This Week on the Blog
Giants: The Giants will either have a coach starting this week, or starting two weeks laters. In the meantime, Dave Gettlemen and the scouts will be heading down to mobile for the Senior Bowl this week. Schwartz is reporting that Gettlemen will first sit the scouts down and teach them a new grading system. We'll have to see how that works out, but once Jerry Reese stopped running the drafts, they pretty much sucked and we lost the advantage that smart drafting used to give us. Let's see if this restores the magic. Then let's see who Gettlement poaches from the Panthers to head up future drafts. Because you know that's coming.
Yankees: the Yanks are still in a holding pattern as they wait for the prices to continue to tumble. Maybe something will happen, more than likely it won't.
Knicks: I'm beginning to think Hornacek is a guards only coach and has no sense of what to do with KP or the other big men on the team. Last night they won, and KP started out hot and getting the ball where he could do damage, then nothing till the 4th quarter and he finished with 18. He's got to get consistent touches and get the ball where he's a nightmare for the other team. He's not, and that is the fault of the coach and maybe the guards. Speaking of guards, the Knicks better not trade for Kemba Walker.
Rangers: The Rangers are still up and down and should be heading into sell mode any day now. D'Angleo, who was finally starting to do well in the AHL was recalled and will get a big chance here. What we don't want to see if for the Rangers to go into "buy" mode again. They're just not that good and Kreider and Shattenkirk are both out long term. Burn it down.
So there it is, holding patterns and teams that should sell at the deadline, and hire new coaches. Have a great one!
posted by Kalel9 @ 12:17 PM
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So Hicks has apparently bulked up. Whether or not that impacts his game positively, negatively or not at all, offensively or defensively, remains to be seen.
Best outfield arm on the team. Showed great plate disc before his first injury.
Yeah, Hicks wasn't scrawny by any means, but he really put on some muscle this offseason. I just hope his foot speed doesn't take a hit.
Hahn on Burke: “Did the Knicks see enough here to move Burke ahead of Ntilikina in the rotation?”
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I only bring this up because he often seems to reflect the Knicks’ “ thinking.”
Jack helped early but he is terrible overall now.
Is mediocrity the ultimate goal for this franchise?
Here's a good story by Olney on Cashman, Epstein and Friendman. One interesting tidbit: "Cashman advised the Yankees' owners to let Alex Rodriguez go in the fall of 2007, rather than give him the 10-year, $275 million contract, but Cashman pushed for the signing of outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, who is now dead weight on the New York roster with three years remaining on his deal."
As I have said, there have been ample reasons to fire him for years (he has been poor at fulfilling the dual mandate), but he finally turned it around. He is definitely better at selling than buying in trades except when he could use his financial advantage, as he did in the A-Rod and Stanton trades, and that is what enabled the turnaround.
The scouts have enabled the turnaroud. The drafting of Judge and the signing of Severino, etc. The knowing who to ask for during the sell off.
Shelter says Del Rio will be D coordinator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMGZZLxskc
Judge talks.
Sure, but often the executive loses his/her job when when those under them (in this example, scouts) are underperforming.
Cash put together the scouts.
Also, Del Rio would be great!
No GM can really escape accountability for not developing an enduringly good starter between Pettitte (before he became GM) and Severino. But he did.
To me, it’s become increasingly obvious Cashman wasn’t 100 percent allowed to run the team his way until the 2016 selloff. The dual mandate was issued from above, and it just doesn’t work in general: You either rebuild, or try to win a championship. You can’t really do both.
I’ve always felt Wang and Joba would have been the next homegrown, top-tier starters were it not for the both suffering career-altering injuries.
I agree that there are unique pluses and minuses with the job, but I think the former strongly outweighs the latter, and since he has stayed so long, Cashman almost certainly agrees.
The crazy burst of development has made the dual mandate work for now. I don’t think that degree of success, especially so quickly, was foreseeable.
I agree about Joba. Wang’s low K rate makes it hard for me to know the ultimate direction of his career.
I am concerned that the NYG may now be in the dual mandate game.
I agree that it’s a stupid, and imo, a craven philosophy.
F’ing Pats.
I will never fully accept that they f’ing let Little Bill get away f’ing twice. Fools.
This game ended early.
I have never been impressed with how Keenum throws the ball.
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https://twitter.com/barstoolhubbs/status/955222764696276994
A little birdy told me Jacoby Ellsbury is heading to Milwaukee. Nothing definitive yet, but keep your ears peeled. I'll believe anything at this point.
Also said that Abreu is part of it.
FWIW..They did report the Girardi and Stanton news first.
RAB
With the Yankees, Gray gave up 11 homers in just 65.1 innings. That’s a lot. The main culprit? His fastball. Up until the trade to the Yankees, Gray gave up a HR/LD+FB rate of 6.65 on his four seam fastball. With the Yankees, that skyrocketed up to 18.52! Why? It has to do with some extreme results on location. Check out the isolated power on his fastballs in the top part of the zone and down the middle. They’re high! A lot higher than his career numbers suggest they should. Gray also put more fastballs in those locations than he normally has. Improving the location on his fastball will hopefully cut out the homers for Sonny, which will definitely make him less nondescript going forward.
Pats game was a ref job.
I think AJack signed with the giants so no Elsburry there.
Even after the trades, the Yanks had 6 top 100 prospects in their annual listing.
No Porzingjs or KOQ. I’m not shure much matters with this team except seeing what the younger point guards can do.
I have never had one or even heard of one:
TRENTON, N.J. -- The New York Yankees' minor league baseball team in New Jersey is being renamed for the state's favorite processed meat.
The Trenton Thunder will rebrand the AA affiliate the Trenton Pork Roll on Friday nights, beginning May 18.
Yelich to the Brews. I have to think this makes it less likely that. Ellsbury has a possible destination there, although I was skeptical anyway.
Hahn
4. On the topic of Burke, can we all agree it’s time he gets regular minutes in the rotation? He had 18 points and 11 assists in 29 minutes and very much looked the part of a point guard who can run an offense, get shots for himself and his teammates and push the pace.
“The game changed a little bit when he’s in there,” Hornacek said.
The coach seems to tread carefully when offering praise for Burke. Is there concern about how Jarrett Jack will react to seeing his minutes — or his role as the starting point guard — diminish? Jack is a veteran and at this point in the season should be smart enough to read the writing on the wall.
Burke is 25 and looks very comfortable in the pick-and-roll. He also can break down defenders off the dribble, get into the paint and finish at the basket. The lone concern is his size, especially on defense, but he seems to know he has to prove himself at that end of the floor by how active he was against Denver.
What do you do at this point if you’re Hornacek? Risk losing a veteran leader and voice in the locker room by putting him on the bench in favor of Burke? Or should Jack understand where the team is at this point in the season, recognize what the team has in Burke, and step aside without making an issue of it?
Jack must go.
Management needs to weigh in, if this is their choice, because Burke needs to play, but if they don’t play Frank they will be in a similar situation as the NYG with Webb if a PG and a wing are equally rated in the draft.
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