Yanks Promote Severino
posted by Kalel9 @ 9:55 AM
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Thursday, May 28, 2015
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posted by Kalel9 @ 9:55 AM
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True. The pen killed Joba.
At a minimum, they need to come out of this season with Slade and Refs productive in NY, and Severino's development on track.
Cashman can blather on about stuff like we always rely on old guys, we're held to a different standard, and on and on.
They have been given a gift by Teix and A-Rod, and that has given them the space to do some ML development while contending (against the backdrop of a weak division, but that's irrelevant, imo).
Not sure where they're keeping Tanaka right now, but I'd love to have him talk to Louis about sliders and stuff.
Japanese-speaking Tanaka talking to Spanish-speaking Severino. That would need 2 interpreters. A lot could get lost in the translation there!!
Great news! It will be interesting to see if they have him pitch more innings per start in AAA.
Severino has taught himself English, btw. So just one translator would be needed.
Great news.. Lets hope he comes up perhaps sometime after the ASB and break him in the BP.
No BP!
In any event, I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't plenty of people who could do direct Spanish-Japanese translations. Perhaps Alberto Fujimori needs some income :-)
Slade scratched
Hurt or just Girardi'd?
Tight quad
McCann goes deep...on the road...wait... What?
I doubt Servino would be put in the bullpen. We have a pretty strong bullpen, not many young arms for Starters.
I'm loving Slade, keep him in RF when Ellsbury returns, DFA Hurtran ....
Start trusting Lindgren.
So the quad issue has been there since spring training and is supposedly manageable.
Chad Jennings thinks CC would have been pulled earlier but Miller, Befsnces, and/or Wilson were not available.
So again, why not Lindgren?
How bad does Carpenter get to be for how long?
He must have the same compromising pictures that Roberts gave Drew.
Drew is terrible, my god. Carpenter needs to figure it out. Can't be walking in runs.
Also, CC a third time threw a lineup is getting crushed .... Girardi needs to have people up the second he makes it past the 2nd turn.
“[Monday] I had the home run,” Drew said before the game. “That was a good at-bat, but it seems like every time I hit the ball right at someone.
“It’s kind of been like that for me all year.’’
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Last year too...
Really nothing else to say here. This is a poorly run team that only gives its youth a chance when injuries force them to (Heathcott), when someone(s) completely falls apart (Lindgren in the case of the Yankees' bullpen) or they're out of options (Betances last year). That Drew plays in favor of Pirela and Chris Young is still getting any starts at all is a testament to that.
Maybe it's Girardi having too much faith in veterans (likely) or Cashman just being bad at roster construction (also likely), but either way, it's depressing.
*goes back into hibernation*
You know what? Forget this hibernation thing. Too much worth discussing, even if not all of it is good.
First, the positive: It appears recently that Chase Headley and Brian McCann seem to be waking up with their bats. Unlike Beltran's supposed resurgence, which feels more and more like fool's gold at this point, the two of them have gotten their OPS+ stats to at least 100 (Headley's is exactly that). I've been particularly pleased to see McCann take more walks of late. If this continues, it will take some pressure off Teix and A-Rod, which will be good for the lineup all around.
The negative: Manny Banuelos is currently pitching to a 2.39 ERA for the Braves' AAA affiliate. Given the lack of SP depth (LOL Capuano got $5M) and the injury concerns of Tanaka and Pineda, combined with the unknown that is Ivan Nova less than a year removed from TJS, and it sure would have been nice to have him in Scranton with Bryan Mitchell and now Severino.
It's amazing how an organization with so many built-in advantages can so consistently get in its own way.
And there is a successful precedent as a reference point because an infusion of a few young players helped in 2005, and yielded the best player, by far, that Cashman has developed as GM, although granted the track record is extremely sparse.
But I will retain a little optimism and think/hope that as long as Slade is ok, he will continue to get a shot (if he remains productive), that Lindgren will be used more, that Warren will remain in the rotation as long he is the most consistently effective starter in the rotation.
He has earned it and they need him there.
If those things don't happen, I will lose that optimism.
I also think we may see Severino in the rotation later in the year.
I hated the Banuelos trade. Most relievers are so variable in performance that exchanging a young asset with upside is insane, and we are seeing that with Carpenter sucking.
The only way the Banuelos trade makes sense is if the Yanks had reason to believe he'd never get his old stuff back.
The mistake was thinking they could determine that after just one season removed from the surgery. And even if you did trade him, why for relief pitching, when you had arms in the minors that could just as easily fill those roles?
I don't see how they could know that.
I think the deal was reflective of the short-term mentality, in general, and doing it by over-leveraging the pen.
That's strange because the pen is really the only thing Cashman has gotten consistently right. He has done with the heavy collateral expense of shifting of young starters (Joba, Hughes, Betances, Warren, even Phelps), and the successful drafting of development of Robertson, after Mo left.
Yet he has done it, and that is why it's hard to understand the Atlanta trade.
But as we are seeing. There is no substitute for some big bats that can OPS > .850. That is how you build a team because pitchers as a group are too fragile to count on.
