Video: Jeter discusses his ankle and being scratched from the lineup
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Mar 19, 2013 
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Here’s video of Derek Jeter talking about his ankle and the decision to take him out of today’s lineup. Jeter said his ankle was stiff during batting practice, and he called himself, “the old-fashioned day-to-day.” The stiffness is not directly in the area that was broken in October, but Jeter said different parts of his ankle have been stiff from time to time during his rehab process. He said he could have played if this were the regular season. Sorry for the video quality, especially the first several seconds. It took a while for the crowd to kind of settle into the hallway outside of the visiting clubhouse here in Clearwater.
Jeter dh
ichiro rf
Cano 2b
Youk 1b
rivera LF
Nunez SS
Musty 3b
Cervelli c
Gardner CF
This is my guess to opening day lineup (maybe sub boesch in for rivera)
I think given the chance, Boesch would kill it this year at home
This has the potential to be a longgg injury year..
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With Lester going Opening Day, more likely that Rivera is in the lineup instead of Boesch
Hassey March 19th, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Maine – You think they’d let me bring my dog into the park? I’d be happy to buy him a ticket and feed him three hot dogs if I have to.
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If he wears his Yankee jacket probably not.
Great video Chad. I like how you used chiaroscuro light to keep the focus on the right side of Jeter’s face signifying the darkness we may face as we deal with the uncertainty of his left ankle.
Fritz Lang couldn’t have done it better!
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greedy, greedy
major test for musty which he passed with that bunt, welcome to the opening day lineup!
Your constant misappropriations as to guys abilities is hilarious, Mick. Youk is a contact hitter, Ichiro is an on base guy. No they aren’t. The end.
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Compared to hero swingers of last year yes Youk is a contact hitter, screw your numbers.
He’s not an all or nothing free swinger.
As far as Ichiro goes I don’t care what his OBP is, he’s nothing if not a pure hitter like Youkilis.
If you don’t think they will do better than last years version of non-situational hitters you are wrong.
Try looking at the game without the prism of your spreadsheets you might enjoy it.
“greedy, greedy”
You’re actually being kind.
@karlravechespn: I put Matt Kemp in top 5 position players with Cano..Trout..Posey and Cabrera..
@karlravechespn: Braun, Upton, Mcutchen, Votto (needs to be healthy) Ryan Howard next group
Lol….Ryan Howard a top 10 player
The ghost of Ryan Howard maybe.
musty almost ran over the blonde hooter ball girl…guess he learned his lesson.
Dominic Brown is a Yankee killer.
@JSalisburyCSN: Domonic Brown hits a seed over RF wall. Sixth homer of the spring. Well ahead of the pack #PhilliesTalk
Sigh
Jerkface March 19th, 2013 at 2:03 pm
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greedy, greedy
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“The impact would affect much of the Major League Baseball family: front-office executives, trainers, minor league staff and scouts. Some of those personnel, particularly on the minor league level and in amateur scouting,”
Greedy is not the word
Someone should send cousin Eddie to kidnap Bud Selig
mr. mick,
That ball girl doesn’t hurt your eyes, but does she know what a ball girl is supposed to do, or is she somebody’s “niece”?
Bronx Jeers March 19th, 2013 at 1:57 pm e
Great video Chad. I like how you used chiaroscuro light to keep the focus on the right side of Jeter’s face signifying the darkness we may face as we deal with the uncertainty of his left ankle.
Fritz Lang couldn’t have done it better!
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I thought that, by putting him in the environment of a hallway, it really drove home the point that he could go one of two directions. The unsteady framing symbolizes the current uncertainty that he faces. The random recorders that seem unwelcome in the shot, are actually metaphors for the obstacles along the way.
I can only imagine A-Rod playing in this game with Hooters girls on the field.
Auteur Chad.
Chad with the symbolism in his video! Were you a film school wannabe!?
Goin’ Fellini on us!
Hal is probably drooling over the idea of being able to cut some poor slobs pension.
Atta boy, Joba.
about time they upgraded the batting helmet to 100mph speed not 68 mph.
if musty makes team, which at this point is a no brainer, then wouldn’t francisco have to go down?
you know boesch will get a shot at the porch.
