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Actually, Nunez at 3B, Youk to 1B is probably the answer.
Just end the season.
Is the question how to lead MLB in errors made by your third baseman?
RF: Ichiro Suzuki
CF: Brett Gardner
3b: Kevin Youkilis
DH: Travis Hafner
1b: Dan Johnson
LF: Juan Rivera
2b: Jayson Nix
C: Francisco Cervelli
SS: Eduardo Nunez
There's still plenty of spring training left.
Or Hafner!
What's Claudell Washington up to?
Hosmer
Or ARod....Oh ####!
As soon as he exhausts the appeal process.
He's going to be suspended for PEDs. Granderson too.
Edit: Too slow, I guess.
No idea. But why down?
Wasn't there a several week lag between the same guy calling the Melky suspension, and the official news breaking?
Why would it be limited to 4 high-profile guys? Seems awfully coincidental. And if its related to the Miami clinic, why weren't the lesser-lights implicated also?
How do we know it would be just the 4? Maybe they just didn't bother leaking the no names.
Duda, sure, go nuts.
Vernon Wells would look good in pinstripes...
Sheesh, just cuz the guy's not a good player anymore is no reason to send him to prison.
He got hurt hitting off a ####### tee.... in the exotic foreign land of Arizona.
Has there been a serious high profile injury of a a WBC injury that REALLY probably wouldnt' have happened in ST? like you know.. a guy pitching 100 pitches or going back to back days? or getting taken out in a silde ? (though that happens in ST at times too)
That it does. Ventura's first regular season appearance that year was in game 100 for the White Sox.
OK. But, I don't particularly trust Heyman.
He should at least know whether Cano was popped.
OK. But, I don't particularly trust Heyman.
OK, but it is fairly likely that if there was anything to the story, there'd be some follow-up by now. Some reporter would have a good enough source to "confirm without confirming" whether or not a rash of high profile PED suspensions were in the works.
C'mon now. Morneau surely knows how to win.
When I saw the Ichiro car crash story a couple days back I was so expecting him to be out for the season.
If he has, there is no motive for Boras to leak this.
The Yankees have never lost a playoff series in which Morneau has participated.
I'm sure you can restructure the contract to pay $40 million in the years you want to go over the cap, and $5,000 in the years you don't want to go over the cap, or whatever.
Make it happen make it happen make it happen
There was never any followup about Melky until a month later when the suspension was actually served.
This is a much bigger story, so the press should work a little harder this time.
11:$15M, 12:$16M, 13:$17M, 14:$8M player option ($3M buyout)
I don't see what Jeter and his agent were thinking for '14. If he falls off a cliff, but still wants to wear pinstripes, okay, but then he's taking a huge pay cut. If he ages gracefully, he's now trapped himself in a paycut OR gets the bad PR of opting out. It seems like a player option where he can't opt out. Wouldn't it have been better for him to just sign a three year deal? If he falls off the cliff, he probably can still sign somewhere for a couple of million. And if he doesn't fall off the cliff, the PR hit is on the Yankees if they choose not to resign the ageless jeter.
Not that I'm saying it's true, but how would Heyman know? I assume he would go to the players themselves, their agents, the MLBPA, or the Yankees. But why would any of these parties tell Heyman about a positive test, if the players are challenging the test results with the hope that the challenges are successful and nobody ever has to learn about the positive tests? Would they really tell Heyman "Yes, yes, the rumors are true -- but don't say anything." Even a 'no comment' would sound too suspicious.
So Heyman would have to go to the league or to members of the HPAC. But it's not clear to me why these parties would leak either.
Surely there are parties who might leak -- such as the one that this non-writer found, if the story is true. But Heyman would have to hit on them.
Barry Bonds can probably still post a .280 EqA.
It's not creative, but at this point I think the most likely option is to lose. A lot.
Player options are always good for the player. Team options are always good for the team. For the player, an option is a riskless way to get more money than they deserve. For the team, an option is a riskless way to pay the player less than they are worth. You're placing way too much value on unpredictable and unquantifiable PR.
As for their other "creative options" -- good luck. Hey, I'm a White Sox fan, how about an A-ball level pitching prospect for Dwayne Wise -- he'll lower the average age on the team and he comes highly recommended!
