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Post by chiyankee on Oct 8, 2024 13:42:27 GMT -5
Stanton did seem to get very old very early. He won't turn 35 for another month. We all can list dozens of guys who stayed "younger" longer. And yes, Stanton is still productive. His home run frequency at Yankee Stadium was better this year than Juan Soto's ! Look it up. Batting righty with cousin Lucy behind him he was more apt to hit a home run than Juan Soto who got protected by Aaron Judge. The guy did contribute yet is no longer near what he gets paid. The Stanton deal should send a message to everyone who wants Hal to send Soto the entire bank this offseason. Long term deals usually stink at the end. The deal for Judge will as will the Cole deal. At the minimum prepare for that when you sign them. Or just avoid them. It would be easier to avoid them if the Yankees were better at developing their own talent. |
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Post by ypaterson on Oct 8, 2024 14:01:53 GMT -5
Stanton did seem to get very old very early. He won't turn 35 for another month. We all can list dozens of guys who stayed "younger" longer. And yes, Stanton is still productive. His home run frequency at Yankee Stadium was better this year than Juan Soto's ! Look it up. Batting righty with cousin Lucy behind him he was more apt to hit a home run than Juan Soto who got protected by Aaron Judge. The guy did contribute yet is no longer near what he gets paid. The Stanton deal should send a message to everyone who wants Hal to send Soto the entire bank this offseason. Long term deals usually stink at the end. The deal for Judge will as will the Cole deal. At the minimum prepare for that when you sign them. Or just avoid them. It would be easier to avoid them if the Yankees were better at developing their own talent. Developing talent is important...So is recognizing it. There are lots of guys having great years this season who floated around lin the offseason. We just didn't sign any of them. |
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Post by azbob643 on Oct 8, 2024 14:04:31 GMT -5
It would be easier to avoid them if the Yankees were better at developing their own talent. Developing talent is important...So is recognizing it. There are lots of guys having great years this season who floated around lin the offseason. We just didn't sign any of them. Yanks recognized, signed & developed Judge...so well they eventually had to pay him. |
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Post by Max on Oct 8, 2024 14:05:01 GMT -5
I would like to thank TBS for the in game interviews and the times that they kept showing George Brett.
You know, because I bought a giant screen TV in order to watch a split screen interview/game. I also bought that same TV because I enjoy seeing who's sitting in the stands/luxury boxes rather than seeing the field where the actual game is being played.
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Post by azbob643 on Oct 8, 2024 14:07:30 GMT -5
I would like to thank TBS for the in game interviews and the times that they kept showing George Brett. You know, because I bought a giant screen TV in order to watch a split screen interview/game. I also bought that same TV because I enjoy seeing who's sitting in the stands/luxury boxes rather than seeing the field where the actual game is being played. Stuff like that doesn't bother me as it apparently does others. Keep in mind, there are fans other than Yankee fans tuned to these nationally broadcast games. |
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Post by ypaterson on Oct 8, 2024 15:06:30 GMT -5
Developing talent is important...So is recognizing it. There are lots of guys having great years this season who floated around lin the offseason. We just didn't sign any of them. Yanks recognized, signed & developed Judge...so well they eventually had to pay him. And if Soto is happy signing a similar contract - fine. If not, move on. San Diego found success. So can the Yankees. Maybe the Yankees are better off spending the money keeping Torres and adding Santander. Or pursuing Pederson and Burnes or even Eovaldi and Wacha. I don't have a blueprint but I do know the Yankees should not be held hostage by one player...or his agent. And no matter who it is, be prepared for the end of the deal to smell. |
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Post by azbob643 on Oct 8, 2024 15:19:39 GMT -5
Yanks recognized, signed & developed Judge...so well they eventually had to pay him. And if Soto is happy signing a similar contract - fine. If not, move on. San Diego found success. So can the Yankees. Maybe the Yankees are better off spending the money keeping Torres and adding Santander. Or pursuing Pederson and Burnes or even Eovaldi and Wacha. I don't have a blueprint but I do know the Yankees should not be held hostage by one player...or his agent. And no matter who it is, be prepared for the end of the deal to smell. I agree. Like you, I'm not a fan of long-term contracts taking players into their late 30's-early 40's. DJ is an excellent example...rather than 6 years @ $15M per, 4 @ $20M per would've probably gotten it done. But San Diego also signed some really long-term contracts...Bogaerts 11 years - $250M to age 40; Machado 10 years - $318M to age 40, etc. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 8, 2024 15:20:55 GMT -5
For the first half of the game, Kay was right, but they hit 5 or 6 balls hard in the last 4 innings: the Chisholm HR, the flyball to the track in left by Soto, the line outs to the track in right by Berti and Volpe, Stanton's DP grounder was scorched at 110, but Witt dove and got it and that's an easy DP with Stanton running. The box score at Baseball Savant said the Yanks had 15 hard-hit balls on the game; the Royals 13. XBA is sometimes misleading, but the Royals' team XBA was .272 and the Yanks' was .276. Yankees pitchers struck out 15 Royals, Royals' pitchers struck out 8 Yankees hitters. The Yanks got outplayed and won game 1. The Yanks didn't outplay the Royals tonight, but they didn't get decisively outplayed either. The Royals bunched their hits in one in inning on Rodon, the Yanks didn't really bunch anything. The Royals had 4 more hits, the Yanks had 3 more walks. Again, when they slump, they don't hit HRs, and they don't hit with RISP. I expect Lugo to throw a great game, so it's on Schmidt now to keep it close for 5 innings in game 3. The Yankees also worked the counts with Ragans and got him out of the game after 5 innings. They just need to step up and get some big hits, it doesn't have to be a lot of them, but they shouldn't need a lot of them with their bullpen, which is performing well. They did even better than that; Ragans left after 4 innings and 87 pitches, which I forgot to include but you reminded me of, and is the point about someone, other than Soto, must be able to come through with runners on. It doesn't have to be Judge, but it would certainly help if he did. As is the point about the pen, which, except for Hill in game 1, is doing a great job in 2 games. |
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Post by JEGnj on Oct 8, 2024 15:33:06 GMT -5
Castas makes it seem like every fly ball is headed out. He is horrible.
