Comments on: 2010 Season Preview: Can Swish do it again?

By: Fabio

Fabio — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:57:57 +0000

Cairo is projecting the Yankees to win 99. I think Chone is projecting the yankees to win 99 too.

By: Gardimentary

Gardimentary — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:49:24 +0000

Exactly. Swisher does his job, and does it well. Last year at this time, he was our Thames. We didn’t know how they would get him at bats. Luckily, Nady is made of glass.

By: Gardimentary

Gardimentary — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:45:58 +0000

Podsednik is a completely different type of player
than Swisher.

Why would you compare the two?

Francoeur maybe.

However, if I’m a gm, and I could sign one of the three tomorrow, I’d take Swisher in a NY minute. I don’t as much about his low average, because the guy gets the run in, and that’s a lot valuable than a high average.

By: Gardimentary

Gardimentary — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:42:47 +0000

Perhaps you are reading into what I wrote just a tad much?

He had a 124 hits, and played 150 games.
He excels at homering. He did have 35 doubles,
which i was not aware of.

But thank you for clarifying what I was just a tad wrong about.

By: king of fruitless hypotheticals

king of fruitless hypotheticals — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:11:00 +0000

seriously, i think that’s a legit concern.

now, if there were a way we could compensate for that loss of LF power by having a power stud somewhere else, like at 3B/C/1B/DH, then, well, we’d be in good shape.

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a The Large Sample Size

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a The Large Sample Size — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:02:46 +0000

(Psssst… Hey, RAB board: I don’t think Bo knows that we upgraded CF from Melky to Granderson, and that upgrade is more than enough to compensate for any downgrade in LF AND any regression from Swisher. Let’s not tell him, let’s just wait and see how long it takes him to start thinking intelligently and figure it out. I’m setting the over/under at 50 years.

Put me down for the over.)

By: Bo

Bo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:45:04 +0000

He better not lose the power numbers with LF bringing nothing to the table in regards to power. And it might not being anything offensively if Gardner cant get on base. Cant lose offense at 2 power positions.

By: Bo

Bo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:38:14 +0000

Swindled is a little rough. It was a salary dump for them. If they struck gold with Marquez it would be even better. They saved a ton of dough on that.

By: Matty Ice

Matty Ice — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:33:45 +0000

very nice post. The thing that interested me the most were the “Just Enough” Home runs.

I wonder if there’s a converse stat, but even if there was I doubt anyone would keep track of it. For example, how many “Just missed” fly balls did he have, that were just short of the fence or to the left/right of the foul pole?

Would be interesting to see, because that might rebalance his HR number.

By: A Lifetime of Question Marks

A Lifetime of Question Marks — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:19:04 +0000

Reminds me of that time when if my aunt was man, then she would have had balls.