STOP Saying Yankees Offense Is Struggling!

Look, I am sick of day in and day out, during the pre-game, during the post game and every time the Yankees don't score 15 runs that the Yankees offense is struggling.

They are not really struggling. Just read and you will see - there are a lot - A LOT of reasons why.

Lets start off with Alex Rodriguez. He is having a fine year, but last year was a career year with over 50 homers and coming up big every time it seemed - that just was an amazing season, he can not give that year in and year out. He is doing very well batting about .320 on pace for 30 some odd homers and 100 RBI's - and don't forget that he was missing for about a month - a month where the Yankees really struggled scoring runs without their main man in the middle of their line-up.

Ok, lets move on to Jorge Posada. He has been injured for most of the season and still isn't 100% and will need off season surgery. Him not playing every day hurts the line-up. When you take out Posada, a .275 hitter with a near .400 OBP and replace him with Jose Molina, yes, that is a major drop off. Ad even when he plays, he is being forced to play more DH and 1st base - positions he is not used to playing and not used to being mentally prepared for. That hurts him even when he is in the line-up.

We continue to move on. Hideki Matsui and Johnny Damon have suffered injuries. Both men are currently on the DL. You just took away our number 5 hitter in Matsui and a good threat behind Rodriguez. You also lose our leadoff man in Damon. Damon is pesky, works up a pitch count on the opposition, gets a lot of big hits, and he is not in the line-up.

We continue. Bobby Abreu. He seems like the nicest guy in the world but I am sick of seeing him hit. He is playing horribly yet Joe Girardi continues to keep him in as the number 3 hitter. Loyalty I guess it is called, but I say loyalty goes out the window when you start to really hurt the team. He works counts great but isn't capitalizing on them. So many times he works 2-1, 3-1, 3-2 counts and winds up popping up or hitting a slow grounder somewhere or thinking he drew a walk, over trusting his eye and looking at strike 3. It happens all the time. It just doesn't look that bad as he started the season on fire but has done NOTHING for the past two months.

Ok, let's talk Robinson Cano. Cano has always been a slow starter. The past few years the question the first few months is always "What is wrong with Cano?" "Does he not have it anymore?" Stop with the questions - he starts slow - much like Pettitte is a great second half pitcher, Cano is an amazing second half hitter. First half, he may only hit around .250, but really heat up in the second half - it is something you have to work on and deal with, but he will be fine - you can see he is starting to heat up the past couple weeks - and when? What do you know, it is the half way point of the season ad is batting in the low .250's.

Lastly, we have Derek Jeter. He battled some hand injuries and despite saying he is fine all the time, you know that his hand injuries had to have something to do with what is currently is worst hitting season in his career.

Lastly, the Yankees have just faced a lot of great pitching. The Red Sox have very good pitching, the Blue Jays, despite their record, have excellent young pitching and of course, the surprise Rays have excellent young pitching from their ace to their fifth starter and the O's are no slouch either.

They play in a very tough division - probably the toughest division in baseball and this has to be the best that the AL East has been in recent memory.

So, the key is that the Yanks need to get healthy, let the guys who get hot now get hot, realize that they had some guys the past few years with some career years and you aren't going to play at that level every year, get some more realistic expectations and this talk about a struggling Yankees offense will be for naught and will be all but forgotten.