As the trade deadline gossip heats up, the Yanks are in the mix. They split the double header yesterday dropping the the first game (ugh). Tonight, gives the return of Masahiro Tanaka, our guy!
Never mind the frontrunners:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Picture by Bags
Definitely need at least one SP. Tigers broadcasters seem to think Michael Fulmer is going to be traded
Nice, Tanaka
Masahiro Houdini
Interesting article from Mike Axisa today over at RAB, entitled, "Three reasons Yankees should make Miguel Andujar available at the trade deadline"
http://riveraveblues.com/2018/07/three-reasons-yankees-make-miguel-andujar-available-trade-deadline-174411/
really not interested in Machado, contrary to O's announcers
How about Britton as another arm out of the pen. could drop Shreve
[5] Especially since he's continued to insist he's a SS only ...
[4] Saw that, I like Miggy Jr. and think he’ll get better, but Drury is here and we can’t keep running Gray out there every five days.
No to Machado ar SS. We’ve got Didi, plus he’s Dutch, just like my grandmother.
heard owes were shopping Machado if teams were willing to take Adam Jones too.
[8] Those defensive stats are ... something, though I'd have to do a deeper dive into other 3rd basemen to know how unusual they are.
No to Machado at SS because ... he's got potentially historically bad defensive numbers at SS this year ... well, and we've already got Didi.
[10] yeah, though I think Mikes conclusion is simply that he has no range
Crap
BUGGER.
that sucks
[11] Andujar or Machado?
(Actually it's probably both)
What in the world was that?
Awwww, c'mon Kenny ... ya got to go with a "Baltimore Chop" reference there!
[15] Miggy Jr.
oy.
[18] Well, yeah, I think this makes it pretty clear as to his conclusion:
That’s a long way of saying if you hit the ball at Andujar, he’s going to make the play. Hit the ball anything more than a step or two away from him in either direction, and he’s probably not going to make the play.
I'm just wondering what the "average" 3rd baseman looks like in those Inside Edge stats ...
Finally. Yankees quite capable of scoring three plus of these Os
[4] I still don't think any of those reasons are strong enough to part with him. You could flip it the other way and say, "what if he gets support and/or becomes better?" Look at Sevi last year; some people were calling for the Yanks to demote or trade him for value because he was promising yet inconsistent (until the playoffs where he took off), but in the offseason he spent time training with Pedro and has kicked ass this season. Andujar (or any of the young guys for that matter) could ostensibly do the same with enough incentive or encouragement. I really don't understand the impatience at this point.
I think it is pen time.
just a foul ball. Walk in business
I wouldn't trade andujar unless we get a legit #2 SP with some years of control
Bird. Word.
Bird is the word!
[22] I don't think Axisa's being impatient in that article at all, simply realistic. Little Miggy has some exciting aspects to his game, he's got some obvious flaws. He might get better, he might not.
Axisa isn't saying "ERMAGH, HE SUCKS, TRADE HIM" ... he's saying, "if he's the last piece your need to make a significant trade that you think will improve the club this season (and hopefully bring home it all) ... it shouldn't be off the table"
About damn time from Bird!
RE Machado at SS ... from an article over at theringer.com:
The other chief offender is the Orioles’ best player, Manny Machado, who while enjoying his best-ever season at the plate is also en route to the worst defensive season on record. Not just his own worst defensive season—the worst for any player, at any position (positional adjustments aside). Machado has already reached negative-20 DRS this year—that’s the second-worst total at any position in 2018, on a list that also includes Jones and Mancini in the bottom five—and is thus on pace to hit nearly negative-40 for the season. Since 2003, the worst single-season DRS total is negative-33, for Matt Kemp in 2010; only six players have gone even 30 runs under.
At his current pace, Machado will likely finish the season providing six-plus wins of offensive value while taking away two-plus wins on defense. The list of previous players who completed that dual feat includes notoriously bat-rich, glove-poor shortstops Hanley Ramírez and Michael Young and then a coterie of corner sluggers largely uninterested in the demands of defense. Machado might think he’s regular-season LeBron James now (in more ways than one).
Machado moved from third base to shortstop this year, but he didn’t bring his range with him. As Mark Simon from Sports Info Solutions, the parent company that oversees DRS, wrote last month, “Most shortstops who are bad at fielding the ball in one area are average or above at fielding balls in the other direction. But Machado is far below average in both,” routinely missing balls to both his left and right.
Sigh
I frickin said it was pen time
#obligatorytanakahomerun
watch out for Trumbo in that bandbox
Tanaka has given up 17 HRS in 14 starts.
Oh, Tanaka is still out there?
