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I think my comment was more about Quinones. who played part of one season (in 1986) in Boston. Spike Owen logged more innings at shortstop for the Sox and he didn't even make your list . And it was Owen who had the stellar 1986 post-season...
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I really don't get ripping Brian Cashman. I think he has done a great job. It was easy to call him out when the Yankees were the far and away payroll leaders, but he has been extremely good, especially recently. He's found several hidden talents around the league like Urshela, Voit, and Tauchmann, and acquired them all for basically nothing. (Although he did give up Giovanni Gallegos to get Voit.) Not every GM gets that many hidden gems in that short of a time frame. That does take a special brand of talent recognition. I wish Dombrowski could do something close to that. (Lou Gorman was actually really good at finding scrap heap gems, but I don't think any other Sox GM really shined in this one area.)
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But bear in mind the overwhelming bulk of those titles occurred before Curt Flood changed the way rosters were built. Prior to free agency, it was very difficult to turn a team around and make a bad team good. The time between baseball changing the reserve clause and allowing free agency (1972) until free agency started to create exorbitant salaries (which I will say started with Kirby Puckett in 1990) was probably about the most level the playing field was in recent MLB history. In that time frame, the Yankees did win 2 World Series, but they were not the most dominant team in the sport. Not even close...
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Rey Quinones over Nomar and Naehring? Really? Did one of his 190 at bats with Boston really impress you? His run at SS in Boston was barely longer than Arquimedez Pozo...
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I think it's weird that the Kelenic comparisons range from Mark Kotsay to Christian Yelich/Grady sSizemore. Kotsay was a good player who basically fell off some sort of talent cliff before he turned 30, which Yelich and Sizemore are/were among the best in the game during their careers...
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AGon was probably my favorite of the Sox shortstops during that SS-Rotation phase...
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Oh ok. I will allow that...
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tough call on Tampa, whose entire starting rotation seems to consist of Charlie Morton while Snell and Chirinos are out...
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Might be worth pointing out the Yankees haven't won 100 games yet. And there big lead in the AL East gives them less cause to go full bore for the rest of the season. If it comes down to a decision of fighting for home field vs resting the rotation pitchers, the Yankees might take the foot off the gas pedal for a bit...
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It's not just the rest days. It's the overexposure to the same hitters, too. Unlike during the regular season, it's the same hitters for all seven consecutive games....
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Baseball Reference does have them third, behind Houston and just ahead of Atlanta. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2019-playoff-odds.shtml
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Right now, current odd (from whatever date) have the Yankees second behind Los Angeles. https://mybookie.ag/sportsbook/mlb/world-series/
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I'm half his age and make typos about twice as often. (I do tons of edits and corrections.) If I even live that long, my typing (which may be a thing of the past by then) won't even resemble English. I ignore his typos (as we all should), but I treat the content of his baseball input as I would anyone else's. And I doubt he would want it any other way...
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They will be for a while. But if you need them for 28 innings in a 7 game series, fatigue and overexposure could become a huge problem...
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Why stop posting? You're always welcome here, at least by me...
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I wonder how many people still think Feltman is the closer of the immediate future...
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As he i not on the 40 man roster, the Yankee have to add him quickly. I doubt they do add him this season, as Cashman has been claiming and signing other bullpen alternatives. If the Yankees add another reliever to the 25 man roster, they have already put Ryan Dull on the 40 man roster. But David Hernandez should be the most likely of that bunch to actually see the post-season, IMO, as he has been the most effective in MLB this year. (I do expect Dull or David Hale to be DFA'd in this case.) I doubt the Yankees give Garcia a trial by fire of MLB post-season baseball. Dellin Betances might even be more likely, assuming he has anything to offer right now. Garcia will probably be in the bullpen mix next season as the replacemet for Betances. He might be fighting for a spot with Trevor Rosenthal...
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If that helps you sleep at night...
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Again, the author of the OP (and title) is a 90+ year old WWII vet with severe macular degeneration issues that lead to frequent typos. Just overlook them...
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So... tax the bullpen during the post-season? Not a good strategy...
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The Yankees' problem won't be getting 4 good innings from their bullpen. It will be getting the 5 good innings from the rotation...
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jad reminded me of it on another thread...
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Ah but we also don't have a 12.5 game gap to close...
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At the time Iglesias was dealt, the two of the top 3 active career leaders in UZR/150 for shortstops were Adam Everett and Nick Punto, both of whom had been dealt by the Red Sox in previous deals. No one cried nearly as much when those two excellent defenders were traded away. Punto was reaching the end of his career, so he wasn't the player he was in Minnesota. But Everett went on to have a great career as a defensive infielder, and was dealt for Human Volcano Carl Everett (no relation) in a move that some have said was to undermine Sox manager Jimy Williams, who envisioned a future Sox infield with Everett and David Eckstein up the middle. (Eckstein was DFA'd and released to accommodate the worthless Ed Sprague.)
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I was as down on Miuddlebrooks a any Sox fan, even when he was still a minor leaguer. I wanted Middlebrooks to be dealt there (which would have made sense because the White Sox had never replaced Joe Crede at 3b and could have just kept Detroit out of that deal altogether.) But Iglesias did have issues. He reportedly had a mild tantrum upon a demotion to Pawtucket once, which Castiglione discussed on the radio as a Cuban thing as Cubans viewed demotions as statements they were not good enough (his words, not mine). And Iglesias also started a dugout fight with Detroit catcher James McCann during a game against the Red Sox. He certainly wasn't perfect. I never cared, since I never planned on hanging out with him anyway...
