SI Yanks standout in MILB awards
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Oct 18, 2011 
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As you probably know, during the offseason I like to focus on the minor league system every now and then. Today I was looking through milb.com’s end-of-the-season awards, searching for nominated Yankees. There are only a handful, none of them coming from the upper levels, but this small collection might put a few unfamiliar names on your radar.
If you’re interested, you can vote on these awards through Thursday. Go here to vote for the 2011 MiLBY Awards.
Mason Williams
Nominated: Best short-season hitter
Second in the New York-Penn League with a .349 average, Williams also led the league with 29 stolen bases and finished top 10 in hits, runs, total bases, triples and on-base percentage. Williams was a fourth-round pick in 2010, and he’s quickly emerging as one of the most interesting players in the lower levels of the Yankees system. His athleticism has never been questioned, and this season he turned that talent into baseball results. With Slade Heathcott battling injuries and Melky Mesa struggling after last year’s breakout season, Williams might be developing into the Yankees top center field prospect. Maybe you can’t rank him ahead of Heathcott just yet, but a bit year in full-season ball could really solidify his status.
Ryan Flannery
Nominated: Best High-A reliever
Before a late-season promotion to Double-A, Flannery was a dominant late-inning reliever for High-A Tampa. He had 19 saves, a 1.24 ERA and only five walks through 43.2 innings. The numbers were similar to 2010, when Flannery allowed a .207 opponents batting average in Low-A Charleston. He was a 47th-round pick in 2008, so Flannery has never been an elite prospect, but he has a 0.995 career WHIP with a ton of ground balls and very few walks.
Branden Pinder
Nominated: Best short-season reliever
The past two seasons the Yankees have drafted quite a few college relievers who seem poised to move quickly through the system. This year, Pinder was a 16th-round pick out of Santa Ana, and he was overwhelming in Staten Island. Through 31 innings he allowed just 16 hits — a .152 opponents average — with five walks and a 38 strikeouts. He was second in the New York-Penn League with 14 saves. Full-season ball might be a different challenge next year, but that’s an impressive debut.
Abe Almonte
Nominated: Best High-A game
More of an event than a game, Almonte was singled out for a hitting streak that reached 30 games on August 29. That day he went 2-for-3 with a single and a double. Almonte went on to extend the hitting streak to 34 games before it ended in his next-to-last game of the season. The streak raised his batting average from .235 to .266 and he ended the season at .268 (he had three hits in the finale). The second baseman-turned-center fielder has long been touted for his potential, but he has yet to put up consistent results.
Staten Island Yankees
Nominated: Best short-season team
Made up mostly of players from the past two drafts — plus some international guys and a few players coming back from injuries — the Staten Island Yankees won the New York-Penn League. They were third in the league in runs scored, second in batting average and first in strikeouts (for the pitching staff). Williams was the star of the show, but hitters like Tyler Austin, Ben Gamel and even Cito Culver — who led the team in RBI despite batting just .250 — had nice seasons, and the pitching staff showed some depth with Pinder in the bullpen and Matthew Tracy serving multiple roles.
Cool post
Didn’t the Yanks recently say that the minor league teams will no longer be called “Yankees” . So what’s an appropriate name for a Staten Island team?
The Staten Island Landfills?
Yay Baby Bombers!
Mason will start to climb those prospect lists if he performs in the Sally next year.
that was mean Jeers…funny, but mean
Offseason wish list (Im bored)
-Re-sign Sabathia (5/125) -pick up Swishers option -trade Swisher for Dom Brown -Sign Beltran (2/25) -trade for Danks (Romine+Warren) -sign Darvish (4/50) to appease LGY and JF -trade AJ to whoever. -Make Montero the primary DH and plan to catch 40-50 games -offer Garcia arbitration – get Joba on the starter path again. -offee Jones a contract -offer Chavez a contract -tender Martin a one year deal
Copy/paste fail
Offseason wish list (Im bored)
-Re-sign Sabathia (5/125)
-pick up Swishers option
-trade Swisher for Dom Brown
-Sign Beltran (2/25)
-trade for Danks (Romine+Warren)
-sign Darvish (4/50) to appease LGY and JF
-trade AJ to whoever.
