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1. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: December 03, 2012 at 10:45 AM (#4315083)She never had that trouble again after having her first child.
"To repeat, can report exclusively A-Rod almost certainly needs more hip surgery, will miss piece of '13, this is not a retirement."
Nicely played....
He turned 37 this year.
With the way MLB handles nationality for this thing, I fully expect A-Rod to be suiting up for Spain or the Houyhnhms one day.
It's that last part that is super interesting. What if A-Rod is so damaged that he has to retire by, say, 2015?
The Yankees cheer loudly about getting out from under A-Rod's contract, and then sign some random free agent to a stupidly huge long-term deal.
I'm so sick of all these ballplayers like A-Rod and Albert Belle with all their degenerative hip problems and retirement and everything.
If A-Rod is actually so injured that he can't play, he won't have to retire. He would get paid and insurance would cover it for the Yankees.
Let me translate this:
I don't wish anyone ill, except right now, when I am wishing A-Rod great ill.
Well paying Rodriguez so much money does give the Yankees an unfair advantage.
Of course, for the Yankees there are advantages of A-Rod getting paid for nothing - no $6 mil bonus for each of HR 660, 714, 755, 762 and 763. Just 13 away from the first of those so any health and that is $6 mil down the tubes. 54 more after that though... used to be a sure thing but now?
Is is a tragedy that there is so much hip dysplasia in centaurs. There is so much in breeding. I blame the large commercial breeders.
Assuming they have insurance on that contract.
A-Rod is pretty far down the list of steroid poster boys to me. Better candidates are:
1. Jose Canseco, for being the first to be prominantly identified with steroids, and the books
2. Barry Bonds, for rising to the greatest heights with steroid assistance
But my #1 guy has to be Manny Ramirez. For being dumb enough to be caught twice, or just too oblivious to stop.
2) he hasn't played 140 games in a season since 2007 and just 221 the last 2 years
3) WAR 3 years prior to surgery -- 20. WAR 3 years after surgery -- about 10
A serious injury, perhaps especially a re-injury, at age 37 is pretty much by definition career-threatening.
He's 37 years old and having significant hip surgery. At that age a surgery that is going to cost you six months, a second surgery on that area, has to be considered a potentially career-threatening injury. Mike Lowell was 34 when he had hip surgery and he was never the same.
This did not get the credit it deserved.
When old players suffer significant injuries it almost has to be a concern that it will threaten their productive career.
Well, no one's done any of that. But other than that, you're spot on.
He's 37, he's got a bad hip. It's certainly possible that this will be career threatening, and some folks speculated on what would happen if it were.
Then you came in to rush to refute the non-existent claim. And here we are.
The yankees love nunez...i would assume an offseason of winterball at 3B is in store for him, and very likely he opens the season there....if they can find this year's version of eric chavez to pick up the slack for when they realize last years slash line of .292/.330/.393 is probably his upside, then I'm ok with that. Catcher and Rf...you're guess is as good as mine right now.
It just dawned on me what that meant. I laughed.
Which is to say 4, in centaur years.
I doubt it. It's not like Jeter is keeping some stud in the minors by playing short.
Semi-related, Harold Reynolds and Derek Jeter had their picture taken yesterday and Cap'n Jetes looks much less like Rich Garces in this particular photo.
if there was a real alternative out there, I would say Jeter to 3B, arod to DH to try and stay healthy makes sense...but as 43 points out, who is out there for this to work? anyone worth having is going to cost an arm and a leg to get...and anything "freely" available is probably not worth the effort...if the talk-radio rumors of Giancarlo Stanton to the yankees were true, then it would be logical to try and get Yunel Escobar in the same deal...but Yunel on his own doesn't seem like a huge upgrade for the upheaval the media/fans would create.
2nd thing to consider is I'm not sure Jeter to 3rd will result in a good 3B...back when Arod was acquired, my personal preference was Jeter to the CF (with Bernie to LF)...as he had the speed to handle the OF, a good arm, and has always been strong going back on pop-ups...probably couldn't handle CF anymore, and the bat won't translate to LF...so basically you have 3B, 2B or DH...unless you want to try cano at SS or 3B, neither of the infield spots work.
