Before. During. After?
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on May 10, 2011 
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It’s amazing how many Yankees turned a corner — for better and for worse — during last week’s road trip through Detroit and Dallas. The bulk of the Yankees regulars produced significantly different results than what they showed up to that point. There was a full month of data to examine, and then it all changed.
Obviously some of these guys began changing before the road trip began — Rodriguez and Gardner jump to mind — but the numbers still paint a pretty accurate picture of who was hitting early in the season and who’s been hitting lately. One road trip produces a small sample size, but determining who’s hot and who’s not usually involves a relatively small number of at-bats.
Here are the slash lines for the Yankees regulars before and during the road trip. The question is, who’s going to hit in these days after the road trip?
Derek Jeter
Before the road trip: .242/.308/.263
During the road trip: .393/.414/.643
Curtis Granderson
Before the road trip: .281/.330/.640
During the road trip: .292/.452/.667
Mark Teixeira
Before the road trip: .256/.387/.570
During the road trip: .269/.367/.577
Alex Rodriguez
Before the road trip: .274/.389/.575
During the road trip: .231/.286/.231
Robinson Cano
Before the road trip: .320/.340/.630
During the road trip: .167/.200/.250
Nick Swisher
Before the road trip: .218/.330/.276
During the road trip: .211/.375/.421
Jorge Posada
Before the road trip: .133/.235/.387
During the road trip: .208/.321/.250
Russell Martin
Before the road trip: .293/.376/.587
During the road trip: .125/.333/.188
Brett Gardner
Before the road trip: .200/.300/.400
During the road trip: .350/.458/.350
Associated Press photos of Teixeira and Rodriguez
Lot of interesting pitching matching:
Halladay vs Johnson
Lincecum vs Kennedy
Lester vs Drabek
Carpenter vs Zambrano
Liriano vs Porcello
Garcia vs Davies
Erin May 10th, 2011 at 8:45 am
What soup guy? The Soup Nazi???
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yes reggie has apparently invested in “the original soup man” (soup nazi) and they are opening new stores and expanding it into airports, malls, etc. and he was doing the rounds of radio and tv appearences the last couple of weeks pushing that buisness.
i guess a watch release party is better than a release watch party !
….and it is really good soup…
Look at Jeter and Gardner!!
I didn’t realize how bad Robbie’s numbers were on this road trip. I guess the good news is he’s due.
Ys Guy-it really is The Soup Nazi? That’s awesome.
im guessing “the original soup nazi” doesnt work for alot of malls and airports!
Lester vs Drabek
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Don’t see this one as especially interesting……..or even fair.
YsGuy May 10th, 2011 at 9:07 am
im guessing ?the original soup nazi? doesnt work for alot of malls and airports!
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no…probably not.
well, i guess it is the soup nazi, although its obviously been bought out, corporatized and the soup definitelyl has to be premade and frozen, which means it can’t possibly be as good as it was at his original location. and im guessing that corporate chefs in test kitchens with tasting groups are ‘developing’ the taste profile (read BLAND!) which have to have preservatives and binders to keep it from separating in the freezing and shipping process and being heated and served by minimum wage employees between texting thier cheerleading friends at the mall kiosks, but yeah, its the same soup….kinda…
http://money.msn.com/business-.....038;isub=2
“I didn’t realize how bad Robbie’s numbers were on this road trip. I guess the good news is he’s due.”
or the next one to have his temperature taken if Alex starts hitting before he does.
Cano is OPSing .870 which is not all that far from where he should be (.835 career OPS, .915 career high), but it’s largely based on slugging (30+ homer, 100+ rbi, 80 ExBH pace). He’s not walking at all though. He’s on pace for about 20 walks after posting a career high 57 last year. It’s led to a not so Cano-like .313 OBP.
pat- true.
if you worked at ‘the origianal soup man’ at the mall, how many times a day would people come up to you and ask you to say “no soup for you?”
friendly reminder from a veteran of the food wars: always tip in cash!
http://www.lohud.com/article/2...../105100370
YsGuy May 10th, 2011 at 9:18 am
if you worked at ?the origianal soup man? at the mall, how many times a day would people come up to you and ask you to say ?no soup for you??
