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1. My Name is Neo (Mr. Anderson) Posted: February 09, 2010 at 01:32 PM (#3456686)Of course, the "4 or 5 teams" may have all lobbed in a 1-year $3-4M offer.
This. I'm sure some savvy GMs smell the blood (desperation) in the water, and would be happy to have Damon for 1 year/$3M.
I can't tell you how much fun this quote is to read and parse and giggle at. He can hook a 320' hit at will? He changes his swing from game to game? He could hammer the long ball on the road "if he wanted to"? He's freaking Ty Cobb (with a worse arm but better race relations.)
Of course he can't.
He changes his swing from game to game?
He can change it from pitch to pitch, if he so chooses. And you don't think that many players adjust their swings to fit the park?
As soon as the Yankees pulled out of the bidding, Damon's price dropped considerably.
Isn't this kind of the wrong thing to say about your prospective future teammates? I can't imagine the other Tigers are too happy with Damon preemptively taking the credit for whatever success they would theoretically have while he's with the team.
Of course they do, but this "my guy can do it all" quote has a bit of the implication that he's intentionally slipping home runs around the pole at home and ripping them out on the road. As I said, it's more fun to parse as bad salesmanship than cogent baseball observation. Boras has a habit of saying just about anything with a straight face, and his client list is so long that he ends up saying some silly things every spring. This is some fine "and it has undercoating too" blather.
I can see a batter trying to hit a sac fly, or hit a grounder to the right side of the infield, or swinging for contact w/ two strikes, but trying to become a dead pull hitter doesn't feel like it would be effective. For whatever homers he gained b/c of the stadium, wouldn't he be giving that back with pop outs on outside pitches?
He also didn't specify to what kinds of teams he was referring. The Red Wings are mentioned in the headline, I've recently heard that the Washington Generals are also recently in the habit of extending offers to high profile "free agents". That's two...
Right now a market deal for him probably ends up (after bidding) in the 1/$5M range; like Abreu last year. Lot's of teams can use him at that price.
He'll only lack for a job if he keeps persuing the 2/$15M fantasy.
That would be a great get for Atlanta.
I can see a batter trying to hit a sac fly, or hit a grounder to the right side of the infield, or swinging for contact w/ two strikes, but trying to become a dead pull hitter doesn't feel like it would be effective. For whatever homers he gained b/c of the stadium, wouldn't he be giving that back with pop outs on outside pitches?
Except that if you watch Damon, one of his great strengths is his ability to foul off those "pitcher's pitches," and try to put in play only those balls he thinks he can drive. But he also often just goes with an outside pitch and "serves" it to left, in Michael Kay's memorable term. Both he and Matsui are usually very good at this, and when they go into slumps it's often caused by getting away from it, and trying to pull the outside pitch. That can result in some of the feeblest looking at bats this side of a slumping Cal Ripken, but usually both Damon and Matsui can correct it without too much delay.
His asking price surely changed, but there's no reason why the Yankees' being in the picture should've precluded other teams from making offers.
As opposed to Kay's typical "he was late on Joba's hard stuff and fisted a blooper between Damon and Jeter," when an opposing lefty goes the other way.
Johhny never was one to think about the implications of his statments - why should he care about what the Tiger players might think? He's repeatedly made it clear he only cares about the Yankees.
I think the original expectation was that the Yankees offer was going to be considerably higher than what is now being bandied about. His 2009 season is being seen as heavily influenced by New Yankee Stadium so teams were unwilling to offer 2 years, $18 million. Now that the Yankees have made it equally clear that they have no interest in such a deal teams are seeing him as fairly valued.
I understand all this. But if the Braves were willing to make an offer, whether it was for 2/18 or 1/4, the Yankees being in the picture should have no bearing on them doing so.
The only reasonable explanation would be that offering 1/4 could've risked alienating him while he still had an unreasonable opinion of his value and so they decided to wait for him to come back to earth, or that some situation with their own roster at the time had them unsure that they wanted him at all.
As opposed to Kay's typical "he was late on Joba's hard stuff and fisted a blooper between Damon and Jeter," when an opposing lefty goes the other way.
You know when I think about it, that's actually pretty much what Kay does say. I wonder if the official YES scorecard has separate columns for "serves" and "fists"....
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