Simplest solution is find good all-around guy who can handle 3B (in tandem with nunez) until Arod is back...then have the 4 of them cover SS/3B/DH 5-6 days a week...with the remaining DH days going to Tex, Cano, Granderson, RF, etc.
he told Girardi that his hip was barkin' and he didn't think he'd be effective at the plate or if Girardi knew another way, would that change the perception of the way he was used in the playoffs?
"So is he."
I had to Google that 2nd one and dammit, if I didn't nearly choke on my lunch when the Google images popped up at the top of my browser....
If it's the right back one that would be a problem since he already had a CCL tear in that stifle joint and had to have a ligament transplanted from his fetlock.
Where injuries limited him to 35 games. Of course, it was probably a dumb risk to think they could train Nunez to become a utilityman at the MLB level in the first place.
That being said, Nuñez's problem wasn't being asked to play 3B and not SS. His problem was he kept making errors no matter where they put him. He have made 14 errors in 386 innings at SS and 6 errors in 285 innings at 3B in 2011. He sure didn't seem to be any more comfortable at SS.
You, of course, have the pitchers like Dwight Gooden and Bret Saberhagen and Bob Feller, but also hitters like Ken Griffey Jr, Jose Guillen (not that he was ever all that good, but he was an old man by 34). I don't know for sure.
Maybe it means Adrian Beltre is nearing a cliff. And maybe that doesn't bode well for Bryce Harper's and Mike Trout's numbers in 2030.
Francisco would also strike out 6000 times... (although that has nothing to do with NYS)
Part of that is selection bias. Players who start their careers late have to be pretty darn good from the moment they enter the majors while young players can be more "athletic" and are allowed to develop. If I had to guess I think it would have to do with the old James old player skills vs young players skills. Then we have the typical guys who didn't debut young or old and since they have such a huge amount of players we don't notice anything unusual when a player retires or lasts.
Overall I don't think any group really ages well. Most groups when they enter their 30's decline and most players hit the wall in their mid 30's regardless of when they started playing in the majors.
From the ####### excerpt at the top of this page ...
The Yankees and Alex Rodriguez are concerned the third baseman’s surgically repaired right hip is damaged.
Rodriguez recently visited Dr. Marc Phillippon in Colorado after experiencing tightness in the hip that Phillippon operated on in 2009.
That two posts after mine somebody chimed in with a report that it's the left hip certainly shouldn't stop you from being an ####### Ray.
I'm not supporting this with any evidence, but intuitively it seems like I'm not taking a huge risk if I suggest a 37-year-old who now has suffered severe injuries to both hips is probably done as a player of any use. I'd happily bet a Coke Rodriguez won't take 500 PA in a season again and won't post an OPS+ over 115 again.
Paired with another lefty who can handle the bulk of the time at 3rd, and given lots of DH time...I think he could be a useful part of the line up for at least the nexst 2-3 seasons....the real problem is that everything I just described applied to Jeter as well (probably more PA, but lower OPS)...and its tough to build a roster around having the left side of your infield each spending more than half their time at DH...whoever they find for the "chavez role" really has to play SS well since the standard is now a 12 man pitching staff and 4 man bench (C, Jeter/Arod Caddy, OF, UT)
In theory moving Jeter to third would help the Yankees defensively simply because third is a less important position than short, but in practice (a) it is a completely foreign position to him, and (b) you can't change his position without his permission, so he will play shortstop and that's that, pretty much.
If his arm is so good, why the hop/jump throws when hes at short? Seriously, I don't know.
The move for Jeter would have been CF. I think he could have been a gold glover out there - great at tracking the ball, and way more time for his excellent speed to make up for some weak initial reactions. The hop/jump throws require a great arm. It's impressive Jeter can get so much on the ball without planting and throwing. The reason Jeter can't plant and throw on balls that other shortstops would play as relatively routine, though, is that his range isn't good. The jump throw demonstrates his lack of range and the strength of his arm at the same time.
I was thinking about that too, I remember the quote being something like "slower to react than Giambi."
There's a piece that was posted here in 2007 which might be the source for that:
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