One Week Till
Even will all of the deals they've made over the last 11 months or so, once the short season teams open early in June, we'll be amazed at the majesty of what they have been doing. They have a ton of recent prep arms and bats, as well as like 40 new IFA's, some of whom have huge ceilings. Their swing and miss/spin rate pitching drivers are helping them find better pitchers, and their patience and pop hitting model has been closely followed. On the posotions side they will occasionally take a chance on "an athlete" like Dom Thompson-Williams or something, but mostly they're looking for exit velo and walks.
Rumor has it that the Yanks have been beating the bushes for prep bats this year, but we know they'll just take 35 RHP's or something. Can't wait.
posted by Kalel9 @ 7:40 AM
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Trading competitive balance picks is a backdoor to the eventual trading of all picks.
Didi moved down, Gleyber up.
By seasons end Torres should be hitting lead off if not 2nd
For some reason I thought the MLB Draft was late June, not early June.
I’ve said before Torres is a future leadoff hitter by virtue of him possibly being the best hitter on the team.
I can envision a lineup of Torres, Florial, Judge, Bird, Sanchez. Stanton, Frazier, Andujar, Future 2Bman
Billy Martin would have tried to expose Verlander’s possible cheating.
It’s on German that he threw a meatball but the ump screwed him earlier in the count and with the beardo AB too.
Torres made a baserunning erros, a la Toe. That said German had a nice bounce back and the infield hit before was a Didi error.
It's like they haven't seen Verlander before. The stuff ain't that amazing and I don't know why people are going on with his late career improvement.
SHeffield has 4 K's through 3, they gave up a run but don't lnow if it was earned.
Checked it was an earned run. He also gave up 4 hits and a walk through 3. Scranton is up 3-1.
Torres has lost his mind lately.
Bad defense, bad luck
It's ridiculous. But we can come back.
Justus is 1 run through 4. Had one of those first innings where he threw a lot pf pitches apparently.
If Gray was what was expected the entire rotation would be viewed differently.
Torres with a great play!
Time to stop pretending Hicks is good.
He's a good defender.
I see him as a 4th OFer
Thought Walker might do something.
I hope they remain patient with German and DON’T trade him. He is very close.
I see him as a place holder, but our organizational depth in CF has got a big kink in the conga line. So they probably won't trade him this year. Maybe this offseason.
That’s why I think trade talk is way premature reflecting a magic fix, fantasy baseball mindset. Trades for SP are usually expensive and risky.
Gleyber
Unless you’re Houston and are either able to do things Rothschild can’t sniff or cheat very effectively.
Got to start scoring.
Justus just pitched 4 innings again. So I guess the plan is to stretch him out.
His ERA is 1.65.
Clint Frazier is 3-3. Three singles and two stolen bases.
BIRD!!!!!!!
We can do this!
We need Frazier here baaaad.
Don't have a move to make. Have to wait for something else to happen.
That’s why I would trade Hicks.
Then we onlty have one CF.
Frazier needs to be on the big league club. The light appears to have come on and Gardner/Hicks can platoon in center.
Who do you move? It's a 25 man roster.
Move down a pitcher that isn’t getting any work anyway.
I'd like to see a 12 man staff, too, but they are rare. Shreve is not someone we need to see anymore of, for example.
As long as they are an offense-centric team (which I prefer) Frazier is probably a must play.
I remember back in `87, I think, they had to keep havind Rick Cerrone come in and pitch.
‘87 was around the time of the hideous Drabek for Rhoden trade that sucked at time except to fans who think every prospect is a mere lottery ticket. Sadly, back then George was one of those fans.
RAB, dumb as fuck
Take any five players not on the MLB roster and give the Yankees deGrom kthx
Rich, agreed minus Flores and Fraser.....I'd throw in Hicks, Ellsbury, Montgomery and $20 M.
RAB fact gathering is what they do best:
2. There were lots of whiffs and chases. German’s stuff is so good. He has three lively pitches with velocity and movement, and, in the case of his fastball, a very high spin rate. German threw 104 pitches yesterday and got 16 swings and misses. Many of those swings and misses came on pitches out of the strike zone too:
According to Coley Harvey, German coaxed 25 swings on pitches out of the strike zone yesterday, which is the most this season by a Yankees’ starter and the most by an opposing starter against the Astros. The Astros as a team have a 28.2% chase rate this season, only of the lowest in baseball. German had them expanding the zone all day yesterday, and remember, they saw him a few weeks ago. It’s not like he was a mystery.
The swings and misses and all those chases are a testament to the quality of German’s stuff. He generated swings and misses with all three pitches, which is not easy to do. Not against the Astros. This isn’t some nothing stuff spot starter like Aaron Small or Sidney Ponson or Darrell Rasner. German has a power arsenal that is worth a longer look, to see whether he’ll ever be able to command it.
I would have Gray go back to whatever he was doing in Oakland
https://nypost.com/2018/05/29/yankees-fastball-avoidance-could-end-up-burying-them/
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