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Post by danielbryanwwe on Dec 27, 2014 8:42:58 GMT -5
Baseball is much more fun when teams like the cubs and Padres get into the mix
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Post by LA Times on Dec 27, 2014 9:16:34 GMT -5
Kuroda returning to Japan to pitch oh well...can't wait for Eovaldi to light up the AL East next season!!! yay!!! Max Scherzer can milk the Yank for $325 million now
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Dec 28, 2014 3:05:04 GMT -5
Kuroda returning to Japan to pitch oh well...can't wait for Eovaldi to light up the AL East next season!!! yay!!! I'm worried about Eovaldi. Word is he doesn't miss too many bats. For somebody with that type of fastball, he strikes out only like 6 batters per 9 innings and he gives up an ALARMING amount of hits. His NL numbers are going to take a hit in the AL in more hitters ballparks with better lineups. I was really hoping Kuroda would comeback for one more. We needed somebody who, baring shenanigans, as a sure bet for close to 200 innings. Everybody else in that rotation is a question mark. Tanaka's arm could explode. CC hasn't been good or healthy for 2 years. Pineda has missed all of, or most of, the last 3 seasons. Nova is coming back from TJ, not going to be back before at least June/July anyway. Capuano is really really really really really painfully mediocre. I'm not saying pay Scherzer or Shields on the decline....but the Yankees need some guys with less possible question marks. Obviously nothing is for sure and anything can happen to anybody....but the Yankees just seem like they are relying too heavily on crossing their fingers on avoiding injuries and hoping for too many guys to have rebound years. The odds are not in their favor. And they still haven't improved the lineup of a team that scored no runs last year. In fact, they made it worse by trading Prado.
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Post by Chip on Dec 28, 2014 13:12:28 GMT -5
Kuroda returning to Japan to pitch oh well...can't wait for Eovaldi to light up the AL East next season!!! yay!!! I'm worried about Eovaldi. Word is he doesn't miss too many bats. For somebody with that type of fastball, he strikes out only like 6 batters per 9 innings and he gives up an ALARMING amount of hits. His NL numbers are going to take a hit in the AL in more hitters ballparks with better lineups. I was really hoping Kuroda would comeback for one more. We needed somebody who, baring shenanigans, as a sure bet for close to 200 innings. Everybody else in that rotation is a question mark. Tanaka's arm could explode. CC hasn't been good or healthy for 2 years. Pineda has missed all of, or most of, the last 3 seasons. Nova is coming back from TJ, not going to be back before at least June/July anyway. Capuano is really really really really really painfully mediocre. I'm not saying pay Scherzer or Shields on the decline....but the Yankees need some guys with less possible question marks. Obviously nothing is for sure and anything can happen to anybody....but the Yankees just seem like they are relying too heavily on crossing their fingers on avoiding injuries and hoping for too many guys to have rebound years. The odds are not in their favor. And they still haven't improved the lineup of a team that scored no runs last year. In fact, they made it worse by trading Prado. seriously how the do you trade your starting second baseman who is A GREAT HITTER WTF was the POINT of that? ??
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Dec 29, 2014 15:09:57 GMT -5
And NOW the Yankees have traded Shawn Kelley to the Padres for a minor league pitcher who Jack Curry says probably needs Tommy John surgery.
No idea what the Yankees are doing. The trades the Yankee shave made have made the defense and hitting worse (trading Prado), and now they've made the bullpen worse (trading Kelley.
Looks like waving the white flag to me. Given these developments I wish they hadn't even signed Headley and Miller. Yanks should try and trade Gardner, McCann and Ellsbury while they still have some value. They're stuck with A-Rod, CC and Teixeira, but maybe they can unload everyone else?
Every move the Yankees have made since the season ended has made this team WORSE not better.
