This Week on the Blog
Giants: Last week the Giants grabbed the best available passrusher, corner and run stuff. And they got a linebacker, who, when healthy, has been good. They went into FA with 60 some odd million dollars and are now down in the 20's. They've still done nothing about OL, WR, S, Nickle CB or K. The OL and S positions have lingered for years. They could absolutely fix the OL this week with a winning bid on RFA RT Ryan Schraeder, but it will cost them pick 40, and their should be good options for RT at pick 40. Or even in the first round if Stanley is gone, and the Giants realize it's legal to trade down for more picks - which this roster could really use. We'll see what happens. They could do some dumpster diving, or find some young FA's who were backups for others but might be good enough to start.
Yanks: The Yanks aren't hitting particularly well in ST, but the under 30 starters have all shown glimpses of being useful when the season starts or useful soon. Pineda's pounding the zone. Eovaldi seems to be free and easy, and Luis Severino hit 98 on the gun the other day. Severino got trashed from the stretch in his first outing, but has looked much better since. Kaprielian looked great his first time, then had some trouble against the Mets. Refsnyder looks like he'll make the team as a back up 3b, 2b and OF. I hope they'll give him lots of chances at third if the starter continues to flounder. They're already giving us a preview of the NY to Scranton bullpen shuttle.
Rangers: Rangers got Nash and Lundqvist back, but only managed to gain 1 out of 4 points in back to backs against Detroit and Pittsburgh this weekend. Suboptimal. But at least Kreider, Stepan and McD are starting to play like they can.
Knicks: Kurt Rambis seems desperate to keep the Knicks job, and I think that's a shame for KP and the other young Knicks. We need to keep kicking this can down the street till June when we can trade Melo and start building around KP. Also, they should keep KP at the 4 and not try to make him a 5.
We'll see what happens. Have a great week everyone.
posted by Kalel9 @ 3:54 PM
23 Comments:
I bet Sanchez doesn't make club out of ST and only to delay his service time clock
You're probably right.
I'm torn on him. I want him in NY, obviously, but I get not wanting to start his service clock early. Plus, how much would he actually play if he were with the big club?
The Yankees always find a reason not to play their own kids, and that's the reason the roster is full of overpaid players past their prime.
Thats the thing, I don't trust Girardi with kids, especially catching kids. Anyway, I dont mind them keeping Romine as back up until Sanchez gets hot, by then, hopefully the Yanks can trade Romine and let the next great Yankee Catcher come on up.
No matter what we think of Girardi, we are stuck with him because he seems to have the strong support of the suits from Hal through Cashmnan. So he is going to have an important influence on the development of every kid that makes it to the ML roster, and that is unlikely to change.
In isolation, tolling the service time clock may make sense as long as Sanchez is promoted on the date that issue becomes moot, but the counter argument is the team may well be offensively challenged, especially from the right side, so should a team that is invested in winning now risk not fielding their best team for every game from Game 1.
Apart all from that, if they truly permanently sit or buyout $25m per CC if Nova is clearly better, I will be very impressed.
Another issue is that the Sanchez dilemma could repeat itself next year, and perhaps beyond, if McCann somehow hits consistently. If so, it's not unreasonable to think that Sanchez may again struggle for playing time. So what not face that issue head on now and trust that he will hit and make anyone who thinks he should sit on the bench or stay in the minors look foolish.
Feels like Sanchez has been pressing in camp. So letting him go back down and get his head back together should work out fine. It would be another thing if he was hitting and Girardi was pulling his shit or they starting talking about service clocks.
I think it's about five weeks until the service time issue is resolved, so that's fine.
I'm more concerned about the big picture. I don't only want to see the younger players they traded for receive patience while their own young players don't.
Bird did everything he could to stay up here yet he was still ticketed to start the season in the minor leagues.
That's why Nova cementing a spot in the rotation at CC's expense would be a good sign.
They can talk all they want, honestly or not, about how they can't be like the Mets.
They will only be successful if they do one thing that every team in a youth movement has to do: show patients to young players who have had very little major league experience.
That's what I need to see change to get excited.
Cliff Corcoran is high on Castro: (I would like this move more if they had a different roster and they didn't already have a second base prospect ready to go.)
What a second: Castro is a three-time All-Star, has nearly 1,000 major league hits and led the NL with 207 hits in 2011. How does he qualify for this list? Because he posted a mere 89 OPS+ over the last three seasons combined and averaged less than one Win Above Replacement per season over those three campaigns. That cost him the shortstop job in Chicago last season and led to him being traded to the Yankees in December.
Call Castro a bounceback candidate if you prefer, but his continued stardom is hardly a given at this point. That said, he won’t turn 26 until next week, and his bat found new life after he was benched in August. Castro hit .353/.373/.588 in 143 plate appearances over the remainder of the regular season, climbing off the bench to claim the Cubs’ second base job, and he will play that lower-profile, lower-pressure position in New York, as well. Castro isn’t going to repeat that line over a full season, but he’s shown that he can hit .300 with a .340 on-base percentage when he's right, and a .450 slugging percentage isn’t out of the question as he moves closer to his prime-age seasons. Add in improved play in the field thanks to his less-demanding position, and Castro could be a four-win player for the Yankees this year, if not better.
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And does Jay Jaffe ever look like a 70s porn mogul
http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/03/14/breakout-players-american-league-marcus-stroman-rougned-odor
Bears sign Zach Miller. Can the NYG now get Bennett on the cheap?
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Source: #Raiders LT Donald Penn is slated to visit #Giants today, his 1st free agent visit. Penn & OAK are locked in a contract stalemate
Castro is having a very nice Spring.
http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2016/03/yankees_prospects_david_robertson_reliever.html
Hope Montgomery can regain his prospect status. He had the makings of an elite reliever before the injury.
Difficult for me to take ST numbers seriously.
That's true of anyway, from Castro to Judge, right?
ANYONE
Rutckyj or however you spell it was returned today by the braves. Pretty sure some of you were upset we lost him, so rejoice.
I never heard of him, unlike Cave.
Everyone thinks that CC is going to start because of the contract, but I don't see how they can realistically do that.
They will give him every chance to start IMO. He's a notoriously slow starter anyway, so I can see them waiting until at least June before even considering making a change.
Goofy is in mid season form:
Just probably put Hicksie there,’’ said Girardi, who used Gardner in center last year when Ellsbury went down. “Hicksie has played center and that is the luxury of Hicksie, you can put him anywhere.’’
I think it's good news that Refs made his first error and nobody made a big deal of it. It seems that the negative spin that he's close to hopeless in the field is a thing of the past. Here's hoping he makes the best of his chance to establish himself.
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