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too many to count. lol
fyi, people working concessions in ‘tipped’ positions get paid a sub-mimimum wage, then thier bosses want a cut (or in this case, take a cut) then it gets taxed. also they have to belong to the most corrupt and useless union on the face of the earth and most of them probably had to bribe a union hack to get the job in the first place. (my dad’s bartending job in the 80′s at msg cost him $10 grand). just give them cash so they can put it in thier pocket and buy thier kids some sneakers…
or the next one to have his temperature taken if Alex starts hitting before he does.
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Everyone has a funk of some sort over 162. The few days off due to the back/oblique thing seemed to hurt some. He was seeing the ball (12 walks, 6 K’s) so well his 1st 60 PA’s or so and driving it all over the place (10 ExBH). Seems just the opposite of late. 1 walk and 12 K’s over his last 52 PA’s with one ExBH. He’ll get the rhythm back sooner than later though.
The team is 14th in batting average in the AL at .252. I don’t think we need to be fixating on slugging or OBP with any single player. Overall, the team is struggling to hit the ball.
Other than LF, the Yankees really can’t move a position player off his position and upgrade that spot with a high contact hitter.
As Arod, Tex and Posada age, they look more and more like sluggers instead of well rounded hitters who can hit for contact in addition to power and patience.
Contact hitters are hard to come by. I don’t have one in mind but I know this team would be so much better if they could collectively hit the ball more frequently.
The team is 14th in batting average in the AL at .252.
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Actually .252 is good for 7th in the AL, and is above the league average of .250 even.
Yankees are also Numero Uno in the AL in both OBP at .339 and SLG% at .461
2nd highest OPS to the Yankees .800 is the Royals’ .756
Sitting here at my desk for first time today, and catching up, I have one conclusion –
I’ve got to get independently wealthy so that I can follow baseball 24/7.
blake says:
May 10, 2011 at 9:04 am
Lot of interesting pitching matching:
Halladay vs Johnson
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This is one I really want to watch. I get all Marlins games because I have their channel but I won’t be home to watch it. Luckily they always play a condensed game later at night. Hopefully it lives up to the billing.
Joe from Long Island says:
May 10, 2011 at 9:49 am
Sitting here at my desk for first time today, and catching up, I have one conclusion –
I’ve got to get independently wealthy so that I can follow baseball 24/7.
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You should just follow the minor leagues. Much cheaper and way more rewarding.;)
Mell,
Probably not fair but still interesting to me anyways
I’ll take OBP/SLG over AVG any day. Antiquated statistics don’t worry me.
Blake:
League leader in walks against the team that leads the league in being walked. Sounds like a long night on paper. Guess we’ll see when they play it on the field.
Mell,
I think its the “any given night” factor with Drabek…..plus Id like to see Bautista terrorize the Sox for a change.
obp and slg are very important, but so is avg. there used to be an overreliance on avg, one reason is that for years pre internet it was the only % stat available on most players. however i’ll take ‘antiquated’ ba over flat-out stupid stats. seems like the new fave is babip. funny thing is the analysis of babip almost always employs the word luck, as in “he’s hitting into bad luck” when a babip is lower than usual. i prefer the term lousy hitting in place of luck. i dont think it tells you much of anything myself.
No, actually the NYY are 24th in all of baseball in hits.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/t.....order/true
If you remove HR from all those teams then NYY would be near last in BA.
I understand BA is not a high value stat but I still believe NYY would be much more balanced and consistent and therefore more improved if they hit the ball more frequently.
This is once again a feast or famine lineup, prone to the ill-timed drought.
Bottom Line: The Yankees have scored the most runs per game in the AL.
Not coincidentally, they also have the highest OPS in the AL.
But keep cherry picking.
Scratch that.
Without the HR, NYY are dead last in hits in MLB.
