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  1. moonslav59
    I do think the Yanks have the best team on paper in the AL East, but they finished 1 ahead of Toronto, and the Jays easily won the offseason. Jays + Springer Semien R Ray S Matz K Yates Chatwood D Phelps Jays - T Walker T Shaw C Anderson J Villar K Giles S Yamaguchi M Shoemaker A Bass C Joseph The Jays clearly got much better. Yankee + Kluber Taillon J Wilson D O'Day J Bruce (minor league) R Chirnos (ml) A Warren (ml) The talk of "Yankee improvement" is based largely on untested or low experience young players and players coming back from serious injuries. Not counting young player contributions, it looks like a wash to me from 2020 to 2021 in outside additions and subtractions for the Yanks. Yankee - Tanaka Paxton Happ Ottavino F German
  2. moonslav59
    What's the chances Dalbec ends up as the leagues best #9 hitter?
  3. moonslav59
    There is not that many obstructed, but yes, it is a blight.
  4. moonslav59
    MLB.com... Pablo Sandoval, 3B, Braves There was this fun moment last October when Sandoval pinch-hit in the NLCS and all of Baseball Twitter woke up to the reality that the Panda was, indeed, on the Atlanta Braves. Now we’ll get to relive that on Opening Day or soon thereafter since the 34-year-old Sandoval made the club as a non-roster invitee. Going into camp, the safer guess would have been that Jason Kipnis would land a reserve infield role after his solid season with the Cubs, but it turns out Pandas, like cats, have nine lives. Garrett Whitlock, RHP, Red Sox Over the course of four appearances in the Grapefruit League, Whitlock threw the equivalent of a fantastic full game -- nine innings, one run, 12 strikeouts, no walks. That was enough to land the Rule 5 Draft pickup a roster spot, and he will be an option out of the bullpen, initially, and perhaps in the rotation eventually. Whitlock is 24 with a mid-90s fastball and a changeup that was a revelation this spring. So he could be fun to watch. And here’s the delicious part for Red Sox fans: Boston took him from the Yankees.
  5. moonslav59
    Lindor- 10-year, $341 million deal will keep him in Flushing until his 38th birthday. I think Correa set a date for a deal at opening day- no deal there.
  6. moonslav59
    That was the strike year when teams played uneven amounts of games, and the Sox lost the division by 1/2 game! Was that the only time in any major sport where a team lost by 1/2 a game?
  7. moonslav59
    I remember getting both. Loved 'em.
  8. moonslav59
    So, they did go with 14-12 not 13-13. LOL
  9. moonslav59
    They finished one back, last year and improved by more than the Yanks did, and I'm not even sure the Yanks improved. The Rays trading away their 2 aces is the only reason the Yanks are favorites in the AL East. I do think they are the faves but not by much.
  10. moonslav59
    They need to redo the seats. Thye are too small and uncomfortable, and down the RF line, they face towards LF/CF not the mound. More and better bathrooms are needed. The place has too much charm and nostalgia to be thought of as a dump.
  11. moonslav59
    Not things players experience.
  12. moonslav59
    Well, all umps suck, so he's even with the honkies.
  13. moonslav59
    The bigger they are the easier they fall.
  14. moonslav59
    I just read this after posting my similar post.
  15. moonslav59
    They've had tons of injuries the last two year and then signed guys like Kluber & trade for Taiilon. You'd think they'd go after iron men. They already have players under the knife, on the IL or sitting out a few games to start the year.
  16. moonslav59
    Yes, but teams maybe not being able to land Correa & Lindor, this winter, may be very interested in Bogey in 2022.
  17. moonslav59
    Did anybody else think it odd that Verdugo played LF and Renfroe RF in the last ST'ing game?
  18. moonslav59
    Projected line up versus the lefty starter: 1. R Hernandez CF 2. L Verdugo RF 3. R JD Martinez DH 4. R Bogaerts SS 5. L Devers 3B 6. R Renfroe LF 7. S Gonzalez 2B 8. L Dalbec 1B 9. R Vazquez C The LHH Cordero and RHH Arroyo are on the bench with RHH Plawecki. Some possible changes: Vaz may be moved up to #7. Arroyo may start at 2B, but I doubt it. Cordero could start vs a tough lefty (in CF? with EHern at 2B?), but I doubt it.
