40-man Roster:
Infielders:
M. Teixeira BR BP E MLB
R. Cano BR BP E MLB
D. Jeter BR BP E MLB
A. Rodriguez BR BP E MLB
N. Johnson BR BP E MLB
R. Peña BR BP E MLB mi
J. Miranda BR BP E MLB mi
K. Russo BR mi
R. Corona BR mi
E. Nuñez BR mi
Outfielders:
C. Granderson BR BP E MLB
N. Swisher BR BP E MLB
B. Gardner BR BP E MLB mi
R. Winn BR BP E MLB
J. Hoffmann BR BP E MLB mi
G. Golson BR BP E MLB mi
Catchers:
J. Posada BR BP E MLB
F. Cervelli BR BP E MLB mi
Starting Pitchers:
C. Sabathia (L) BR BP E
A. Burnett BR BP E
J. Vazquez BR BP E
A. Pettitte (L) BR BP E
J. Chamberlain BR BP E
P. Hughes BR BP E mi
C. Gaudin BR BP E mi
S. Mitre BR BP E mi
R. Sanchez BR BP E mi
I. Nova BR mi
H. Noesi BR mi
Relief Pitchers:
M. Rivera BR BP E
D. Robertson BR BP E mi
D. Marte (L) BR BP E mi
C. Park BR BP E
A. Aceves BR BP E mi
M. Melancon BR BP E mi
J. Albaladejo BR BP E mi
B. Logan (L) BR BP E mi
Coaches:
J. Girardi (Mgr) BR BP
T. Peña (Bench) BR BP
Kevin Long (Hit) BR
D. Eiland (Pitch) BR BP
M. Kelleher (1B) BR BP
R. Thomson (3B) BR
M. Harkey (Pen) BR BP
Non-Roster Invitees:
Jorge Vazquez BR mi
B. Laird BR mi
M. Thames BR BP E MLB
R. Gorecki BR BP E MLB mi
D. Winfree BR mi
J. Weber BR mi
C. Curtis BR mi
Mike Rivera BR BP E MLB mi
J. Montero BC mi
A. Romine BC mi
P.J. Pilittere BR mi
J. Gil BR mi
Z. McAllister BC mi
D. Moseley BR BP E mi
J. Hirsh BR BP E mi
R. Pope BR mi
Z. Segovia BR BP E mi
R. Ring BR BP E mi
A. Sanit BR mi
G. Duff BR mi
40-man Roster:
AAA:
W. De La Rosa (L) BR mi
AA:
C. Garcia BR mi
High-A:
A. Brackman BR mi
Select Minor Leaguers:
AAA Scranton Wilkes-Barre Yankees:
C. Malec BR mi
K. Igawa (L) BR BP E JB mi
K. Whelan BR mi
W. Arias (L) BC mi
G. Kontos BR mi
AA Trenton Thunder:
M. Vechionacci BR mi
E. Gonzalez BR mi
J. Snyder BC mi
K. Anson BC mi
J. Bleich (L) BR mi
A. Horne BC mi DL
J.B. Cox BC mi DL
A Tampa Yankees:
C. Joseph BR mi
M. Cusick BC mi
M. Banuelos BR mi
D. Mitchell BR mi
D. Betances BC mi DL
J. Ortiz BC mi
C. Heyer BC mi
C. Nolte BC mi
B. Smith BC mi DL
Low-A Charleston RiverDogs:
D. Adams mi
B. Suttle BC mi
S. Heathcott BR mi
K. De Leon BR mi
J. Murphy BR mi
K. Higashioka BR mi
P. Venditte mi
J. Heredia BC mi DL
Low-A Staten Island Yankees:
Rookie Gulf Coast Yankees:
C. Smith BR mi
G. Sanchez
Key:
BR = Baseball-Reference
BP = Baseball Prospectus
BC = Baseball Cube
E = ESPN
MLB = MLB.com hit charts
mi = MiLB.com
JB = Japanese Baseball.com
Vazquez trade
M. Cabrera BR BP E MLB
M. Dunn (L) BR BP E mi
A. Vizcaino BR mi
Granderson trade
A. Jackson BR mi DET
I. Kennedy BR BP E mi AZD
P. Coke (L) BR BP E DET
Rule 5 draft
Z. Kroenke BR mi AZD
K. Texeira BR mi SEA
2009 Yankees
J. Damon BR BP E MLB DET $8m/1yr
H. Matsui BR BP E MLB LAA $6M/1yr
X. Nady BR BP E MLB CHC $3.3+/1yr
J. Hairston Jr. BR BP E MLB SD $2.125M/1yr
E. Hinske BR BP E MLB ATL $1M/1yr
F. Guzman BR BP E MLB mi PHI mL
S. Duncan BR BP E MLB mi CLE mL
C. Ransom BR BP E MLB mi PHI mL
A. Berroa BR BP E MLB mi NYM
J. Molina BR BP E MLB TOR mL
K. Cash BR BP E MLB mi
C. Stewart BR BP E MLB mi SD mL
C. Wang BR BP E mi WAS $2M/1yr +bonuses
B. Bruney BR BP E mi WAS
E. Ramirez BR BP E mi TEX