YsGuy
Although I am more of a BA or OBP person, BABIP is an okay stat when used correctly. It isn’t fair to say tha Pujols BABIP is high or low compared to Ellsbury because they aren’t relative. Ellsbury has speed which directly is affected by BABIP and also his BABIP may be weak bunts even or soft grounders. Pujols BABIP my be shots that got knocked down & he was thrown out, yet an inch difference may have led to it being a double. That said, if you compare BABIP for the individual with previous years or someone in the same mold, them it is meaningful IMO.
but why would you want to remove all the HR?
If Jorge doesn’t hit he’s replaceable. As long as his at bats aren’t causing losses you can afford to give him the rest of this month.
Tex and Swisher are disappointments to me average wise.
Tex, not so much because he brings power and on base to the table, but his average and the way he completely disappears as our 3 hitter are problems. That said, he’s supposed to get red hot soon so I hope it starts this homestand.
Swisher, on the other hand, is a guy who should be better than this. I’ve said it before he feels more like a special guest star in this offense rather than a regular player.
He doesn’t seem to carry the load, like Granderson has at times, when the other guys are slumping. He’s definitely one of the guys who only hits when the rest of the lineup is on fire and when they are cold his at bats usually look the worst.
The good news is Jeter and Gardner are showing signs of life. If they get consistent again, this lineup will hit and score a lot. Tex hits better with runners on, so getting those 2 on for him is key.
That said, Swisher and Posada have to show up soon. They play offensive positions. With Posada you can use the age/DH excuse for the rest of this month – then it’s on the Yankees.
With Swisher, there is no excuse. If he really wants to be a Yankee mainstay, he needs to show the front office that he’s a player the team can rely on. I think he fades into the background way too much and I don’t know if the Yankees will pay him what his agent is going to want. For him to repeat the numbers of the last 2 years here, he’s going to have to have a helluva season the rest of the way.
Stolen from RAB:
They’re first in the game with 5.31 runs per game, and they lead baseball in OPS (.800) and wOBA (.352). Their .252 team batting average is being held back by a .266 BABIP, something that should correct itself as the season progresses, but they still lead the league in OBP (.339) thanks to a gaudy 10.7% walk rate, the best in all the land. They’re a power and patience club, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that they swing at the fewest pitches out of the zone (23.7%) and have the largest ISO (.209) in the game.
If you remove all of the Cardinals hits, they’d be last in the MLB in hitting…
AVG is just not a leading indicator of performance in baseball anymore. It is encompassed in OBP and SLG, and those are both better measures of how your offense is performing.
‘funny thing is the analysis of babip almost always employs the word luck, as in “he’s hitting into bad luck” when a babip is lower than usual. i prefer the term lousy hitting in place of luck. i dont think it tells you much of anything myself.”
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Player A hits a line drive in the gap.
Player B hits a line drive right at someone.
Player B’s line drive is lousy hitting?
G. Love,
Any chance Swisher plays his way out of the 2012 team option?
Posada will be gone in 2012 as well.
Gardner is definitely replaceable as well.
The last time i checked a hr counted as a hit.
I am more concerned that our pitching keeps doing well.
I still think we need another pitcher,eventually.
If the yankees end up in the ws & beat a nl team in a game 7 & have only 4 hits,all hr & win 4-3,i would care less.
HR are by far the best hits.
Why on earth would you remove HRs from the Yankee hits?
Ron,
I feel pretty confident Cashman will look to add a starter to this rotation.
LGY – Obviously it’s unfair that the Yankees get such better hits than everyone… they should be more humble and keep the ball in the park.
Bret,
I don’t think Swisher plays himself out of the option. I do think he is playing himself out of the extension he’s going to want after that.
He has to become a force in this lineup that can carry the team when the 3-4-5 guys go cold. All he’s shown is if they go cold, he goes freezing cold.
They’ll pick up the option but I think his days of RF are numbered unless he shows more consistent reliable performance.
