This Week on the Blog
Knicks: The NBA Draft is this week, and so far the Knicks have no picks. What's more, so far, the Knicks don't have a full coaching staff. For more than a month the Knicks have been rumored to want into the draft, but I really wonder if they'll be able to get a legitimate piece picking late in the first or in the second or both. I like Juan Hernangomez as a guy who knows how to play and can back up the three and four, and maybe take over the three when Melo leaves. But still, how are they going to get into the draft? By a second rounder? Trade for a first? Or perhaps, make a big deal that at least starts to remake the team around KP? We'll see. I've yet to see Jackson do anything stupid on draft night, and don't expect to this week,
Giants: The Giants appear to be out of the running for Monroe. So, while the players are on their own and hopefully staying in shape for the next 6 weeks, the Giants must keep looking to upgrade the RT position, and it's ridiculous that they still have 18.5M in cap space and have not been able upgrade.
Rangers: The Rangers remain in their horrible position of being capped up and still having to leave quality players available for the stupid ass expansion draft. They also have no picks till the third round of the coming draft because of their fruitless "all in" deals of the past few years which have left them cupless and prospect low. Also, Chris Kreider, an RFA, still hasn't heard anything about a new deal yet, so the fear here is that Gorton is either just like Sather, or that Sather is still running his idiotic RFA game. Rumors will abound.
Yankees: Okay, the reason this week will definitely be more interesting is because the Yanks will open up their three other short season teams this week. Pulaski will start Thursday, and the two GCL teams will start Friday. Among these three teams we should finally see the huge influx of the IFA Class of `14 players. And that should be fascinating. What's more we may even see IFA's from the economically limited Class of `15, as well as guys for the last two drafts. Should be fun, even if watching the major league Yanks is just painful or frustrating or both. And let's hope the Yanks get Blake and Nolan done this week, so they an get to work.
Have a great week, everyone. Should be interesting!
posted by Kalel9 @ 1:07 PM
6 Comments:
I see that Refs was 1-3 with a BB and IBB. Net-net he is their best option at 2B. Too bad the GM took on yet another bad contract in Castro, who has talent but a very bad approach at the plate.
None of us liked that move.
Can't believe all of these articles saying that Girardi's is puzzled by McCann's slump... It's not a slump, he's been in early decline since his mid twenties.
Yanks have 4 pitching prospects going this evening. Severino, Enns, Vargas and Finley.
Judge with his 10th, as his hot streak continues into it's third week. Correction?
He probably saw where I questioned if he could ever hit MLB pitching and took it to heart. Mateo, by contrast, has been cold as ice lately. I wonder if that correlates to them having him play 2B — never understood that move, personally.
As stated, Castro's problem is he doesn't walk. Cano didn't either early in his career, but his batting average was often so good it didn't matter.
Cano eventually improved his plate discipline and that's why he'll be a Hall of Famer when eventually.
Castro is older that Cano was when he started figuring it out.
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