Former future Yankee great Clint Frazier is revenge tweeting about his liberation to the Chicago Cubs, after being jettisoned from the Death Barge.
I believe I speak for the Yankiverse in wishing the guy luck. Go forth and prosper, Crimson Thunder.
But I feel no guilt about saying farewell. We waited six cruel years for Clint to ferment, and the guy couldn't hit his weight. Statistically, he's the Second Coming of Otto Velez, and though he caught most flies, he treated every one like an advanced course in calculus.
So, yesterday, he took a final dig at the Yankee deep state for a slimy news byte that accompanied his arrival: Some anonymous asshole claimed he demanded jersey No. 7. The story never made sense, aside from the fact that someone apparently didn't like him and threw him to the Gammonites for an attitude adjustment.
One final note: He's tweak-tweeting the Yankees, not us fans.
According to Kristie Ackert of the Daily News -- The Yankees continue to invest in analytics!
ReplyDeleteThe Bombers are promoting minor-league hitting coordinator Dillon Lawson to the major-league staff as hitting coach. He said the organization’s goal was “to square the ball up more, which in turn is going to increase average exit velos.”
Like when they hired Blake to be the pitching coach in 2020, the Yankees are bringing in a coach in Lawson, who has no experience in-game with major-league hitting.
----So, somebody with no experience urging our guys not to work on situational hitting, going to the opposite field, bunting, hitting and running, etc.
So that is our Christmas gift under the tree this year! We can all look forward to watching for our "EXIT VELOS" to improve next year!
Nothing changes, nothing changes.
ReplyDeleteYou can unfasten your seat belt and walk freely about the cabin for the next ten years. It's going to be a long ride, people.
God, mik, that's depressing.
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ReplyDeleteFucking wankers.
Clint was right. He never got a real shot. And the list of players the Yankees have ruined keeps getting longer - and they continue to hire wonks with no real experience.
Baseball is best played elsewhere.
I hope Clint tears the NL up going forward.
After this past season, at the (hopefully) end of the glorious career of The Intern, I’m starting to hate the Yankees “organization.”
@Dick...+1000...
ReplyDeleteI actually was a fan of Otto Velez, although I believe it was because of his name more than any particular feats of skill on the baseball diamond.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm surprised No. 7 hasn't been retired by the Cubbies, because it was worn by the greatest player to ever don a Cub uniform ... Bobby Murcer, who wore it from 1977 until he was traded back to the Yankees in 1979.
Anyone who thinks Clint had a real shot, is full of crap. The Yankees played with him the entire time they had him and he did not flourish. Not many would. Everyone has a different personality, everyone has an ego. Guys who make it to the big leagues have been stroked their entire lives. It is up to the management of the team to determine who fits and how to treat them. Frazer got royally screwed and mistreated. Even the sportswriters following the team could never get over him being embarrassed and pissed off after that Boston game. I hope he is an All Star so we can bitch about how we gave him away and didn’t even get a bag of balls in return.
ReplyDeleteTwo quick thoughts/questions...
ReplyDelete1) Is Bunting Actually Bad?
Question: Is the idea that bunting is bad based on statistics that include all of MLB history?
If that's the case then it might be true. There's a lot of failure in those attempts.
Really, they should look at recent data exclusively. Starting with the popularity of shifts. Because that's a very different analytical pool of data.
Bunting for a hit when there is no one playing an entire side of an infield and getting to first is pretty much guaranteed if you put the ball in play.
That seems like a "desired and valuable outcome" and has to be at least as good as a walk.
Maybe the anals would be happier if they came up with a new statistical category, sort of like when someone steals second but it doesn't count as a steal if the catcher doesn't bother to throw.
Bunts against shifts could be called "Managerial Indifference" or something like that to preserve the statistical integrity of their "Bunting is Bad" argument.
2) In Like Clint
I too wish Clint well but he lost me. Maybe it was the batting stance. Maybe it was listening to him get interviewed. Maybe it was, I don't know...
Look the Yankees screwed him. I get it. But ask yourselves why? Why would a team sabotage a key piece they received in a trade? Someone of great ability who could have locked down left field for years.
