Pirela Stuff
Of course, as soon as he spanked his RBI triple last night, everyone had to be wondering why he wasn't up sooner. Why he, Roller, Refsnyder and others weren't up at the deadline is ponderous. The Yanks have become bad at scouting their own system. And I'm wondering if Gene Michael has finally lost it or something. Over they years I got the feeling that he was identifying the ones to keep and not trade. I should have been more suspicious when Nunez was kept around for so long, but something is definitely broken in the Yankee evaluations of their own inventory.
The Yanks won't make the playoffs this year, and it won't be because of the pitching injuries, nor will it even be because of their free agent foolishness last winter, it will because they didn't call up the players they already had who could have helped.
Perturbing.
posted by Kalel9 @ 12:11 PM
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I have to disagree with Refs who can't yet turn two and Roller who is a great kid but is a DH who is a mistake hitter who can crush it but who's place was he taking ??
How many games has Tex missed? And Roller is an on base machine, btw, which is not the same as a mistake hitter.
Refs turns 2 better than Sori used to and we went to the postseason every year we had Sori the first time around when he was a 2B.
Also, a lot of hitters have historically come to the bigs needing work on their d.
You don't have to wait till a guy is Nellie Foxx once his bat is ready. It's still 50% O and 50% stopping O, the vast majority of which is pitching.
It could be Stick, but the buck should stop with the GM. For reasons that I suspect could fill a tabloid, it doesn't.
And if it's Girardi, that's reason #1000000000 to get him out of here.
Give everyone a gold watch, or even an Apple Watch Edition, and start fresh.
And Tex just can't be relied on. So what's the point? They're paying double, in dollars and in games lost due to lack of production.
No kidding. Adding Beltran on top of all of these old players, who miss games, was the coup de gras of roster idiocy. Then trading for Prado...
Roller was pitched around because of his that power which if they thought would translate he would have been called up.You have said before Sori couldn't turn two well and as true as that is Ref's couldn't field the position as well as Sori . Yes, that bad and to ask a rookie to learn at this level in a pennant race is IMO asking too much.
Roller has always had a great eye at the plate, that's why they drafted him. They have behaved stupidly, not intelligently in the matters of Pirela, Roller, and Refsnyder, as well as in the contracts of Ellsbury, McCann, Beltran and taking on Prado's money at the deadline.
They had a good IFA plan, but a bad draft budget due to the MLB FA signings which cost them three first rounders as well as the draft freedom that would have created.
In all, they have acted inconsistently, and squandered both the fiscal advantage they control, and some of the talent they control.
Thus we are out of the playoffs, and didn't have the the monster draft we should have with 3 1's, and probably aren't set up to have a much better draft this year, and won't be able to sign top tier IFA's for awhile starting on 5/15/15.
We'll have good pitching for the foreseeable, but the offense is up in the air.
I didn't like signing Beltran..As far as Ellsbury and Mccann it was a gamble that I kinda of understood but it didn't work out and I do believe we need to break it down but i guess were in the minority.
The pitching could be good but it's so fragile who knows?
Until they hire someone who knows how to execute a plan from the bottom up in the organization they areprobably going to continue to fail, even if failing in their case means just being mediocre because of their payroll and advantage.
I think they have enough talent on the way to get it going again, but they have to keep drafting well, and find more gems in their reduced IFA market. What they can't do is trade high end prospects for old players, but they haven't really done that. They've traded first round draft picks for old players and that' got to stop.
As a result of the PED era teams are still in hope of an 35 plus player doing well and that is just not the case anymore.Yea ,maybe a surprise hear and there but for the most part we are falling back into the old norm where a player after 32 -34 will start to decline quickly and we really have to move toward our development more then ever.
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