Results tagged ‘ Carl Crawford ’
Quick Bits; Crawford, Montero, Burnett
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The Yankees apparently love Carl Crawford and
would not sign Damon to a 2 year deal because they want Crawford next year.
This is all from ESPN’s Jayson Stark so it may be true, it may not be.
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Montero put on a show in spring training,
hitting monster home-runs in the batting cage. Could Montero be ready by next
year, ready to step up and move Posada to the full time DH role?
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Jorge Posada will catch AJ Burnett next year. It
is a surprise to some, not to me. Molina is not here anymore. The Yankees are
not going to lose a bat in the lineup that badly every time Burnett pitches.
Right?
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Chan Ho
Park had a press conference in South Korea…
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Johnny Damon says that Detroit is where he
wanted to be from the beginning. Really? That’s not what I heard.
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Aaron Boone is retiring and joining ESPN. Good
luck Aaron and I thank you for your heroic postseason shot.
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The Yankees might try Kei Igawa as a relief
pitcher. He pitched really well in the Minors last year and raised eyebrows in
last year’s spring training. Will the 46 million dollars finally come to use?
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Jonathan Albaladejo lost 30 pounds. Yes 30. Hope it pays off.
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Who would you rather have? Boone Logan or Kei
Igawa…? Neither one seems to secure.
Thank you, thank you. Any comments, questions, or disagreements? Feel free to comment.
Uniform Number 11-20
Here is part 2 of our best player at each uniform number. Enjoy!
11: The best player that wears number 11 is Ryan Zimmerman.
All Star, Gold Glove and Silver Slugger winner, I mean why wouldn’t he be the
best? Jimmy Rollins is also a good baseball player that wears number 11 so
let’s compare the two All-Stars. Rollins had more doubles (43-37), triples
(5-3), and more stolen bases (31-2). In fact he crushes in the stolen bases.
But Zimmerman has more hits (178-168), more runs scored (110-100), more RBI’s
(77-106), more homers (33-21), and a better average (.292-.250). They both had
fine defensive seasons and both won the Gold Glove. Both were All-Stars and you
have to give some credit to Jimmy Rollins, he had 21 homers in the leadoff
spot. 21. Ryan Zimmerman was also
more valuable to his team. Yes he is more valuable to the Nats then Rollins is
to the Phils. The Phillies have Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Polanco, Ibanez,
Werth, and Halladay and they would be stacked even without Rollins. The Nats do
have players but without Zimmerman, they would be nothing at all. They have Dunn
and Marquis but Zimmerman is the best. Therefore, he is the better of the two.
12: Alfonso Soriano is the best player that wears number 12.
There aren’t any others that are amazing so I can’t compare him. To anybody;
Jeff Kent is retired; Freddy Sanchez was traded and changed his number. It will
be too easy to compare him to a back-up, and therefore, Alfonso Soriano is the
best baseball player that wears number 12
13: Alex Rodriguez is clearly the best baseball player that
wears number thirteen only challenged by Carl Crawford. This will be very hard
because Crawford is one of the fastest players in baseball, while A-Rod is one
of the best homerun hitters in baseball. I will do it though and it will look
really odd. Crawford had a better average (.305- .286), more triples (8-1),
more doubles (28-17), more hits (185-127), more stolen bases (60-14), and more
runs scored (96-78). This seems pretty overwhelming, but you will see how A-Rod
wins. He has 2 times as many homers (30-15), more RBI’s (100-68), less
strikeouts (97-99), more walks (80-51), better OBP (.402 to .364), and a better
SLG (.532-.452). As you see, A-Rod is
the better player.
14: Paul Konerko is the best player who wears number 14 but
it is close. David Price is the other one. It is nearly impossible to compare a
pitcher and a position player so we will compare them to the league averages to
see who is more over the league average.
David Price has a 4.42 ERA which is above the 4.32 average. Paul Konerko
has a .277 BA which is just above the .274 league average. David Price is well
over the 42 strikeout league average with his 102 K’s. Konerko has 28 homers which is 2 times as
many as the league average (14). Price has a 1.35 WHIP which is just under the
1.39 league average. Konerko has 88 RBI’s well over the league average of 49.
Price has 7 more wins than the league average (10-3). And lastly, Konerko has
one less than the league average in stolen bases (1-2). Konerko is well above
the league average in the important categories and therefore, he is the best
baseball player that wears number 14.
15: Carlos Beltran or Tim Hudson? We will have to compare
them to their league averages. Beltran has a .325 BA to the .266 league
average. He had 2 more homers than the league average of 8 in homers. More RBI
(48-34) and one less stolen base (11-12). Remember Beltran was injured for most
of the year. He only played 81 games. Hudson only started 7 games as well
though. 42 innings. He had a 3.61 ERA compared to 4.32. 30 K’s compared to the
league average of 47. He had 1.46 WHIP to 1.39 league average. Lastly he had one less win then the league
average (3-2). Both used to be very good but Beltran still has the advantage.
16: Brian McCann and Andre Ethier are very good, but who is
better? McCann has a better average (.281-.272), but that is just about it.
