Comments on: Yankees may be close with Cano http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/ A New York Yankees blog by Chad Jennings and the staff of The Journal News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bronx Liaison http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/comment-page-3/#comment-247342 Bronx Liaison Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:03:04 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/#comment-247342 If anyone wants to throw some feedback my way, my blog can always use it. Got some results from a recent Santana poll on my blog. http://bronx-bomberz.blogspot.com/ If anyone wants to throw some feedback my way, my blog can always use it. Got some results from a recent Santana poll on my blog.

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]]> By: â™ fleas http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/comment-page-3/#comment-247341 â™ fleas Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:28:27 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/#comment-247341 Yes, I am an awful speller. It's never been something I am good at. I've always been good at math though. I guess that is why I enjoy programming? I don't have a degree either, just years of on-the-job experience and a few courses in community college. I don't think you have to be good at spelling to be smart. My fiancee has a masters from Harvard and her spelling is worse than mine! Thanks for all the feedback about my blog! Yes, I am an awful speller. It’s never been something I am good at. I’ve always been good at math though. I guess that is why I enjoy programming? I don’t have a degree either, just years of on-the-job experience and a few courses in community college.

I don’t think you have to be good at spelling to be smart. My fiancee has a masters from Harvard and her spelling is worse than mine!

Thanks for all the feedback about my blog!

]]> By: Kwamie-Kilpatrickie http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/comment-page-3/#comment-247340 Kwamie-Kilpatrickie Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:21:46 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/#comment-247340 Fleas: you're the one who didn't know how to spell "imbecile"? Fleas: you’re the one who didn’t know how to spell “imbecile”?

]]> By: Buddy Biancalana http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/comment-page-3/#comment-247339 Buddy Biancalana Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:59:08 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/#comment-247339 This is the last bit from Jon Heyman's article on Cano's imminent deal: New York also was nearing completion of a minor league contract with backup infielder Chris Woodward. If added to the major league roster, he would get a one-year deal for $700,000 while in the majors and $120,000 while in the minors. Woodward hit .199 in 136 at-bats for the Atlanta Braves last year. The nine-year big league veteran could earn an additional $200,000 in performance bonuses, getting the full amount for 325 plate appearances. This is the last bit from Jon Heyman’s article on Cano’s imminent deal:

New York also was nearing completion of a minor league contract with backup infielder Chris Woodward. If added to the major league roster, he would get a one-year deal for $700,000 while in the majors and $120,000 while in the minors.

Woodward hit .199 in 136 at-bats for the Atlanta Braves last year. The nine-year big league veteran could earn an additional $200,000 in performance bonuses, getting the full amount for 325 plate appearances.

]]> By: Joe Buck ruins my life with his bad MLB/NFL playoff announcing http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/comment-page-3/#comment-247337 Joe Buck ruins my life with his bad MLB/NFL playoff announcing Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:44:04 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/#comment-247337 http://www.baseballprospectus.com/chat/chat.php?chatId=410 Tony (Brooklyn, NY): Robinson Cano's PECOTA? Does he project to be a high-variability player? Thanks! Nate Silver: He's not particuarly high-variability. He's either going to be a pretty good ballplayer like Carlos Baerga or a really freakin' good ballplayer like … someone better than Carlos Baerga. The scenarios where he crashes and burns are pretty much off the table at this point. http://www.baseballprospectus......chatId=410

Tony (Brooklyn, NY): Robinson Cano’s PECOTA? Does he project to be a high-variability player? Thanks!

Nate Silver: He’s not particuarly high-variability. He’s either going to be a pretty good ballplayer like Carlos Baerga or a really freakin’ good ballplayer like … someone better than Carlos Baerga. The scenarios where he crashes and burns are pretty much off the table at this point.

]]> By: Joe Buck ruins my life with his bad MLB/NFL playoff announcing http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/comment-page-3/#comment-247336 Joe Buck ruins my life with his bad MLB/NFL playoff announcing Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:31:20 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/#comment-247336 This is great news! Sign that man up long term. This is great news! Sign that man up long term.

]]> By: Wolf In Pinstripes http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/comment-page-3/#comment-247335 Wolf In Pinstripes Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:29:11 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/#comment-247335 Fleas - looks pretty good, man. My only suggestion is maybe change the background color of the tables for your sidebar blocks to give the page some contrast with all the black going on. Of course, that may be part of your work in progress, seeing that you are a developer. Good job, though - especially since you are coding it all and not using a template from software. 8) Fleas – looks pretty good, man. My only suggestion is maybe change the background color of the tables for your sidebar blocks to give the page some contrast with all the black going on. Of course, that may be part of your work in progress, seeing that you are a developer. Good job, though – especially since you are coding it all and not using a template from software. 8)

]]> By: randy l. http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/comment-page-3/#comment-247332 randy l. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:58:53 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/#comment-247332 "he(wang) has to be signed for this season, and his contract is going to be somewhere around $4M. that will happen within the next 2 weeks. does that make us feel a little better?" good point. four million is a definite jump up from the 400 thousand or so he's been getting. “he(wang) has to be signed for this season, and his contract is going to be somewhere around $4M. that will happen within the next 2 weeks.
does that make us feel a little better?”

good point. four million is a definite jump up from the 400 thousand or so he’s been getting.

]]> By: Fleas http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/comment-page-3/#comment-247331 Fleas Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:54:56 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/#comment-247331 raysmagnetic Yeah, but I don't do it for the money :) Humor is pay enough! raysmagnetic

Yeah, but I don’t do it for the money :) Humor is pay enough!

]]> By: randy l. http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/comment-page-3/#comment-247330 randy l. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:53:01 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/24/yankees-may-be-close-with-cano/#comment-247330 "if you sat out while under contract, you probably wouldn’t get paid and no other team could have you, so you’d be out of baseball. Not a smart move." on the other hand, my right arm that threw 97 mph bullets, like linceum's arm does ,would be healthy and fine because i wouldn't be risking it. do you really think that the giants wouldn't be freaking out if lincecum sat out until he had some protection. i'll bet the giants would blink before lincecum would if he was really determined. a few years ago , a young player could buy long term insurance to protect themselves. not any more. teams can't either. it's just a hole in the system. this is getting farther and farther away from wang's situation because wang will wait it out in his arbitration years if he has too. he's not going to be the rebel who goes against the system, but someone( probably a boras client) will do it in the next ten years. guaranteed. “if you sat out while under contract, you probably wouldn’t get paid and no other team could have you, so you’d be out of baseball. Not a smart move.”

on the other hand, my right arm that threw 97 mph bullets, like linceum’s arm does ,would be healthy and fine because i wouldn’t be risking it. do you really think that the giants wouldn’t be freaking out if lincecum sat out until he had some protection. i’ll bet the giants would blink before lincecum would if he was really determined.

a few years ago , a young player could buy long term insurance to protect themselves. not any more. teams can’t either. it’s just a hole in the system. this is getting farther and farther away from wang’s situation because wang will wait it out in his arbitration years if he has too. he’s not going to be the rebel who goes against the system, but someone( probably a boras client) will do it in the next ten years. guaranteed.

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