Yanks: Tanaka Shines
posted by Kalel9 @ 4:33 PM
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
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So glad he's a Yankee, and it's a shame he probably won't play for any contenders.
Capuano is out for the first month of the season. I'd prolly be more excited if I didn't know they'd just put Chase Whitley in his slot. :-/
Scott Baker has looked good.
I would love to see a few top orthopedic surgeons point out the similarities and differences of Tanaka and Darvish's respective MRI.
Lawyer;
I would also like to see that. It has to be more than just "slight tear" vs. "larger tear" of the UCL.
MBN
Granted, it's an area I know nothing about, but they say that medicine is an art as well as a science, so I would like to know if the difference entirely structural, or is there a clinical (i.e., practical) difference, for example, less pain, range of motion, etc.
On another topic, I forgot to mention that Kevin Kernan had a column the other day to the effect that Capuano's injury could motivate the Yankees to reignite the Hamels trade talks?
RUFKM?
Is he mentally challenged, or just a f'ing moron.
Now, if Tanaka or Pineda went down, I think they could do something really short-sighted.
But terrible pitcher who they shouldn't have signed? Jeez.
They are finally in a position to have a chance to put in place some pieces for an enduring core. Sure, they won't be as good as the '90s core, but who cares? That's irrelevant.
Don't meess it up.
There's a really cool Japanese supermarket in Edgewater, right across from location of the terrible fire that destroyed Sterling's place.
Tanaka's wife posted a picture of herself, with a cart full of food, in the parking lot.
If anyone lives in the area and likes Asian food, I recommend checking it out. It has a great food court as well.
River Road, which is where the shopping center LINJ is referring to is located, has been built up significantly since I moved to the area in 2009. The center is always packed and the asian population in general in this area has exploded -- I typically visit the driving range right next to the Japanese shopping center and they also opened a Mediterranean restaurant on the water, I think it's called Jade? Anyway, I would recommend checking it out if anyone else lives in the Hudson county area.
They definitely need more parking.
Of the 34 big league pitchers to have Tommy John surgery from January 2012-May 2013, 15 (44 percent) have thrown 20 innings in the big leagues since their surgery. Look at pitchers who had surgery in 2012, and so have had now two full seasons since their surgery—just 12 of 27 (44 percent) have logged even 20 big league innings in the two seasons since their surgery. Eleven of them (40 percent) have yet to throw a big league pitch post-surgery. And only 12 of those 27 are on 40-man rosters during spring training this year.
Looking at 73 pitchers (20 or more innings pitched in MLB the year of or year before their surgery) who had Tommy John surgery from the start of 2009 to mid-2013, 62 percent have thrown 20 or more big league innings since their injury and 19 (26 percent) have yet to throw another big league pitch.
There are plenty of success stories, obviously, and Venters, Billingsley, Hanrahan, Hudson and many others all are working to prove that their big league returns are just delayed, not destroyed.
But when looking at the large wave of pitchers rehabbing from 2014 Tommy John surgeries, if history is any indication, not all of them will be returning to their pre-injury form, especially this year.
http://www.baseballamerica.com/majors/success-rate-ligament-replacement-surgery-decline/
Something I've noticed: Can you think of any Japanese pitcher not named Hiroki Kuroda that didn't flame out after three years in the majors?
I guess you maybe could include Hideo Nomo since he did bounce back somewhat in his early 30s.
That's interesting.
A quick take: Either they come here too young, and are in the injury matrix, or too old to last long.
Even Kuroda came here at 33, but is claerly blessed with a durable arm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_from_Japan
I want the Yankees to go after Shohei Otani when he's likely available in 6-7 years, but I'd be lying if I wasn't skeptical these guys could be durable.
It'll happen. I think they've chose Asia over Cuba for spending, instead of choosing both, which they should have done.
More "marketable" I suppose.
Hal/Levine/Trost make me rage.
I can't get excited about six years down the road. If they stay on the path they have been on it won't matter anyway.
Start executing with young players in the next 1-3 years and leave the incompetent bullshit in the past (or the present).
IOW, stop appealing to morons. They aren't watching or attending games with the aging/declining mess they have been putting on the field.
So Think Different™.
Also, I don't think the Steinbrenners will own the team in five years.
If the do sell, I would hope that every current decision-maker would be replaced.
Saw on Twitter Refsnyder had a 13-pitch at-bat vs. Porcello. Need guys like him, Bird and Judge who have good approaches at the plate.
We have anon here who keeps harping on his defense. So it's okay to field well but not hit for shit but the other way doesn't work? Why?
The kids good ab's speaks to development. Cano was allowed to make it to the bigs with no plate discipline at all...
If his defense isn't ready it isn't ready, but as I've said before, it's not like this team is built to win a World Series, so who cares? Better to let him get big league at-bats, I say.
had the Boston feed last night and Remy was talking about the time Pedro struck out 17 Yankees and he qualified if by saying "and that's when the Yankees were the YANKEES."
Can't give team 4 outs with this pitching staff
Pitching, defense and timely hitting wins games
I say move them back to the outfield
Timely hitting is mostly luck. Good hitting isn't. It is the most valuable tool in baseball, never more so than now.
So good hitting offsets being a hack at 2B?
That's your word. But hey, field a team that scores no runs. That will not only put more pressure in the pitchers (virtually every inning Tanaka pitche'd last year was very high stress, and that may have contributed to his injury), it's als boring as hell to watch, and it will lead to a lot if losses, like last tear.
Well Cashman has zero faith in Refnyder's fielding abiity otherwise Drew wouldn't be here.
Refnyder will likely be traded in July in another salary dump deal....
When you have a weak argument, you avoid addressing the points the other person made. That's exactly what you have done.
Here's the deal: baseball is half scoring runs and half run prevention.
Run prevention is mostly pitching, including catching. Then you have 7 other guys divvying up whatever the pitching doesn't take care of.
A very good hitter, like Refs could still help the Yanks while developong at 2B.
The Yanks have had guys like Steve Sax and Chuch Knoblauch, who could;t make the throws for psychological reasons, and guys like Duncan and Sori who couldn't turn the DP.
And they all got to play because they could hit.
Refs has a great chance to improve.
There are no points bring made so therefore it was ignored
Calling a developing player a hack isn't a point. It's a poorly informed opinion. So is that Refs will be dealt at the deadline. Not a point but an opinion. So move out of your glass house, please.
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