So let's jump in our Hot Tub Time Machine and go back, back, back to the long ago days of 2018, when your New York Yankees were trying to decide whether to wheedle Giancarlo away from that sucker Derek Jeter in a trade...or sign free agent J.D. Martinez.
Hey, I admit it: I thought we got the better player (though in my greedy bastard, Yankees fan way, I wanted to acquire Stanton AND sign Martinez...something that would have only won us four straight rings. But I digress.)
So who made the right call, as they used to say on those Game of the Week ads?
Well, let's take a look at the numbers.
Counting the first series of this season, which went much better for our G.C., here are the figures:
G.C.: 341 games, 82 home runs, 225 RBI, 160 walks, 424 K's, .270/.354/.514/.867
J.D.: 501 games, 114 home runs, 363 RBI, 218 walks, 414 K's, .296/.368/.547/.915
Well, whattaya want? I hear you protest. Of course a righty is going to do better in Fenway.
As it happens, though, for whatever reason, Martinez had a much season at home in 2020—a much better season on the ROAD in 2019—and pretty comparable home and road years in 2018 (when the Sox won the World Series) and 2021.
And lifetime, at Yankee Stadium III, J.D. has 8 homers, 23 ribbies, and is .301/.356/.503/.859.
Yeah, I'd say that I made the wrong call. So did somebody else, although he will never admit it.
What about the other numbers? I'm talking $$$$$$.
ReplyDeleteHow much less expensive was JD? And would that have freed some Cash for say, a better outfielder at the trade deadline than Gallo?
Oh, dear sweet Doug K., you know Cashman couldn't have found a better outfielder with all the money in the world even if said hypothetical outfielder was standing in Cashman's office.
ReplyDeleteHilarious, Warbler!
ReplyDeleteAnd in answer to your question, Doug:
The Yanks are on the hook for at least $244 mill to Stanton, through the faraway year of 2027.
The Red Sox will have paid Martinez a total of $110.7 mill, through 2022. When their obligation ends.
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ReplyDeleteWow, Toronto playing out-and-out, 4 outfielders against Rizzo.
ReplyDeleteAnd, he strikes out on 4 pitches. O-kay.
ReplyDeleteBizarre moment. The Blue Jays went back to 4 outfielders against Joey Whiffs, a guy hitting .100 who has barely been able to hit the ball this year. He promptly line a single past an infielder forced to cover two positions.
ReplyDeleteHappy to take it. But where exactly did Toronto think Gallo was going to mash the ball?
I know I'm old-fashioned. But I do wish that, when a player homers in the third inning of the fourth game of the season, he would restrain himself to only four or five celebratory gestures and paeans of thanks to the Almighty.
ReplyDelete2-0, as usual. Yanks playing from behind in every game this year, so far.
Every starter thus far has put the team into an 0-2 hole by allowing a two-run HR. Nice
ReplyDeleteThing is, none of the pitchers look that bad. But this does not seem like a team that can possibly hit well enough to win consistently. A huge chunk of the lineup is just wretched.
ReplyDeleteWasn't that exactly the case by the playoff game last year?
See, I just don't get hitting like this.
ReplyDeleteTwo men on, two out, Judge works the count to 2-0...and takes a 95-mph fastball down the middle.
He eventually drew a walk, but WTF? Is the idea of the Three True Outcomes game to swing at everything BUT the most hittable pitch? I give up.
That's the second bat that exploded on Stanton in two days. He might want to look at what's up with his bat shipment.
ReplyDeleteThese pathetic at bats are posted against a guy who couldn't find the strike zone just two innings ago
ReplyDeleteOn the first of his bat explosions, Stanton managed to get as far down the first-base line as I would, despite the fact that the slow grounder in the hole could've scored a run.
ReplyDeleteCould it be that one of his many hammies is barking already? I mean really, he got down the line about as fast as Torres in the game that ended our 2018 season.