Ok, let's not scout a stat line here people. Banuelos may have decent AAA stats but he's not the savior. He's averaging 5 IP per start, which is not good in AAA and he is still walking a ton of hitters (4bb/9). The latest report I saw had him at 88-92 -- if he ever becomes a MLB starter, I'd be shocked.
Also, Betances wasn't given a shot because he was out of options. He was given a shot because he dominated in spring and it carried over. The idea that he had no options left is false as he was granted another option by MLB prior to spring training.
Are relievers volatile? Without a doubt. Chasen Shreve has been great though, so I honestly have zero qualms with the deal.
We are finishing the month of may, this Drew stuff has to end by now.
Don't think anyone is proclaiming him a savior, but I'd rather have Banuelos as pitching depth than Capuano for sure. Shreve has been good (which begs the question as to why Girardi doesn't trust him in bigger spots), but I don't see what he's doing as anything Lindgren couldn't do. By the same token, could the Yankees have gotten Shreve alone with Cervelli? The Braves needed catching depth going into the season, and Justin Wilson hasn't exactly impressed me either.
Thanks for the clarity on Manny's velocity and Betances' option.
Drew is the poster child for how this team gets in its own way.
Banuelos hadn't been Banuelos for a few years before the trade and the Atlanta operation is full of ex-Yankee execs so they probably gave us the best deal we were gonna get on Manny, Fortunately, the one remaining Killer B is a real killer and the spiritual descendant of Mo and Goose,, and Joe Page...
But, again, we're talking about starter depth with potential upside at a fraction of the cost of what it took to bring Capuano back. It's a poor allocation of resources, IMO, because arms existed in the minors to fill the roles Carpenter and Shreve are here to fill.
Heathcott to DL with quad strain. This is why it's imperative the Yankees hold onto their OF depth.
Mofo
So after calming down, will Flores get near full-time playing time?
Nope. Get ready for everyday outfielder Chris Young.
Might as well give Vernon Wells another shot.
I was half joking. It depends on how the team views Flores. If he's seen as a 4th OFer, Young will get most of the playing time. If he's seen as a big-league starter, he will play as much as Slade did.
When Flores arrives, it sounds like he will get most of his time in left field. Brett Gardner will start playing more center field, especially against right-handers. Chris Young has been pretty brutal lately — especially against righties — so Flores could get a legitimate chance to play.
OT, but I didn't realize just how bad Cano was doing. Geez.
St. Louis is my least favorite city in the country
You must not have driven through Atlanta traffic.
I'm talking about Martin, and why you don't mortgage your future
When will these stupid fucking New York teams learn
@RailRidersTT: Norfolk has hit nine balls at Refsnyder tonight. He's 9 for 9 fielding them. Some pretty nice plays.
Of course Mike F. said he isn't going to be called up because he doesn't have position. Hmnn is he anon?
Crap it's crap
Fucking sick of Headley
Crap uano
Seriously get this guy out of here $5 million holy shit
I'd rather see Garret Jones pitch
Only have a few minutes more to vent
Woah that's an epic multi-post rant.
What this team saw in Capuano and Rogers, I don't know. As Jed Weisberger said on Twitter, both are blocking better players.
If you would've told me that the Rangers will be shut out by the fucking Tampa Bay lightning twice.
Fuck it
Okay I'm done
Sorry about the Rangers.
Mitchell just dominated in Scranton tonight. Wish he were a bit more consistent.
Tanaka will replace Capuano and Nova will soon replace Warren as he replaces Rodgers who has done nothing
Nova is going to have to show immediate results in that case, because Warren has been too good to demote to a bullpen role.
Well, crap, now Joe won't pitch Lindgren for a week.
He let Drew bat with 2 on, 2 out in the ninth? With Teix waiting to pinch-hit for Young instead of him? As much as Young has stunk since May 1, I'd take him over Drew in that spot 10 times out of 10.
What in the world does Joe/Cash see in this guy at this point?
I think Girardi's thinking was that even if Teix hit a HR that only makes the score 6-5 and you have Young batting against our old friend Clippard with 2 outs and bases empty. On the other hand, if Drew somehow gets on, then Teix would be the tying run batting lefty against Clippard. I'm no fan of Drew, but I can't say Girardi's tactics are crazy given that he's here and the team is keeping a 4-man bench.
Of course I'd prefer our chances if it were Refsnyder batting instead of Drew.
Jed Weisberger
@jedleyq: We see this morning Drew is batting .158. A scout from a National League team asked last night why Pirela is not playing. Answer: Manager.
If this is true, Cashman needs to step in. If he's complicit, then this team is screwed.
Wallace Matthews, on Pirela: "Even though he has had only 30 at-bats with the Yankees -- and just six hits, all but one of them singles -- some in the Yankees organization have seen enough to believe that what they saw in the spring was just another Florida mirage. His OPS, at .433, is even worse than Drew's."
See, this is your problem right here. If they truly thing a handful of at-bats for a guy who plays like once a week is indicative of anything, then they have no business being in positions of power.
No faith in the decision-makers for this team. None. Teix and A-Rod's bats and the weak division are the only reason this team isn't sub-.500 right now. Time for some fresh faces with fresh ways of viewing things.
The decision-makers ability to think well is a mirage
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