Sorry to step on your Toes
http://www.nypost.com/seven/
1210...oel_sherman.htm
Not stepping on any toes I assure you.
I would just like to say that I am not happy with the quality of Gerardo's profile and will work twice as hard when I profile either Brett Smith or Dan McCutchen.
Hey EJ, do you have any information on Juan Miranda, the young first baseman the Yankees just signed?
Ken Rosenthal from Foxsports Already bashing Andy Petite's signing.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/sto...b/story/
6259574
Ken Rosenthal article is sort of glancing over the big picture in that the short term deal is what is most appealing to the yankees, however nothing in that article is foolish or idiotic.
Juts b/c its against the popular yankee fan sentiment, doesnt make it untrue.
He is aging, he does have elbow issues, his ERA did raise from 1 year to the next,and he is essentially signed for 22mil+ for 2 year with factoring in the tax . If its all true, how is it foolish?
Im happy Pettitte is back, and frankly i think it was the yankees best option this year, but these are legit concerns. Once you get past the bunnies and balloons of andy's glorified return, you can see that.
Yeah, much smarter to pay Lilly 44M, Meche 55M, or Schmidt 45M. I mean, those guys are health and performance locks. No doubt about it, terrible move for the Yankees. I mean, who cares if we don't know if those 3 guys can pitch in NY, or in October??? Pettitte was hurt significantly one time in his entire career, so he is quite obviously a tremendous health risk.
Surely.
Not to mention Zito, who will get much more and lots of years. Then we have a 51.1 million paid just to talk to a Japanese pitcher.
The short term deal for a proven Lefty at The Stadium is a coup on Cashman's part.
Sure, to fill white space on a page, you could list all the negatives, but to call this signing anything more than a smashing success is silly.
My question for YG and this clown remain. Who exactly would have been a better, younger signing? Last time I checked, 100M for Zito was ridiculous and 90% of Yankee fans don't want him here, and there was no one else available. Pettitte, or Meche/Lilly/Schmidt??
Oh wait, lets rely on Karstens and Pavano. riiigh.t
What the Yanks learned in 3 yrs
This guy says Yanks should invest in players who do well in postseason and not worry as much about the ones who put up numbers during the regular season:
http://bagelsandbiscuits.blogspot.com/
Since it's pretty much a given that New York will be playing in October each year, why haven't the Yankees focused before on landing and keeping pitchers who have had a strong track record in the postseason?
Well, they went after Randy Johnson, who won a World Series MVP.
Mussina's last postseason series before he joined the Yanks? He made two starts, pitched 15 innings, struck out 25, allowed four hits and one run -- against a Cleveland team that had the best offense in the game and came within a win of taking the World Series.
That same World Series won MVP? Pettitte had two starts -- nine innings, 12 hits, 10 runs, 10.00 ERA and two losses.
In other words, caveat emptor.
Jordon, I know nothing at all about the guy. Yesterday was the first time that I heard of him. I do know that he put up the following stats in Cuba:
Series AB H AVE 2B 3B HR SLU RBI BB K
4 1138 343 301 70 14 57 538 205 197 242"
for a line of:
.301/.404/.538
Yankees–don't give any 1st baseman a multi year deal.
and I dont think that they will either, alot of money comes off the books next season, the pitching will already be set with Wang, Hughes (replaces Johnson when he retires), Mussina, Pettitte and Pavano (if he's pitching) and we can use that to throw alot of money at Mark Texiera who is going to be a Free Agent I believe.
There's no guarantee Ehlers will amount to shiiiit, so Yankees aren't going to hold out and let a great player like Texiera pass because of some youngster with potential.. Texiera is a great hitter and on top of that a great defender. He is also a switch hitter. He grew up idolizing Mattingly, and he might also have grown up a Yankee fan. Giambi will come off the books the following next year, so we will need a power hitting 1b anyway and we will financial flexibility. The infield defense could be phenomal with Texiera, Cano (getting to be very good), Jeter, and Arod (who had a off year). Hopefully Shea hillebrand accepts a one year offer or we go with an aleternative for the upcoming season.
Let's Go Yankees!!!!
Thats been the plan all along, the Yanks are hoping that Teixeira hits the market next offseason because they would love to bring him to his childhood favorite team. The 1st baseman that they've been looking at this offseason have all been short term options only.
Infact I was told this spring or summer from family and friends within the Yanks and throughout baseball that the Yanks weren't going to do much this offseason other than trying to get Matsuzaka because they money is coming off the books after '07 and thats the class that they are willing to spend money on with players such Teixeira, Zambrano, V. Wells, A.Jones and Ichiro.
