he still needs to keep doing it, i think if he keeps it up til the trade deadline he is gone…. him and edwin jackson could just be late bloomers but lets wait for them to at least put a dozen starts down first.

Never really followed him much, but those regression trees I put together in the offseason (see the November diary) identified him as the kind of guy that is likely to take a step forward….so I grabbed him in my league, for the first time ever. Basically, he was grouped with guys that had middling results….but the internal ratios that led to those stats were in the “most favorable category to break out” group…..and this was then supported by the scouting report on him.

And there are enough examples of guys that dramatically improved their BB rate after age 25 that it has precedent.

He started off 3-0 on the first hitter, and i thought uh-oh. His second start for me in fantasy. I forget who here kept lauding his trunaround, but i finally gave him a shot, against BoSox and yanks no less. he has been quite good. Getting grounders and fewer walks. Someone said his 7 walk game a few games ago was pitched in horrible weather.

Yanks do seem to have lost some of their patience, not looking at the numbers, just from wwatching them. So, i don’t know if their walk rate is same as usual, but they don’t battle the pitcher like in the past.

And we can ask Jeter whjat he thinks of Cabreras new found control. Admittedly, he dives in, but ouch. You could almost hear that in Manhattan with the sound on the tv turned off. Thought he broke it.