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Post by noetsi on Jun 29, 2021 22:00:08 GMT -5
I don't think our strategy works well inger. And it is almost exclusively tied to OBP and home runs. I don't think we are, or have been balanced. Teams that win usually have a high OBP and hit a lot of HR's. We last won, was in, a WS when? It has not worked for us. I think we would be a much better team with a few guys who could hit .290 and steal bases rather than hit home runs. But it is not a theory we are likely to test.  I know that home runs + opb = heaven philosophy dominates baseball logic. I just don't agree with it. I don't think our focus on it has worked. How many game threads do people complain about not getting a hit? Or having no one on base when we do hit a home runs. Maybe it is because we never try to get anyone who can hit anything but homeruns. |
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Post by rizzuto on Jun 30, 2021 0:02:45 GMT -5
I am working through the free agency list over the past decade and I will admit to (at first glance anyhow I have not had the time to dig deeper) there are not a lot of great percentage hitters in the mix. Part of that no doubt is the age. So I agree with Inger above especially since age will often cause a decline in ability. Determining speed from the list I have seen is difficult but given the age factor its likely its not high. Maybe the solution then, for the problem is the same, is to not get involved in free agency at all and develop (and then keep) our own players. I think we need faster players who can hit, know the fundamentals of baseball and are decent at defense. It may be that the only way to get those players is internally (which we have not done in a while in part not doubt because we get free agents and lose draft picks). So I may be wrong in what I said. It may be not that we go after the wrong type of player in free agency, as that we pursue free agents on other teams at all. Kudos for perusing the free agency lists from past years and for acknowledging the relative scarcity of high average hitters. Multiple tool players - speed, defense, and hitting for average - are rare. Additionally, such players are usually signed to lucrative contracts prior to their free agency year commencement. And, more often than not, when they do hit free agency, it is for their second major contract, at a time when many of those skills have eroded or no longer exist. As for the current Yankees, most of the players were acquired through trades or the farm system, and this has been true for many years. Sanchez, Higashioka, Torres, Wade, Andujar, Frazier, Gardner, Judge, Montgomery, German, Green, Loaisiga, Cessa, King, Abreu, Nestor Cortes were all drafted initially or pulled up to the Yankees from their farm system. Hicks, Stanton, Taillon, Voit, Odor were all obtained in trades. Urshela didn’t even cost a player to be named later - just cash considerations. Cole, Chapman, Luetge, Britton, Kluber, O’Day, and Wilson were signed as free agents. |
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