Yankees' broadcasters tonight, talking about how much depth the team has that Boone now has the difficult task of telling players used to starting that they have to sit from time to time.
ReplyDeleteThis is truly delusional. The team has three reserves, one of whom is the back-up catcher. All we're really talking about here is which outfielder has to DH, and if Gleyber—who has all but disappeared as a ballplayer over the past two years—gets to start.
What the fuck is a Marinaccio?
ReplyDeletePathetic.
ReplyDeleteLol, the Yankees tiktok ad on Yes features Frasier.
ReplyDeleteDJ, who looked so good Opening Day, now seems to have sunk back into his form of last year. But that's all right. We only have him for another 4 years, including this season.
ReplyDeleteThe broadcasters keep going on about what leather the Blue Jays are flashing.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's what guys on major-league teams do: they play great D. Right now, the score is 3-0, and Toronto has 10 hits to the Yanks' 2, I'd say that it's obvious we've been pretty well dominated in every aspect of the game.
Judge looks singularly awful.
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ReplyDeleteBetter get used to it. Those young guns are going to be whipping us all summer long
Highlight of the night: watching Sir Didi beat the Mets.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Dick Allen, the Blue Jays looked just as superior to our duds as they did in that sweep last September. They seem like kind of a dumb team, and I don't know if they have enough pitching.
ReplyDeleteBut when it comes to physicality, it's like watching men against boys—with Toronto in the former role, despite their age.
So now it's the 9th. Down 3-0 and we send up...
ReplyDeleteGallo
Gleyber
Hicks
I need to take a few days off from this Ship of Fools.
I'll still read the blog but I can't keep watching.
But Doug, you just missed the true essence of the power game.
ReplyDeleteGallo, a man who cannot hit a ball with anything but tremendous force—when he makes any contact at all—belted yet another single to the wall. The Jays, playing for it, had another outfielder there, to make sure he couldn't advance past first.
Then Torres of course swings at the very first pitch he saw from Toronto's closer. Tailor-made DP, with Gallo sliding about 10 feet short of second.
And...Hicks rips another single to deep right. This is pathetic.
And again, Higgy, hitting .100 on the season with no homers or ribbies, comes up and slashes at the first pitch—which is way outside. He then takes a strike right down the middle.
ReplyDeleteAnd swinging strike three.
All of these guys go up there without a plan, or seemingly a book on the other team.
The big comments by Paulie and Coney were that the Jays looked very comfortable in the Stadium, as they did when they went 8-2 last year, and that they got good pitching and good defense.
ReplyDeleteWhich is exactly the point.
When this Yankees club faces a motivated team with a good pitcher and some good fielders, they're helpless. They have absolutely no ability to win unless their own pitching is lights out.
They'll win a bunch of games because they will often face teams that aren't motivated and don't have good pitching. But they simply can't play at the highest levels of competition.
Might as well be watching replays of last year's Toronto/Yankees games. Same pathetic Yankees hitting. Double plays, strike outs and few hits. Rarely clutch contact to move runners over or get them home. Just awful.
ReplyDeleteI have to comment on how Stanton jogged to first on a ground ball to deep SS with the bases loaded. He was slower than a turtle with a broken leg. WTF kind of effort is that? Is this what we can expect all year? The team as a whole didn’t seem too energetic, while the Jays (the fattest, sloppiest looking bunch I have ever seen) seemed pumped and ready to roll. Roll over us that is, which is what they did.
ReplyDeleteThis team sucks
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was wondering about his hammy, bornto. But who knows? That looked like it really had a shot to be a hit. But hey, since when are we a team that ekes out runs in small ways?
ReplyDeleteAdjust launch angles! Fire next shot into the empty vastness of Yankee Stadium's outfield!
Judge booed at home- Game#4.
ReplyDeleteIt may be a long season for the Messiah.
Trade him to Milw., Pitt or S.D now.
I hated the Stanton deal from the moment it was announced. Does that count for anything?
ReplyDeleteI still hate it. And next year, I will hate it more.