Nice job by Logan in his Spring debut. Gets Howard on a flyout and Ks Dom Brown and Lance Nix
jones chavez swish ibanez and mArtin hit 94 hrs….tex grandy arod 85
youk ichiro hafner boesch rivera musty nunez francisco could get 80
seems like the dropoff will come from the trios 85
?From Josh Norris at minor league game:
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“Dan Burawa up to 95 here in the fifth”
Nice to see him back after missing last season with a torn oblique. SHould be in Trenton this year
@craigcalcaterra: Sequel to “Trouble with the Curve” in which Clint Eastwood is a Wal-Mart greeter because Liberty Media took his pension.
@jnorris427: Trenton adds a run on a Tyler Austin single through the middle. Runners on 2 and 3 for Murphy now.
Hit machine
Bald eagles and Hooters girls… what a weird game this has been.
blake March 19th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
@jnorris427: Trenton adds a run on a Tyler Austin single through the middle. Runners on 2 and 3 for Murphy now.
Hit machine
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Maybe the safest bet in the entire organization.
Opening day will likely be against Lester – my guess on the lineup:
Jeter – DH
Ichiro – LF
Cano – 2b
Youk – 3b
Rivera – 1b
Francisco – RF
Cervelli – c
Nunez – SS
Gardner – CF
Shame Spencer March 19th, 2013 at 2:58 pm
Bald eagles and Hooters girls… what a weird game this has been.
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Francesa: “For the first time in years, the Yankees are not built for their own ballpark.”
Hard to argue with that looking at your opening day lineup, Chip.
“Francesa: “For the first time in years, the Yankees are not built for their own ballpark.””
The pitching wins thing doesn’t comport with the ballpark dimensions.
bruceb March 19th, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Francesa: “For the first time in years, the Yankees are not built for their own ballpark.”
Hard to argue with that looking at your opening day lineup, Chip.
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I don’t disagree at all.
MLB should be ashamed of themselves.
Rich in NJ March 19th, 2013 at 3:11 pm
“Francesa: “For the first time in years, the Yankees are not built for their own ballpark.””
The pitching wins thing doesn’t comport with the ballpark dimensions.
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It does if you have the right pitching.
The idea is that you need better pitchers to compete in that ballpark, but the ballpark can also help you if you have more average hitters.
Chip,
Do you have them optioning Boesch? I don’t think they will take Francisco, Rivera, and Boesch.
“It does if you have the right pitching.
The idea is that you need better pitchers to compete in that ballpark, but the ballpark can also help you if you have more average hitters.”
That’s the GB/K thing, but I was talking about the offense, which is what the dimensions of this park have historically played to.
It was the House that Ruth built, not the one that Red Ruffing constructed.
btw, GB/K play anywhere, but the Yankees’ infield defense has really been suited for GB pitchers for a while.
I think it’s either Musty or Francisco at this point
I don’t think anything is to be gained by not going with the Must man.
Another game without hitting. As much as I would like Musty to make the team, what has he done?
They need hitting. They cannot win with so many holes in the lineup. Their pitching staff is good, but it’s not the 1963 Dodgers.
Hafner looks 100, and he is our cleanup hitter against righties.
Another game without hitting. As much as I would like Musty to make the team, what has he done?
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He can play 3rd.
They are not taking Boesch, Francisco AND Rivera.
And I am just throwing this out there.
Does anyone believe Tex will actually be back in May?
I am actually going on a limb here and saying he misses the entire season.
Youkilis will stay at 1st base and Musty will get a real chance at 3rd base (because i also believe alex will miss all of 2013 too).
Okay – but what about the idea that the park is also a temptress that turns guys who can hit to all fields into guys who only look at that short porch, and hence, end up swinging for the fences even when a single will do???
Wasn’t that partially the complaint about all the homeruns?
So, maybe they don’t hit so many homeruns this years. I thought we were looking for more contact hitters anyway, right?
And oh, by the way, it’s not fair to say they weren’t built for this park; three of their top power guys are on the DL. The guys they go after, Hafner, Boesch, Ibanez last year, and others, are guys that they think will be able to take advantage of the short porch.
Ac1,
I’d say it is 50/50 Teixiera plays this year.
ac 1 -
If Tex comes back, I’d say closer to June. But I’m not optimistic that rest alone is going to do it. I would not be surprised if he suffered a set back while rehabbing at Trenton.
“They need hitting. They cannot win with so many holes in the lineup. Their pitching staff is good, but it’s not the 1963 Dodgers.”
Options are to try and tread water and hope they pitch really really well…..make traded and try to get better…..or punt and trade everybody…..they’ll do #1
“Wasn’t that partially the complaint about all the homeruns?”