Ethier has more homers (31-21), more RBI’s (106-94), and a better SLG
(.508-.486). Ethier and McCann are both All-Stars and Silver Sluggers. But
obviously Ethier is better.
17: Lance Berkman or Todd Helton? They are both good, but
who is better and who has recently been better. According to us, it is Todd
Helton. Last year Helton hit .325 compared to Berkman’s .274 but he was
injured. Now if you step back to 2008 Berkman hit .312. That year he also hit 29
homers which were almost 2 times as much as Helton’s 15. In 09 he hit 25 which are
still 10 more than Helton. Helton has 6 more RBI’s than Berkman had in 09, but
was 20 less than what Lance hit in 08. They are pretty even right now is Helton’s
defense. Personally I thought that Helton should have won the Gold Glove. That
is what wins over Berkman who is starting to become a DH-type hitter.
18: Johnny Damon against Geovany Soto. Seems pretty easy to
choose Johnny Damon. Right? It is easy to say Damon is a better offensive
player, but Soto is a better defensive player especially because Damon has a
horrible arm and cannot play defensive making it easy to say Soto is better
when it comes to playing in the field. But Damon is a way better offensive
player, perhaps by such a margin that he is a better overall player. Let’s see.
Damon is obviously worse defensively. Damon hit a decent .282 which was WAY
higher than Soto’s mere .218. Damon had more than 2 times as many homers as
Soto (24-11) and had nearly 2 times as many doubles than Soto. Clearly, Damon is
better.
19: Josh Beckett or Joey Votto? Both play very well at their
respective positions. Pitcher and 1st Baseman so we will have to go
back to comparing them to their league averages. Votto had a .322 batting
average which was well higher than the league average (.274). Beckett has a
3.86 ERA and the league average is 4.32. Big difference. Votto, with 25 homers,
had 11 more than the league average. Beckett had almost 3 and a half time as
many strikeouts as the league average (199-47). Votto had 84 RBI’s well over
the league average of 49. Beckett had 1.39 WHIP which was better than the
league average of 1.39. Clearly both of them are above average and seem equal.
But what wins it for Beckett is that he has guided his team to the post season
a few times. Joey Votto can’t do that with the Reds. There is where Josh
Beckett wins it.
20: The Red Sox once again. Kevin Youkilis wins it. Even if
it is against Jorge Posada. I am sad, very sad to admit it but yes. Let’s just
get this over with. Youkilis hits more homeruns (27-22), has a better average
(.305-.285), has better defense, had more RBI’s (94-81) and I am just going to
stop there. Don’t want to hear it from my friends that are Red Sox fans…
Thank you, thank you. Any comments, questions or disagreements?
Feel free to comment.
When we thought baseball players couldn’t get worse, they do.
When we thought
baseball players couldn’t get worse, they do.
Mark McGwire. One great thing comes to your mind when you
hear that name. He broke the homerun record in 1998. UNDER STEROIDS. Not so
great anymore right? Yes Mark McGwire used steroids. First Jose Canseco said “Me
and teammate Mark McGwire used steroids as far back in 1988″ in his 2005 book, Juiced:
Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball got big. Second, his
brother, Jay McGwire, said “He used to in low dosages so he wouldn’t lift his
way out of baseball” in his book, The McGwire Family Secret: The Truth about
Steroids, a Slugger and Ultimate Redemption. And now McGwire finally admits
to using them. He brings a decade of wondering and speculation to an end after
he admitted his steroid use during a 20 minute telephone interview with The Associated
Press. “I used steroids during my playing career, and I apologize” We all would
Mark but would we all take them? No. Taking them is the worst thing. If you
know it is wrong, then why would you take them? To make you better? Probably.
To make more money? Probably. But you can make money without taking steroids.
Take Ken Griffey Jr. as an example. Griffey has made money and has been very successful
without taking steroids. Along with Derek Jeter and Albert Pujols who we are
pretty sure didn’t take steroids. So
back to Big Mac. He took them when he was recovering from an injury in 1993,
tried them in 1989/1990 and as Canseco says 1988. And the biggest year of them
all! 1998. The season he beat Roger Maris’s homerun record with 70 homers. Another player that year who surpassed Maris’s
61 homers was Sammy Sosa who has also been linked to steroids. I am really sad
to say: Baseball isn’t baseball anymore. It isn’t how it used to be. Every big
homerun hitter is linked to steroids; Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Manny
Ramirez, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds just to name a few. The only good thing
about players admitting about taking steroids is that they are being honest
about doing it. But that means nothing. Except that they have courage to do
that.
Other News around the
League
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Mark Teixeira is getting honored with the Legacy
award along with King Albert, Zack Grienke and others.
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Jon Heyman says Johnny Damon has offers from the
Braves and Giants. The Giants probably pulled that back after they signed
Aubrey Huff and David O’Brien says the Braves have not offered Damon a
contract. Executives think that Damon will resign with the Yankees.
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Bleacher Report thinks the Yankees should pull
off a deal for Carl Crawford by sending Brett Gardner, Austin Romine, and a
good pitching prospect. This is not a bad idea, but could be tweaked. I
personally would prefer the Yankees wait till he is a free agent.
