This Week on the Blog
Yankees: The Yanks have been hurt by injuries and underachievement. Fortunately, Gleyber Torres woke up and started looking like a future start, and Voit had a big homer in their last game. The starting pitching has been mostly okay, but the pen has been giving up too many jacks. Down on the farm, Trey Amburgey is off to a hot start, and perhaps he can help. As mentioned elswhere, Clarke Schmidt pitched the openener of Tampa and shouldn't be there long. Btw, and this is a few months off, but the Yanks should absolutely draft more college pitchers, and keep seeking pitching gold IFA. They're prep pitching program hasn't produced much since Hughes, while their young, international pitchers like Deivi Garcia, continue to find their ways. Mike Ford just homered for Scranton. Anyway, the Yanks need to get it going - the sooner the better.
Giants: the Giants are continuing to host players they might be interesting in. The draft is now less than 3 weeks away, and they still have all 12 picks. This is still just a one issue draft for me and that issue is OL. If they can get a plug and play RT and C, it will be a success, if they don't it won't. They owe it to the fans and they owe it to Saquon Barkley. It would be nice to add passrush, and a WR who can take a top off a D, as well as some pass defenders and a better rotational running back than Gallman. We'll see what they can do.
Rangers: Picture at the top of the post is C Jack Hughes, the presumptive first overall pick in this year's draft. The NHL Draft Lottery is Tuesday, so we'll know this week if our guys have a shot. The Rangers are still loaded with picks for a trade up if they want one, so there's that to consider, too. And would they trade up for a player who is just 5'9"? We'll see. In what may be even a bigger deal, it looks like Glen Sather is stepping down as club president this summer and Steve Yzerman reportedly wants the job. I'll be believe that when I see as I already don't trust Yzerman. It is amazing that under Sather, the Rangers won exactly as many titles as the Knicks did under their constant stream of team prexy's. Yet he never even seemed close to losing his job. Odd, that. Let's hope the new guy is better.
Knicks: the Knicks took care of business by not taking care of business all season long. Like the Rangers, they are way overdue some lottery. Because of their horrible record, the Knicks can fall no lower than 5th in the lottery (which proves it is at least managed to some degree). Unlike the Rangers, the Knicks aren't rife with picks, for trade ups. The NBA draft looks like a two or three player deal, so extra picks would have helped. The Knicks need lottery luck, and I still don't buy all of this Duran talk.
So there it is, the Yanks need to shape up, the Giants and Rangers are set up for big drafts and the Knicks have given themselves the best chance for lottery luck. Have a great one!
posted by Kalel9 @ 11:10 AM
9 Comments:
The NYK clinched the worst record. The upcoming lottery may be the most important single event in NY sports in years because so few NY teams can actually win or truly be in a position to win championships in large part because of the moronic, counterproductive win-now bullshit.
The Yankees are the closest to getting it right in large part because they took a step back and got in sell mode a few years ago (that also gave important developmental playing time to prospects) but let’s be honest, because of some combination of win-now bad decisions, inopportunely timed payroll restraints, underwhelming starting pitching, and now incompetent managerial decisions, they have come up short for most of the last 20 years. Yet Hal doesn’t seem to care. They are, however, close enough when healthy to turn it around if the make some adjustments to their process, although if Bird and Sanchez are able to prove they can be elite hitters after sucking so hard last season their health issues would be significantly offset.
The NYK, as we know, have been beyond abysmal, and maybe they will continue to be. The lottery, however, is their next best chance to move toward being really good instead of mediocrity as a ceiling. Getting Zion (or maybe Ja or Barrett), to add to Robison and Knox, would be a start and position them as a viable option for elite free agents.
Speaking of mediocrity as a ceiling, that’s where I see the NYG headed in large part because of the win-while-building -idiocy and because Mara and Gettleman are so arrogant. And when you don’t know what you don’t know, you are screwed.
Just because they say "win while building" doesn't mean they mean it. The coach and GM didn't get fired for only winning 5 in the first year of this.
All Rise!!!
All Rise again!
Either Boone or the guys in the tunnel don't know how to handle the pen.
I knew Sanchez was too good for him to hit like he did last year, which as I said on Twitter just now, makes last year all the more perplexing even accounting for his time on the DL.
He is such a big part of this team and anywhere we want to go.
Btw, great to see Clint Frazier seizing his opportunity.
New Yankee post.
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