Jeter's contract has bonus clauses that could push the option year up to $17M. He's already added $1.5M for his 2012 Silver Slugger award, and just missed adding $2M more for being in the MVP Top Six (7th). Those provisions carry over to 2013, so he could add a bit more. If he has a good season, the Yanks would want certainly be willing to go for a two-year deal, with or without Jeter formally opting out of his option.
Jack Cust
Russell Branyan
Jason Giambi
Adam Lind
Travis Snider
The Toddfather
Lars Anderson
Justin Smoak
Kyle Blanks
Barry Bonds
Hank Conger
JD Drew
Jason Bay
Nick Johnson
Jim Thome
Not that either would save the season, but its actually impressive that the yankees had both wise and dickerson last year (and into the winter in dickerson's case)and now their best options in the OF are juan rivera or matt diaz...
This statement just bugs me at so many levels. DH's are basically the LOOGY equivalent of position players, and I am not a fan of either.
EDIT : Position players is not appropriate for him, as he does not play any position. Hitters? Batters?
I will refrain from calling Ichiro a massive hole :-)
And that's assuming Jeter can answer the bell.
Also, it's not like Youkilis is the picture of durability these days.
Of course, this is exactly what the Yankees need! someone else to take up the designated injured guy. might as well sign Chris Snelling while they're at it, he just showed in the WBC that he's still totally in his prime for filling this role.
Yes, not only was he on the Aussie team that got eliminated in the first round, he got hurt on the very first AB against Chien Ming Wang and limped off the field.
(Although he did make a pinch hit appearance in the last game)
RF Ichiro
SS Jeter
2B Cano
3B Youkilis
DH Hafner
LF Juan Rivera
1B Dan Johnson
CF Gardner
C Stewart/Cervelli
If Cano gets suspended though, that would be utterly hilarious.
Not that Wise is who you want as anything other than a 4th OF or emergency starter, but yea, his .5 WAR or so looks good to the Yankees right now.
ahahahahahhaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha.
1. Youk Hafner if healthy (a rather big if ) would not be a total disaster at the plate in most likelihood.
2. Juan Rivera is one of those player who sometimes have streaks where he look like a star hitter.
3. Dan Johnson.... well if the comparison is April Teix...
4. Cervelil (if both makes the team there is little doubt in my mind Cervelli would start) is a oook contact hitter and has at times in the minors shown the ability to take a walk (or at least take a ton of HBP, this part seem to have translated perfectly into the bigs.) he'll wear a helmet so large with magnetic fields in it that he can get .400 OBP simply by the merits of 1 HBP per game!
One of the closest things to a Ken Phelps All-Star of recent vintage is Dan Johnson, the current Yankees 1B.
Might be that even Jeter understands his career is in his twilight phase, and that he'll need to cut down his lifestyle from the level afforded by a star's salary. This at worst gives him a year to make the transition.
Oh yeah? Tell that to Mauro Gomez. ;-)
1979: 265/406/479 (538 PA)
1980: 294/456/532 (586 PA)
1982: 333/469/706 (574 PA)
1983: 341/450/759 (329 PA)
Even into the late 90s, you could have a Roberto Petagine. The world has changed.
(Lind's not the 1B anymore, Encarnacion is) Cooper had a serious back issue revealed a few weeks ago, that's why they claimed Lars Anderson for triple-A depth. Unfortunately, now way they can give Lind away now, this close to the season beginning.
Well, even back in the day - in the late 90s, just before the stathead revolution - you could really only build one team from these players. You couldn't do that anymore. But there are still a handful of these guys floating around that you could pluck, especially given the proliferation of international scouting.
Yes, but that's the position the Yankees are now in at 1B for at least April. Nothing to lose, really, by finding out whether it was a fluke.
Of recent vintage, Brandon Moss and Chris Davis were very useful players who were acquired - I think, without checking - rather cheaply. As was the 1B/3B the Orioles have - I'm blanking on his name, former Houston player - who all he does is BB and XBH.
Ben Grieve
D'Angelio Jimenez
Andy Marte
Jeremy Giambi
Calvin Pickering
Walter Young (?)
...who never really puts it together, either showing flashes or showing nothing at all. Though I think JeGiambi got hurt. And I know Jimenez did.
Pickering never got a chance in the majors. But he is exactly the kind of player - along with a Roberto Petagine - the Yankees could give a shot to.
On a broader level, if a team could figure out how to identify which of the Alex Gordons will finally put it together -- _before_ they finally put it together -- that would obviously be immensely valuable.
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