Comments on: The Biggest Move of the Offseason

By: TomH

TomH — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:09:04 +0000

You made 4 points. Here are 4 counter-points

1. Jeter, Rivera, and Pettitte return from serious injuries and are one year older (to ominous base numbers for each guy).
2. The Yankees are counting inordinately on Gardner who has (metaphorically speaking) shown serious signs of having a glass jaw.
3. The team has lost a huge number of HRs from last year and done very little to recover many of them.
4. If Toronto has fragile people, so too have the Yankees, in Youk and Gardner and perhaps even Teixeira.

The Yankees are in no position to warn about other teams’ problems.

By: dalelama

dalelama — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:43:04 +0000

Who?

By: dalelama

dalelama — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:39:00 +0000

Magic mushrooms maybe. I will take the under on 96 in a New York minute.

By: Bob Buttons

Bob Buttons — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:38:38 +0000

*clap clap clap*
Welcome to the Wiserhood.

By: jsbrendog

jsbrendog — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:53:57 +0000

we need cesar “stairs” cabral to come clean it up for us

By: Havok9120

Havok9120 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:32:45 +0000

Which is an incredible shame. :/

By: jjyank

jjyank — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:56:06 +0000

This.

By: jsbrendog

jsbrendog — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:53:08 +0000

I am a Yankee fan. the Yankees are better than most teams in baseball. I will root for the Yankees. Muuuuuuuuuch worse teams have not only made the playoffs but won the world series.

By: jsbrendog

jsbrendog — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:50:47 +0000

i hate this mindset and have avoided rab comments for a long time because of it

By: Raul Moandesi

Raul Moandesi — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:38:53 +0000

Downgraded? Well, if that’s the case they also downgraded at 1B (as Teixeira is in steep decline) and at SS (where Jeter has already been dreadful defensively and now is likely to be even worse).

“Heck, at age 29 Gardner is more likely to outperform his projection than fall short. ”

Based on his age? That seems like ready tortured logic. If we just look at his performance, 2010 was the outlier in his career, not the standard. No, ZIPS is what we should assume, and I’d argue that with wrist and elbow problems Gardner is more likely to fall short of his projection.

“Any shot at overall team improvement in 2013 will come from the guys who were here in 2012 improving their performance.”

TIme for cold, hard reality: Team improvement ain’t happening. The question is whether some guys (Gardner, Granderson, Cano, Youkilis) can be better to cover for the more numerous who will continue to decline (Jeter, Teixeira, Catcher-Nobody, Ichiro, DH-Nobody ).