Views from 314 posted some various Yankee lineups. They all gotta make you smile, but which one do you like best?
option 1: the standard, where Judge is your #2.
1. DJ LeMahieu, 2B
2. Aaron Judge, RF
3. Giancarlo Stanton, LF
4. Gary Sanchez, C
5. Gleyber Torres, SS
6. Luke Voit, 1B
7. Miguel Andujar, DH
8. Gio Urshela, 3B
9. Brett Gardner, CF
option 2: old school, high on base/contact guy at the top, power in the middle
1. Brett Gardner, CF
2. DJ LeMahieu, 2B
3. Aaron Judge, RF
4. Giancarlo Stanton, LF
5. Gary Sanchez, C
6. Gleyber Torres, SS
7. Luke Voit, 1B
8. Miguel Andujar, DH
9. Gio Urshela, 3B
option 3: the frisky
1. Brett Gardner, CF
2. DJ LeMahieu, 2B
3. Gleyber Torres, SS
4. Aaron Judge, RF
5. Giancarlo Stanton, LF
6. Gary Sanchez, C
7. Luke Voit, 1B
8. Miguel Andujar, DH
9. Gio Urshela, 3B
unlike the NFL draft talk, there doesn't seem to be a wrong answer here, just a which one is best discussion.
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As beautiful as any words in any sport!
Any opinions on the Marte trade? I would have thought the Pirates could have done better than that.
I'm guessing that the Yanks have concluded that once you go over the third luxury tax barrier, you may as well go all in. What's another $18.6M once you are over?
The Lowell trade actually wasn't a bad idea in practice, to add 3 arms (Yarnall was a good prospect), but all 3 of those guys didn't pan out and Lowell became and All Star.
In this case, the Scott Brosius is Gio Urshela.
The Lowell trade actually wasn't a bad idea in practice, to add 3 arms (Yarnall was a good prospect), but all 3 of those guys didn't pan out and Lowell became and All Star.
In this case, the Scott Brosius is Gio Urshela.
It's certainly a possibility. Atlanta has a ton of pitching prospects. Of course, NYY does too, but not with the hype and (generally) not as close to the bigs as Atlanta's.
2. Judge
3. Torres
4. Stanton
5. Voit
6. Sanchez
7. Ford
8. Gio
9. Gardner
If I am Cashman I want ( if I can get it at the right price) a high contact infielder who can play more than one position and one more very good bullpen arm to the Yankees once again vault to the best bullpen in the game level ( its been their MO for a long time and relying on Chapman and Britton without another strong possibility has not been Cashmans MO)
In the system
I can remember Rob Neyer in particular lauding the deal, saying something like "Brian Cashman fleeced Dave Dombrowski, which should frighten the rest of the league".
In the system
They stashed a couple AAAA types (Erik Kratz, for one), and the farm is percolating a few toward the high minors. Not elite prospects, to be sure, but guys who could end up being quality backups in a year or two.
The Lowell trade actually wasn't a bad idea in practice, to add 3 arms (Yarnall was a good prospect), but all 3 of those guys didn't pan out and Lowell became and All Star.
In this case, the Scott Brosius is Gio Urshela.
Andujar is cost controlled and a great hitter, problem is with below average D he is a problematic fit on the team.
So it's not doubts about Higgy. It's what happens when Gary misses time ( as happens often enough).
Getting a better 3rd choice if it can be done is not essential but it is a good idea on a wish list. Imo
I have high hopes for him, he killed the ball last year at AAA (of course, so did a lot of other hitters) and he's always been a good pitch framer. But Sanchez will likely hit the DL at some point and it's useful to have some redundancy, as Bill says.
OPS+ takes a player's on-base plus slugging percentage and normalizes the number across the entire league. It accounts for external factors like ballparks. It then adjusts so a score of 100 is league average, and 150 is 50 percent better than the league average.
Player 1 / 129
Player 2 / 133
Guess which are Gio and Arenado?
Coors Field is definately the exception - you can't dispute the impact of the hitting a baseball at 5,200+ feet above sea level.
Did you ever watch the Firestone PGA Golf Championship where players regularly drive the ball 400+ yards - 70 plus yards more than all the other PGA tour stops on average?
Good question... The answer is simple, it's not worth 260 million dollars to find out - I'll hold Gio and play my hand.
That's why its critical to look at road splits.
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people assert with great confidence what impact a one-off ballpark makes but I just don't buy it. Like defensive metrics they're useful but they're simply not definitive.
Coors Field is definately the exception - you can't dispute the impact of the hitting a baseball at 5,200+ feet above sea level.
Did you ever watch the Firestone PGA Golf Championship where players regularly drive the ball 400+ yards - 70 plus yards more than all the other PGA tour stops on average?
Friend of mine lived in Denver area and said add 10% to your drives up in the Rockies..
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people assert with great confidence what impact a one-off ballpark makes but I just don't buy it. Like defensive metrics they're useful but they're simply not definitive.
Coors Field is definately the exception - you can't dispute the impact of the hitting a baseball at 5,200+ feet above sea level.
Did you ever watch the Firestone PGA Golf Championship where players regularly drive the ball 400+ yards - 70 plus yards more than all the other PGA tour stops on average?
Friend of mine lived in Denver area and said add 10% to your drives up in the Rockies..
Its a double whammy. The lack of air resistance both helps the ball travel farther AND takes away from pitches that break. I used to win so many fantasy leagues when the Rockies first came into the league because most people still didn't catch on to just how dramatic the effect was.
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and I doubt even Cashman thought DJLM's 2019 was possible. Just tough to project away from there. Of course, also tough to project Gio coming off a one-off year with a juice ball.
That's why its critical to look at road splits.
But even road splits aren't entirely predictive because Rockies players tend to do worse on the road than they do before and after their time in Colorado because it's a difficult in-season and game to game transition to make. But yeah, definitely something to look at.
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and I doubt even Cashman thought DJLM's 2019 was possible. Just tough to project away from there. Of course, also tough to project Gio coming off a one-off year with a juice ball.
That's why its critical to look at road splits.
But even road splits aren't entirely predictive because Rockies players tend to do worse on the road than they do before and after their time in Colorado because it's a difficult in-season and game to game transition to make. But yeah, definitely something to look at.
Great point Duned. The home conditions probably screws then up a bit when they go on the road.
I tend to think it never existed in an realistic term. Not that Cash would look, just that beyond a feeler it never moved.