This Week On the Blog
Yanks: the Yanks will continue to sign their picks, and I'll have more on my draft review starting later today. Also, the NYPL will start playing games later this week, with Pulaski and the GCL sarting a few days later. Those rosters should be fascinating.
On the big league level, we'll see if the media criticism of Giradi keeps emerging, and if they can fix the pen and rotation without hurting the farm.
Giants: The Giants annual Mandatory Mini-Camp starts tomorrow and runs through Thursday. We'll see if JPP shows up. We'll also hope that there are no more injuries. Off the practice field, the Giants should continue their search for another OL, and consider extending some contracts.
Rangers: Stil not too eager to talk about them, but they're probably going to start their organization meetings soon, and those could be huge. Meanwhile, they should also be trying to find their way back into the first round of what looks like a monster draft.
Knicks: The Knicks will continue to work out players aheat of next weeks NBA draft. I'd rather seem them find ways to get more picks, rather than trading down from #4.
So, the big events will be the Giants min-camp and the Yankee stuff. The Rangers and Knicks will have to keep getting ready. I wish all of you a great week.
posted by Kalel9 @ 6:53 AM
27 Comments:
Back on the Mudiay bandwagon.
If that's who's there at #4, of course.
Drew Finley tweeted earlier he's starting his career, so it looks like he signed -- I wonder what the price tag was for both him & Holder.
I've always been on the Muiday bandwagon but I would love it if they could somehow obtain another pick.
Billy agree that using their trade exceptions to get another pick or two would really help salvage and unimpressive and unlucky first year under Phil.
There are often costs when a decision-maker is choosing talent based in large part on fitting a system rather than just picking the BPA. Compensation for that point of view is much more readily available in the NFL because the roster is so large. But in the NBA, where talent is virtually everything, passing on talent for players that fit a system can be extremely costly, especially when they aren't supplemental players, and obviously, the Knicks don't really have core players, except maybe for Melo, and his age and recent injury history put that ability at risk.
A couple of new mock drafts have Kristaps Porzingis in the top 3.
Porzingis talk is spreading. Maybe just pre-draft bait ans switch stuff.
Guy put up good numbers for the league he played in -- I think teams are realizing he's not a raw "workout" type euro the same way Darko was. He will be able to contribute right away and has a ridiculously high ceiling if he can gain some strength.
I don't want Cauley-Stein at 4
Refsnyder was 6-for-12 overall in three games for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. He walked once and struck out once, scoring three runs and driving in six. Refsnyder, 24, is hitting .284 with a .360 on-base percentage and .406 slugging percentage overall. He has five home runs and 13 doubles in 58 games.
Judge went 4-for-11 in three games for Double-A Trenton. He walked once, struck out three times, scored two runs and drove in three. Judge, 23, is batting .283 with a .350 OBP and .500 slugging percentage overall. He has 10 home runs, 14 doubles and three triples in 57 games.
Kay made it sound like Grego made a lucky play on the DP, but I thought he showed very quick hands.
Seriously if this is true I will puke:
Ian Begley, ESPN Staff Writer
The New York Knicks are "entertaining" the idea of trading down in the draft if Kentucky's Karl-Anthony Towns, Duke's Jahlil Okafor and Ohio State's D'Angelo Russell are off the board before they make their pick, sources tell ESPN.com's Chad Ford.
Yeah let's trade for pitching
If you ain't hittin', you ain't shittin'.
(Still want Kazmir if the price is reasonable, though, LINJ. :) )
Mike
They won't take CC out of the rotation, so where is the room?
They won't win because of him.
I wanted him as a FA but Cashman apparently didn't. I am not giving up prospects for him now.
Is Jackson really dumb enough to keep leveraging the worst basketball decision he has ever made?
http://www.si.com/nba/2015/06/10/nba-mock-draft-emmanuel-mudiay-kristaps-porzingis-karl-anthony-towns-jahlil-okafor
NEW YORK KNICKS
KRISTAPS PORZINGIS, F
LATVIA, AGE: 19 | 6-11, 209
The Knicks have been circling four players, according to league sources: Porzingis, former high school star Emmanuel Mudiay, Duke’s Justise Winslow and Kentucky’s Willie Cauley-Stein. Mudiay and Winslow are more NBA-ready—a factor for a team built around 31-year-old Carmelo Anthony—while Porzingis, an offensively skilled stretch four who needs to fill out—has earned fans in the Knicks' front office. Clarence Gaines, an advisor with the ear of Phil Jackson, has scouted Porzingis. Long term, Porzingis could be the best of the bunch. Short term, he’s a project.
Warren would have to move to the BP since he is the best candidate to succeed in that role.
Tanaka
Kazmir
Pineda
Sabathia
Eovaldi
LINJ or anyone else who's seen SWB play -- Is Refs' defense getting better? I recall he made 7 errors right at the beginning of the season and since then he's only made 5 more.
Nova goes where?
I haven't seen Refs lately, Stot.
This bears watching:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/sports/baseball/st-louis-cardinals-hack-astros-fbi.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=36069111&pgtype=article
Here's the most important part:
Law enforcement officials believe the hacking was executed by vengeful front-office employees for the Cardinals hoping to wreak havoc on the work of Jeff Luhnow, the Astros’ general manager who had been a successful and polarizing executive with the Cardinals until 2011.
From 1994 to 2012, the Astros and the Cardinals were division rivals, in the National League. For a part of that time, Mr. Luhnow was a Cardinals executive, primarily handling scouting and player development. One of many innovative thinkers drawn to the sport by the “Moneyball” phenomenon, he was credited with building baseball’s best minor league system, as well as drafting several players who would become linchpins of the Cardinals’ 2011 World Series-winning team.
The Astros hired Mr. Luhnow as general manager in December 2011, and he quickly began applying his unconventional approach to running a baseball team. In an exploration of the team’s radical transformation, Bloomberg Business called it “a project unlike anything baseball has seen before.”
The merits or weakness of this case aside, this supports my view that there are a few people who have unique drafting/development skills, and that it is not a mere crapshoot.
In a similar vein, look at the Rays. They seem to be shrugging off Friedman and Maddon's departure, probably because their owner, Sternberg , is a first-rate businessman who knows how to identify top people, unlike Hal, who is content with coasting.
What's worse than Drew starting at 2B? Ryan at 2B.
Grego batting 2nd, eh, who cares? Young there instead would be worse.
Brett Gardner CF
Didi Gregorius SS
Mark Texieria 1B
Brian McCann C
Chase Headley 3B
Carlos Beltran RF
Chris Young LF
Brendan Ryan 2B
RHP Nathan Eovaldi
Not sure why Mason isn't playing considering we're facing Phelps -- this is one interesting lineup.
I'm going to guess that Young has good very SSS stats:
(looking)
Wrong on that; he has never faced Phelps.
So I guess it is just Joey G.'s bullshit reasons.
Because v. RHP, Young is: .143 .165 .273 .437
Oh, Jennings points out that Phelps has a reverse split. BFD. When it comes to overthinking, Joey G. is the champ.
Looking at Fangrpahps, it's mostly in 2014:
2013:
v. L: .253 .326 .430 .330(wOBA)
v. R: .276 .367 .371 .334
2014:
v. L: .223 .320 .382 .314
v. R: .296 .363 .442 .356
2015:
v. L: .252 .308 .342 .292
v. R: .265 .313 .405 .313
So the theory isn't awful, but some hitters mostly suck, and Young is one of them.
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