What I love, though, are these comments from an anonymous, "veteran MLB scout":
Oswaldo Cabrera
"...The Yankees need to get his bat back to where it was in the minor leagues. His swing changed big-time. This used to be a foul pole to the foul pole guy had a chance to hit big-league pitching. Watching Cabrera last year he had no chance. He got to the big leagues and started being pull happy and trying to hit the ball out of the ball park. He's not that kind of guy. His high groundball rate last year tells me that he's topping them too often. Somebody screwed with his swing."
Oswald Peraza
"...I still like Peraza. For me, he's an everyday shortstop once he gets his bat together. But like Cabrera, Peraza's swing went backward once he got to the big leagues. I think Peraza is trying to force power instead of letting it happen. He was trying to hit everything in the air. All through the minors, he was a line-drive, gap guy. He needs to get back to that, because everybody loves his defense. He has a chance to be an above-average shortstop. I like him at second and third, too."
Goodness, what could possibly have happened to these young men??? Whose advice could they have been taking?
I just hope that Brian Cashman's team audit finishes soon, so we can have some answers.
It’s that wanker playing Strat-O-Matic baseball in real life.
ReplyDeleteThe guy belongs working for an accounting or insurance firm.
Note to Brian Cashman:
ReplyDeleteNobody is going to write a book or make a movie about the genius way you’ve revolutionized the game.
Brad Pitt won’t be playing you.
What a terrible organization. Just awful. Wrecking young guys' swings and their careers with it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Hoss. NJ.com does have good content from time to time.
ReplyDeleteFunny how both Cabrera and Peraza regressed once Lawson and Boone got their hands on them.
I’d be happy enough to get Gio back. He’s played rings around DJLM the last few years.
Trading Gio was one of the truly stupid moves by Cashman, in a sea of truly stupid moves. Just a disaster trade. We could've just cut Sanchez and let him bounce around into obscurity, avoided Donaldduckson, IKF and steroid Ben--who will never amount to anything--and had a better team overall.
ReplyDeleteAnd still Cashman has a job and is not vilified by baseball writers, commentators, and many fans. Incredible.
Montas $16M one year Cincy.
ReplyDeleteThe world has gone insane.
Maybe they can start by handing out WIN Reality VR Baseball units to the whole team...?
ReplyDeleteDick - Brian will be played by Angelina Jolie and the movie won't be about his life, but a Biblical tale about sin and hubris.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't pay it. But...Cashman is more and more painting himself into a corner where he has to do SOMETHING.
ReplyDeleteOr is that my mistake? Cashman, for years now, has specialized in not doing anything that he HAS to do. He may try to do that again. I think it's highly possible that the Yankees will not make another major move of any kind.
One and done? We're lucky we get the one.
I like both Oswaldos. I think they're both good players ... on some other team. You know, I thought Thairo Estrada was a good player, and Cashman dumped him for a bag of money. But Estrada probably never would've been anywhere near as good if they'd kept him here. I don't know who or what is behind the shit show here, but something is seriously wrong with their player development. They seem to ruin just about every young position player. They're a lot better at developing pitchers, but even with pitching, they're more apt to create a Clarke Schmidt mediocrity than an ace.
ReplyDelete@ Hoss, I shudder to think of the next big trade they pull off. The last two big trades that I can think of were the Gio & Sanchez for Jackie Donaldson fiasco and the Master Bader for Montgomery fiasco. What'll it be this time? Austin Wells, Jasson Dominguez, & the two Oswalds for Joe Birdbath, a #5 starter that no one's ever heard of.
ReplyDeleteProbably all too on both counts, Hammer. Which is...The Cashman Conundrum! He can't develop players, and he can't trade them, either. And now, with the Shipwreck Steinbrenners tightening the purse strings, he can't buy them.
ReplyDeleteUh-oh.