Comments on: Yankees will introduce Towers next week

By: bobmac

bobmac — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:54:36 +0000

Great hire.

By: Steve in PDX

Steve in PDX — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:11:05 +0000

anyone else see the irony of taking up an entire thread to bitch about people taking up entire threads about off-topic subjects?

By: JMK the Overshare’s Mystique and Aura

JMK the Overshare’s Mystique and Aura — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:48:14 +0000

Right. What I’d been thinking is Cole and Bittle sign and and we don’t get the Type-A free agents, then the signing of those two doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t get Heathcott and Murphy.

As it happened, Cole and Bittle not signing seems to have turned out pretty well.

By: bexarama

bexarama — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:32:54 +0000

I was reading some of the old playoff posts and Brazilian Yankee was hilariously negative. Like, to the point where I thought it was a joke.

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

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a The Large Sample Size — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:09 +0000

No. We lost our 2009 first, second, and third rounders for signing CC, AJ, and Tex.

Slade and Murphy were drafted with the picks given to us for not signing Cole or Bittle. Had we signed Cole and Bittle AND signed CC, AJ, and Tex, we wouldn’t have had a 2009 draft pick until the 4th round. Our first pick would have been Adam Warren.

By: JMK the Overshare’s Mystique and Aura

JMK the Overshare’s Mystique and Aura — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:18:34 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if Cole and Brittle had signed, we could have also had Slade and J.R. since we’d have had our 2009 draft picks, yes?

So…Type-A’s are irrelevant?

By: Tbord

Tbord — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:15:18 +0000

As for Isiah Thomas being a good talent evaluator. Ha! Ha! Ha! The only thing he was good at, was chasing down tail in the front office.

By: Tbord

Tbord — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:09:46 +0000

I respectfully disagree – After the first and second round of the draft, things tend to level off. The better scouting teams that draft always find good players later on. Always! As much as I hate to admit it, the Sawx have us beat here. The Angels too. There are lots of examples, and I do not need to go over it, as it pains me to open thw door for the Red Sox trolls to jump in. Let’s just say that the hiring of Towers makes sense. I for one, have had enough of the Chris Smith jokes.

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

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a The Large Sample Size — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:59:12 +0000

With that kind of draft strategy, we might as well hire the Knicks GM, and give up our first round pick every year for a bag of balls.

Oh, and ironically, one of the few things that Isiah Thomas did well: pick draft choices.

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

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a The Large Sample Size — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:58:23 +0000

Are you serious? You take what comes at you? With that kind of draft strategy, we might as well hire the Knicks GM, and give up our first round pick every year for a bag of balls.

/boversimplified

Seriously, the reason our farm system is generally pitcher and catcher heavy is because that’s what falls to you in the bottom of the round. The good outfielders and infielders are generally gone when we pick. Pitchers and catchers slide because there’s more boom-bust potential.

Drafting for need instead of taking best player available is a horrible baseball draft strategy. Doing that is what caused our nuclear winter of failed drafts of the late ’90s/early ’00s.

You take what comes to you.