J. Veras BR BP E CLE
B. Tomko BR BP E mi OAK
J. Towers BR BP E mi LAD
S. Jackson BR mi PIT
A. Claggett BR BP E mi PIT
2009 mLers/campers
D. Bernier BR BP E MLB mi PIT mL
E. Duncan BR mi ATL mL
J. Leone BR BP mi mL TEX
J. Rodriguez BR BP E MLB mi
T. Linden BR BP mi
T. Battle BC mi
E. Hacker BR mi PIT
H. Sanchez BR BP E mi
J. Johnson BR BP E mi
Couple few more things…
According to a blog post in the Times, Jack Curry reports that Mariano Rivera pitched with a ribcage injury this post-season.
And I neglected to mention this item about Joe Girardi, who, it turns out, is a good man.
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The older I get, the more I realize that you never know how many more championships you will see (especially if you are a Knick and Ranger fan), but the Yankees may be sui generis. I think there is a good chance that they will go on another championship run.
This appears to be an abbreviated clip. I wonder if there is video of the entire ‘interview’?
Jeter is almost as tall as Andy, but Andy looks like his legs are MUCH longer then Jetes. Andy’s seems huge from the waist down (and no… this is not a straight line for you Ms. October).
[2] OYF, if you go here you can watch all 3 parts. There’s even a Biff Henderson clip from the World Series. He shows old footage of him and Girardi watching The Titantic. Pretty funny.
http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/
[2] jeter is listed at 6-3, andy 6-5. andy has big thighs/butt and i ain’t going anywhere near your straight lines oyf :}
[1] it’s hard for me to see the knicks even getting close to watchable must less competitive
the mo ribcage injury is pretty amazing – first that he could be as supremely effective as he was while he hurting and was not as sharp as usual; and that the pack of wolves didn’t get that story during the serious
My pics from yesterday if anyone wants to take a look, a few came out pretty well if I do say so myself (please don’t mind the haggard look of myself and my girfriend…I had been running on fumes since Victorino grounded out):
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2061802&id=32100379&l=32adbdfbe7
[1] As a lifetime Yanks fan, 96 was so great for me because it’s the first one I actually remember myself. Of course 98 99 and 2000 were awesome. But 09 means so much more to me for 2 reasons: my kids-my son especially. He is so excited about baseball. He runs around with his glove on all day. He writes down the Yankee lineup on construction paper from AM to bedtime. I bought the papers on Thursday morning just so I can save them for him.
The thought of teaching my son how to score a game, of teaching him to be patient while at bat, of proper mechanics when making a throw.. these are comforting for me. He’s only 5-1/2, and I’m 33, but seriously: I can’t wait. Thanks again, Banterites.
[5] dude, your pics rock. Thank you. Great captions, too — although I disagree about marching bands.
[4] hey ms. o – if you hop on a plane in the coming hour or two, you can make it to the Atl in time for the Goatwhore concert tonight!!!