It's going to be hard times in the Bronx the next few years I have a feeling.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2014 15:30:06 GMT -5
And NOW the Yankees have traded Shawn Kelley to the Padres for a minor league pitcher who Jack Curry says probably needs Tommy John surgery. No idea what the Yankees are doing. The trades the Yankee shave made have made the defense and hitting worse (trading Prado), and now they've made the bullpen worse (trading Kelley. Looks like waving the white flag to me. Given these developments I wish they hadn't even signed Headley and Miller. Yanks should try and trade Gardner, McCann and Ellsbury while they still have some value. They're stuck with A-Rod, CC and Teixeira, but maybe they can unload everyone else? Every move the Yankees have made since the season ended has made this team WORSE not better. It's going to be hard times in the Bronx the next few years I have a feeling. [ at least they didn't trade away Matt kemp like we did
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Dec 29, 2014 15:39:22 GMT -5
And NOW the Yankees have traded Shawn Kelley to the Padres for a minor league pitcher who Jack Curry says probably needs Tommy John surgery. No idea what the Yankees are doing. The trades the Yankee shave made have made the defense and hitting worse (trading Prado), and now they've made the bullpen worse (trading Kelley. Looks like waving the white flag to me. Given these developments I wish they hadn't even signed Headley and Miller. Yanks should try and trade Gardner, McCann and Ellsbury while they still have some value. They're stuck with A-Rod, CC and Teixeira, but maybe they can unload everyone else? Every move the Yankees have made since the season ended has made this team WORSE not better. It's going to be hard times in the Bronx the next few years I have a feeling. [ at least they didn't trade away Matt kemp like we did True, but doesn't he have like a degenerative condition in BOTH of his hips? With over 100 million left on that contract, shipping him off might end up being a good move in the long run, even though he did have a rebound 2014. You guys still have to pay like 32 million of his contract though....but it's better than all of it if his hips are shot in 2 years. When the hips go, it's over. Look at what we're dealing with with A-Rod.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2014 15:46:16 GMT -5
[ at least they didn't trade away Matt kemp like we did True, but doesn't he have like a degenerative condition in BOTH of his hips? With over 100 million left on that contract, shipping him off might end up being a good move in the long run, even though he did have a rebound 2014. You guys still have to pay like 32 million of his contract though....but it's better than all of it if his hips are shot in 2 years. When the hips go, it's over. Look at what we're dealing with with A-Rod. idk bout his hip but true on the contract. One reason I hate the Dodgers is we keep overpaying way to much on players and then when they start sucking we try to bargain them off so we don't have to pay up and still end up paying somehow
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Post by Chip on Dec 29, 2014 17:09:00 GMT -5
And NOW the Yankees have traded Shawn Kelley to the Padres for a minor league pitcher who Jack Curry says probably needs Tommy John surgery. No idea what the Yankees are doing. The trades the Yankee shave made have made the defense and hitting worse (trading Prado), and now they've made the bullpen worse (trading Kelley. Looks like waving the white flag to me. Given these developments I wish they hadn't even signed Headley and Miller. Yanks should try and trade Gardner, McCann and Ellsbury while they still have some value. They're stuck with A-Rod, CC and Teixeira, but maybe they can unload everyone else? Every move the Yankees have made since the season ended has made this team WORSE not better. It's going to be hard times in the Bronx the next few years I have a feeling. are you ing kidding me what the hell is going on in Cashman's office???
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Post by LA Times on Dec 29, 2014 19:36:26 GMT -5
I'm worried about Eovaldi. Word is he doesn't miss too many bats. For somebody with that type of fastball, he strikes out only like 6 batters per 9 innings and he gives up an ALARMING amount of hits. His NL numbers are going to take a hit in the AL in more hitters ballparks with better lineups. I was really hoping Kuroda would comeback for one more. We needed somebody who, baring shenanigans, as a sure bet for close to 200 innings. Everybody else in that rotation is a question mark. Tanaka's arm could explode. CC hasn't been good or healthy for 2 years. Pineda has missed all of, or most of, the last 3 seasons. Nova is coming back from TJ, not going to be back before at least June/July anyway. Capuano is really really really really really painfully mediocre. I'm not saying pay Scherzer or Shields on the decline....but the Yankees need some guys with less possible question marks. Obviously nothing is for sure and anything can happen to anybody....but the Yankees just seem like they are relying too heavily on crossing their fingers on avoiding injuries and hoping for too many guys to have rebound years. The odds are not in their favor. And they still haven't improved the lineup of a team that scored no runs last year. In fact, they made it worse by trading Prado. seriously how the do you trade your starting second baseman who is A GREAT HITTER WTF was the POINT of that? ?? Because Robert Refsnyder is the Yankos starting 2B and he is better than Martin Prado
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Post by LA Times on Jan 1, 2015 11:17:43 GMT -5
Craig Biggio, Mike Piazza, Jeff Bagwell, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz should go into the HOF this year.
