Rafael Soriano has had a fantastic season overall. Really, if back in April you told the Yankees Universe that Mariano Rivera was gonna miss almost all of the season because of a torn ACL, people would have assumed disaster. Instead, Soriano has nailed down most saves ? he?s 33 for 36 where even Mariano River blew five saves last year ? and has kept the bullpen humming.
But he got lit up last night and then he bolted the clubhouse before the press got there. John Harper says that?s bad news.?Of course, because this is Harper, the notion is put forth with enough sanctimony and drama to choke a horse:
One thing for sure: Soriano doesn?t handle himself in defeat the way his predecessor did. Nobody was more accountable or classier when he did blow one than Rivera ??He was gone before the Yankees? PR people could even find him to ask if he would answer questions from the media.?And don?t get this wrong: it?s not a media issue, it?s an accountability issue. It?s about being a professional in a clubhouse that has oozed professionalism since the day Derek Jeter showed up some 16 years ago.
Overwrought phrasing aside, he?s not wrong. I personally think that to a lot of reporters it is a media thing, but Harper correctly notes that players hate it when the guy everyone wants to talk to because of his screw up leaves and they have to give the quotes for the next day?s unhappy stories.
Harper wants to make it into some harbinger of doom and by the constant comparison to Rivera he wants to make it much larger than it is, which is kinda silly. ?But it?s not nothing. Soriano probably annoyed his teammates with that.
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