Gardner is definitely replaceable, but he’s cheap still and you can keep him in the mix and hope he gets back to that .370 on base range where he becomes a deadly weapon.
Swisher won’t be cheap anymore soon. The disappearing act doesn’t play as well at 10-12 million a year.
When Alex and Cano don’t hit the Yankee offense is about half as good. When they and especially Alex heats back up then they’ll start rolling teams if they continue to pitch like they have.
ron,
They’re going to add a pitcher, but I think they are going to see what Hughes looks like first and what Banuelos and Betances are doing on the farm before they go out and make a deal.
I know we all said it’s out of the realm of possibility that the Yankees would turn to Banuelos or Betances this season, but I think there is a feeling in MLB that you should use the young guys while they are healthy and have it because of the unpredictable nature of health/injury in these guys careers.
I just have this feeling that if you have studs in the minors who can get out major league hitters, teams are going to start to bring them up sooner rather than later.
The Yankees have played the safe way with young arms and innings limits and they still come up and get hurt.
If Banuelos, specifically, can get MLB hitters out, I think they are going to call his number later this season rather than trade for a Derek Lowe type. I could be wrong, but I have a feeling the young guys are coming quicker than before because organizations don’t want to waste their best throws in the minors anymore.
Bret, your comment about them being last in hits, without homers, is really meaningless.
After all, without the bullet in his head, Osama would still be alive.
G. Love,
Would you want the Yankees to add Reyes to play 3b and shift AROD to DH?
I just think the best lineups in baseball and in the Yankees past consist of sluggers along with a handful of players who swing to make contact and put the ball in play.
Reyes would make the lineup more circular.
I think Swish just gets homer happy sometimes and I think his low total this year is affecting him. He needs to get back to being patient and just think about hitting the ball where its pitched……the homers will come if he does that…..easier said than done though.
I also somehow doubt he removed all the other teams HR’s from their hits.
You know, if you removed strikeouts… their OBP would be through the roof!
“Reading and hearing about the Yankees “over-reliance” on home runs has really gotten tiresome. It’s not like they’re making a conscious decision to hit HRs in lieu of every other hit. Singles and doubles just aren’t falling in. As a team, the Yankees have a .266 batting average on balls in play.
Here’s the list of MLB teams since 1990 that had a BABIP of .266 or less.
1991 New York Mets.
So maybe the Yankees are the weakest hitting team in the last 20 years and will join the Mets at the top of this dubious list. Or maybe hits will start falling in.”
http://www.rlyw.net/index.php/.....nough_hits
Reyes is the antithesis of a yankee. No hustle. No thanks.
benigno asked cashman if the yankees might have interest in johan santana for next year and apparently jason zillo cut him off at the knees because he started to answer, then laughed and said his media relations guy would kill him if he said anything….
i watch reyes alot and i dont see a lack of hustle. its alot like when yankees fans were calling cano lazy a couple of years ago. there is more brashness and flash in reyes than most yankees fans like in a player and replacing jeter with reyes would be an affront in terms of personality, but yankees fans should stop dumping on reyes, he’s a very good player that is very unlikely to ever play for the yankees.
7 of the 9 regulars in the Yankee lineup are above the league average in pitches/PA and lead the league in walk rate. Wasn’t someone complaining about them being impatient?
YsGuy – I’ve seen him dog out enough ground balls to never want to see him in pinstripes, regardless of its possibility
are you watching alot of the yankees and others not running out grounders? its not just reyes…
YsGuy – There is a difference (IMO) between slow players grounding out and fast players that can beat out IFGB not running hard. Posada grounding out to second base and chugging down the line does not concern me.
You dont’ see Gardner take a play off… ever.
The Mets would ask a fortune from the Yankees for Reyes. Only way I ever see that happening is if he makes it to free agency and the Yanks decided to move Jeter off SS in the off season or if a situation arises where it made sense (like an obvious spot for Jeter opened). If they aquired Reyes then it would be to play SS and they’d need to do so when Jete could learn a new position……that and the price tag means they aren’t trading for him this year IMO.
is that fair, reyes has to bust it and posada doesnt? reyes has to take the extra base but arod can trot into second on balls in the gap? i dont like double standards.