There was no complaint about HR, Doreen. Zero. That’s Cashman trolling. The only complaint was about a one-dimensional offense. HR hitters who cannot or will not adapt to situational necessities. So it’s no one or the other; it’s both.
But, but – having your 4, 5, 6 hitters injured is a little tough to replace.
Especially when you let Swisher leave and have no ML ready mL depth.
There was no complaint about HR, Doreen. Zero. That’s Cashman trolling. The only complaint was about a one-dimensional offense. HR hitters who cannot or will not adapt to situational necessities. So it’s no one or the other; it’s both.
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This is what people don’t seem to get. It isn’t I like HRs or I hate them. The frustration was a bunch of hitters hitting between .200 and .250, depending ONLY on homeruns and being completely unable to manufacture runs, steal bases, advance runners, bunt, etc.
This team should be able to do all of that, and yes we lose a lot of homeruns, but i don’t see us losing too many runs in the end, despite what we have seen in Spring Training.
Rich in NJ -
I’m pretty sure I read/heard in the newspaper on the radio something to the effect that all the Yankees can do is hit home runs, and yes, I suppose that references more a one-dimensional offense to people who are actually paying attention. It was turned into a complaint about hitting homeruns. I’m not saying any serious person on this forum complained about hitting home runs, per se.
But I do recall reading, “sure, they only won because they hit a homerun,” and things of that nature. Both here and in the papers/media. As if winning with a homerun, or hitting home runs, didn’t count in some way.
It sure as heck comes across as complaining about home runs, even if at the base of it is a desire for that timely single from time to time.
Cashman and Girardi ran with it, because there became this ridiculous amount of questioniing about the Yankees hitting so many homeruns, that seemed to try to take a strength of theirs and turn it into a weakness.
Hitting homeruns is a strength. Not hitting situationally (the timely single) is a weakness. I don’t think they have to be related. I don’t understand why both can’t happen.
But then again, it seems we have this love/hate relationship with the Yankees to embracing their short porch-ness.
Doreen,
Did they add contact hitters?
Rich –
Did anyone want Swisher on a 4 or 5 year deal?
I like Swisher, and if there was a chance he’d have taken 2 years, I’d have loved for them to have him back.
I understand people being upset with the Yankees letting players go over money, but I think you also have to think that they are letting players go over time, and I’m finding it hard to argue with that outlook.
MLB should be ashamed of themselves.
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Hal wanted the new CBA.
No matter how good your pitching is, you’re going to have to hit home runs to win matches at Yankee Stadium, particularly your lefties. The question is who is going to do that on a regular basis apart from Cano?
If it’s the 2011 Granderson, we’re in business. If it’s the Sept. ’12 Granderson – oy.
Did anyone want Swisher on a 4 or 5 year deal?
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Yes, I said it in the offseason, Swisher is the kind of guy the Yankees would never have let walk in the middle 00s. He got slightly more than Damon and Matsui got on their deals. 1 mil more per year, which makes sense with inflation. He is a nice guy, he works hard, he switch hits, he is very good regular season performer.
With their budget they could not afford him. Damn the budget? Swisher should still be here or someone of equal or greater ability.
austinmac -
The statement by Francesa is that they are not built for their park. I’ll assume he meant big hairy monsters who will hit the ball out over the right-field short porch with ease.
Did they add contact hitters? I would argue they didn’t add much of anything offensively this off-season. I would say they subtracted power. I would say that Nunez and Cervelli and Gardner are more contact hitters, but they’re none of them going to hit .300. Ichiro, is he a contact hitter? I’d say more so than Swisher. But again, don’t know what we’ll get out of him over the course of the full season.
You need both guys to get on base and guys to drive ‘em in. I think they have that if Nunez, Gardner and Cervelli get on base at a decent enough clip. All can go 1st to 3rd and 2nd to home. I found that the single most aggravating thing last year. Station to station baseball.
If they want Ichiro to hit 20 , he can hit 20 at the Stadium.
Their big loss will be Ibanez, his production was totally unexpected.
Maybe Hafner replaces it.
Maybe Boesch.
Maybe Youk.
The biggest loss will come from Tex, Grandy and Arod.
