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Post by chiyankee on May 30, 2019 12:55:12 GMT -5
Carlos Gonzalez is heading to the Northside.
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Post by inger on May 30, 2019 17:48:02 GMT -5
Random thought:
Once in a while the subject of great baseball nicknames is broached on this site. Has anyone ever mentioned “Shanty” Hogan?...
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Post by domeplease on May 31, 2019 12:38:11 GMT -5
CHANGES ARE IN THE AIR: Land of the Rising Arm: Can Japanese baseball actually be a competitive alternative to the minors?
www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/land-of-the-rising-arm-can-japanese-baseball-actually-be-a-competitive-alternative-to-the-minors/ar-AACaaIY?ocid=U147DHP
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Let’s say the $11-billion baseball industry let down the young man with the big fastball and hyper-spin curveball, that it is letting down hundreds more like him, that there is a better way and it exists far away, and that all it takes to get there is a lot of talent and a spritz of adventurousness.
Let’s consider Japanese baseball as the competitive alternative to an industry gone unchallenged for more than a century, that suddenly there is a place where wages are fairer and accommodations are reasonable and the life is livable instead of survivable, that it is, as agent Scott Boras described it, “The Land of the Rising Arm.” That this is a place where the baseball, in the development of players and the product itself, is close enough, similar enough and financially healthy enough to be an option.
Let’s grant, for the moment, that Boras could be right, that the process by which American baseball procures and compensates its talent, especially its new talent, is rigged against the player.
That a system in which a draft pick is considered so precious a franchise will threaten to trash an entire baseball season to preserve it also seeks to tamp the value of that very draft pick. READ MORE...
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Post by greatfatness on May 31, 2019 19:53:53 GMT -5
Who signs Kimbrel next Thursday after the draft?
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Post by chiyankee on May 31, 2019 20:33:51 GMT -5
Who signs Kimbrel next Thursday after the draft? I'm guessing Atlanta, although plenty of teams could use him. |
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Post by inger on Jun 1, 2019 22:23:12 GMT -5
Since ESPN.com is incorrectly posting that CC is starting tomorrow, I followed logic and assumed that I could go to MLB.com and get the proper info. That site says that the Yankee / Red Sox game from today is still “in progress” and does not list probable starting pitchers.
It’s not the first time I’ve tried that site and been disappointed. It’s a pretty crappy site to be the “go to” for MLB...
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Post by inger on Jun 1, 2019 23:06:58 GMT -5
Yankees were the only AL EAST winners today...
Now 2.5 up on Tampa. Boston at 9.5 back. I’m still concerned about them, lots of talent on that team, although you have to put the BAs into “Fenway perspective”, just as you must consider the Yankees HR totals in their proper perspective...
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Post by domeplease on Jun 2, 2019 16:03:12 GMT -5
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Post by domeplease on Jun 3, 2019 10:13:21 GMT -5
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Post by kaybli on Jun 5, 2019 19:46:08 GMT -5
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Post by greatfatness on Jun 5, 2019 20:05:56 GMT -5
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Post by kaybli on Jun 5, 2019 20:08:07 GMT -5
Just glad he went to an NL team. |
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Post by chiyankee on Jun 5, 2019 21:01:27 GMT -5
Just glad he went to an NL team. Rumors out there that the Twins were on Kimbrel, but they wouldn't go 3 years like the Cubs did. |
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Post by inger on Jun 5, 2019 21:10:42 GMT -5
Exactly. If it looks like a billy goat, it belongs with the billy goats... |
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Post by greatfatness on Jun 6, 2019 12:52:05 GMT -5
I saw some things suggesting the Yanks might pursue both Kimbrel and Keuchel. I am glad they passed on Kimbrel. Not every pitcher can put their ego aside to take a role less than what they could be in. We have several on this team who have including people in the pen like Britton and Ottavino and people in the lineup like DJLM. I don’t know that Kimbrel would adjust well to setting up Chapman and if he wanted to do that he had opportunities. Beyond that, as good as his numbers look I don’t think he’s elite. The Yankees got to him several times, there’s a book on him for disciplined teams. I think the risk of him being a bad signing is not insignificant.
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