The J.a. Happ Of It All

Wednesday night brought us another disappointing J.A. Happ start, lasting only 4+ innings in the Yankees’ 6-4 loss to the A’s. Now that his ERA shot up to 5.58, what do the Yankees do with Happ after this season?

‘I haven’t struggled like this in a while,’ Happ said afterward. ‘But again, I’m doing everything I can every day to come in and try to figure this thing out. Try to support the rest of the guys. And I feel good. So I feel like I can make the adjustments and make the changes. That’s my hope.‘ In between starts, Happ says he has been doing everything he can to try and improve his pitching.

‘We’re trying to do everything we can between starts to try to figure out sequencing, location, execution, delivery,’ Happ said. What’s the best move for Happ right now? Instead of starting should he be put into the bullpen to relieve? Send him down to Triple-A? Deactivate him onto the IL? It’s not the first time we have been this with Yankees’ pitching.

The same happened with Sonny Gray: Boone kept confident with him till the bitter end before replacing him. The problem is, there’s no one to replace Happ. ‘I know he’s frustrated,’ Boone said.

‘We’ve got to keep grinding away. But the stuff is there enough for him to go out and continue to be successful. We’ve just got to continue to find a way with him and try and learn from things but really try and find and build on a lot of the positive things that are happening with him in an outing.’”

–Missy O’Rourke
BYB Contributor
Twitter: @missy_orourke