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Post by noetsi on Jan 14, 2019 13:35:25 GMT -5
You should throw out extreme numbers because this makes sense not because they are extreme. It makes sense to throw out numbers early in a career, people learn how to hit in the majors, and when they are injured (unless you think the injury will continue). Throwing out a good year just because it was a good year, again unless you have reason to believe it can't occur again, does not make much sense. I have heard that hitting is better in Coors not because of its altitude, but because they made the park bigger to lessen home runs and its hard to cover all of it relative to smaller parks. I have no idea if that is true  |
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Post by noetsi on Jan 14, 2019 13:37:57 GMT -5
He became a defensive wizard at second base and has only played other positions sparingly. If the plan is to insert him at second and play Torres at short then I sort of get it. That would leave Tulu out, or set him up to play first in the probable event that Bird stays grounded and Voit reverts back to being Voit. Hence Tulu would be playing a position he’s hardly ever played. All of this cluster fuck to save money, which they have in spades. maybe he will play 2nd, Tulu will play short until Didi returns, and Torres will play the DH. That of course means Stanton would play the OF and Gardner would sit a lot. Stanton clearly does not want to be DH.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 18:19:19 GMT -5
I seriously doubt they plan to put a 22 year old who they have groomed for 2 years to be the future second baseman at DH when they have a glut of OFer types who they plan on giving rest in the field. I would think Stanton gets the bulk of the DH at bats.
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Post by inger on Jan 14, 2019 19:52:37 GMT -5
I seriously doubt they plan to put a 22 year old who they have groomed for 2 years to be the future second baseman at DH when they have a glut of OFer types who they plan on giving rest in the field. I would think Stanton gets the bulk of the DH at bats. Yeah. Really, I can imagine Gleyber, with all the defensive tools in the world needing to be honed at DH...In the WILDEST scenario one of the three potential SS/2B is moved to 3rd and the defensively challenged Andujar is DHing... Whether Stanton likes to DH or not, he’s been a brittle player and should not be counted on for 150 games in the outfield. He needs to DH at least 35-50 games to keep him on the field... |
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Post by inger on Jan 14, 2019 19:53:57 GMT -5
The Yanks did their due diligence and, I'm sure, if Machado were willing to sign a 4 year deal, they would have jumped at it. But he is waiting it out for his 10-year deal. Those are the deals fans love in the first few and kill the GM in the later years. I don't blame Cashman for not wanting to take on yet another major contract for a guy who may end up being only a small upgrade over their current young 3B. Not to mention that Machado is a punk...( Where have I heard that before)?... 😇 |
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Post by inger on Jan 14, 2019 19:59:18 GMT -5
You should throw out extreme numbers because this makes sense not because they are extreme. It makes sense to throw out numbers early in a career, people learn how to hit in the majors, and when they are injured (unless you think the injury will continue). Throwing out a good year just because it was a good year, again unless you have reason to believe it can't occur again, does not make much sense. I have heard that hitting is better in Coors not because of its altitude, but because they made the park bigger to lessen home runs and its hard to cover all of it relative to smaller parks. I have no idea if that is true Russ, if you have no idea if that is true, why would you post it? Truth be known, it IS true...The thin air makes fly balls travel so much farther that still a goodly number of them leave the park, but the biggest advantage hitters have is that singles fall like rain and many of those find the huge gaps and turn into extra base hits. I think it was just yesterday when I posted this information. Don’t tell me you don’t read my posts, I’ll be heartbroken. If you tell me you read them, but forget them, I’ll understand... 🤪 |
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Post by inger on Jan 14, 2019 20:57:37 GMT -5
Tim Locastro was handed his outright release to make room for DJ. LaMahieu. He had scant MLB experience. His AAA numbers were strong, but that was in the offense-happy PCL...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 22:10:39 GMT -5
Newyawka said: 8 hours ago NewYawka said:
The Yanks did their due diligence and, I'm sure, if Machado were willing to sign a 4 year deal, they would have jumped at it. But he is waiting it out for his 10-year deal. Those are the deals fans love in the first few and kill the GM in the later years. I don't blame Cashman for not wanting to take on yet another major contract for a guy who may end up being only a small upgrade over their current young 3B.
