there are valid uses for serendipity. i’m okay with it.

and valid but usually juvenile reasons for insatiable. i’m usually irked by it.

someone once told me he had an “inversion to ranch dressing”. i know. i’ve changed the terms. now we’re in the world of malapropisms. but i thought i should mention it because i sort of loved it.

it almost works. except it doesn’t. at all.

My guess is our 4 infielders are set for another 3 years, and I think we can stand a poor hitting C if he’s decent on D and handles pitchers well (although I would like a bit better than a .200 BA). The good news is, Martin should be cheap going into FA. I’d be happy with 3/$12m, or something like that, and hope G.Sanchez stays healthy.

I know. It was more of a forensic question. I think the last couple years of the Teixera contract are going to be disastrous.

Roughly equal?

(Mauer has two extra years on his contract, which are pretty nearly guaranteed to be among the very worst value years in baseball. And, we already have Teixeira, so unless Ned Coletti has a hankering for him, it’s not a matter of Teix or Mauer.)

Bags, if cornucopia (often preceded by “veritable”) bugs you, you must also get a little pissed by “plethora”, “insatiable” and “serendipitous”.

In fact, put plethora and insatiable together and you get either “indefatigable” or more likely “improbable”.

[20] Indeed. But I urge you to think about the implications of the ‘right now’ part.

Go get Mike Napoli and David Ortiz in the off-season, if the team is really concerned about C and DH for the future. Ortiz will be a much better hitter than Mauer, and you can get him relatively cheaply and on a 2-year contract. Napoli will probably give you similar production, but at a much lower price.

It’s based on the roster. So, no, the simulation doesn’t know that Pearce is batting clean-up, but it knows that A-Rod is on the DL.

What I like about the BP page is that it doesn’t get wildly overexcited about what’s happened recently, as observers tend to do. That was my point about ‘perspective’.

Hm. Three positions where the Yankees have gaping holes right now.

Historically, even a seemingly small lead like 3.5 games is tough to overcome in only 30 or 35 games. 5 games is really big.

That said, I do understand what you are saying: the current Yankees’ roster is very weak, and that increases the odds that the pursuing teams can actually make up the lead.

It’s just that he would be enormously overpaid for six years. He isn’t going to bat .406, and his slugging is gone, and actually it’s doubtful whether he’s even a catcher anymore (he’s played a third of his games at catcher this year, a third at first base, and a third as DH).

Just live with our weak-hitting catchers for now. Mike Napoli will be a free agent this winter. He’ll be expensive, but a much better buy than Mauer.

(2)”The odds of winning the division are great because they built up a huge lead…”

Look… I’m not headed for a bridge but
1) Is that based on the players we have CURRENTLY on the field? I think not.
2) We have (only) a 3.5 lead on 1 team, and a 5 game lead on a very good team, that is CURRENTLY perofrming well.

Here’s my question:
We have basically been a .500 team since the ASB, and that was with Teix mostly in the lineup (and FWIW) also Nova,

IF WE CONTINUE TO PLAY .500 (OR JUST ABOVE) BALL, WILL WE WIN THE DIVISION?

The truth is, for half a season, Jones, Ibanez and Chavy were big contributors. But they have slowed down big time, and that has really hurt us a lot. Will they pick it back up???

I still think the odds are in our favor, but it is pretty close.
How many games to we have left against Baltimore and TB?
If we play less then .500 ball against those 2 teams, things could go badly!