BAL
Hanser Alberto (R) LF
Trey Mancini (R) RF
Anthony Santander (S) DH
Renato Nunez (R) 3B
Jonathan Villar (S) 2B
Pedro Severino (R) C
Stevie Wilkerson (S) CF
Chris Davis (L) 1B
Richie Martin (R) SS
Yeah, they really just need to eat the money at this point and cut bait. He's a shitty guy to have there, he's blocking other guys who might be better solutions and his body language just sucks.
He's the very last thing you want on a rebuilding baseball team.
The Yankees are second in the league in homers with 198 despite Stanton playing just nine games, Judge playing only 58, and Sanchez playing only 77.
Thought Urshela's 2nd HR put them at 200 HRs and then they hit 2 or 3 more.
To your point, I guess the Twins will break and hold the record and the Yanks will be in 2nd place which is remarkable. despite the Juiced ball, with their best 3 power hitters sidelined so long.
Interested in your thoughts on Yankee righty starter Brian Keller.
He recently threw a no hitter in Trenton, and was rewarded with a promotion to AAA Scranton.
Should Yankees fans consider him as an eventual member of the Yankee rotation?
Probably not. He dominated AA as a 25 year old, which is good, and it's hard to do better than a sub-1 WHIP and a BB rate around 2, but he's a fly ball pitcher with a (relatively) low K rate. Pitching at Trenton that hasn't meant homeruns, but that is unlikely to carry over to AAA. He has a deep repertoire, a crafty righty of sorts, but unless the needle has moved his velocity is 90-93 for the most part. He's more in that JAG category.
but Keller has the added issue of being a fly ball pitcher. Not that he couldn't have a big league career, just that YS probably isn't the place for him to do it.
you're right - B-R's numbers aren't updated for last night Â
Romine has a two week hot streak and the usual suspects pop up to pretend that this is who he is as a hitter, and not his wretched career stats. He also is inferior to Sanchez behind the plate - rag arm, calls a lousy game
But Greg we want Gary to DH to get Higgy's bat in the lineup.
A couple of years ago I argued that they should replace Romine with him. I like the pop in his bat. The notion that he doesn't strike out much, though, is ridiculous.
....a thought popped into my head. The Yankees played the Orioles in the 1996 ALCS. Yankees won the series 4-1 but it was closer than that would indicated - game 1 (the infamous Jeffrey Maier game) went extras, they had to come back in the 8th inning to win game 3, and game 4 was a one run game until the Yankees broke it open with 3 in the 8th.
When that series started in October 1996, the Orioles had won a championship more recently than the Yankees (1983 vs 1978). How dramatically the fortunes of the two organizations diverged after that series.
Or even since 1997. The Orioles played in the ALCS that year again, against the Indians after they knocked off the Yankees. They lost 4 games to 2, four one run losses, two in extra innings, two in walkoff situations, blowing leads in two of them. One of the extra innings games ended on a botched suicide squeeze - Omar Vizquel whiffed on the bunt attempt but, behind the plate, Charles Johnson dropped the pitch and that allowed Marquis Grissom to score the winning run. Brutal.
masked how fundamentally shitty that organization was, top to bottom. They lucked out in large part because they had 6 top-5 picks in a row (and Machado was the only one who became a star). But their approach to IFA was shit, they were anathema to FAs because of their issues with physicals, and the majority of players couldn't wait to leave. Angelos was sitting on a devoted fan base and one of the great modern parks in baseball and he managed to piss that away, such that much of NOVA and even some of Southern MD have been given over to the Nats. Just a textbook case of how not to run a franchise.
They're in better shape going forward with Rutschman and DL Hall and seem to have really hit on Grayson Rodriguez (and they've changed over their pitching development so it is no longer a virtual certainty they'll destroy those arms) and they're starting to play in IFA, but it's still a pretty shallow farm, all things considered. They are years away.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving fan base.
Orioles fans always pissed me off with how they acted like they were entitled to DC or somehow the St Louis of baseball fans to the AL.