[5] yeah man, thanks for the pics! oh, and i completely AGREE about marching bands!!! : )
[8] Dude – you’re a drummer and you don’t like marching bands? I played quads in marching band, and the drumeline rocked it, man.
btw, Chad Jennings over at LoHud has a pretty funny blog post today. Check it out: http://bit.ly/1oGk8D.
[9] yeah, don’t get me started! i’m just not a fan. for a plethora of reasons. that said, i have grown to have an awful lot of respect for it. i also shun a ton of work, since i refuse to teach it. i’d have a terrible time doing so and i’d be doing a disservice to the kids. that said, i adore rudimental snare drumming (there is a difference).
i also HATE wearing uniforms! i marched from 5th grade thru 12th and hated every single last second of it. i went to college at a BIG marching band school. i remember telling the dean of music that i’d forego my scholarship and study at a different school if i HAD to play in the Blue Band. he laughed and said music majors are discouraged from playing in marching band and the percussion instructor was the most vehemently against it! this, of course, was music to my ears.
there are soooo many styles and genres of music & drumming. i have spread myself thin enough. marching band, is like anti-jazz. there are some great chops involved, but the techniques are not really sound and the snare drums are like playing on cement. it is also waaaaay too regimented for me. the stories these kids tell about “band camp” is more like “boot camp.” it’s really nauseating, actually.
[9] ok, you got me started! ready for a funny story?
i was always the section leader / snare drummer for band, no matter what grade or age i was. in high school (on long island, by JFK), we generally always marched in the big parades in NYC – Columbus Day & Thanksgiving. it was brutal.
by senior year, we get all fancy high tech and we had some kind of monitor system for me and the band director (who by this time, was my private drumset teacher for jazz/latin/funk. i had known him since i was 10 and we butted heads for a few years. he ended up becoming my mentor and the reason i went to college, branched out musically and began to practice 12-16 hours a day! we remain very close to this day.)
anyway, i had to wear some kind of black box on my belt/waist. it had an ear piece and he and i were able to communicate when he was a block or two ahead of me and we couldn’t see each other. not only did i abhor those damn uniforms, but i was sooooo skinny, that nothing fit me! so here i am, marching in the streets of nyc, on tv and this little black box is tugging at my pants with every freaking step. it was only a matter of time. mind you, i had a chronic dislocated shoulder that hadn’t been operated on yet, so my arms are freaking killing me, carrying this godforsaken piece o’ shit for eleventy hours straight.
soon enough, the band director freaks out ‘coz he lost contact with me and runs thru the band to see what the fuck was going on. everybody’s laughing, ‘coz there i am with my pantaloons hangin’ around my ankles!!! i never missed one fucking beat! i kept drumming…and marching. we laugh about it now, but it’s still a really shitty memory and i fucking HATE marching band. i had already hated it for 7 years prior to this, so it was nothing new.
my first semester at penn state, i sent my teacher a postcard of the blue band! to this day, he still has a picture of me in my marching band uni up in his office. just so i get pissed whenever i visit him!!!
I really have no feeling on marching bands one way or the other, but I saw 15 of them yesterday.
Fif…teen.
thats a lot of tuba for one morning
[13] Unlikely. Prob’ly sousaphone.
I don’t really dislike marching bands, but I generally hate the events they play at so I tend to be grumpy when I hear one. However, I would make an exception for an event at which the skinny hippy drummer dropped trou. That would be funny.
[14] i am NOT a hip-eye – take that back!!! i’ve never been camping, never been stoned, don’t like the grateful dead and have well over 2,000 units of underground heavy metal in my collection!!! NOT a hip-eye (hippy)!!!! : p
ps – when will word press fix the times of the clocks here? it doesn’t automatically change w/ daylight savings, though i imagine there’s a way to set it up to do so. in the meantime, i guess Cliff or Alex will have to go in there and change it “manually”…
[11][12] fifth grade? damn, man. If I marched from 5-12 grades, I’d prolly hate it, too.