-Make Montero the primary DH and plan to catch 40-50 games
-offer Garcia arbitration
- get Joba on the starter path again.
-offee Jones a contract
-offer Chavez a contract
-tender Martin a one year deal
Staten Island Ferries? (Ducking)
tomingeorgia October 18th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Staten Island Ferries? (Ducking)
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Tom,
tomingeorgia October 18th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Staten Island Ferries? (Ducking)
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+1
also funny but mean
Prufrock,
Personal ridicule is never ethical.
blake,
I don’t know how realistic trading Swisher is or getting Darvish + Danks, but I like those moves. Best part is we wouldn’t have to give up any draft picks and would actually get a supplemental pick for Garcia.
New Team Name – The Staten Island Whatthef*ckareyoulookinat’s
RS,
I know ….now if the other clubs and FA’s would play along.
Jeter
Beltran
Cano
Granderson
Arod
Teixera
Montero
Martin
Gardner
Sabathia
Nova
Danks
Darvish
Hughes
Noesi #6
YankeesPR The Yankee Stadium transition is on again; sod laid today for the football field; @Army v @rutgersfootball 11/12 http://pic.twitter.com/eWGp47tf
You’d have to get Girardi drunk before he’d put 3 lhh in a row.
Gordon edges just said on Espn that he would walk 45 miles from Boston to his house if Boston didn’t win it all next year.
“You’d have to get Girardi drunk before he’d put 3 lhh in a row.”
Just 2….Beltran is switch
oh Blake he is trying to get back into the red sox good graces (if they have any), just like PeteAbe praising Lester for admitting to drinking beer during games.
tomingeorgia October 18th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Staten Island Ferries? (Ducking)
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Ferries was my “nice” choice.
I almost went with The Guido’s.
blake,
If he can be had on your terms, I’m all in on Beltran.
Throw in Buerhle on the same terms, we’re good to go.
Kate,
Hilarious huh…..
Id like Buerle…..just don’t think he will leave the midwest.
More hilarious is Schilling saying Lester’s comments are embarrasing and sad. I would link the article, but I forget how.
Schilling has been rough on the Sox. I think how they treated Tito ticked him off.
blake October 18th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Copy/paste fail
Offseason wish list (Im bored)
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What time does your flight leave for Tampa ? ? They are expecting you at the Yankee Offices to put you on the payroll and to begin to execute your plan. When Hal saw your post he decided to not re-sign Cash. Good Luck in your new job !
Oh yeah, for some reason I keep thinking of him as a LHH…
I like most of your ideas but some are a bit unrealistic, like trading AJ (without paying almost all of his salary).
kate,
What site did you find it on?
blake – I like the list, but signing Beltran would be a colossal mistake unless he was taking less money than Swisher.
Vineyard,
I wish….maybe I could be a coffee and donut gopher.
Jacksquat,
Yea some or its not….but I would pay up to 20 million of what’s remaining on AJs deal to trade him…..it saves 12 million if you do that and Noesi or somebody coukd match his production.
M
it was a link off bostondirtdogs
This is pretty hilarious. The cubs don’t have much that the Sox like. What little they have they want to hold on to.
Big Bad Red Sox trying to rob the poor.
“Couldn’t Theo have picked the Texas Rangers or the Tampa Bay Rays?” quipped one American League general manager.
http://www.boston.com/sports/b.....ngs_f.html
I’ll be alright if they don’t sign Darvish.
We are going to need to make sure Face doesn’t drown himself in Gyoza and Sapporo however.