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Post by Chip on Jan 2, 2015 1:50:08 GMT -5
and now the Yankees traded Manny Banuelos to the Braves for David Carpenter and Chasen Shreve.
this is just.....bizarre
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Post by ✖ AJ on Jan 6, 2015 9:19:24 GMT -5
Hall of Fame being revealed today. If I had a ballot, I'd vote for these ten guys:
Barry Bonds Roger Clemens Randy Johnson Pedro Martinez John Smoltz Craig Biggio Tim Raines Curt Schilling Mike Piazza Alan Trammell
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Jan 6, 2015 9:32:54 GMT -5
I'm really hoping Mike Mussina gets in. I'm sure that Roger Clemens won't, even though he should, because all of the joke sports writers think that it's their responsibility to keep out a guy who was never proven to have taken PED's, even though the Hall of Fame already includes proven racists, drug users, alcoholics, criminals, and cheaters.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jan 6, 2015 11:20:25 GMT -5
Enough of this sh*t, really. Put Bonds and Clemens in and open the door and be done with it. I mean put them in by their WAR and use that as the excuse.
Bonds Rocket Big Unit
And then everyone else. I'll take Bagwell over Biggio, by a lot honestly, but both should go in soon. Biggio gets way too much credit for his 3K hits, which he stretched his career to reach. Bagwell was the better player. Mussina and Pedro both go for me, and really so does Schilling. Smoltz probably isn't a first year and in guy for me. He's close, but he was not as good as the other 5 pitchers on the list and I think he can wait until next year. Raines and Trammell are probably getting screwed. The balloting system is completely broken but whatever.
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Post by T R W on Jan 6, 2015 12:53:11 GMT -5
Hall of Fame being revealed today. If I had a ballot, I'd vote for these ten guys: Barry Bonds Roger Clemens Randy Johnson Pedro Martinez John Smoltz Craig Biggio Tim Raines Curt Schilling Mike Piazza Alan Trammell I'd put them all in too. But I don't expect anyone other than Unit, Pedro, Smoltz, Biggio, and maybe Piazza to get in. None of the "steroid" guys are going in yet, unfortunately.
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Post by ICW on Jan 6, 2015 14:58:15 GMT -5
If I had a vote, I'd go with:
Pedro Martinez - One of the most dominant pitchers of his generation.
Randy Johnson - See Pedro
John Smoltz - Remarkable starter and had a brief stint as a dominant closer.
Craig Biggio - 3,000 + hits. Yes, he was a compiler, but he deserved to be enshrined.
Barry Bonds - Don't really care about steroid use. One of the greatest baseball players ever.
Roger Clemens - Same thing as Bonds except the pitching version
Jeff Bagwell - Kind of flew under the radar his entire career. Guy was a great hitter. A joke he's not in because he's suspected of PED use
Mike Piazza - One of the greatest hitting catchers ever. Gets the same treatment as Bagwell.
Tim Raines - A joke he hasn't been elected yet.
Alan Trammell - Same as Raines
Mike Mussina - It's a joke that Smoltz was a lock but Mussina wasn't.
I also think Schilling (as much as I hate him) should eventually be elected. Ditto with Edgar Martinez, who's the greatest DH ever.
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Post by Chip on Jan 6, 2015 15:21:50 GMT -5
I'd put them all in too. But I don't expect anyone other than Unit, Pedro, Smoltz, Biggio, and maybe Piazza to get in. good call Biggio in over Piazza is a complete joke.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2015 18:12:09 GMT -5
Piazza will be in next year with Griffey being the only other sure thing. The four who got in today deserved it more.
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Post by Nivro™ on Jan 6, 2015 19:33:56 GMT -5
To me, there really is no legit reason why Clemens, Bonds and Rose are not in the HOF. Clemens & Bonds were HOF caliber players before PEDs and Rose bet on baseball, whooptie in do!
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