I played quads from 9-11th grades, then drum major in 12th grade. Then, my freshman year at Univ of North TX, I played trombone in the MB. MuED majors were req’d to do it 2 years, I think, but I majored on a stringed instrument, so I wasn’t req. Anyways, that was fun travel w the football team and all, but one year was enough on the college level. The drumline there was insane — winning every year at PASIC, etc, so I couldn’t get on.
Penn State, huh? Prof Armstrong was at UNT before Penn State. Small world, brother. Did you ever work with Jack Stamp at all? He is prof at Indiana Univ of PA.
okay… sorry for cluttering up the Banter with non-baseball talk. How about them 2009 NY Yankees!!
[16] Non-baseball music chat is allowed! I believe forbidden subjects are: politics, pornography, Broadway musicals and the Mets.
Yo Tartabull, great pics!!
The Yomiuri Giants won the Japan Series here last night, they are the Yankees of Japan. They won yesterday’s game despite their starting pitcher leaving in the first after taking a line drive off his pitching hand..big, big ouchie, it made me flinch watching the replays.
Anyone see the Twins sign Cuddyer for $10million per? Those poor small market-teams, how can they ever compete with the big-bad Yankees who buy championships??
I’m glad the Yankees kept the Mo injury super-duper top secret. It would have just added to my level of nervousness.
[18] I agree. …thinking about Buck and McAsshole laboring on and on and on about it. [shudder]
[17] i believe they just picked up his option for $10.5, so it’s not a 10/per contract.
[16] i’m not a college football guy, but penn state is now getting killed by hated ohio state in state college. bollocks.
more proper reply coming…
[16] holy shit dude – TINY fucking world!!!
first of all, it’s highly impressive that you play trombone, stringed instruments AND drums. that kicks ass, man!
north texas is an *amazing* school for music! did you play in any of the lab bands? i played at some place in Denton, TX back in December of ‘97.
i used to love going to PASIC conventions. i guess this years is coming up, any week now…
that’s CRAZY you know Prof Armstrong! yeah, he was my percussion instructor!!! just today, i wrote myself a note, that i have to email him next week. we stay in regular contact. he was a student at NTU back in the day. so was one of my old drumset teachers – John Riley.
Jack Stamp may be newer? when i think of IUP, i’m remembering the name Gary Olmstead. i could be “misremembering” though – it’s been a long time and i’ve done a lot of HGH since then. couldn’t have those pants falling down anymore! ; )
i think there was a guy named Jack Schmidt in Central PA i worked with some, not 100% positive…
i still can’t believe you know of my perc prof from penn state!!! : )
[16] yeah man, non-baseball chatter is allowed! esp. in the offseason. and esp after the
YANKEES WON THE WORLD FUCKING SERIOUS!!!!!
hahahahahhaha!!! that RULZ!!! : )
[21] I don’t know him personally… I know of him. A legend in the world of marimba. I was writing a piece while in college for double bass and marimba. I should dust that fucker off and finish/retool it. It was fun. I think it turned on me when I decided to throw some trap set in there. I had a vision of a percussionist sitting at the kit, mallets in LH, stick in RH, grooving an ostinato during the 2nd mvt. Anyway, maybe if I finish it then we could record that bitch. haha
during my time at UNT, I was studying legit, and there are few non-jazz majors that play in the lab bands. I tried out my freshman year, but didn’t after. I shouldve, cause I love playing jazz. So I just gigged around.
Stamp is at IUP and he’s huge in the wind ensemble world. My scholarship at UNT was for playing in the wind symphony. I’m on 4 CDs from those 2 years, I think all of them were produced by Stamp. Dude send me an email. jaybuch at gmail.com.
OK… while I played drums and was in the school Band in 4th grade, I didn’t get along with the lead drummer, so in 5th grade I took up the trumpet… private lessons from the school bandmaster (a very talented guy). Why I took up trumpet, I dont know… but I heard the term ‘triple tonguing’ and my pre-pubescent mind though there was future value in that skill. So… I did well, and the Bandmaster broke a time honored rule, and I was the first kid ever in Great Neck to be able to join the band and challenge in my first year on an instrument.