Their attendance sucked until the Colts moved, and then it was inflated by DC not having a team/Cals streak/1st new ball park/no football.
I’m happy they suck, Baltimore will always be Yankee Stadium South.
RE: you're right - B-R's numbers aren't updated for last night Â
Did you see Joey Bart, Heliot Ramos and Sean Hjelle are all moving up to Richmond? Wasn't going to visit the Diamond again this year but I may have to fit in a trip.
Truthfully, I don't really follow the minors anymore outside of the Yankees system. I take it those guys are good? I only am familiar with the handful of very top prospects, the Wander Franco Gavin Lux kind of level.
The wife and I were just saying that we need to get out to a game. Haven't been yet this year, in no small part due to how hellishly hot the weather's been most of this summer.
Yeah, they really just need to eat the money at this point and cut bait. He's a shitty guy to have there, he's blocking other guys who might be better solutions and his body language just sucks.
He's the very last thing you want on a rebuilding baseball team.
I noticed when Davis was walking back to the dugout after the last time he struck out, he actually winked at his passing teammate going up to bat. Seriously?
He's the very last thing you want on a rebuilding baseball team.
Thought Urshela's 2nd HR put them at 200 HRs and then they hit 2 or 3 more.
To your point, I guess the Twins will break and hold the record and the Yanks will be in 2nd place which is remarkable. despite the Juiced ball, with their best 3 power hitters sidelined so long.
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Interested in your thoughts on Yankee righty starter Brian Keller.
He recently threw a no hitter in Trenton, and was rewarded with a promotion to AAA Scranton.
Should Yankees fans consider him as an eventual member of the Yankee rotation?
Probably not. He dominated AA as a 25 year old, which is good, and it's hard to do better than a sub-1 WHIP and a BB rate around 2, but he's a fly ball pitcher with a (relatively) low K rate. Pitching at Trenton that hasn't meant homeruns, but that is unlikely to carry over to AAA. He has a deep repertoire, a crafty righty of sorts, but unless the needle has moved his velocity is 90-93 for the most part. He's more in that JAG category.
Zack Littell 2.0.
Romine has a two week hot streak and the usual suspects pop up to pretend that this is who he is as a hitter, and not his wretched career stats. He also is inferior to Sanchez behind the plate - rag arm, calls a lousy game
But Greg we want Gary to DH to get Higgy's bat in the lineup.
When that series started in October 1996, the Orioles had won a championship more recently than the Yankees (1983 vs 1978). How dramatically the fortunes of the two organizations diverged after that series.
Or even since 1997. The Orioles played in the ALCS that year again, against the Indians after they knocked off the Yankees. They lost 4 games to 2, four one run losses, two in extra innings, two in walkoff situations, blowing leads in two of them. One of the extra innings games ended on a botched suicide squeeze - Omar Vizquel whiffed on the bunt attempt but, behind the plate, Charles Johnson dropped the pitch and that allowed Marquis Grissom to score the winning run. Brutal.
They're in better shape going forward with Rutschman and DL Hall and seem to have really hit on Grayson Rodriguez (and they've changed over their pitching development so it is no longer a virtual certainty they'll destroy those arms) and they're starting to play in IFA, but it's still a pretty shallow farm, all things considered. They are years away.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving fan base.
Orioles fans always pissed me off with how they acted like they were entitled to DC or somehow the St Louis of baseball fans to the AL.
Their attendance sucked until the Colts moved, and then it was inflated by DC not having a team/Cals streak/1st new ball park/no football.
I’m happy they suck, Baltimore will always be Yankee Stadium South.
203 with 49 games to go...
The wife and I were just saying that we need to get out to a game. Haven't been yet this year, in no small part due to how hellishly hot the weather's been most of this summer.
He's the very last thing you want on a rebuilding baseball team.
I noticed when Davis was walking back to the dugout after the last time he struck out, he actually winked at his passing teammate going up to bat. Seriously?