Blake,
Jose Reyes is a free agent after 2011.
The Yankees could shift Arod to DH and play Reyes at 3b.
They don’t have to shift Jeter to DH.
YsGuy – Posada could bust it down the line, to what end? it’s about playing your role on the team, and speed guys should be busting it down the line every play. Yes, I think every player should be as well, but that’s just not realistic.
One of my favorite Tex moments was him busting it around the bases in the Mets game where Castillo dropped Arod’s pop up.
“Watch” this:
http://www.worldtempus.com/en/.....e-jackson/
Here’s a nice read on Jose Reyes.
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-yo.....-continues
The Yankees should make room for this guy.
Swish could be pressing about wanting to continue to be a Yankee after this year. He is definitely a better hitter than he has shown this whole season. He really needs to come out of it because having a huge hole in the 2 spot or 6 spot isn’t going to work.
Buying in on Reyes now is a terrible idea. The guy is outperforming his career rates in walks, strikeouts, ISO, BABIP, AVG/OBP/SLG, you name it… he’s outperforming it. This is the “sell high” time, not “buy high”.
He’s a ticking timebomb of chronic hamstring injuries and doubles down at a position the Yankees do not have the space or need for.
Yes, he’s good. He does not fill a need on this Yankee team.
i applaud the guys who bust it on a regular basis, but i dont see reyes taking it easy any more often than the average player. plus he is a leadoff man, so he bats more often and plays ss which takes it’s toll, too. while i dont like guys who bring as much attention to themselves as reyes does, and i wouldnt throw huge money after a aging guy so dependent on his oft-injured legs, i think reyes is a very exciting and fun player to watch.
I would never put Reyes at 3b. I actually would put Jeter there before Reyes and put Reyes at SS and Arod at DH and let them three of them share those positions. You also could consider putting Cano at 3b and Jeter at 2b but switching 2 players from their natural position to accommodate one seems silly.
But all of that is moot. I don’t see the Yankees going after Reyes. Honestly, I just don’t see it.
I see the Red Sox getting him way before the Yankees do. If that Iglesias kid doesn’t progress with the bat then he’s Rey Ordonez the sequel and you can’t carry Rey Ordonez in the AL East in my opinion. I think they’ll try to deal him to the Mets for Reyes this year.
Reyes LD% is down, FB% up, but HR/FB is down. He’s due for some serious regression.
Bret The Hitman May 10th, 2011 at 11:21 am
Here’s a nice read on Jose Reyes.
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-yo…..-continues
The Yankees should make room for this guy.
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For some reason, I have never been a big fan of Reyes. He gets injured so easily, or doesn’t seem to keep his mind in the game, or has been too immature in past.
I would fear that on Yankees, his legs would get injured, and we’d be seeing another Pavano situation.
I can’t offer any proof to this except a gut feeling.
“Here’s a nice read on Jose Reyes.
“http://espn.go.com/blog/new-yo…..-continues
“The Yankees should make room for this guy.”
Just in case David Dejesus isn’t available.
wasnt the lee offer ‘buying high?’
Just in case David Dejesus isn’t available.
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I’m probably missing something here, but David DeJesus would have been a nice pick-up early last year. He’s a good player.
Bojo,
Not this year he isn’t.
What you missed is Bret moves on from one pet “acquisition” to another, almost exclusively in terms of his participation here.
Last year it was DeJesus.
I have a hard time getting excited over a guy who has a .287BA/ .337OBP/ .436SLG/ .773OPS/ 103OPS+ career line.
Is Reyes a good ball player? Yes. Is he a guy the Yankees should pay 80-100 million bucks to? No.
I used to go to the original- original soup man on W 55th st. And I did have the mulligatawny.
And on the subway the other night I saw a man wearing a puffy shirt. I so wanted to sneak a photo of him but didn’t have the nerve.