For the ‘Challenge’, while every one else played marching tunes and other shit like that, I played ‘Hello Dolly’ (which was pretty hip in 1966), and I rocked the joint and ended up 3rd Trumpet.
Never learned to triple tongue on the trumpet, but the idea never left my head when I become sexually active later in life.
OK… Now…..
Can somebody here tell me where the Hot Stove discussion is at? Yankees Baseball! I want Baseball!
[23] dan’s a legend in the marimba world? coolio! his main axes are actually: timpani, fast 2-mallet xylophone and crash cymbals. that said, he’s also an amazing marimbist and his snare drum chops are breathtaking. he taught me marimba!!!
you should dust off / finish up your double bass / marimba piece. i have a marimba here in my living room and am about to practice for a short while! then, i’m off to my drum studio, where i’ll play a xylophone rag, then workout on the drumkit.
my forthcoming solo percussion cd consists mainly of strange/weird advanced compositions for drumset & mallets (plus some auxiliary percussion).
i can try my best to play mallets & kit at the same time! if not, we could still record your piece – i could just overdub the parts. you can always have a college combo perform it – you’d just need two percussionists for that 2nd mvmt.
keep in mind, my entire family is in NY and i go up to see them. i’ll be there in 3 weeks for T’day and we could record your material in the future…
Well…. If we’re just killing time, here’s a little Guitar insanity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BynUZOJc8QI&feature=related
[24] Can somebody here tell me where the Hot Stove discussion is at? Yankees Baseball! I want Baseball!
Here, here!!
The GM’s season never ends. What web of intrigue is Cashman spinning while we distract ourselves with all of this music chatter?
[24][27] well, here’s some new hot stove discussion: http://bit.ly/3tQ9mt.
In re: Hot Stove.
I would not give Damon or Matsui more than one year.
They need to get the Pettitte issue settled quickly so that they will know if they have to pursue Lackey or some other option. My guess is Pettitte will be re-signed for about $10 million guaranteed.
I would let Hairston go. Pena can do what he can do for a lot less money.
I would let Moliina go. Cervelli is a better, cheaper option.
I hope they can work something out with Wang, perhaps a mL deal.
I would not offer Bruney arbitration.
[28] So Harper thinks that both Joba and Hughes should be in the pen and Madden thinks they should trade Montero.
They are offensively stupid and should not be able to continue to steal money by writing about baseball.
[28] From that article, we learn: the NY Daily News’s Bill Madden agrees that Lackey is unlikely to become a Yankee. Madden thinks the team could look to the trade market for a starter instead, perhaps making catching prospect Jesus Montero available.
Is Bill Madden an idiot?
[30] Beat me to it!
[29] Ah, some hot stove stuff to chew on!
I agree with regards to Pettitte. WHat he does will go a long way to shaping most other rotations decisions.
Molina is gone, not only to make room for Cervelli but also, possibly, for Montero (I doubt he sees MLB time, and he will likely never catch, but his bat COULD play at the ML level next year, and he could step in as the #3 C).
Hairston v. Peña is neither here or there to me. Frankly, Hairston brings more to the table overall, so I would opt for him—especially if they carry 12 or 13 pitchers again. With ashort bench, Hairston is the superior super-sub.
Bruney will be gone. That experiment has sailed (mixed metaphor alert).
I predict that Wang will be traded.
Matsui and Damon—that’s the tough one. I predict MAtsui comes back and Damon signs a 3- or 4-year deal with someone else.
[31] Actually, idiot is too high a praise.
[33] “Hanging’s too good for him. Burning’s too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!”
– Hanover Fiste
I would not give Damon or Matsui more than one year.\
…. AGREED. I love these guys but we MUST get younger,
They need to get the Pettitte issue settled quickly so that they will know if they have to pursue Lackey or some other option. My guess is Pettitte will be re-signed for about $10 million guaranteed.
…. AGREED… if he wants to play
I would let Hairston go. Pena can do what he can do for a lot less money.
…. Pretty much agree but what is JHJr getting paid? He’s a good dude.
I would let Moliina go. Cervelli is a better, cheaper option.
