Back to Earth..For Now

    It appears Francisco Cervelli and Brett Gardner are indeed human after all. After unbelievably hot starts to the season by the rookie catcher and second year outfielder, both have tapered off quite dramatically. With the excruciatingly high number of injuries on this team, the youth and reserves need to play at a high level day in and day out. However, back-up players are not used to carrying as much weight as these guys have had to do. While I'm sure Cervelli and Gardner will pick it back up sooner or later, its pretty unlikely they will do it at the pace they were before.
    At this rate, the Yanks are still able to win around 96 games, (and in the AL East that could still only be second place) but they are going to have to get back to doing what they did throughout April, and that's pitching well, as well as getting runners in scoring position with less than 2 outs across the plate. The Yankees have indeed had a tough schedule thus far. Only 4 out of 10 different opponents they have played have losing records (Angels, Orioles, Mets, White Sox.) The Mets and Angels are definitely better than there records show as well and are both still tough to play on the road. Plus the Yanks have already played multiple series' against Boston, Tampa Bay, and are now getting ready to square up against the Minnesota Twins for the 4th, 5th, and 6th time of the year over the next 3 days.
    The Yanks will then return home and face the Indians for 4 games and the Orioles for 3, should be a favorable homestand. The month of June should be good to the Yankees, getting guys back from injury and facing only 3 teams with winning records as of now. With Curtis Granderson's resurgance in sights, I think all Yankee fans will not take him for granted after we've had to fill his spot with the likes of Randy Winn against right handed pitchers and minor league infielder Kevin Russo against left handers. The Yanks need big Tex to get back to what he's been doing for most of this month and Robby Cano to get back to what he was doing all of April, getting rbi's, but remember it always starts with good pitching..