Dec
18
Wednesday Night Open Thread
ByRumor has it Carlos Beltran will be introduced at a press conference on Friday, though the Yankees have not yet officially announced anything. If true, the announcement should come within the next 24 hours or so. I’m guessing the Yankees will wait until after the holidays to finalize the Brian Roberts and Matt Thornton signings. That will give them some time to get the 40-man roster situation figured out.
This is your open thread for the evening. Every local hockey and basketball club is in action except for the Islanders, so lots to talk about. Anything goes here. Enjoy.
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Oooh!! Baseball is on tonight! Sweet!
Meh…on a side note: anyone notice the mass amount of Yankee-bashing articles out there today?
I guess they’re always out there every day. But I was referring to the gratuitous Grantland article and the one that Kabak pointed out earlier.
People are DESPERATE for the Yanks to be terrible. It’s like they need the narrative of the Yankees “impending doom” to validate their existence.
i didn’t think it was gratuitous. rany jazayerli is a smart guy and he makes a fair argument.
having said that, to console myself, i like to look back at projections for seasons past. like this special document here.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/preview.....all-season
This one is even better:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....xpertpicks
http://nesn.com/2011/01/2011-r.....e-history/
nonpareil.
Rany is actually quite good, although I haven’t read the article since it must be bad but it’s written by someone I can’t dismiss.
That said, I will now go read it.
Zips projections came out today and are not encouraging.
What time is first pitch at the stadium tomorrow?
Thank you.
HAHA! Typical. You were so spot on last year with your predictions. YAWN CITY.
Is the egg even off your face yet??
What predictions were those? The ones you dreamed up to attack him?
Robinson Tilapia says:
December 18, 2012 at 8:22 pm
TEH YANKEEZ WILL GO 162-0 NEXT SEASON EVERYTHING IS PURRFECT CAN I HAVE SOME MORE MILK MOM
He got me.
IMO the Yankees are not as bad as some are predicting. The strating lineup even with the loss of Cano is MUCH improved and as long as we can get Tanaka and hopefully resign Reynolds our 25 man roster is extremely solid.
C- McCann
C- Cervelli
1B- Tex
2B- Roberts
2B- Anna
SS- Jeter
SS- Ryan
3B/2B/OF- Johnson
3B/1B- Reynolds
RF/DH- Beltran
RF/LF/DH- Soriano
CF- Ellsbury
LF/CF- Gardner
SP- CC
SP- Kuroda
SP- Tanaka
SP- Nova
SP- Pineda
CL- Robertson
Setup- Kelly
LOOGY- Thornton
LOOGY- Cabral
Middle- Claiborne
Middle/Long- Warren
Swing Man- Phelps
I like this roster!!!
Id swap out Cervelli for Murphy, Claiborne for Betances and break camp…I think Noonie and Cervy make for trade bait for some minor league depth
+1
Except that they’ll likely keep Anna down & either Ichi or Wells active.
Thinking the biggest long shot to be playing come September would be either Pineda or Roberts…I would bet Arod has a better chance than those two guys.
And what happened to Ichiro and Wells?
Reynolds occasionally hits one out. Otherwise, he strikes out all the time, cannot play a position effectively, and is a .205 hitter. Hoping he signs tells you all you need to know about this roster.
This is a potentially a bad team. Fragile aging lineup, nobody even close to Cano to scare the other team, and still NO PITCHING.
Reynolds has hit .205 or under in a season exactly once in his career.
While it’s a potentially bad team, it’s also equally a potentially good team.
Beltran, Sori, McCann & Teix strike fear…Robbie did too but he also gave away a bunch of AB’s
An utterly fatuous and factually incorrect assertion.
You know what I dislike about not getting Choo? I can’t make any Choo puns now.
I agree losing Cano hurts, but losing Cano while adding McCann, Ellsbury, Beltran, Tex and Jeter is a much improved offense from last year. The concern I have is with the pitching staff. It has the potential to be real good but also real bad…. But that was the same problem the Red Sox had last year and look how it turned out for them
I don’t know what reasonable expectations are, but I would love for Tex to come back and play a huge role. He’s a big X factor.
“According to Sports Hochi in Japan, the Rakuten Golden Eagles are prepared to offer Masahiro Tanaka an $8 million salary to stay with the team next season.
It would be the largest single-season salary ever for a Nippon Professional Baseball player, per Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker.”
& likely less than half of his AVV to pitch stateside.
“Mariners officials are signaling to agents and others in the industry that they could be nearing their payroll limit, according to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. Rosenthal opines that, if true, this makes the decision to spent the majority of their available funds on Robinson Cano shows that there was no plan in place for the Mariners.”
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/.....limit.html