YsGuy – Sure was, but it was also a move of necessity. They don’t have starters, they have infielders… some pretty good ones at that…
players have career years. despite the old adage that they will put up what is on the back of their playing cards, players have great years and for various reasons, often in their ‘walk year’ i dont see any reason why reyes cant continue what he is doing as long as his legs stay healthy.
if you subscribe to the ‘back of the baseball card’ theory, look out for a big drop from granderson and martin. but i think grandy has hit a breakthrough and martin suffered from overplaying and playing hurt and will be somewhat better than he’s been the past 2 seasons.
well, not that im saying bring reyes in (in fact i am not in favor of it) you have to say that a healthy jose reyes leading off for the yankees would be a big boost to the lineup, no matter whether you are buying high or low.
i dont see any reason why reyes cant continue what he is doing as long as his legs stay healthy.
His LD/FB/GB/BABIP rates are reason. He has unsustainable production right now.
No reason to boost a lineup that already leads the league. Attention should be focused on weakness, not strength.
Bret,
I agree with G. Love….you’d move Jeter to 3B or RF or somewhere and play Reyes at SS in that event. But I don’t see it happening.
G love,
I don’t think the Sox have enough to get Reyes……other teams like SF have much more to offer. Then again….I didn’t think they had enough to get Gonzalez either……but then again the Mets GM doesn’t have a Theo poster on his wall like the Padres do. I don’t see Sandy buying the Sox hype for Iglesias and A ball dudes.
Yankees are at the 20% marker of the season.
I’ll take 4 more of how the first 32 games have played out. And that includes their respective winning %’s at home and on the road.
That’s 95 wins, which will get them to the PS.
while our offense is very good, you can’t call the leadoff spot a strength right now.
is granderson’s hitting unsustainable according to your statistics?
Yes, martin and granderson are both due for some power regression. The rest of their peripherals are fine, and their FB rates are actually both back in line with their 2007 season, which were pretty awesome on both counts.
statistics only tell you what is likely to happen, not what is going to happen. his %s are up but nothing says either grandy or reyes cant have career years.
ID – I think I could not have said it better about Jose Reyes. What a coincidence, this is his walk year.
G.Love – I think Boston would do that deal in a minute – Iglesias for Reyes. The potential problem is, that coupled with Carl Crawford, it would give them two guys with similar playing style – dependent on speed/their legs – and at points in their careers when declines are very possible. That could saddle them with two underperforming players, facing the down side of their baseball lives, with big contracts. (They’d go after Reyes longterm as their SS, else why deal Iglesias.) Just my opinion, but that’s how I see it.
Here’s my thoughts about guys who play the game built on their legs/speed.
If you develop one in your system it’s a goldmine. If you can trade for one while they are in their early mid 20′s it’s a good gamble. But I don’t sign one to a long term deal taking them into their mid 30′s when they are already in their late 20′s.
If the speed goes in their 30′s or they suffer a leg injury, the deal kills your team. Signing guys like Crawford and Reyes to long term deal doesn’t make sense to me when their legs are what makes them valuable.
I’d rather sink my money into a guy who could hit .300 independent of speed. Pujols, to me, is the ultimate get as a free agent as his hitting is his talent. It’s not his legs. Bat speed usually lasts longer than foot speed in the game.
stuckey99 May 10th, 2011 at 11:29 am
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Thanks for the explanation. I actually like hearing trade thoughts from people, and seeing them defend the proposed ideas from the counter-points. One of the interesting things on the blog IF DONE IN MODERATION. I miss Chip in fact. BTW–does anyone know if he is okay?
Granderson’s power numbers where compiled while playing half his games in Comerica Park. Is that data directly transferrable to Yankee Stadium?
stuckey99 May 10th, 2011 at 11:39 am
Yankees are at the 20% marker of the season.
I’ll take 4 more of how the first 32 games have played out. And that includes their respective winning %’s at home and on the road.
That’s 95 wins, which will get them to the PS.
