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You know, he has this season routinely, a season where he puts up a 130 OPS+:
1997: 120
1998: 136
1999: 134
2004: 131
2006: 134
2010: 130
People overrate how good of a hitter he is. He's never been peak Barry Bonds or peak Mark McGwire, or even peak Albert Pujols or Jason Giambi. ARod's best OPS+ season is 176, which is 247th on the all-time list. His next best is 173, which is 288th. His next best is 162, which is worse than 500th.
Several players have multiple seasons (let's say a minimum of three) of an OPS+ higher than ARod's best, including:
Bonds
McGwire
Pujols
Aaron
Thomas
Ruth
Williams
Mantle
Musial
Foxx
Hell, Kevin Mitchell had two seasons better than ARod's best.
Obviously ARod is a great player. But he's not at the top tier of greatest hitters ever. He's not even the hitter that Manny Ramirez is.
True, but I think a lot of people still underrate how important positional adjustments are, so overall he is "rated" about right (excepting the choker silliness, of course.)
And it's not often any kind of ball goes squirting past A-Roid. He typically gobbles it right up.
I wonder if he ever thinks How Could This Happen to Me. Time Will Tell if he's Still a Young Man or now just a Man from the Past.
Incidentally, the Yankees are dealing with one of the problems of an older team, injuries like A-Rod's (and Swisher's and Gardner's thumb, though Gardner isn't old, obviously) that might not merit a DL trip but force them to miss 5-6 games. Their bench tonight, for example, will basically be whichever of Russo or Thames isn't playing LF, Moeller--who you can't really use and wouldn't anyway--and Garnder for PR purposes. That's laughable.
####, that's not what they're going to do is it?
Brandon Laird isn't an important prospect and there is zero doubt in my mind he's a better player than Pena. Bring him up, who gives a #### what it does for his development. Or at least see if Russo can get on base a bit during that time. I am so fed up with Pena, I don't care how good his glove is (and I don't think it's that good).
And it looks like the clock has struck midnight on Cervelli. A .504 OPS over the past 28 days.
Still walked a decent amount during that clip. I don't think he's likely to continue to hit .180 going forward. I'd guess he finishes the season hitting ~.255, with a .340 OBP. That makes him a useful player. What's more troubling than his slump (which was obviously going to happen) is how lousy he's been at throwing out baserunners.
Swisher isn't old either. Those are poor examples of the "problems of an older team".
He's got a .067 ISO in his extremely short major league career. A .340/.320 line out of you backup catcher isn't bad, assuming he can throw better than Cervelli has to start the season (he certainly has the arm to be better than this). He'll also pick up a run or two on the bases compared to other catchers.
I _am_ sure that it's a freefall down from Posada.
No argument here. I think he can develop into a second division starter (he's 24 this year), but right now I am eager for Posada to be healthy enough to catch.
Pena is terrible, and its worse, because having Russo on the roster is like having two Penas. There is no need for a second Pena. Or a second Russo.
Adams is only a year and a half away fortunately and Nunez (who sucks but is better than Pena) could probably fake it at SS soon enough. And then we can execute (or demote I guess) both of them.
But he's not the backup anymore, is he? At the very least it seems like the Yankees will want him to catch 3 or 4 times a week, even after (if?) Posada is healthy.
I'm not sure, but I only meant to suggest that Cervelli is player that is useful to have on a Major League roster, not necessarily in his current role. I agree that as a starter, if he hits .255 playing 4 times a week, the Yanks are going to need to get a lot more offense out of their corner infield spots than they have so far. If he can hold at .280 (which I don't think is likely), then he at least doesn't shoot the offense in the foot. The Yanks seem to be pretty high on him, so you're probably right about his future playing time this season.
Given the paucity at the position (particularly in the backups), a "proven" hitter with some upside and a good glove would be - at worst - significant trade bait. We'll see if the Yanks get a DH in 2011 or whether Po is effectively not a catcher anymore. If Posada's not in the mix at C, I'd be a bit surprised if Cervelli doesn't get a few hundred ABs in 2011.
Trenton absolutely kills power. His Iso in Trenton is .095 and away it's .180. His walk rate is up, his K rate has held steady and he's at least held his ground offensively as he's moved up a level. I think this start for Romine has definitely elevated his prospect status.
Montero shows no signs of breaking out of his slump. But I'm fairly confident he will start to heat up eventually.
If Posada's not in the mix at C, I'd be a bit surprised if Cervelli doesn't get a few hundred ABs in 2011.
Even if Posada is in the mix, I'd be fine with carrying three catchers next year if two of them are Jesus and Posada. That's two guys that can hit enough to play DH (assuming Jesus shakes out of his slump) and then Cervelli can fill in holes and be the guy who allows Joe to play both of them on the same day. It's not like they're going to have a better bench option that Cervelli will be holding back.
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