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04-03-17 08:21 AM #76
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04-03-17 08:49 AM #77
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04-03-17 09:03 AM #78
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David Ortiz tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003.
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04-03-17 09:09 AM #79
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The plan was:
1B - Carter
2B - Headley
SS - Castro
3B - Bird
http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/...d_at_thir.html
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04-03-17 09:24 AM #80
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??? They have been taking steps toward being productive major leaguers since they started playing baseball. Steps toward that end do not begin in MLB.
Anyway, I think my point was clear. Most of us are going to be disappointed if we do not see production in the young players, including some like Torres who may not even be taking his steps in the majors, young players who need to be part of the core of any great team that emerges in the following couple of years. This season will give us a much better indication of whether that team is likely to emerge, regardless of the team's won-loss record and the performance of the older players.
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04-03-17 10:19 AM #81
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Over a 162 game season they'll take steps backwards. Slumps, errors, everything that the players they've replaced went thru. It's not a straight route upwards is my point. If Sanchez starts slowly, no big deal. Develop at the big leagues with ups and downs. Better than the free agent of the day or trading for the Chase Headleys of the world.
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04-03-17 10:28 AM #82
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Why the F is there an off-day today?
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04-03-17 10:34 AM #83
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Not sure how old you are but anyone thats been watching baseball for more than a few years knows that Spring Training results mean zero. Personally I assess a team's prospects for the season by looking at the talent on the 25 man roster. My expectations coming into this season are low given the state of the rotation and the bottom half of the lineup. They could have won every game in March and it would not have changed my expectations. What would change my expectations is if they upgrade the talent on the ML roster during the season.
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04-03-17 10:48 AM #84
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04-03-17 10:52 AM #85
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04-03-17 11:52 AM #86
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04-03-17 12:02 PM #87
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Ellsbury for Heyward straight up.
~$90M through 2020 (assuming $5M buyout for 2021) vs. ~$150M through 2023.
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04-03-17 01:07 PM #88
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It won't be long before we can all forget Cano and realize that Castro can be everything Robinson was for us. - Retired_Doc
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04-03-17 01:10 PM #89
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Yeah Ellsbury is more likely to be league average going forward
Barring some sort of miracle healing in his back, Heyward looks like he's toast
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04-03-17 01:24 PM #90
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Agree. While I think Ellsbury will actually trend to below league average the next few years, Heyward is completely lost offensively. I have not seen enough of his play to understand where he is defensively, but I doubt that it would make up for his feebleness at the plate.
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04-03-17 01:37 PM #91
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Of course. All players have ups and downs during the season. But it will not be a good sign for the rebuild if the season as a whole is a down for these three guys. I am excited about the youth and the rebuild and hope it goes well. But it would be a big deal if the youth had disappointing seasons. I am pretty sure you would be down about that as well.
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04-03-17 01:43 PM #92
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04-03-17 01:45 PM #93
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04-03-17 02:05 PM #94
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It was no secret going into this season that the starting rotation was the biggest question mark for this team and will probably be the main reason for its struggles. I think that Tanaka will be fine and give this team what it needs to be a successful. But in order for the team to have that success, Tanaka cannot be a one man show.
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04-03-17 02:29 PM #95
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i'd say no to heyward as well.
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04-03-17 02:39 PM #96
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04-03-17 02:44 PM #97
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Only if the Yankees had tied or taken the lead though. Joe sent Carter up hoping to catch lightning in a bottle with a big HR and it did not work. This is not the first, nor last time, that we have seen Joe, and many other managers, try to win a game by putting players out of position.
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04-03-17 03:13 PM #98
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04-03-17 03:14 PM #99
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We complain about Didi getting injured while unnecessarily playing out of position in the WBC. Wouldn't this be the same thing had Bird or Headley gotten hurt trying to do something they have never done? Usually manager are forced to make defensive shifts like this when there is an injury or two (i.e. Soriano and Jeter purposely getting drilled by that coward Pedro in 03). In this case Girardi would have purposely put his team in this poor defensive alignment into the bottom on the 9th where Kevin Cash would have instructed his hitters to keep hitting to 3rd and hope Bird mess up.
I know Kozma isn't a good hitter but at some point he is going to need to take an AB. Down 4 runs in the 9th would have been that scenario.http://vimel.ru/e6748
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04-03-17 03:20 PM #100
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Carter was the useful tool to send up there to hit a mistake pitch into the upper deck: nothing more, nothing less.
Carter was a stupid signing, because he's too cumbersome to put anywhere in the field really outside of stashing him at 1B for a few innings. He'd have made sense if not for Holliday's signing.This is not America...No! https://youtu.be/neLXqbR_r0E
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