Chase Headley and pretty much everyone else in the lineup had a big day, as the Yanks beat the Braves 20-7, after missing the final conversion. Eovaldi won his 14th, but it was more like early season, short innings Eovaldi than like the recent Super Destroyer we've been watching. Instead of his one bad inning, he had two, and had to leave the game with none out in the 6th.
Because of the offensive outburst, Betances and Miller got the day off. Headley, Drew and Ellsbury all homered. Gardy showed signs of life, and Bird was 2 for 4 with a double, a walk and a sacfly.
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As I said on the other thread, Drew will be re-signed.
Either that, or they'll trade some guys for a second baseman.
Yeah I would imagine 2B will be addressed in the offseason with perhaps Sanchez leading the package.
No limit to the stupid under the GM.
It would be a mistake to trade Sanchez for anything less than an impact bat, but I see them finding a second base equivalent to Didi and jumping at such a deal given their love for defense.
Wouldn't surprise me if they went a Kinsler/Phillips route in the offseason.
I think it might be Ackley/Refnsyder next year. Phillips is tremendously overrated and old when it seems like they do want to get young.
Phillips SUCKS!
But I don't think that's an issue because I don't think they are spending big bucks this off-season.
They can probably get Drew even cheaper now
Doubt they go for Phillips, but I could see Kinsler.
Ackley would need to spend time somewhere getting re-acclimated to second.
He's been doing that in AAA.
Yoan Moncada to date: .291/.391/.465/.856, 45 SB/3 CS.
Thanks, Hal.
I think the blame extends beyond Hal. As I have said, if Cashman gets credit for being "honest" about his opposition to the Sorianos, then it's reasonable to take him at his word when he said the money for Moncada got too high.
They were awarded a waiver claim on Robertson. I doubt anything gets done.
I don't usually root for ex-Yankees, but I will root for Refsnyder if/when he is gone.
As I have previously theorized, I think after the Rafael and Alfonso Soriano episodes, he was told to tote the company line publicly. I will never be convinced it wasn't Hal who balked at Moncada, or more specifically, getting into a bidding war for him, since some writers have reported as such. I don't think Cashman would have brought him in for three separate workouts if he and his scouting guys didn't love Moncada's potential.
Kiley McDaniel has also alluded to front office issues regarding the Moncada swing-and-miss, specifically there not being "clear delineations of who is in charge."
The fact that the team has made no significant play on any of the Cubans tells me they don't see Cuba as a viable marketing opportunity. Japan, by contrast, is a market they can tap into, which is likely why they reneged after not making a significant bid on Darvish and went all-out on Tanaka.
Do you really think that Cashman couldn't have convinced Hal/Levine to spend the $10m they gave Drew/Capuano on Moncada? Why would the suits care about those two?
They keep paying him a ton of money and say that they think he is doing a great job. So why not think that they trust his judgment?
That is why I don't believe for a second that Cashman wanted Moncada enough to convince ownership to go all out for him.
As for the workouts, they did their due diligence, but those workouts may have convinced them that he wasn't worth the investment.
So instead of imputing the good to Cashman and the bad to the suits, why not look at Cashman's recent own words as a guide.
He told Jennings that he was willing to include Mateo for Kimbrel, but not Judge, Bird, Severino.
Viewed in that context, the non-signing of Moncada fits with the way Cashman does business: he makes stronger commitments to ML and near-ML ready players.
We see that in the HUGE contracts he gave McCann, Ellbury, Beltran, and Headley.
I will say this: If Moncada was a pitcher, Cashman may well have recommended going all out. That is his pattern.
That is why the only dynamic offensive players on this roster are all aging (except Ellsbury, but he cannot stay on the field and he was only dynamic for one year in his career).
Adding young ones has never been a priority to Cashman based on his own words and actions.
Short answer to the question in your opening paragraph: No. I think Levine is his own entity who doesn't particularly care about amateur player evaluations as much as he does marketability of the team and its players, and I sometimes think it drives their decisions (I.E. signing Rafael Soriano to show fans the team "cares about winning," or re-signing Ichiro for two years for the Japanese marketing/promotion of 3,000 hits).
I've been told Capuano/Drew were signed per Girardi's request, and if Joe has as much pull with Levine/ownership as it appears he has, I can believe they'll acquiesce to his wishes to fill out the roster if the cost isn't overly expensive, no matter how dumb it seems to us.
Well, if Levine cares about marketability, given the demographics of the Greater NY area, how could he not care about Cubans and Korean-Amrericans?
So something is not adding up for me on that front.
Yeah, I can't buy that anyone (Cashman, Hal, Levine, Hank, the Steinbrenner sister who looks like money) would burn $10m to appease Girardi at the expense of any asset their GM had a strong conviction about.
Nova is and mostly has been mediocre
Even though Bird just K'd, this is what a talented young hitter has to go through as he overcomes a learning curve. He has to play nearly every day.
I still like Warren better as a starter.
Unacceptable loss.
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