  19. moonslav59
    Sounds about right. If we stay relatively healthy, maybe 82-88 wins. If we do that and things line up well, maybe 84-90. I could also see some things going wrong and ending up with 74-80 wins.
  20. moonslav59
    ...making a Bogey opt out more intriguing.
  21. moonslav59
    LOL. I don't really disagree, too much, with any of their projections, except I think they have the Yankee catcher score a bit too high. I also think our 1B will do better than 18th. I like Dalbec. I also think 2B and RF (with Verdugo there more often) will do better than fangraphs projects. LF & CF are the real wild cards.
  22. moonslav59
    Here's how fangraphs ranks the Sox by positional value: 4. DH (Yanks 2nd) 5. Catcher (Yanks 14th- surprisingly high) 8. 3B (Yanks 15th) 8. SS (Yanks 5th) 10. CF (Yanks 8th- Verdugo with 400 PAs, Duran 210) 14. 2B (Yanks 3rd- Arroyo w more PAs at 2B than EHern+Marwin) 16. RF (Yanks 4th- Renfroe 470 PAs/ Verdugo 150) 17. LF (Yanks 10th- Cordero 400/Marwin 140) 18. 1B (Yanks 9th) Overall: Batting: 30.1 LAD 28.6 HOU 27.9 NYY 26.2 TOR 25.4 MN 23.0 ATL 22.5 SDP 21.1 NYM 21.0 BOS 20.6 OAK 19.1 TBR/CWS Pitching 21.4 SDP 21.3 NYY/NYM 21.0 LAD 18.0 CWS 17.4 WSH 15th BOS at 13.8 (just ahead of the Rays) Total 51.1 LAD 49.2 NYY 43.9 SDP 42.4 NYM 41.0 NYM/TOR 40.2 HOU 39.4 ATL 37.1 CWS 36.1 LAA 35.0 WSH 34.8 BOS 6 AL teams ahead of us, including the Angels 1.3 ahead.
  23. moonslav59
    According to fangraphs, here are how they rate the top SP'ers in 2021 Projections: Best aces: 6.3 deGrom 5.5 Cole 5.2 Bieber 4.8 Scherzer 4.4 Bauer 4.2 Bueler, Castillo, Giolito, Nola, Darvish 4.0 Strasburg Teams with 2 pitchers over 4.0: Nats & LAD Teams with most pitchers over 3.0: 3: SDP, LAD, WSK 2: CIN, CWS, PHI Teams with most pitchers over 2.5: 4 SDP 3 LAD, WSH, CWS 2 NYY, NYM, CIN, ATL, MIL, TOR, MN, SEA, HOU Teams with most pitchers over 2.0: 5 SDP 4 NYM 3 LAD, NYY, WSH, CIN, CWS, ATL, PHI, MN, OAK Teams with the most over 1.5: 5 SDP, NYY, STL 4 LAD, NYM, ATL, MN, SEA, OAK, SFG, MIA, KCR 3 WSH, CIN, CWS, MIL, PHI, TOR, LAA, HOU, AZ Teams with the most over 1.0 7 NYY 6 SDP, LAD, NYM, MIL, LAA 5 CIN, NYM, TOR, MN, STL, HOU, TEX, MIA, KCR, AZ, COL 4 CWS, SEA, BOS, CLE, OAK, TBR, SFG, DET, Cubs, PIT (Only the O's make no list. Meany at 1.7 and 2 guys at 0.9.)
  24. moonslav59
    Fangraphs has the Nats with a better top 4 or 5 starters. It's the Yankee depth that jumps them over the Nats in their total projected value. Yanks: 5.5 Cole 2.6 Kluber 2.1 Montgomery 1.9 Taillon 1.8 Sevy (1.2 German, 1.1 Garcia) Nats: 4.7 Scherzer 4.0 Strasburg 3.7 Corbin 0.9 Lester 0.8 Ross (Fedde 0.3, Armenteros 0.2) Strasburg and Corbin blow away the Yankee starters below Cole. Better to use the depth argument. 4-7 starter values: Yanks 6.0 Nats: 2.2 Top 3: Nats: 12.4 Yanks: 10.2
  25. moonslav59
    48 hours to make asses of ourselves... One thing we all are pretty good at.
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