#obligatoryhomer
[28] Fair enough. I still would roll the dice with Andujar like they did with Didi and Hicks. Even after that muthaF--- home run by Machado... ugh.
nice Hold..er
Damn, Hicks ripped that one. Bad luck.
Gah ... Gio should have hit that first pitch about 800 feet.
Grrrrrrrr.
First and third, one out, time for a DP.
rbj, don't be such a pessimist
If Didi had busted it out of the box, that would have been a hit.
It's amusing to hear announcers still talking about Adam Jones as an above average CF ...
From the same article on the O's above:
The problems start with the outfield, which isn’t too vast an improvement upon a hypothetical trio of Adam Dunn clones. Oriole outfielders rank last in DRS as a whole, DRS’s range factor specifically, and Statcast’s outs above average measure, which uses positioning and batted-ball data to compare how many plays a fielder should have made to how many he actually converted. Individually, among 241 outfielders this season, Trey Mancini ranks 237th in OAA, Adam Jones 236th, and Mark Trumbo—despite making only 13 outfield appearances—207th.
It’s a systemic issue, but not an unexpected one given those names. Mancini and Trumbo should play at first base or in the designated hitter slot, and Jones, while carrying a Gold Glove track record and still making the occasional highlight-reel grab, has been trending downward for years. His DRS results since his last Gold Glove, in 2014, have plummeted as follows: 4, minus-10, minus-12, minus-18 (so far).
see? Bird gets a sac fly. 4 rbi tonight
[42] Errr, triple.
Oof, I'd have punched him out on that.
[41] if I’m optimistic, I get disappointed. I prefer Eeyoreism
I’ll take that
I think that's in ... but yeeeeeesh.
Ugh ... nope.
Well, this has the feeling of one of those games ...
Didi!
I hate the fucking o’s. Goddammit.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
[50] What was I saying ...
No es bueno, Dellin ...
Too good, that baltimore.
Blech
We should be going for a 4 game sweep ... instead we're hoping for a split.
GRRRRRRR.
It's very hard to put sonny and stopper in the same sentence
So it’s France vs, Croatia
Sonny is more useless than a stopper without a bottle
Usesless as a legless man at an ass kickimg contest.
Hooray personal catcher! Not
useless as teats on breast plate ...
Phew!
You have got to be FUCKING kidding me.
#NYYRISPFAIL
Hey! A hit with #RISP!
A run
Four more! Greg flipped the Bird at the Orioles
[68] 4 more!
Nice from Sonny!
Surprised no ones moving in the Os pen
T WADE!
Not what was needed GGBG.
Not. At. All.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!?!?
GET THE FUCKING RUN IN!
Well that was . . . underwhelming
#NYYRISPFAIL.
Wow. Great play, Sonny.
Well, HELL, give Sonny a hand!
Damn, fine catch. Tip your cap
Bird with the stretch. My groin is hurting now
Hmm, they’ve secretly replaced Sonny Gray with Folgers Crystals. And I like it
Atta boy, Tyler!
T WADE!
Great silent treatment on that homer!
Get that ball back
#obligatormachadohit
[82] HA! Good one. If Gray was a coffee, he'd definitely be instant. Only drinkable when there's nothing else.
My MLB Yankees feed says they made a serious offer for Manny. Sheffield's name has come up.
If I were on the field against Stanton and I were:
A Pitcher - I would soil myself
An Infielder - I would wet myself
An Outfielder - I would run and hide
[88] No. Didi is good enough. Where does Didi play? Miggy Jr. is in the running for ROY. Starting pitching only.
[88] I hope not, that just seems the wrong thing to do.
If we trade Sheffield, it needs to be for a starter ...
[90] Hah! Beat me to it!
:)
Nicely done Syndrome!
I’d trade one of Miggy Jr. or Brandon Drury and one of Lasagna or German for Michael Fulmer. Down year, but former ROY as a pitcher. Just spitballing here. Tigers are in sell mode
Can we get double digits
[89] Yeah, like I said ...
It's nice to see Stanton with 4 hard non homer hits. Huzzah.
Indians up 19-2. Just hope their hitting shoes are tired tomorrow
Didi is sick.
Why is my comment awaiting moderation? The Cleveland baseball team is up 19-2, er, now 4.
One down
There’s two
And three!
Nice win from Gray, who apparently isn’t useless and an assist from Shreve. And a second hitterish game from Bird.
Night all.
Well. That's done. Next up, a starting pitcher?
Baltimore rado says Yanjs made a serious offer for Machado, and that the Sawks made one too. I agree that if we give up assets it's for a SP.