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Nobody should seriously think that a player like Machado would take a 4 year deal at age 26, who has put up the numbers on both sides of the ball that he has. You offer him 4, but offer a fringe dude like LaMahieu 2 that takes him to age 31, but Machado would only be 30? Straight up a cheapskate move that doesn't move the needle at all.
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Post by inger on Jan 14, 2019 22:32:33 GMT -5
Newyawka said: 8 hours ago NewYawka said: The Yanks did their due diligence and, I'm sure, if Machado were willing to sign a 4 year deal, they would have jumped at it. But he is waiting it out for his 10-year deal. Those are the deals fans love in the first few and kill the GM in the later years. I don't blame Cashman for not wanting to take on yet another major contract for a guy who may end up being only a small upgrade over their current young 3B. --------------------------- Nobody should seriously think that a player like Machado would take a 4 year deal at age 26, who has put up the numbers on both sides of the ball that he has. You offer him 4, but offer a fringe dude like LaMahieu 2 that takes him to age 31, but Machado would only be 30? Straight up a cheapskate move that doesn't move the needle at all. If the AAV were high enough, and the player has confidence in his ability...he’d be eligible for free agency again at age 30. At which time he could still nab another big contract... The problem with the long term deals is that the player takes no risk at all in the event he gets s serious injury or his skills erode early...look at our buddy Ellsbury, basically sitting year after year...but not penalized one penny. I see the direction pointing more toward higher AAV and fewer years...Granted, 26 year old free agents are a rarity. Most players in that age group that are getting signed to long term deals are locked in with their teams with no leverage and are taking less AAV because they want to secure their future...just in case “something happens” that would lessen their future value. These guys expect more because tgey’re free agents... They took a risk of not signing nice extensions that could have been available from their original teams. There was no guarantee they’d get more money elsewhere. After the owners sent their loud and clear message last winter , they may have been smart to decide to become loyal franchise stalwarts right where they were. They misread the market... |
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Post by greatfatness on Jan 14, 2019 22:47:17 GMT -5
web.yesnetwork.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=2522138583As connected as Curry is to the front office, here’s an explanation for people wondering why the Yankees have not signed Machado. If people in management whose opinions matter didn’t want him at any price then it isn’t surprising they’ve been so quiet on this player.
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Post by inger on Jan 14, 2019 23:12:05 GMT -5
web.yesnetwork.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=2522138583As connected as Curry is to the front office, here’s an explanation for people wondering why the Yankees have not signed Machado. If people in management whose opinions matter didn’t want him at any price then it isn’t surprising they’ve been so quiet on this player. Thanks for posting this, GF... I would have been one of the guys didn’t want him...so good. At least someone in the room saw that he wasn’t a fit. Since he’s a gold glove player and an effective hitter with HR pop, we can safely say it wasn’t a problem with his glove...or his bat. So perhaps the issue was that they’d rather have a cost controlled Andujar... or perhaps it was Manny’s personality...or the evidence of a lack of social intellect that he showed with his “Joe Hustle” or “Johnny Hustle” whatever it was comment coming at such an inappropriate time... Being a bit less tactful at times than someone in the boardroom may have been...I might have just said he’s a punk... (: |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 1:22:35 GMT -5
I have to chuckle when anyone uses the Yes network to make a point about the viability of signing a player. The Yes network is to the Yankees, like Fox is to Trump and then some since the Yankees own a chunk of it. You know its spin when Curry starts spouting half truths like," although he's played mostly second base most of his career, the Yankees are counting on him to play third and first also."- the dude is a second baseman. You want to move him all over the diamond despite his very limited experience anywhere else, do so at your own risk. Trying to convince people like all positions are interchangeable is total BS. Another priceless one- He can drive the ball the other way, and although he hits a lot of ground balls, he hit the ball in the air more last season. If people want to drink the kool aid and not believe that this move was solely made to avoid paying for a player that runs rings around this guy in every aspect of the game then I don't know what to say. BTW, the isolated remark Machado made about his hustle belies the fact that he is among the MLB leaders in games played per season since he's been in the big leagues. He plays pretty much no matter what. The Yankees have passed on every impact player from Verlander to Scherzer to Cole to Corbin when they were a quality SP pitcher away from taking their game to the ultimate level. Now they are doing the same thing with position players. LeMahieu is a role player, Machado is an impact player who is capable of carrying a team for stretches of the season. I really hope this dude plus the guy they pulled out of the scrap heap and expect to play SS for the New York Yankees, the total epiphanies of this weird offseason, prove me wrong, because if they fail yet again to win a division for the seventh time in a row or can't get any further than the WC game or get massacred in the ALDS, or God forbid don't even reach those underwhelming goals, then maybe its time for Hal to channel his full attention to that budget hotel business he's so proud of. It seems he's attempting to use that same business model to build his baseball team on the cheap.
