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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Sunday, April 18, 2021New York Yankees’ Jay Bruce to retire after Sunday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays
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Posted: April 18, 2021 at 05:16 PM | 39 comment(s)
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1. The Duke Posted: April 18, 2021 at 05:20 PM (#6014158)Edit: Ryan Zimmerman.
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Edit: Suzuki
44. Howie Menckel Posted: April 18, 2021 at 01:41 PM (#6014133)
Jay Bruce is retiring - AFTER today's Yankees game.
just turned 34 this month, but an everyday gig in place of injured 1B Voit produced a 4 for 34, and 36 OPS+ and I guess he figured that's enough.
319 HR, tied for 122nd all-time with the Fielders. 108 career OPS+
apparently Yankees can't recall Ford until Tuesday and tomorrow is an off-day, so he's on hand just in case.
Bruce shares 50th all-time with 1,572 K with Jason Giambi, so that mark could be on the line with a farewell AB. or a Ted Williams "farewell tater" would jump him over the Fielders and into a share with Troy Glaus and Vinny Castilla.
DET Miguel Cabrera 17.101
STL Yadier Molina 16.123
CLE Oliver Pérez 16.093
HOU Zack Greinke 16.057
STL Adam Wainwright 15.027
HOU* Justin Verlander 15.002
WSN Jon Lester 14.075
WSN Ryan Zimmerman 14.032
ARI Joakim Soria 14.000
LAA Kurt Suzuki 13.113
MIN Nelson Cruz 13.082
LAA Justin Upton 13.060
ARI Asdrúbal Cabrera 13.027
CIN* Joey Votto 13.027
SFG Johnny Cueto 13.000
SFG Evan Longoria 12.170
Santana's season debut was just yesterday, so maybe why he wasn't included wherever The Duke found the list. I don't know if that means there are others missing.
In other news, prospects don't always work out like you hope.
EDIT: and on the career earnings, I thought about mentioning that, although it was just 2018, there seems no way any team today would give Bruce the 3/$39 contract the Mets gave him. That was coming off that good season at age 30 but over the previous 4 seasons he was just a 1-WAR player. Not that $64+ M in career earnings would suck.
And #8, he cited the same highlight, noting that it's kinda bittersweet that his top highlight came so early in his career.
I remember when Jay Bruce was the #1 prospect in the game. Which makes me feel old because I was already an adult at that point.
The 1st round of the 2005 draft was really loaded. Bruce's 20 WAR was just 9th; I don't know that most first rounds are worse but it feels like it. Upton, Gordon, Zimmerman, Braun, Tulo, Maybin, Cutch, and Bruce were all picked in the top 12. Ricky Romero had some good seasons and Mike Plefrey had his moments. The only busts in the top 12 were Jeff Clement (Seattle, no. 3) and Wade Townsend (Tampa, 8).
No.
Heh who would have thought nearly 13 years later Dusty would be still coaching while Bruce is retiring...
Meanwhile the 2006 1st round produced "just" 296 WAR but a staggering 8 CYA (Kershaw, Scherzer, TIMMEH) -- seems like that factoid should be better known. That draft also had Longoria who's not gonna make the HoF but has more WAR than anybody in the 2005 draft.
That's sort where my "Rich Becker Line" comes from. Becker made it to 8 WAR. Becker was a 3rd round pick but his 8 WAR would have put him #11 (out of 40) in the 1990 1st round. Barton's 9 WAR put him #10 (out of 37/ in 2003 and he'd have been #9 in 2004 (41) and #8 in 2006 (44) and even #16 in 2005 (46). Getting 8 WAR out of a draftee, even a 1st-round draftee, is a good outcome. That's generally 2 good years or 3 average years plus a bit of production before and after.
But I am happy to report that Brandon Nimmo has passed the Becker Line and showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Next up, Elliott Maddox! :-)
9. Damon Rutherford Posted: May 31, 2008 at 06:42 PM (#2801185)
Very, very premature, but I have a feeling all three OF for the Reds right now will someday be in the Hall of Fame. OK, so I hope they will. But it doesn't seem too unreasonable of an idea.
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Griffey Jr., CHECK
Dunn
Corey Patterson
Bruce
The exact same fate that befell the previous Reds superstar outfield of the future, though in that case the guy who could stay healthy was a petulant manchild.
2011 is looking good too.
First round: 5 guys over 20 war, another 5 over 15, and the most talented player in the draft, sadly, died several years ago (Jose Fernandez).
Being a "first" round with 60 picks will help. :-)
But yeah, they are up to 335 WAR already. (For those that don't know, page down near the bottom of a draft round page and the b-r page will give you the WAR total for those players.) The key players still going are Cole, Bauer, Rendon, Lindor, Springer, Story, Snell and Baez so they can still add heaps.
Yet Daric Barton would be a top 20 player in that round. Currently 9 WAR would put you 15th, almost certainly Fulmer and Cron will pass that, probably Musgrove and maybe Matt Barnes.
Indeed.
If you pout loudly and often, some fanbases will call you a "warrior."
Are you referring to Kal Daniels/Eric Davis/Paul O'Neill?
If any Reds' OF had a petulant manchild, it was .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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