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Post by Max on Oct 8, 2024 15:38:12 GMT -5
I would like to thank TBS for the in game interviews and the times that they kept showing George Brett. You know, because I bought a giant screen TV in order to watch a split screen interview/game. I also bought that same TV because I enjoy seeing who's sitting in the stands/luxury boxes rather than seeing the field where the actual game is being played. Stuff like that doesn't bother me as it apparently does others. Keep in mind, there are fans other than Yankee fans tuned to these nationally broadcast games. To each their own, I find it annoying. I don't mind seeing who's sitting in the stands/luxury boxes once. But I like to see what's happening on the field between pitches. In my opinion, the in game interviews are annoying as if someone in a movie theater stood up and starts talking while in the middle of a movie. |
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Post by azbob643 on Oct 8, 2024 15:39:10 GMT -5
Castas makes it seem like every fly ball is headed out. He is horrible. A graph was shown prior to the beginning of the game which showed wind direction from around the ballpark, and how it would affect fly ball distance. Easy to misjudge distance off the bat. |
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 8, 2024 15:47:36 GMT -5
Castas makes it seem like every fly ball is headed out. He is horrible. A graph was shown prior to the beginning of the game which showed wind direction from around the ballpark, and how it would affect fly ball distance. Easy to misjudge distance off the bat. Plus, in fairness to Costas, usually when Judge hits a deep flyball, most expect it to leave the park. |
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Post by azbob643 on Oct 8, 2024 15:56:24 GMT -5
A graph was shown prior to the beginning of the game which showed wind direction from around the ballpark, and how it would affect fly ball distance. Easy to misjudge distance off the bat. Plus, in fairness to Costas, usually when Judge hits a deep flyball, most expect it to leave the park. Judging the distance off the bat is not as easy as it may seem. How many games have you been to when fans jump to their feet on a routine flyball to LF? Kay has even held off on his "see ya" call until the ball is in the seats on several occasions. My wife is always amazed when I can usually tell immediately by the speed and trajectory off the bat, but that's watching on TV. It's the moonshots like Tigers Carpenter's HR yesterday that are a little tough to call. |
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Post by cocopugg on Oct 8, 2024 16:00:08 GMT -5
Stanton did seem to get very old very early. He won't turn 35 for another month. We all can list dozens of guys who stayed "younger" longer. And yes, Stanton is still productive. His home run frequency at Yankee Stadium was better this year than Juan Soto's ! Look it up. Batting righty with cousin Lucy behind him he was more apt to hit a home run than Juan Soto who got protected by Aaron Judge. The guy did contribute yet is no longer near what he gets paid. The Stanton deal should send a message to everyone who wants Hal to send Soto the entire bank this offseason. Long term deals usually stink at the end. The deal for Judge will as will the Cole deal. At the minimum prepare for that when you sign them. Or just avoid them. I agree, and it will be a sad day in Yankeeland when that day comes for Aaron Judge, because if he strikes out close to 200 times a season now, imagine when he gets older and his bat speed slows down...Yikes! |
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Post by Max on Oct 8, 2024 16:23:43 GMT -5
Plus, in fairness to Costas, usually when Judge hits a deep flyball, most expect it to leave the park. Judging the distance off the bat is not as easy as it may seem. How many games have you been to when fans jump to their feet on a routine flyball to LF? Kay has even held off on his "see ya" call until the ball is in the seats on several occasions. My wife is always amazed when I can usually tell immediately by the speed and trajectory off the bat, but that's watching on TV. It's the moonshots like Tigers Carpenter's HR yesterday that are a little tough to call. Not all the time, but I can usually can tell by the sound of the bat if a flyball is going to be a HR.
Many moons ago my Dad taught me to watch the outfielder when flyball is hit to the outfield. For me, it's the easiest and most accurate way to tell if a ball is going to be a HR or not. |
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