I apologize to anyone who sent me an email to downfromnj@gmail.com. I set the account up and didn't check it. I had a half dozen requests for profiles sitting in my inbox.
As can be seen in what I view as a sub-par profile of Gerardo Rodriguez, I am no scout. I have a lot of trouble gathering information about guys who haven't been around for more than a season or so. I got requests for information on Prilys Cuello, Abraham Almonte, Carlos Urena, and Francisco Gil. There is really only one source on the internet to draw information on these prospects from - Pinstripes Plus - and an article solely from that source would be plagurism. I suggest a subscription to the site if you are interested in young guys like that. It's worth every penny.
That said, I've been following the Yankees for a long time now. Guys like Justin Christian, R.J. Swindle, Josh Schmidt, Brett Smith, Jason Jones, Jeff Kennard, Mike Martinez, and Justin Pope, all who have the potential for major league impact, are the kind of guys who I will focus on. In fact, nearly everybody on that list if not all of them will get a profile in the coming months.
Cuban defector signed
He says He has a Double A skills right now ?? Yankees signed him for depth that's all and he will not compete for first base job in spring training.
He's not on the active roster he's on the 40 man
right now if his age is correct then i Expect him to compete at AA this year and then Make the transition to AAA by Mid Summer.
It's called Stocking up on your options. I think that the yankees might move Eric back to 3rd base this season either that or Keep him down in AA for the whole year. Either Way Duncan will be Eligible for the 2007 Rule V draft along with Clippard,Battle, and a few other kids from that 2003 draft also Vecchi,Pino and Corona as well.
Cuban players aren't much better -if at all- than Japanese players that have come over.
This should only be looked upon as stock-piling more than anything.
I'll be surprised if this kid makes it to the big league.
M.K,
I don't think that he is just a filler. You don't give a 2 million dollar contract to a filler in AA.
Bad Bad News
http://www.baseballamerica.com/t...ews/
262991.html
We've known it for awhile.
Oh well.
Crap, didn't read the part about Montero right away.
That's not good. Not at all.
Might at least keep him at catcher though.
Here's what PECOTA might predict for Matsuzaka...
QUOTEG GS IP H BB SO HR ERA VORP WARP
29 29 187.3 188 52 167 19 4.01 35.8 5.6
Mastu PECOTA
Matsuzaka’s MORP is also impressive.
2007 $15,275,000
2008 $16,475,000
2009 $13,825,000
2010 $13,025,000
2011 $10,525,000
That works out to $69 million in market value over the next five years. If you wanted to throw in a sixth year, to account for Matsuzaka’s full contingent of pre-free agency major league service time, the total would come out in the neighborhood of $77-$78 million.
http://www.baseballprospectus.co...nfiltered/?
p=80
Al Leiter article about the Yankee pitching staff
http://www.yesnetwork.com/news/a...=1415223&
vkey=8
Link
Interesting stuff. He thinks the order should be W@ng, Pettitte, Mussina, Randy, Igawa. He seems to think Pavano will get traded, perhaps not til after spring though. He also mentions that he likes having Igawa behind Randy, as his fastball/changeup combo is a big change of pace from Randy Johnson's fastball/slider (and both are different from Pettitte), which forces opposing hitters into stepping up to the plate with different game plans each night.
Leiter also thinks they should take it easy with Hughes and only call him up when he's ready. He thinks Sanchez is going to start the year as the AAA closer. Briton has great stuff, Farnsworth is expendable.
http://www.waswatching.com/
[b]They Don't Grow Many, Do They?[/b]
I was just wondering when was the last time that the Yankees had a 26-year old pitcher throw 200+ IP with at least 15 RSAA - like Worm Killer W@ng did in 2006. So, I turned to the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia and did a sort from 1973:
Funny, it was almost a year ago here that I reflected on that 1992 season by Melido Perez.
In any event, there's a case to be made that W@ng is the best home-grown starting pitcher for the Yankees since Andy Pettitte and Ron Guidry. And, he's probably the best right-handed SP developed by the Yankees since the days of Mel Stottlemyre, Stan Bahnsen and Jim Bouton.
You would think that there would have been more of these guys in the last 40-years or so?[/quote]
Billy Masse lands a job
http://weblogs.newsday.com/
sport...b.html#comments
Bill Masse is so familiar with Phil Hughes since He managed him in trenton I'm worried that He may gives and relayed some hints to Bluejays and gibbons how to handle Hughes.
The organizatio is very high on GRod as a first baseman.
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