New York Yankee notes: Wine-tasting?
by Ed Valentine on Jan 14, 2010 7:34 AM EST
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PrintJust a few quick New York Yankee notes this morning.
- Yankee Stadium is hosting a wine-tasting event. Football, maybe. Boxing. maybe. But, wine-tasting? That's not an event I expected to read about at the Stadium.
- TheYankeeU points to some research by FanGraphs showing that Brett Gardner has the best 'speed score' in the big leagues in 2009. I am a Gardner fan, and I have to believe that if he gets 100 or so starts in 2010 he will help the Yankees more often than he hurts them.
- New York Baseball Digest wonders if Major League Baseball is behind the Yankees apparent interest in sticking to a budget.
- The great Joe Posnanski used Win Shares to help determine the best players in baseball for every five-year period from 1970 forward. There are no Yankees -- not even Don Mattingly -- on Posnanski's list
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What surprises you about a wine tasting?
They’ve got a goddamn butcher in there.
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by New York Sports Jerk on Jan 14, 2010 11:26 AM EST reply actions
You might be my biggest (only) fan on this site
But yeah, I’m funny.
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by New York Sports Jerk on Jan 14, 2010 2:19 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah well I know enough not to take you seriously all the time
and for real, they do have just about an entire cities worth of business in the stadium so I don’t see how this is surprising.
This sticker is dangerous and inconvenient, but I do love Fig Newtons.
MLB and the Yankee budget
What the author is suggesting would likely be seen as collusion by the player’s association and a violation of the CBA. The penalty for collusion is treble damages…. which would make said behavior legally unadvisable, especially as the player’s association has legal precedent on their side by beating MLB in a collusion case in the 1980’s
If the Yankees have a budget for 2010, it is for some other reason.
Boy
what a great group of players to “be ahead of”. Now I’m really looking forward to Gardner in left. I find it curious that all you Gardner lovers have to find a reason, any reason, to try to convince yourselves, and apparently some of us, that he’s going to be worth a damn.
Gardner / Granderson
Here’s a question that I know has been posed, but I can’t think of a satisfactory answer. Couldn’t Granderson actually be more valuable to the Yanks in LF? He’s got a better arm than Gardner, and it’s always better in my opinion to have the better arms on your corner OFs than your CF. And playing LF in Yankee Stadium is like playing CF in a lot of parks- there’s still a good deal of ground to cover there. So, range for neither one of them being a factor- what would be the better OF lineup?
Personally I’d rather have Garnder in CF (if he does wind up being a starting OF), just because of the arm strength I mentioned above. Just throwing that out there
Schmidt, Raines, Boggs, Puckett.
You know- the Hall of Famers.
"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
From
‘84 – ’88 not really. Mattingly’s numbers are equal to if not better than Puckett’s for their career and Mattingly was better during this time frame. Raines in this time frame? No. Boggs had a higher OBP and BA (except ‘84) and Schmidt didn’t compare during this time frame either.
I had to look this up...
…but Raines was an absolute terror during those years.
In the five years from ’84-88
142 OPS+, 298 SBs, 389/285 K/BB ratio
He didn’t have the HR or RBI of Mattingly, but he was a g’damn beast in his own right.
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by New York Sports Jerk on Jan 14, 2010 2:07 PM EST up reply actions
Raines was definitely
a terror in his own right. But Mattingly was “it” during those years. And for the writer to belittle Mattingly’s position, basically saying it’s an easy position to field, is a joke. He’s the all-time leader (AL) for fielding pct. at 1B and won 9 GG’s. I’d like to see what Jeter would have to say about having a great fielding first baseman. The runs saved are invaluable.
Mattingly was "it" because he played in NY
Raines was in Siberia.
Listen, I love Mattingly, and up until this very moment I’ve never really supported Tim Raines as an HOF candidate, but damn his BR page is F’ing impressive.
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by New York Sports Jerk on Jan 14, 2010 2:30 PM EST up reply actions
I agree
Raines is definitely a Hall-of-Famer. I’m not taking anything away from what he accomplished over his career, just saying from ’84 – ’88 I think Mattingly was the best all-around player in Baseball.
With all respect to Mattingly- if he had more range he’d have played 2B, a better arm he’d have played 3B.
After LF, 1B is the easiest position on the diamond. And if you replace Mattingly with average 1B, it’s not as big of a drop off as replacing Schmidt with the average 3B or Raines with the average CF.
"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
Not agreeing or disagreeing.
How about you or jscape brings up the stats? Then we can compare.
by Gelatin on Jan 14, 2010 2:08 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Click on the link to the Joe Poz article.
He uses a Bill James stat called Win Shares that combines all the offensive categories with some basic defense.
"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
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