Comments on: Pinch hitting: Sox And Pinstripes

By: Fredric Halling

Fredric Halling — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:38:33 +0000

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By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:58:16 +0000

What I find interesting about your post is that apparently you are the male version of me. I live in San Francisco, I’m a die hard Yankee fan (obviously), I’m married to a Red Sox fan, I was at the Jeter flip game (as was my husband but this was 3 years before we met), and we are still battling over the fandom of our son who is only 7 months old. We’ve agreed that the next team to win the series gets the kid.

By: Pancho

Pancho — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:12:36 +0000

Don’t know if this post will get in but it is about time we stop the whole Red Sox develop better talent stuff, because it simply is not true. The Red Sox currently have Youkilis, Pedroia, Ellsbury and Lowrie as home-grown everyday talent and have traded home-grown talent to acquire Lowell. Assuming they bring back Varitek, that would also qualify as home-grown talent. They got JD Drew and Big Papi as free agents, as well as Jason Bay (they got Manny as a free agent and traded him for Bay, this is why I count Bay as a FA acquisition). On the pitching front, they have Lester, Bucholz, Paplebon and Masterson as “significant” home-grown talent and they traded home-grown talent for Beckett. They got Wakefield, Matsusaka, Smoltz, Penny and Saito as “significant” FA acquisitions over the years. On the Yankees front, they have Jeter, Cano, Posada and Cabrera/Gardner as home-grown talent on the field, and they traded home-grown talent to acquire A-Rod and Xavier Nady. They have Matsui, Damon and Texeira as free agents. On the pitching front, they have Wang, Joba, Phil Hughes and Mariano and Veras as “significant” home-grown talent and they signed CC, AJ and Bruney as free agents but have not traded any home-grown talent for pitching. This analysis does not take into account any draft picks given up for FA signings and what the quality of those draft picks have been. It also does not take into account an evaluation of the farm systems, because until you have players prove themselves in the majors for a few years, anything is possible, from injuries to bad performance to trades, etc.

The bottom line is that if Cano and Melky have bounce-back years and Posada, Joba and Wang come back from injury to perform at their regular level, you really have a core group of players on the 25 man roster that are home-grown talents or were traded for using home-grown talent (A-Rod, Jeter, Posada, Joba, Hughes, Veras, Mo, Melky, Gardner and Wang) that is comparable to the Red Sox (Pedroia, Youkilis, Beckett, Lowrie, Lowell, Varitek, Bucholz, Masterson and Ellsbury), so I just don’t get this whole “over the last ten years the yankees farm system has been terrible” stuff. Any comments?

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:57:16 +0000

Brett Gardner takes offense to your statements.

By: kane

kane — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:05:23 +0000

And yet the Yankees still don’t have anyone that can steal a base besides Damon. A-rod does it sometimes but yeah. Seriously we don’t need guys that hit .300 and can get 30 HR’s to fill in every slot of our lineup. We don’t need Manny. We want to get younger. Cheaper too but that’s going to be nearly damn impossible. We already have a DH and another outfielder is suicide. Unless we deal Swisher/Nady and get Manny like really cheap then I’ll be all for it. But it’ll have to be 15 million at most if I were the Yankees which Manny wouldn’t accept anyways. The Rays have NO ONE hitting .300 They try so much harder than any team I have ever seen to win. They constantly steal bases and all they’ll need is 2 base hits for a run. The Yankees got younger but no one can run!Swisher AND Tex can’t run! I don’t want another big hitter. I want a Carl Crawford type of player. But seeing as the Yankees being the Yankees, I doubt it’ll happen.

By: bodhisattva

bodhisattva — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:26:01 +0000

^^^Well-written, balanced post. But if Teixeira’s presence really has freed the Yankees to pass on the folly of getting a washed up 36-year old to play CF, just because of his OBP, then they did “need” Teixeira.

By: bodhisattva

bodhisattva — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:21:45 +0000

GreenBeret7
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:07 am
Is this going to be Cain vs Able, Part II? With brothers like this, who needs enemies?
http://www.nydailynews.com/spo.....rot-1.html
Read it an weep, Dave.

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Wow, that is a disgrace. I’d say Mark is more sinned against than sinning, here.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:09:32 +0000

Very nice post. I agree with everything but your view on the Sox. I wouldn’t say that had a bad off season. They just didn’t need to fill any big holes. Their only must-fill position is catcher. While Tex would’ve been a great pickup for them, it wasn’t a need. So instead of throwing money at Lowe, they signed a bunch of guys to gain depth. While our line-up and starting rotation on Opening Day might be more impressive, our bench guys are lacking. Last year, I put up with “If only we didn’t lose Arod for those few weeks in spring,” “If only Wang wasn’t out for half the season,” and “If only Joba didn’t hurt his arm.” The Sox had injuries similar to ours but they had the depth to deal with it.

What is more concerning – the Yanks losing CC for two months or the Sox losing Beckett for two months?

Either way, I’m praying our big guys stay healthy for the season. That would almost be a guarantee of top spot in the East.

By: Boof Henderson

Boof Henderson — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:07:36 +0000

stephen

if your such a hater….go support another team

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:14:04 +0000

“A Rods personal performance has obviously been great—at least until Oct. But—and this was my point—what seemed like a Yankee knock-out blow over the Sox that winter has obviously not turned out that way since, with two titles in Boston and none in the Bronx.”

There is a flawed premise to this view: that there is such a thing as a “knock out blow” over another team in baseball in the first place. There are only upgrades and downgrades.

In acquiring ARod, the Yankees made a huge upgrade and prevented the Sox from getting that upgrade. The same thing happened with Teixeira. Yes, there is never a guarantee that acquiring a great player will bring a championship, but it only improves your chances.

It’s not as if the Yankees acquired players who the Sox coveted and who were terrible fits with the Yankees. ARod was a great fit, as he could play 3B and we had no 3B after Boone got injured. Teixeira was also a great fit, as Giambi’s contract was up. Those are the main reasons the Yankees acquired these players – because they were great additions to the team. That the Sox wanted these players too was just the icing.

And I will never agree with the view that ARod is always a non-factor in the playoffs. He has good, bad, and mediocre playoff series, just like every other player with significant playoff experience.