Steady as Eddie. Every starting position player has an OPS+ over 100 except for the defensive wizards in CF, who are in the mid 80's. Now, stop and pinch yourself as you let the next sentence take hold: Mike Zunino has an OPS+ of 101. Someone tweeted this morning that Zunino was hitting .195/.250/.390 for July. It was meant to be a lament: that the good times were perhaps over. But it wasn't long ago a month like that would have us turning cartwheels. It wasn't long ago that a month like that was considered a ceiling, not a floor.
Tonight offered us a glimpse of good bullpen times to come. David Phelps immediately stepped in to give us what we were looking for: a bridge to the eighth inning. He was better than advertised too. With Phelps as that bridge, Tony Zych was allowed to be nails in the 10th and the Seattle bullpen served notice it wasn't going to back down from a head to head challenge with a Yankee bullpen that is loaded beyond belief.