Id,
I don’t think so if it were on the terms I proposed…..that’s not a ton of risk and he’s better than Swishers when healthy……
http://www.csnne.com/blog/reds.....eedID=3352
blake – When healthy may very well be a past tense phrase with Beltran. sure he was hot early this year, but went down with the same old problems. Pass.
Ex-Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling called Jon Lester’s comments to Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe about the Sox needing “more structure” than Terry Francona providing “embarrassing and . . . sad”, because it showed a lack of maturity on the parts of the players, and that the 2011 Sox had “no leadership whatsoever in that clubhouse”.
“That kind of boggles my mind that [Lester] said that, because at the end of the day, these are grown men,” Schilling said on WEEI Radio’s ‘Mut and Merloni’ Show. “Do you need a manager to tell you? They all knew, and you always know, when you’re doing something questionable or wrong.
“They chose not to correct it, and because they chose not to correct it, I think some of them were absolutely not in good enough shape to pitch through September and help them win games.
Schilling went on to add: “That’s sad. That’s embarrassing, and that’s sad. That basically says, at the age of 28, 29, 30, I need an adult more mature than me to give me rules and guidelines. … That’s sad, because that’s why we won World Series. We won those World Series because [Francona] was that way, because he allowed us to police ourselves. What it says to me even more clearly, they have no leadership whatsoever in that clubhouse.”
blake – Long story short, you can’t pay a player that hasn’t played over 100 games in 4 years $12mil.
The bottom line was Lester wants to move on, and make sure this 2010 not a distraction next season.
“The biggest thing is what people need to understand that everyone in that clubhouse, myself, Josh, Lackey, we all care. We all want to win. We all do the things that we need to between starts we need to do to prepare for every five days. Not one time did one of us give up this year. Not one time did we throw in the towel and say ‘we’re done, we don’t care, we’re going to drink beer, we don’t give a (expletive deleted).’ That’s not the case.”
“If the Boston people allow us to be good, allow us to forget about this incident, we will prove to them we are those people that we can bring another World Series back.”
“We want to move on from this and we want to be a positive figure in Boston.”
http://boston.cbslocal.com/201.....roportion/
(pretty comprehensive account of Lester’s last 2 days)
thanks M
“That kind of boggles my mind that [Lester] said that, because at the end of the day, these are grown men,”
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According to Lester they’re grown “Ass men” Which I think might make a good series for A & E.
“blake – Long story short, you can’t pay a player that hasn’t played over 100 games in 4 years $12mil.”
He can hit RHP so I can…..its a little dice roll
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blake –Long story short, you can’t pay a player that hasn’t played over 100 games in 4 years $12mil
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He played 142 last year?
blake – It’s a huge dice roll. he played 40 games this year.
hahaha… sigh… yahoo splits the games played per team. Regardless, I wouldn’t pay him more than 7 or 8 mil.
ID,
What are you talking about? He played 142
Beltran would be a good Nick Johnson kind of signing.
You could put all kinds of incentive clauses based on # of days on the roster or # of plate appearances, too.
He’s got to prove that he can stay healthy so that he can be worth the kind of money a player of his caliber would want. He hasn’t done that in a while.
The Yankees and Beltran might be able to meet in between. If Carlos is willing to give up up some money. And the Yankees have lower expectations.
m,
How is it up to the “Boston people” to allow them to be good? Why should they forget about the epic collapse? Why would anyone think they would be “a positive figure in Boston (sic)”? They weren’t good, they did collapse, and they embarrassed their team. Prove it, through the boos, next year.
Sorry but if you didn’t watch him enough to know he played more than 40 games without looking it up………..
blake – sorry you can keep your almighty attitude to yourself.
ID,
Didn’t mean for it to come off that way….
Apologies for the snark
As m said, if you fill his contract with incentives he could be worth the trouble… but try to get him (still a boras client?) to sign that deal…
he would be much better off on an Al team that had a clear path at DH. Tampa, LA, Texas? They could and should all throw more money at him than the Yankees would. I would think they would have to move Swisher first as well, which would result in having no RF.
tom,
The hole he dug is pretty deep.
