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  1. jacksonianmarch
    We have lined up our top pitching prospect with Tanaka. Something is wrong, clearly. His velocity is there, but he cannot seem to locate his offspeed stuff anymore. That is his calling card. This isn't just him "sucking". It's his best pitch suddenly flattening out and sitting down the middle. He either needs a ten day breather or a few MRI's to see if there's damage that he's hiding. I really wonder about that elbow. Some guys lose velocity first, others lose location. And the splitter is the worst pitch for your elbow
  2. jacksonianmarch
    Didi isn't being dealt. Pineda is our ace right now. No need to deal him either. We will be buyers at the deadline, but what would we get right now? Maybe a 3b? Maybe a 1b? Or maybe we see what Bird can do and bring up Wade?
  3. jacksonianmarch
    With Trout out for the next 8 weeks, Judge is really jumping to the forefront of the MVP conversation
  4. jacksonianmarch
    We had quite a crew back in the day, didnt we? Its too bad yz isnt around.
  5. jacksonianmarch
    Homerama tonight in Baltimore. Tillman was bad. Severino looks dominant again
  6. jacksonianmarch
    If you're the leader and you throw your team under the bus, then you lose a lot of respect.
  7. jacksonianmarch
    Porcello has a fluky 2016. He's not a low 3ERA, 20+ win pitcher. He's more suited to the middle of a rotation. Sale is your ace. Price could be a good #2 if he's healthy. ERod is fine as a mid rotation guy as well. You could do worse with Pom as your 5. Right now, if all remain healthy, your rotation should be really good
  8. jacksonianmarch
    Here's the deal with the sox. Let's say NY wins the division. I don't think that happens, but let's say they do. The sox have the trump card that no other wild card team has, Chris Sale. If you guys get the WC and can line Sale up for the play in game, you're moving on to the ALDS.
  9. jacksonianmarch
    Aaron Judge just continues to rake. Great to see!
  10. jacksonianmarch
    Offense in a rut of late. Good to see Tanaka dominant again
  11. jacksonianmarch
    His velocity was there, but he got his ass kicked by AAA players. So be it.
  12. jacksonianmarch
    Farrell doesn't know what he is. He wants to be a player's manager, but a player's manager defends his players. The knock on Farrell has been his lack of protection of his players against media scrutiny. For Tito, Manny could have been found in a coke den passed out after dry humping a mule and Francona would play it off like something normal. Farrell would tell the truth and then leave Manny to face his own comeuppance which is fine, but it is not what a player's manager is. He tries to play himself off as a man of conviction, but what man of conviction cheats on his wife with a reporter? He tries to be a strategist, but eventually he falls back into the line of Francona which is to let the players play. I dont understand him
  13. jacksonianmarch
    Ells is replaceable in system. Glad to see Severino just flat out dominate. He and Pineda are really leading the charge in the rotation. If Tanaka remembers who he is, this team could really be in this for the long haul
  14. jacksonianmarch
    Price is getting lit up in his rehab appearances, but he says hes healthy. He might be an option next turn in the rotation
  15. jacksonianmarch
    Jack, even if he comes back and dominates, it's hard to fathom trading a middle of the order 3b for a setup man. Shaw has been solid this year, with power that the sox sorely need at a position that they have no production from at all. If Thornburg has rotator cuff surgery and never comes back to normal, then this trade is a colossal bust
  16. jacksonianmarch
    Dustin Fowler is finally showing some patience, but man that kid is exciting. He's a cycle waiting to happen. 9 doubles, 7 triples, 7 homers and 5 steals in 165ABs. Impressive to say the least. We are deep and that is a good problem to have. Leaves us open to make trades without pilfering the top of our farm
  17. jacksonianmarch
    He can play OF, 3B and C in a pinch. Our offensive depth is insane. Literally insane. We have an all star level catcher with Romine behind him. Our third catcher hit 25HR in AAA last year. We have Bird on the DL for 1b and his backup led the NL in HR last year. Austin can play there. Headley can shift over too. 2b is an all star. SS is a borderline AS. Our 3b has sucked but behind him and the MIF is Torres, one of baseball's top prospects. Torreyes is a nice piece too. We have four OFers who are all hitting well. Behind them is a top 20 prospect who is holding his own in AAA as well.
  18. jacksonianmarch
    Right. The biggest difference is that a AAA or AA team can send out someone who is working on something for a month or two and nobody will care. You can let Devers make 50 errors while correcting his problem. You cannot do that in the bigs
  19. jacksonianmarch
    We are going to run into the same thing with our 3b. Torres was just moved to AAA. If he rakes in AAA, it will be interesting to see what we do. Torres and Devers are within 2 months of being the same age and that is really, really young for their levels.
  20. jacksonianmarch
    They likely dont want to force a kid into the position if they dont think he is ready. There is little doubt that he offensively, he is ready for AAA. There has to be a reason why he has stayed at a level that he is destroying. I have heard scouts point to his defense being subpar. If it is, they likely want to clear that up before he heads to the big show
  21. jacksonianmarch
    Gleyber Torres moving on up to AAA. Did well (.276 BA, .850 OPS) with Trenton. He has a chance to be in the bigs this year, potentially as a 3b if Headley's struggles continue. The kid will legally be able to drink this winter
  22. jacksonianmarch
    Everyone panned Franconia because he basically sat back and let his team play. That's what you do when your 3-4 is Manny and Papi. When your rotation consists of guys like Pedro, Schilling, Lester, Lackey. Tito didn't have to get creative because he knew the talent on his team would bear out over 162. In Cleveland, that hadn't been the case. He'd been running, altering the course of bullpens forever using Miller in leverage time not in the 8th inning, shuffling lineups, etc.
  23. jacksonianmarch
    Thornburg keeps complaining of a dead arm. When Pineda did that shortly after we acquired him, his labrum was found to be torn
  24. jacksonianmarch
    Add in the fact that we dealt away Pazos and he's dominating in Seattle and we have a cadre of pen options. This has been a major focus of Cashman's in the new era of the draft. While teams are drafting depth guys in rounds 5-10 who they'd pay peanuts to, the Yankees are drafting college relievers with big arms. They have even converted some of those guys back to starters and worked on their arsenal (see Chance Adams). This has led to every level having good pen work and every level having bullpens with guys who routinely touch high 90s.
  25. jacksonianmarch
    I wonder if he ends up on the operating table. He usually had pinpoint command and his last two starts have been otherworldly bad. Some guys have a stinker, but he's had two of the worst starts of his career back to back
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