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Post by inger on Jan 15, 2019 5:23:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 6:40:39 GMT -5
Lol.. inger, you have got to get out more. I guess you’re one of those guys that think Asia is a place where people sit huddled around a rice bowl in a room filled with old Singer sewing machines with loudspeakers belting out Mao Tse Tung sayings.
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Post by greatfatness on Jan 15, 2019 7:06:59 GMT -5
blogs.fangraphs.com/dj-lemahieu-is-going-to-look-familiar/“At FanGraphs, we have batted-ball data stretching back to 2002. So now I’m going to compare recent LeMahieu to hitters from the past 17 years. You ready? Since 2002, there have been 854 batters who’ve come to the plate at least 1,000 times. LeMahieu is a right-handed hitter. Narrowing to right-handed hitters drops that pool from 854 batters to 488. LeMahieu has walked in 8.5% of his plate appearances. It wouldn’t be fair to just set a cutoff at 8.5%. Let’s use 7.5%. Roughly league average. Narrowing to walk rates of at least 7.5% drops that pool from 488 batters to 245. LeMahieu is a contact hitter, striking out in 13.3% of his plate appearances. This time, let’s draw the line at 15%. I know that strikeout rates have been on the rise, but I don’t want to overcomplicate things. Narrowing to strikeout rates of at most 15% drops that pool from 245 batters to 62. LeMahieu also happens to be a ground-ball hitter, putting the ball on the ground 52.1% of the time. Some see a ground-ball profile; others see a line-drive profile. This cutoff is going to be 50%. Narrowing to ground-ball rates of at least 50% drops that pool from 62 batters to ten. What’s one of the other most distinctive things about LeMahieu at the plate? He likes to go the other way. LeMahieu has hit 35.4% of his batted balls to the opposite field. Let’s just use a nice, round cutoff of 30%. Narrowing to opposite-field rates of at least 30% drops that pool from ten batters to four. And, finally, LeMahieu does have a little bit of pop. When he’s hit a fly ball, it’s gone for a homer 9.8% of the time. You know that number as HR/FB%. This time, it doesn’t matter if we draw the line at 9%, or 8%, or 7%, or 6%, or 5%. Narrowing to HR/FB rates of at least any of those numbers drops that pool from four batters to one. That one batter is Derek Jeter. This is Jeter from 2002 – 2014, over more than 8,000 trips to the plate. This is Jeter from between the ages of 28 and 40. Jeter was a very good player, also, between the ages of 22 and 27. But the profile was always a similar one. Jeter was a contact hitter who drew his share of walks. He hit from the right side and put a hell of a lot of balls on the ground, but he’d also pepper right and right-center with sharp grounders and line drives. From time to time, a ball would clear the right-field porch. From time to time, Jeter would turn on a pitch inside. It was a slightly different era back then, and Jeter didn’t face as many hard-throwers as LeMahieu does, but that’s the style. As a Yankee, LeMahieu is likely to look like Jeter did.“
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