By the time next year comes around, Lester’s comments will have disappeared. He sounds really dumb, but he’ll be able to come into ST with an clear conscience. Lackey and Beckett will have to go through all the media mongering eventually, hopefully it will be next spring because it will be a huge distraction.
Things likely got blown out of proportion, and looking at that last link I gave, it seems as if espn.com might have left out some stuff in their reporting.
Regardless if it was a once in a while rally-thing, they shouldn’t have done it. If it’s the 12th inning of a 16th inning, then duh, you might have to pitch if it goes 20.
I think it’s funny all the people saying they have to trade Lackey……like that’s going to just happen.. aj is more tradeable
Blake, that was hardly a snark. At best a snark without teeth. Gotta grow some to be a great white snark.
GB,
Has Randy confirmed that was him in that picture yesterday?
Oh, that was Randy…without question. You didn’t see the golf bag over in the corner with his name on it?
m,
The impression they leave is that of flabby, entitled and unmotivated losers, including Lester. I lived in Boston for a few years back in the day, and even the Nation won’t stand for that.
I see where the Donut Choker was trashing the Cubs farm system and was saying that they wouldn’t give up their best for Epstein. Says that they couldn’t improve the Boston farm at all. Hell, there’s nothing that’s going to improve the Boston farm short of plowing it under and replanting. I say the Cubs need to cut ties and let Boston pay for 2 GMs
Lester is probably the biggest disappointment…the guy who came up thru their system…the cancer survivor
I think alot of this Boston mess is blown out of proportion and stuff like this goes on in every clubhouse… you just never hear about it.
I don’t see anything wrong with what Lester said. Yes, they were drinking. No, this was not out of the ordinary. No, they did not quit on the season. No, they were not out of shape.
Schilling should shut up about things he has no idea about.
ID,
Shutting up would be a good idea for all the Sox. Come back and do it next year, if they can.
The fans go as the standings go.
Another rough start and it might get ugly in Boston.
It probably is blown out of proportation but I prefer to keep the “Beckett, Lackey, and Lester were sitting around with their bellys hanging out….drinking beer and throwing chicken bones at each other ” narrative going as long as possible…..it’s fun
Epstein is wanting Hoyer to join him in Chicago. I suppose Gonzales was the compensation package from San Diego for signing Hoyer. Maybe if Oppenheimer or Billy Eppler signs on with the Angels, the Yanks should hold up the deal until the Yanks cough up Mike Trout and Ervin Santana or Dan Harin.
blake,
Nice image. I’m sure someone has already drawn it.
Gossip Break: The D-Robs (they’re so cute)
http://bit.ly/qFMFzG
Why would Theo want Hoyer……he’s much more valuable where he is in SD in a position to give Theo good players for nothing.
What is so lovable (tic) about beantown is that they are losers. They have choked, lost, laid down so many times over the years and blamed all the wrong people to boot it is kind of funny! They disparage their own & have a negative viewpoint of almost everything. A “What will go wrong next syndrome”.
Now if Schilling doesn’t watch out, the RS nation might tell all about him & the ketchup sock!
If Boston is up by 10 games in Sept 2012, the press will be asking about the fold-up potential even still. It will be hard to go away given how many folks will return from 2011 Massacre.
The ghosts of Boggs, Clemens, Lynn, Fisk, & others will haunt them ever more! (Maybe even Theo! LOL!)
blake – it is certainly amusing, but the media is reall ygrasping at straw trying to make out as many scapegoats as possible. This way 99% of the media world picking the RedSox to win the world series next year won’t look so strange when they remove “the problem”.
ID,
That’s exactly right……they can’t wait to write theirs Phoenix rising, back from the dead stories about the Sox in preparation for the best team ever’s triumphant return next year