Why Derek Jeter Got Hurt And Other Baseball Notes
by faketeams
on May 21, 2008 6:40 AM EDT
New York Yankees' $300MM man Alex Rodriguez returned from the DL and homered. Unfortunately, his team was already down 10-0 when he did it. That wasn't his fault though. SS Derek Jeter made an error in the top of the 1st inning that lead to six unearned runs.
Jeter later left the game after being hit on the hand by an errant Daniel Cabrera fastball. I think it was my fault because I was thinking about him getting injured and whether the Yankees would be better moving ARod to short and plugging 3B with Morgan Ensberg rather than letting rookie Alberto Gonzalez play full-time at SS. Then Jeter got hit. My apologies.
Red Sox rookie pitcher Justin Masterson made his second spot start of the season and dominated the Kansas City Royals for 6.1 innings. He allowed just three hits and struck out five. As the team did after his first start, it sent him back to the minors on the same day he pitched so fantasy teams could not roster him and stash him on their reserves.
And it hasn't been lost on me that Masterson was one of the Red Sox prospects in the Joahn Santana rumors who continues to do well relative to the prospects the Yankees refused to give.
The Detroit Tigers' offense exploded on the Seattle Mariners with 12 runs and four long balls. The lucky pitching recipient was ace Justin Verlander who finally won his second game of the season. With seven Ks and just a walk, he may have already bottomed out. Can you still buy low?
On his Baseball Prospectus Radio podcast with Bernie Miklasz , Will Carroll voiced some whispers floating around baseball that St Louis Cardinals' closer Jason Isringhausen may be done. If true, then rookie Chris Perez could be a good pick-up for those speculating on Saves. He was again used late in a close game and performed well. Last night, he threw a scoreless 8th inning in a 3-2 loss to the San Diego Padres.
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I lose respect...
for your knowledge of baseball with each passing jab at the Santana deal. When Santana isn’t worth a third of his salary in a few years and Phil Hughes and Kennedy are serviceable 4th and 5th starters making squat, the team will look very smart for passing.
by finite24 on May 21, 2008 1:16 PM EDT 0 recs
The seeds of Santana's decline are already planted...
doesn’t look like the same pitcher to me and we’re 2 months into the deal. Just wait and see. If Hughes and Kennedy are $16m undervalued during their arb. years and Santana is $10+ mil overvalued toward the backend of his own, thats money in the bank.
by finite24 on May 21, 2008 1:18 PM EDT 0 recs
Observer of human nature
No one reasonably aware of future value argues against the actions the Yankees took. The search function works on the new platform so I am sure you can reasonably piece together my position on the deal. However, I am dealing in what I perceive to be human nature amongst the vast majority of baseball fans and the sportswriters who educate them. The fact Santana is pitching better than any Yankee pitcher combined with the so-far shitty perf of the players the Yankees refused to deal combined with the so-far excellent perfs of the players the Red Sox refused to deal makes a volatile mixture.
Throw-in an owner who recently said the team has to stop using the laptop and stats so much, and I think I am dead on correct in my observations.
From yesterday’s NY Post:
Boss Jr. also said the Yankees want to get back to more hands-on scouting, like they do in the amateur market, and get away from relying too much on computers.
“Statistics are important to a degree,” he said, “but we have to get away from relying too much on that computer stuff, that’s gotten out of hand. We’ve got to get back to doing a little bit more of the old-fashioned scouting like the Yankees and Dodgers did.”
by faketeams on May 21, 2008 2:35 PM EDT 0 recs
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