Give these guys a break, it's the first game of ST and they have literally nothing to talk about but early injuries and the Astros' scandal. There are absolutely no other storylines to focus on and most fans watching and probably themselves don't know who half the players are. The Yankees crew is generally quite enjoyable during the season.
What a weird comparison. Thames' issue was not and has never really been his bat, but rather his abysmal defense. Thames tore up minor league pitching pretty consistently, albeit at unremarkable prospecty ages.
Just because we're thinking of giving Gurriel some reps at first doesn't necessarily guarantee he's going to be a platoon there. It's just added flexibility, he might play the odd game there if he's hitting well and you want his bat in the lineup at the same time that someone in the outfield is playing well (e.g. Alford) and you want to give Vlad or Shaw the day off.
You could also just piggy back them for 3-4 innings each so they keep somewhat of a starter's workload until someone eventually gets injured and they can take over full time. This is really a non issue, our bullpen is really sketchy aside from Giles - with Bass, Dolis, Font all being different levels of interesting - so Shun and Trent will get their innings.
Barring a disastrous performance from Thornton in ST they'll both very likely be on the MLB team, regardless of if both are pegged as full time starters.
It's things like this why no one should ever be worried that we have "too many options" for that fifth starter (or even fourth starter) position. Pitchers will continue to be injured, and hopefully we should have enough depth to have a capable replacement for the non elite guys like Ryu.
Unrelated to arm issues but he seems like one of those guys that is going to be an ace when healthy but spends a significant amount of time each year being injured.
Yeah Honeywell was on my MLB roster and I placed him on the IR upon the Fantrax move. At some point Fantrax removed his red flag so you'll just have to pass him as a regular MLB player.
Blame him being on my MLB roster for like three seasons on Gibbers.
Possibly our worst game this season. It happens, we couldn't make an open shot, free throw discrepancy was high, defense wasn't really where it needed to be even with the Nets missing a bunch as well, and carelessness with the ball. On to the next.