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Greg Maddux will return and he will be an
assistant to Cubs GM Jim Hendry.
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Dice-K Matsusaka was hiding a groin injury from
the Red Sox for the whole entire year.
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Tony LaRussa said he might consider bringing
Mark McGwire to pinch hit so the voters will have some more time to think about
if he deserves a Hall of Fame plaque or
not.
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The Cubs will retire Andre Dawson’s number 8 if
he goes into the Hall of Fame as a Cubbie. Dawson played for the Expos twice as
much he did the Cubs so we will see what will happen.
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Lastly, Derek Jeter is finally getting married
to Minka Kelly, just to throw that out there.
The biggest remaining question is will Johnny Damon resign
with the New York Yankees. You will have different opinions and feel free to
comment and tell us what you think about Mark McGwire, Johnny Damon and the
rest.
Looking Ahead to 2011
Yes you may ask ‘Why so early?’ Well you can all blame this
on Matt Holliday. I was just thinking why the Yankees didn’t want to offer him
a contract to be the Yankees left fielder next year and then a light bulb went
off in my head!
The Yankees don’t want to spend on Holliday because they
want to “unleash” next year. Well, why not! Holliday would be great this year
and I still want him but right now it doesn’t seem like a choice. Plus there
are plenty of great left fielders next year (Carl Crawford, Jayson Werth) and
the Yankees can fill their hole with one of them. Though if they do somehow
surprise everybody and sign Holliday, then they will risk getting perhaps Carl
Crawford/ Jayson Werth and Joe Mauer…
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If we sign Matt Holliday then we won’t have the
need to sign Carl Crawford or Jayson Werth which is ok, but we also may not
have the chance of signing Joe Mauer, former AL MVP. If we sign Holliday then
we won’t have the money to sign Crawford and Mauer which we all know is better
than just Matt Holliday.
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If we don’t sign Matt Holliday then we will have
the money to sign power hitting Jayson Werth or stolen base threat Carl
Crawford along with perhaps, Joe Mauer. Posada would move to full time DH and
Mauer would catch. Crawford/ Werth could play left field and your lineup would
be set.
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So this year I would go with Brett Gardner. If
Gardner has a good year (.290 BA, 100 hits, 30-50 SB) then there is probably no
need for Crawford because Gardner can be just as fast and is cheaper, so why wouldn’t
we go with Gardy? Even if Gardner doesn’t have a good year, we can always go out and sign Magglio Ordonez, Jayson Werth, or of course Carl Crawford. I would take the chance with Gardner, and if he doesn’t work out in the middle of the season you could try Jamie Hoffman or trade for a 1 year left fielder .
So as you see there is no need for Matt Holliday. He is a
very good player but sometimes you have to think ahead. A Matt Holliday signing
would probably mean no attempt to
get Joe Mauer. So all I can hope is that we do not sign Matt Holliday and Gardner
has an above average year so we have the money to sign the expensive Joe Mauer.
If we can do this then our lineup would be amazing.
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SS Derek Jeter (.330 BA)
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C Joe Mauer (.350 BA)
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1B Mark Teixeira (35-40 homers)
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3B Alex Rodriguez (30-40 homers)
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DH Jorge Posada (20-30 homers)
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CF Curtis Granderson (20-30 homers)
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2B Robinson Cano (.315 BA)
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RF Nick Swisher (20-30 homers)
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LF Brett Gardner (20+SB)
Granderson and Mauer can be switched as well. Granderson can
bat second and Mauer can bat 5th.
The Yankees also were trying hard to be the team to get Cliff Lee this year
instead of the Mariners, but they had to give up one of Joba Chamberlain and
Phil Hughes. But after the 2010 season Cliff Lee is a free agent, and with the
free agency of both Andy Pettitte and Javier Vazquez next year the Yankees
might be one of the top contenders to get Lee.
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If Andy Pettitte retires and Javier Vazquez has
a good year, we resign Vazquez and Pettitte is gone. We also sign Lee and have
a very formidable rotation of CC, Cliff Lee, AJ Burnett, Vazquez, and Hughes/
Chamberlain.
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If Pettitte does not retire and has a bad year
(in 2010) and Vazquez has a good year, we could go with either one along with
hopefully Lee.
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If Pettitte does not retire and has a good year
this year and Vazquez has a good year, I see us going with Pettitte. Along with
Lee of course
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If Pettitte does not retire and has a good year this
year and Vazquez has a bad year, then we obviously go with Andy.
The Yankees would have a very good rotation and a very scary
team to face in a four game series .
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CC Sabathia
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Cliff Lee
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AJ Burnett
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Javier Vazquez/Andy Pettitte
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Joba Chamberlain/ Phil Hughes
I am not saying any of this will happen and probably will
not but nothing is impossible. One of the main reasons it will be hard to do
this is because we have to use money to resign Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera.
So the very expensive Joe Mauer and Cliff Lee along with resigning DJ and Mo
would be a lot of money.
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