Is it possible that he's kind of a putz? Sure seemed like it to me. He always looked like the guy in your dorm room who knocks the bong over with his feet. And not just once.
That said, roll on Red Thunder. Just remember that there's a brick wall behind the ivy.
As I amazingly predicted on here a month or so ago the Yankees lost Brian Keller in the rule 5 minor league draft
ReplyDeleteSince he was drafted in the 39th round I took an interest in him and though I'm not suggesting he is going to be an all star but I think he could have did a job for us if given the chance he is now with the Red Sox hmmmmm
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt that Clint was the prince prick of pricks.He wasn’t built in the mold of the dignified Yankee. Yet we gave up Andrew Miller to get him and then beat him down and tried turn him into a Yankee.
Yet Joey Gallo is? The list of guys who shouldn’t have been allowed to wear pinstripes could be added to infinitely by this “organization” that can’t keep up with the times - it prefers the clean cut look and the mild-mannered, docile homo sapien, while the rest of the baseball world has fun with long hair and ugly beards. Okay, so some of them don’t look too pretty.
Meanwhile, all we get are those wide eyes as they marches back to the dugout in disbelief after striking out. Again and again.
You know when I had the most fun as a Yankees fan? In the 70s. A wild and woolly team led by an alcoholic that rocked the city. Those guys had some serious testosterone. This bunch have financial advisors.
Clint would have fit right in with that bunch. Shit. I can’t believe that was more than forty years ago. Times have changed and the Yankees haven’t. This season I’m going to be openly rooting for the Cubbies and pissing all over nice, polite Pinstripes, a team that won’t even make an expanded playoff. But if they do, it’ll be more of the same one and done. And to get there, they’ll trade off what’s left of the farm system to acquire a has-been to do so.
Good luck Clint. We hardly knew you.
And while I’m on the subject,
ReplyDeleteFUCK YOU HAROLD, FUCK YOU BRIAN,AND FUCK YOU TO BOOOOOOONE.
Frazier's a pain in the ass, it's obvious. Not nearly as good as he thinks he is. His career's probably already over, but he doesn't know it. Some of those ABs last year. Wow. His main accomplishment...that insanely hot girlfriend... won't be around much longer after the Cubs send him to Iowa either. The poor meathead deserves our pity, really.
ReplyDeleteAll of the above.
ReplyDelete—Did Clint seem like someone who had the emotional stability to ever achieve his full potential? No.
—Did the Yanks truly give him every opportunity to succeed? No.
—Did we get so much as magic beans in return for him? No.
—Will we ever find out what really happened with The Red Menace? No.
—Did Brian Cashman fuck this up six ways to Sunday? Yes.
Good call on Brian Keller, Scotland. And yes, he probably will hurt us.
ReplyDeleteAnd Doug K....yes, according to all kinds of statistics carefully gleaned and analyzed, you will produce more runs by swinging away than bunting.
ReplyDeleteBut of course almost no general statement is true in all situations. Bunting MIGHT be the best move in some instances, and with some players.
But above all, bunting should and could be used to break up the shifts that diminish the hitting-away advantage. If you bunt for easy hits enough times, the other team will take the shift off, thereby improving your hitting away.
One would think this was obvious.
For instance, I've also read in all sorts of places that what really determines the best pro football teams is how much yardage they gain per pass play.
But of course, if a team left only two guys up on the line and sent nine men out to cover your receivers, then obviously you should...RUN.
Same idea. But for some reason, great minds like this Dillon Lawson can't grasp it.
But then, everyone knows that the team with the best exit velos is the team that...has the best exit velos.
A little lightning from Le Grand Rouge.
ReplyDeleteI love you people.
ReplyDeleteI don't live in the Northeast, so maybe I'm missing something. Could someone please get past the innuendo and explain what exactly the team did to break the Menace? Of course the next question is why ruin potentially a great player? Because what I saw was a young player who fell to pieces after a few terrible fielding games. Or to use a distasteful George line, "he spit the bit". I'm writing this as a fan who was stoked, until.....
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