The Cubs add Davey Martinez as bench coach. In addition to Henry Blanco, they also have Doug Dascenzo as outfield and baserunning coordinator.
The "ex"Cubs coaching staff.
The "ex"Cubs coaching staff.
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I think this is a good pick up for Boston. Good bad, tons of play-off experience.
Not so sure this is a good one. I just don't see the fit here. Especially since they are going to stick him in the outfield.
Kind of a surprise here. I thought Nick would retire an Oriole.
Meanwhile my Yankees are pretty quiet. Word has it they've offered Headley a contract. That's about it.
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I truly wonder what the Yanks will do with A-Rod.
There's still time yet. A-ROID can still fail a p-test, crash on a jet, get hit by a car....
I wish they would just eat the contract and send him packing...
Likely to be immobile within three years, has almost zero range, can't hit lefties, has regressed in almost every meaningful statistic each year since 2011 (BA, OBP, SLG, OPS+), and it's not like he can fill Ortiz's role of "fat guy playing DH who hits dingers" because Sandoval is in no way a power hitter. Any way you slice it, $95 million for a guy who is going to wind up averaging about a .700 OPS is a ludicrous overpay.
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The .771 OPS Rodriguez put up in 2013 would have been 22 points better than the top-performing Yankee bat in 2014 (and 150 points better than what Derek Jeter's corpse was able to put together).
Didi Gregorius to the Yankees.
I shudder to think at what John Sterling's call will be.
I shudder to think at what John Sterling's call will be.
That's a really, really good move by Cashman. Gregorius is a legit shortstop even if he never hits (I don't think he will), and hitting isn't important for the position now as long as you're better than Brendan Ryan (which isn't hard, since it's a miracle if he breaks .200). He doesn't have a terrible contract to absorb like Andrus, and if his bat does develop, that's a franchise cornerstone player right there. And all the Yankees had to give up was a relief prospect who has two pitches and bad command.
Likely to be immobile within three years, has almost zero range, can't hit lefties, has regressed in almost every meaningful statistic each year since 2011 (BA, OBP, SLG, OPS+), and it's not like he can fill Ortiz's role of "fat guy playing DH who hits dingers" because Sandoval is in no way a power hitter. Any way you slice it, $95 million for a guy who is going to wind up averaging about a .700 OPS is a ludicrous overpay.
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The .771 OPS Rodriguez put up in 2013 would have been 22 points better than the top-performing Yankee bat in 2014 (and 150 points better than what Derek Jeter's corpse was able to put together).
I .... DON'T .... CARE .... I just don't. I don't want to see him in pin-stripes again... My baseball team hit better than the Yankees in 2014...
I guess I agree about Didi, but Green preformed pretty well as a rookie. Lots of potential growth there. Didi's bat does not show promise.
Headley is offered 65 million.... we'll see if he takes it. I'd much rather see him at 3rd of Choke-Rod. Although all these contracts are way too long... but that doesn't seem to matter... 5 years to get Headley? .... eeesh...
Easy on Jeter's numbers the final year of his career...
"This guy would automatically be the best player on the offense."
"I DON'T CARE"
Truly, a sensible argument.
Easy on Jeter's numbers the final year of his career...
I will mock a broken-down guy who hung on two years too long (actively harming his team's offense in the process), was a mediocre-to-bad defender for the last ten years of his career, and had the most incredibly artificial "retirement tour" in human history as much as I want to, thank you very much.
Non-ace pitchers are fungible. Guys have it one year and suddenly don't the next. Greene is coming off a hot two months that are light-years better than anything he did in the minors for the past five years, and the Yankees have a decent track record of pulling back-end starters out of their ass. Gregorius is already one of the best defenders in the league and has upside in his bat. If he hits even at 2012 levels (.704 OPS) he's a really solid player, and if his offense develops into a reliable .300 hitter with a little bit of power (he already has good to very good strike zone judgment), he could easily be a ten-year building-block / face of the franchise player. Put another way, Gregorius is the player that people think Andrelton Simmons is.
If you have the chance to acquire a top glove with upside and cornerstone potential, and all you have to give up is a guy who just had the best two months of his life out of nowhere, you make that deal without hesitation. This trade is an absolute steal and Cashman is a ninja for pulling it off.
New Rays manager is 'Kevin Cash', whoever the actual hell that is.
He was a can't hit / good defense backup catcher for a long-ass time, bounced around the AL East for about ten years. Recently retired, has been coaching for a couple years.
Probably not sensible, but it's how I feel. I'm not the GM, just a fan - so I'm entitled.
I will mock a broken-down guy who hung on two years too long (actively harming his team's offense in the process), was a mediocre-to-bad defender for the last ten years of his career, and had the most incredibly artificial "retirement tour" in human history as much as I want to, thank you very much.
Don't be a hater. You're just jealous he didn't play for your team.
I can agree with that. I suppose I was routing for the home grown guy (Green) as that was how the Yankees got great the last time they were great. Two pitches or not, he did damn well and that's without a team that could score runs. Ace? Probably not, but I thought he'd earned next year to see what he could do.
I hope the Didi fella can improve his batting average what, 50 points? Your the numbers guy, I guess that's possible. Happens all the time I suppose.
I don't know much about the kid yet, but I'll be routing for him. Cashman has already said he's going to platoon with Ryan. Not sure I like that idea.
I'm jealous that a below-average defensive guy with an inconsistent bat who completely fell apart in his final years didn't play for the Cubs.
Sure, tell yourself that if it makes you sleep better at night.
Jeter was a good to very-good player for the first half-decade or so of his career, but his defense was dogshit after like 2002 (there's a reason "past a diving Jeter" became a thing) and after flirting with mediocrity since 2008 or so, his bat fell off a cliff outside of the 2009 / 12 aberrations.
I know he was THE CAPTAIN and all that shit, but he was never the best player at his position in the league after 1999 or 2000, to say nothing of the whole "HE WAS THE GOD OF BASEBALL" shit associated with his retirement tour.
A fan would want the offense to be as good as it could possibly be -- and Rodriguez still has a potent bat.
Jayson Werth got ten days in jail for going 105 mph on the beltway.
His last performance was literally better than every Yankee in 2014 and the fourth-best on the team in 2013.
That's a strange definition of "suck" you have there.
And funny, I don't recall Yankee fans calling for the heads of guys like Jason Giambi, Francisco Cervelli, Randy Velarde, Chuck Knoblauch, Andy Pettite or Clemens ... hmm.
In a world where crack grows on trees, maybe.
That's not saying much is it?
Different time in baseball. What's your team again? I need to get in some cheap shots.
A god with no range to his right perhaps.
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