Dec
27
Yankees add Don Wakamatsu to scouting staff
ByVia Ken Davidoff: The Yankees have added Don Wakamatsu to their pro scouting staff. The former Mariners manager has held various big league coaching and minor league instructor positions with several teams through the years, but I have no idea what kind of talent evaluator he is. I am a fan of having lots of voices in the front office though, so hooray for adding another one.
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If the Yankees can pick up Kurt Suzuki to go with Kyle Higashioka and Don Wakamatsu, they will have cornered the market on current and former Japanese/American catchers.
Isn’t Kurt Suzuki Hawaiian?
He’s from California you racists.
California, Hawaii, what’s the difference?
Japanese-American is not Japanese, by the way.
Everyone’s a rittle bit lacist….
/Avenue Q
And every white dude is a little bit pedophile.
Why is pointing out ethnicity racist?
Stop the PC nonsense, all it is , is an attack on liberty and free speech.
If only I’d awoken 20 minutes ago. I could have saved you from uttering that second sentence, and bad grammar, by assuring you it was all in jest.
It will only help Kuroda and Ichiro all the more to know they have a friend who has their back on the scouting staff.
#bigmember
Wakamatsu liked the large Chinese American population in the metro region.
#bigmember
That’s the second former manager added this offseason to the scouting staff. Also, the new Charleston manager is the third former MLB manager.
Should have spent the extra coin on RussMart.
What does that have to do with Wakamatsu?
Evidently scouting staff salary counts towards the salary cap.
Nothing, but mark will hang up and listen to what you have to say, Tom, er, Bob….
Well, if the new CBA limits the amount of money you can spend on amateur talent, and your self-imposed salary cap limits the amount you can spend on major league talent, perhaps it makes sense for a deep-pocketed team to sink a ton of money into scouting, player development, and coaches.
New strategy by the Yankees.
Hire EVERY possible managerial candidate and force the other teams to use player-coaches.
Nice hire… But can he catch a fly with chop-sticks?
#miyagidojo.com
The missing piece in the Montero/Pineda trade: the Player (scout) To Be Named (much much much) Later…
#ninjacashman