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IMO, they haven’t even hit their stride yet. I’m waiting for July/August weather and expect them to run off some long winning streaks.
bojo, agreed! discussion is great , when people start attacking each other instead of debating ideas it all goes to hell, but discussing ideas and theories, and agreeing to disagree where common ground isnt available, things are great.
G. Love,
I agree in general…..though signing a speed guy to play SS is much more preferable than signing one to play LF because of the scarcity of the position.
I don’t think it is so much about trading for Reyes as it will be meeting his ridiculous contract demands. He has said he wants $ 100 to $ 120 million.
He seems to be distracted easily from keeping his head in the game, maybe you could call it inconsistent. Additionally he seems to take days off for the littlest things, sprains, a hangnail, a runny nose. Strange and he drives me nuts when I have him on a fantasy roster.
YsGuy – Nothing says they can’t. Statistics are exactly like you said they only tell you what “might” happen. They can only be looked at as probabilities.
You are willing to bet $100mil that he will sustain this production over the full length of a contract with his history of hamstring injuries? The odds would certainly be against that.
it’s the same reason as what G. Love outlined above, if you pay these “speed” guys and they lose that ability with age/injury, they are worthless. Just wait to see the disaster this Crawford contract turns into before the end
Reyes makes a few too many baserunning blunders for a guy who’s skillset is supposed to be built around speed on the bases.
i keep thinking about betances today, i was really really impressed with what i saw last night in trenton. 5 ip/ 1 soft hit!
How funny would it be to see Red Sox get Reyes and then sign him long term…only to watch him struggle and have Tito have to juggle who bats 8th?!
Joe from LI – Granderson’s power numbers where compiled while playing half his games in Comerica Park. Is that data directly transferrable to Yankee Stadium?
It won’t change his FB/GB/LD rates ( I mean maybe a little if he was “trying” to hit it harder or something). Comerica is a much bigger park than Yankee stadium, so his power “should” be up if he produces the same batted ball splits. I remember when we first signed him I looked at his HR plots on hittracker, he should hit 40HR’s as a Yankee given the same batted ball data transferred from Comerica to YS. Do I think he’ll sustain a 20%+ HR/FB rate? No, but he shouldn’t have to either.
if the socks dont get to the alcs this season, i think they will go hard after reyes.
The Sox should go hard after Reyes regardless of where they finish, IMO… he’s a much bigger improvement for their team than ours. The mets should also not even be considering trading Reyes away, and should resign him. The Dodgers and Rangers are proof that MLB won’t let its franchises take a nose dive talent wise for the lack of a few dollars. I don’t buy into the Mets “liquidity” problems holding them back from making competitive moves next year.
YsGuy May 10th, 2011 at 11:49 am
i keep thinking about betances today, i was really really impressed with what i saw last night in trenton. 5 ip/ 1 soft hit!
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I saw the comments from earlier blog…so let me see if I understand this:
1) He has a Mariano slow, deliberate motion that lulls batters into a state of waiting
2) He hides ball well until last moment so it is hard to pick up
3) His long stride promotes a late action surprise because the ball gets there faster (as per the DRob article posted a few weeks ago)
4) He is physically intimidating, and
5) He has a 95 mph+ FB, a great curve, and devloping change.
Oh boy!
…and he kept the ball down in the zone to boot!
Every time I saw Betances, he reminded me of a young Dwight Gooden. I don’t know if anyone else sees that…
ID – thanks for the followup.
And, my two cents is that the Mets will look to deal Reyes if they get what they consider fair value.
i didnt see that huge curve of doc’s, db’s offspeed pitch seemed effective because the hitters are so off-balance trying to ‘find’ the heater they arent prepared for it.
Back to work–C Y’alll L8R
I wonder whether Banuelos would be a better LOOGY than Logan. They could use Banuelos in short relief the last half of this year and the plauyoffs, then use him as starter next year.
Good Idea David in Cal, Might just work out.Cano & Alex will erupt on this homestand.