Yanks' Igawa is "in the mix"

The Yankees go back to the future today by starting Kei Igawa in Detroit. Optimism gets tested in Motown. For those of you, who who chose to forget, here's a scouting report from BP, "The arm that launched a thousand baseballs...His performance screams of another too-nervous-for-New York scenario in which the ravenous, man eating Yankee Stadium crowds unnerved the new hurler by threatening to do unnatural things to kittens during his windup, Igawa was so thoroughly brutal that a comeback seems unlikely."

"Ye of little faith," apparently the seers at Baseball Prospectus hadn't heard Brian Cashman's fateful words, "Igawa is in the mix." In Cash's world, "thoroughly brutal" translates to "growing pains" which morphs into "work in progress." The bottom line is, it's a reach of epic proportions.

Igawa's presence does manage to do the unthinkable--it unites the Yankees blogosphere. Normally a divergent mob, we are all on the same page. The Yankees Republic captures the carnage of the "46 million dollar albatross." In highly literate fashion, "The most salient folly of Cashman's reign" is documented. For those of you who would rather wait for the movie, Eephus Pitch provides a preview. It's not a pretty picture.