…. AGREED
[32] Oops… Guess I agree on all counts except maybe Bruney. It Phil and Joba start, we could still use BP bodies.
I hope they can work something out with Wang, perhaps a mL deal.
…. Rumor has it the Yanks will ket him go. At best, he will miss a month or more from 2010
I would not offer Bruney arbitration.
…. How much would that cost. When Bruney was on, he was very good. If we sign him, he also has decent trade value.
[35] I think we forgoet sometimes how truly atrocious Peña is with the bat, plus his OF is still experimental at best. Hairston has extensive experience in the OF (even if he’s not great out there). I would try to keep Hairston, and keep Peña stashed in AAA.
Madden, in the referenced NYDN article, implies that it is the Yankees who believe that Montero is tradable:
Linceum or King Felix even up? Otherwise, I call BS. You certainly don’t trade him for Hallady given his age. Anyway, I want to see that he can’t catch or play the OF worse than Adam Dunn first.
[35] Bruney made $1.25 mil this season.
He could probably get at least $1.5 in arbitration.
[37] Madden must have it wrong—or the Yanks are fools. If they have a “surplus” of catching talent, and does anyone really have a surplus of catching?, they would look to trade Cervelli (or even Romine), not Montero. His bat will play at the ML level, whether he is a C or 1B or RF or full-time DH. They have NO other bats in the system like that. there is no way, NO WAY, they trade him, unless it is straight up for a super-stud, as you say.
[35][38] The amount of money Bruney makes is hardly an issue. Rather, do they waste a spot on the 40-man roster?
[29] I would not give Damon or Matsui more than one year.
I don’t think they’re going to re-sign both Damon and Matsui. I would prefer Damon for 1 year, although his agent is going to be asking for more. As Cliff pointed out, Abreu already set the pricetag for Damon/Mats. Will Damon take a 1 year deal? I hope so. Or maybe a 1 year deal with a buyout for the club.
Probably be able to snag Matsui for a 1 year deal.
[40] Depends on if Joba and Phil are both starters in 2010, which I think they should be.
[41] Depends on if Joba and Phil are both starters in 2010, which I think they should be.
Not trying to be argumentative, but what difference does it make? Whether starters or relievers, Hughes and Joba will both be on the 40-man roster. Thus, no matter what role they fill, the Yankees still have to decide whether to spend a 40-man roster spot on Bruney (an ongoing project), or if they have other players whom they wish to protect.
At least there’s an Arizona Fall League game on.
I would like to see the OF get younger, but I don’t think Gardner is going to develop into a young Damon. Not sure there’s anyone else in the minors ready to step up.
I’d like to mostly use the DH spot to give guys a half day off.
Damon for a 1 year, + 1 option. Matsui to Seattle.
[42] Well, I’m assuming that if one of them are in the BP, then the Yanks picked up another SP. Sorry, I didn’t make that clear.
[43] hehe.. I was chatting with Cliff the other night and suggested the same fate for Matsui. He pointed out that Matsui has clashed with Ichiro in the past.
Ivan Nova is probably the next bullpen experiment. He pitched well in the International League playoffs and has a 0.5 ERA in the Dominican winter league.
[44] OK, I see what you’re saying. I suspect that the decision to keep Bruney or cut him lose will be independent of the future roles of Joba/Hughes. Either they feel that he is worth working with, or they will hand him off to someone else to tantalize. If anything, the the return of Marte and the rise of Robertson may do more to make Bruney expendable.
[43] I think, personally, that it is a dangerous strategy to see the DH as primarily a platoon for aging players who need to rest. The better approach is to pencil in a full-time DH and then use the position as needed throughout the year—inevitably injuries will change plans anyway, and I would rather have a legit DH on the team.
What about Nady? Is he on the team next year?
[47] FA, no?
[47] [48] Yes, he’s a free agent.
The more I think about the OF free agents, the more I like the idea of signing Damon for another hitch.
[49] I have long preferred signing him to Matsui, but I think that he will command to much (too many years and dollars). How long of deal would you offer? Three years?