{"id":278840,"date":"2021-06-19T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T09:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/james-kaprielian-shows-yankees-what-theyre-missing\/"},"modified":"2021-06-19T12:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T09:45:16","slug":"james-kaprielian-shows-yankees-what-theyre-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/james-kaprielian-shows-yankees-what-theyre-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"#James Kaprielian shows Yankees what they’re missing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#James Kaprielian shows Yankees what they’re missing<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The Athletics assign their hotel rooms alphabetically on the road \u2014 probably not an uncommon practice \u2014 so James Kaprielian and Tony Kemp usually find themselves as neighbors. On Thursday, enjoying a day off in Manhattan, the neighbors looked ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Man, I just can\u2019t wait for tomorrow,\u2019 \u201d the outfielder Kemp disclosed about the pitcher Kaprielian.<\/p>\n

Yeah, Friday night in The Bronx was a big one for Kaprielian and a painful one for the Yankees. Kaprielian, once a potential pillar of this very Yankees team, instead made his Yankee Stadium debut by leading the A\u2019s to a 5-3 victory over the club that drafted him. The AL West leaders halted the Yankees\u2019 three-game<\/a> winning streak. And now Kaprielian, the Yankees\u2019 first-round draft pick of 2015, the 16th selection overall that year, boasts of a 2.84 ERA in seven starts.<\/p>\n

If he couldn\u2019t have made a difference in New York these past few years, as he took time to recover from 2017 Tommy John surgery, he sure could right now, as a 27-year-old rookie, while the man the Yankees acquired for him (and others), Sonny Gray, marks his third season with the Cincinnati Reds after flaming out in the Big App<\/a>le.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u201dm not gonna lie. I was excited to be here,\u201d said Kaprielian, who lasted 5 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings, allowing three runs and three hits, walking one and striking out seven. \u201cFor so long, I envisioned myself pitching on that mound and wearing a different uniform. But the fact that I got to be here at all is special.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Since the Yankees returned to attack mode on the baseball-operations level, making a number of \u201cbuy\u201d trades starting in the middle of the 2017 season (including Kaprielian, Dustin Fowler and Jorge Mateo for Gray), none of the youngsters they surrendered have come back to bite them in any significant way. The UCLA product Kaprielian, given his pedigree, has the potential to do that, if later than the A\u2019s originally hoped.<\/p>\n

While acknowledging that the A\u2019s took it easy on Kaprielian when he first replaced the injured Jesus Luzardo in their starting rotation last month, longtime Oakland manager Bob Melvin said: \u201cNow he\u2019s just settled into that role and he\u2019s been really good. You look at the swings and misses [a game-high 14], for a guy who doesn\u2019t throw in the upper 90s [he topped out at 94 miles per hour], he gets a lot of them, which means he hides the ball, which means his slider plays really well off his fastball for righties and his changeup plays really well off his fastball for lefties, more than anything.<\/p>\n