Jerkface
I don’t like the budget. But it’s here. So within those guidelines, no Swisher. I still think 5 years would be too much. 3 would have been perfect, 4 okay. I really think he wanted to end his career here, though.
ac1,
They will lose upwards of 100 home runs from last year, in my opinion. I wish they were replacing that with a couple of guys who could hit .280 or above. Instead they add more low average guys in Hafner, Boesch, Youkilis, Francisco and the rest.
Cashman thinks of these guys as big hairy mosters while I think of most of them(Youkilis the possible exception) as no longer being good hitters.
Considering the prices on the free agent market, Swish on a 4 year deal would have been a great signing.
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I wonder who is going to be the go-to guy for the media in the clubhouse. Swisher was that guy, like Damon before him, which makes it so easy on some of the more camera-shy on the team. Always a quote (sometimes even a good one).
Swisher’s time here was up.
They would never win in the PS with him and forget 2009, he had nothing to do with that.
You need both guys to get on base and guys to drive ‘em in. I think they have that if Nunez, Gardner and Cervelli get on base at a decent enough clip. All can go 1st to 3rd and 2nd to home. I found that the single most aggravating thing last year. Station to station baseball.
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Boy, Amen.
Talk about boring baseball. Those walkabouts were to the snooze. Score a couple in the first, come back to take a look in the seventh, If they were losing, shut it down.
One could argue that the Yankees last year, hit average to mid relief pitching, das it. Most of their starters pitched with very little run support. By the time the support came they were gone.
Alot of people here were complaining last year when A-Rod was hitting .290 and taking walks and sacrificing and stealing bases but not hitting for as much power.
Doing away with the player pension program is horsepoop and if the union has an Wiener even thinks about caving on this the MLBPA should can him and bring back Fehr.
I don’t think there is a Yankee fan out there who is comfortable with what is going on with the Yankees right now, from the budget to the injuries to what-have-you. I think there’s a lot of unease.
I still think they can cobble together a decent season. Because they do have pitching. And I’m rooting for the old banged up team on the field to get the job done. Because I do think the players on this team have a strong will to win, and still assume that they are going to.
Bo knows -
Lead off triples, no runs.
Bases loaded, no one out. No runs.
It was mind-numbingingly aggravating at times.
Yet, they won 95 games. And scored a gazillion runs. Sigh.
Mike talking about pinchhitters.
That’s out of line.
Mike thinking Morneau is just a salary buy.
Like the Twins will just hand him to us.
I’m not uncomfortable about it – I’m ambivalent.
Whatever the construct of this team is on April 1 doesn’t mean that it will stay that way all season long. I fully expect a guy like Juan Rivera to play himself right off this team. I fully expect that, while he’s not available now, the Yankees might be able to get Morneau down the line – but that’s not a move you make until you determine that Tex isn’t coming back.
LGY March 19th, 2013 at 4:02 pm
Considering the prices on the free agent market, Swish on a 4 year deal would have been a great signing.
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Nah, Swish is overpaid in Cleveland.
Doreen,
My complaint is not that someone may have overpaid Swisher and we should have matched it. My complaint is, like with so many, they gave him up without even making an offer. I do believe he would have returned for less.
We all understand the loss of production from the rash of injuries is next to impossible to replace. I think we also understand the options are limited now.
It has been apparent to all looking the team is old and would likely have injuries. The injuries aren’t over. The season hasn’t even started. Yet, the replacements are not even replacement level players. These are negative number players we are dependent upon.
That has not been the case for many years.
The bad news is next year will be far worse as Cano, Granderson, Hughes, Joba, Youkilis, Kuroda, Pettitte and others may not return. We can be assured some on this list won’t be back. Who will replace their production?
I think there’s a lot of unease.
There was even before Grandy and Tex went down. Those guys were essential to this weakened lineup because they are power hitters, particularly to the short porch at YS. Now one is going to miss at least 40 games and the other…well your guess is as good as mine.
Chip,
Its not player pensions, its front office workers/scouts/secretaries and stuff. Even worse.
Chip -
Ambivalent is a good word. I kept changing the word I wanted to put in there, because it is hard to describe even the way I feel about it.
As I’ve said, I take a wait and see, and what you say is absolutely true – the team will go through a few changes (more than a few) as the season progresses. We’ll see.
Jerkface -
I also saw that they’re moving closer to an international draft. And to get the PA to sign off on it they’re willing to cut the service time requirements before players get to arbitration…MLB is so stupid.
To eliminate teams from spending a few bucks on the international free agent market they are willing to cost themselves even more money by moving arbitration (and free agency) up a year. That’s smart.