Comments on: The Eternal Hope https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/ Bronx Banter Blog, Served Fresh Daily Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:55:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 By: RIYank https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398683 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:55:38 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398683 Excellent.
1.000 OBP career for The Fox. 5.000 on the season OPS for Judge.

]]> By: RIYank https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398672 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:23:43 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398672 Yum.
Auspicious beginning!

]]> By: cult of basebaal https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398660 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:10:54 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398660 FIRST PITCH!!!

]]> By: RIYank https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398658 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:12:19 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398658 It snowed here overnight. Also in New Haven, I hear. Did it snow in the Bronx?

Also just in case any of you have T-Mobile and didn’t know this: you get mlb.tv for free, but you have to sign up for it in the next few days.

]]> By: cult of basebaal https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398657 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:06:18 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398657 “The biblical rains out here in Southern California have pushed the spring so far from my mind that I only just now realized that the vernal equinox has come and gone, so how can Opening Day be only four days away?”

Hah … you think *this* year was biblical? Just wait until you get the next ARkSTORM, like California got in the winter of 1862.
Heh.

Here for Opening Day … I even subscribed to MLB.tv so I could say I got to see Volpe’s first AB.

]]> By: Boatzilla https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398630 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 01:50:33 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398630 After the exciting WBC (Japan folks went crazy, of course), I’m not very excited about this season starting without most of our starters.

Maybe this Volpe kid will get me into things. I just hope they give him time to fail and mature.

]]> By: GaryfromChevyChase https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398594 Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:11:28 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398594 As a Yankee fan for almost 70 years(!) and a Nats fan since they came to DC, I’m thinking that a great prop bet would be that the Yanks have the same number of wins that the Nats have losses: 97

]]> By: rbj https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398587 Tue, 28 Mar 2023 16:10:31 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398587 Watching the Nats-Yankees exhibition game, Nats feed. Even their announcers are already downplaying expectations for the season. Don’t expect 90 wins.

]]> By: RIYank https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398489 Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:10:18 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398489 [9] I mean, ‘Rodriguez’ is a very common name, but it does sound familiar.

]]> By: rbj https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398488 Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:08:37 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398488 [8] Seattle Mariners brought an 18 y.o. kid as shortstop. I had left that city before his debut, so I never got to find out what happened to him. I think his name was Alex Rodriguez or something.

]]> By: RIYank https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398486 Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:01:20 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398486 Starting a SS that young, no matter how talented, at shortstop??? That will never work out.
Well, there was that one time, right, it’s coming back to me.

]]> By: Ara Just Fair https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398408 Mon, 27 Mar 2023 11:08:55 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398408 The injury news regarding the pitching is depressing. Good on Volpe, though. The youngest starter on Opening Day for Yanks since Jeter. Go Yankees!

]]> By: Mr OK Jazz Tokyo https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398348 Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:57:06 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398348 Thanks for the recap Hank. I’ve not followed anything in Spring Training so have to catch up the next few days before Opening Day. Playing the Giants is kind of weird though!

]]> By: Hank Waddles https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398318 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 23:52:06 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398318 Sources tell me that Cashman and Boone read this post this morning, and that decided things in Volpe’s favor.

]]> By: rbj https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398297 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:17:58 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398297 Congrats to Volpe!

]]> By: Shaun P. https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398295 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:16:49 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398295 I have just one question about the rotation – did the Yanks mess up Deivi Garcia that badly that he’s not even an option for the 5th starter spot? Can’t they just bring Kratz back for a couple of weeks to set him right? I don’t know how things went so wrong there but sheesh.

]]> By: Shaun P. https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398294 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:14:19 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398294 I am thrilled but that said, I hope that neither he nor Peraza (if he also makes it) are sitting on the bench much, because that makes no sense for their development. I also don’t see where the consistent playing time comes in for both of them, barring injury or a Gleyber trade, and regardless we all know DJLM will be playing some second some of the time so… Where are all the PAs going to come from?

It’s a nice “problem” to have I suppose but I have always appreciated Gleyber and it sucks that these younger kids path forward may mean the end of his path in pinstripes.

]]> By: Shaun P. https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/03/26/the-eternal-hope/#comment-398292 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:09:30 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128403#comment-398292 And meanwhile, Volpe makes the Opening Day roster, says the Athletic: https://theathletic.com/4345128/2023/03/26/anthony-volpe-opening-day-rosters-mlb-prospects/

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