Don’t give up on these guys!

Its July 11th and most people have given up on the Yankees. People have been bashing the Yankees all year. Yes, the Yankees haven’t played to their potential, however there is the entire second half of the season. Giving up on the Yankees now would be ludicrous. Last season no one wanted to give A-Rod a chance and look at him now. A-Rod has hit 30 home runs and has 86 RBIs and we are only half way done with the season. I understand its hard to be patient, but baseball is a streaky sport and the Yankees will come around, their second half couldn’t be set up any better for a story book finish.
The Yankees are currently 42-43 ,10 games back of the Boston Red Sox’s for first place and 8.5 games back of the Cleveland Indians for the Wild Card. The Yankees schedule for the second half is anything but difficult. For the rest of July they play 7 games against Tampa Bay, 4 games against Toronto, 4 games against Kansas city, 3 games against Baltimore then ending the month with a 3 games series against the White Sox. That means the Yankees play a total of 0 teams over .500 for the rest of July. The Yankees don’t play a team over .500 until Friday August 10th when they start a 3 game series with the Cleveland Indians. That’s a month of baseball against 0 teams over .500. The Yankees August does have series with winning teams. Series include the Angles, Boston, and Detroit. In September the Yankees play Boston and Seattle each once and besides that don’t play a team over .500. With the Yankees remaining 77 games only 23 are against teams over .500. 6 of those games are against Boston 3 against Cleveland and 8 vs. Detroit. I understand the games are played on the field not on paper. However, with this schedule the Yankees chances are better then people think.
They have great starting pitching. Chien Ming Wang, Andy Pettitte, Roger Clemens, Mike Mussina are all solid pitchers. Kei Igawa brings absolutely nothing to the table. However, we have Phillip Hughes on the DL and once he comes back there starting 5 is as good as any team in baseball. The Yankees line up is definitely the best line up from top to bottom in baseball. They haven’t been playing to there potential and are missing an important bat in Giambi. Damon has been hurt all year. Matsui and Cano are starting to swing the bat better and Bobby will come around. With the kind of talent on the Yankees roster there is no chance they will have as bad of a second half as they did in the first half. They have scored 356 runs in the first half which is tied for third in all of baseball trailing only Detroit and Cleveland. They have scored 21 more runs the Red Sox’s and 62 more then the Mets. The scary thing is the only guys who have been hitting all year is Arod, Jeter and Posada. The Yankees will all get hot and with the talent they have expect a huge second half and the Yankees to end the Season with the most runs scored in all of baseball. Although the Yankees bullpen has been terrible I believe they will be good enough to get the job done. In the first half of the season the Yankees battled injuries and had to pitch rookies all the time. Because of these kids getting rocked every game the bullpen would come in and was over worked. Proctor and Farnsworth will come around. They just need to gain control. Farnsworth is looking better and better each start. When him and Proctor are on they are pretty much un hittable. Bruney has been great he has a 2.57 era. Myers hasn’t been his best however his era is still 2.61 and he will come around. The kid Edwar Ramirez has been great. In his MLB debut he stroke out the side. He is going to be a great pitcher. And then there is Mariano Rivera who is simply the best.
Lets also not forget the Yankees had a game in Baltimore suspended with the Yankees winning 8-6 in the 8th inning. Boston has lost there last 3 games and the Yankees have won 5 of 7. With all this in mind don’t be surprised if in September if the Yankees are battling with the Red Sox to win the division. Even if the Yankees don’t win the division, they can still win the wild card and once they are in the playoffs with the line up pitching and experience they have will give them a great chance of winning the World Series. Don’t give up on these guys now there is a lot of baseball to play.