Sunday, June 16, 2013
Mark Teixeira leaves 6-2 Yankees loss due to wrist trouble, to see doctor on Sunday
(www.nj.com)
The hell with Teixeira’s meaningless .151/.270/.340 slash line…how are the Yankees ever going to replace his 12 RBI’s!? #francesspool
Read More...Up close, hitting coach Kevin Long harbored worry about his slugger. A staple of Teixeira’s pre-game routine involves hitting off a tee. When Teixeira attempted that practice left-handed, which places stress on the strained tendon sheath in his right wrist, he felt “discomfort,” Long said. His left-handed swing lacked “the whip and the bat speed that you ...
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1. GregD posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:32 AM # hit 0 | hit 0I'm cool with Ichiro for one year and $5M. Hopefully they can get a decent RHB or two to platoon with their all-lefty OF. I'm hoping for Scott Hairston if he can be had for one year.
But, on one year deals, who cares? If they implode, it's only one year gone, and you've got the money back to start over.
Well, I know I'm going to be cheering for at least one Yankee this season...
And then immediately go back to $200+M in 2015, if they need to.
Since this was a reference to guys still being on the team, it should be "Core Three" now (or "Core Two" until Rivera signs).
The 2013 Yankees might still be pretty good, but the end is nigh.
Like it was in 2004 and 2005 and 2006 and 2007...
This is a smart organization with massive resources. They aren't going anywhere.
What's interesting to me is that they've aligned their payroll goal--the toe tap below the threshold--with the team's obvious decline. They're going to have some serious dead weight around and 2014 or 2015 is the year to start over if you have to.
EDIT: I'm not talking about the "end" of the Yankees. Just a cut in payroll that probably only lasts a year.
And a citation from the Times - Yankees plan to cut payroll:One small correction to this piece is that it would actually take a little over $30M in cuts to get under the threshold, because the threshold calculation includes a variety of costs on top of the major league payroll. A good rule of thumb is that you need a major league payroll $12M under the luxury tax threshold. And if staying under is a priority, then you need to start the season well under the the threshold in order to have a little flexiblity in midseason. So I'd peg the Yankees at a goal of $170M for 2014, cutting about $40M off this year's payroll.
I think they're going to take their shot in 2013 and then hope some of their OF prospects show enough to be in play at some point in 2014. I do think they've been pretty clear that they will lower their payroll as MCoA shows and will take their lumps in 2014+ which will be easier to do if they make a good run next season. I also think there's a chance Hal Steinbrenner is at least considering selling the team and a lower payroll helps in that regard.
Whether or not any of their prospects are going to ever be good enough is the big question and they're all too far away to comfortably project as MLB starters, but they should have a better idea on Slade Heathcott, Mason Williams and Tyler Austin after 2013.
But yeah, they haven't built a new core to replace the core they've gotten way more out of than anyone could have reasonably expected and it may be about time for them to have a few down years.
Well, if you said that after the 2007 season, you were kind of right. “The end” for the Yankees just mean missing the playoffs, and I think this iteration of the Yankees could easily miss for several years.
This 2012 team vs the 2007 team is significantly older, has significantly more money tied up in long term contracts to underperforming players, and has a looming payroll constraint (even if for only one year, it limits their ability to sign talent to long term contracts for two full years).
Plus, the MLB environment has changed. The Yankees ability to use their financial advantage to acquire talent in the amateur draft, international market, and free agency has been significantly eroded due to changes in MLB rules and the increasing tendency of other teams to lock up their own young talent.
I probably called “the end” of the Yankees many times over the years, but in the past it was more wishful thinking and I say it with much more conviction now.
Are you accusing Mystique and Aura of being performance enhancing substances?
Sounds like a man taking the pledge ....again.
Damn him for being embarrassed over his placebo usage!
Just as much as I generally question the veracity of any baseball player's truth-telling in regard to PED use, I also question the veracity of the labelling of Pettitte's statements as "telling a fraction of the truth". His admitted usage may, in fact, be the extent of it. And no, monkeys are not flying out of my butt either, AFAIK.
EDIT: I'm surprised by the Nanny's selectivity.
I don't think his PED use was a big deal, and all things considered I'm happier when the media avoids hyperventilating over PED use. But I could do without the preening Honest Andy stuff when he obviously lied multiple times in the build-up to his testimony.
Fixed that for you.
If you know anybody who believe that Pettitte has come totally and completely clean about his PED usage, please let me know, because there's a bridge I'd love to sell them.
What's that saying? "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice, thank God I'm a sportswriter"...
Yeah, I'm really not seeing that one, either.
I believe you mean Irvin "Majik" Jonsen.
I know at least one person who thinks Pettite is very good looking, and he's not obviously hideous. More of an acquired taste. You can do better than him.
Poor Jack Wilson had for his entire career the least symmetrical face in MLB and, as facial symmetry is criteria #1 for beauty, he out-uglied Pettite by a good margin. Among active players, Aaron Harang is about as homely a guy as you could want. Jonathan Broxton is a nice fat guy who's not exactly a looker. And Bartolo Colon? He was not only beaten with the ugly stick, he fried it up and ate it afterwards. On the other end of the Body Mass Index spectrum is Dee Gordon, who is sort of charming now but who is going to look like Willie McGee when he's 38.
Then there's the special case of Kevin Youkilis, who isn't naturally hideous, but who with the proper combination of facial hair, sweat, and Angry Man expression can become the most grotesque creature on God's green earth.
When it's French Lick, you're not looking at the face.
GAH!
He looks like a drunk frog!
I think that "aggressively plain" is a great description of the young Bird. As he's aged and added weight to his face (especially the end of his nose -- how does that happen?) he's slipped over that great divide into you ain't got no alibi levels of ugly.
He's not a male model or anything, but the worst-looking guy in professional sports? He just looked like a boring white guy from the midwest.
Don Lock contemplates why his father Lee Marvin impregnated that giraffe.
Gates Brown looks like a horse's foot.
And of course, we'll always have The Mummy.
Pettitte seems like a perfectly generic-looking white guy. Ditto for Bird during his playing days. He hasn't aged very well, but neither do a lot of athletes.
Si I dunno, Steve.
That picture and comment had me laughing for several minutes.
And this thread is the first time I've ever heard Larry Bird's looks come up as any sort of issue.
My mom thinks Andy Pettitte is incredibly attractive. She's always been a big fan of him and B.J. Armstrong.
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