Yankees have spent good money to employ the likes of C.C. Sabathia, Randy Johnson, Roger Clementine, and David Cone. But that's what you get for paying guys more for their past than their future.

Anyhow, the performance sets up a tabloid showdown over which is the best young pitcher in New York, Pineda or Harvey. People WILL milk this. And certainly clamor for a showdown at Citi.

Unfortunately for the Yankees, it's not Pineda or Harvey. It's really Pineda or Harvey or deGrom or Wheeler or Syndergaard or Matz or Familia or Molina.

Or Rainy Lara.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Pineda was the guy who was busted for having all that pine tar on his neck last year, right?

[Ceetar]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Pineda was the guy who was busted for having all that pine tar on his neck last year, right?

yes. I might just respond to any thing about this with pictures of pine trees.

[Guest d'Kong76]

[Edgy MD]

Yup.

Ever since, I've kind of come to think that "Pineda" is just the Spanish word for pine tar.



Silly rabbit. What you do is you put it under your shirt. And then, every time you tuck that honking necklace back into your shirt, you grab a big fat globule.

[Frayed Knot]

Art Fowler, Billy Martin's longtime pitching coach, would counsel his pitchers to put whatever foreign (or domestic) substance they were using on their crotch as no umpire was ever going to check them there.

[ashie62]

They got him for steroid addled catcher Jesus Montero.

These comparisons will continue as long as the MFY's continue in first place.