The Dave Cameron article that we discussed yesterday has made the rounds, and Rob Neyer used the opportunity to make an important point about flexibility: Yes, Holliday would make the Yankees better. Maybe a juggernaut, even. But the only way the Yankees can fall into a habit of losing, someday, is by stockpiling too many [...]
There’s a lot of Bay-related articles today and there’s a good portion (a wide majority?) which are either anti-Bay, anti-Minaya or anti-Mets in nature. I found it a bit hard to bash Bay as it was the best deal he was going to see and the second best (from the RedSox) appeared to dissolve a few weeks back. I can’t fault him for taking the Mets money (even if it was more than obvious that he didn’t want to play there). Jason Bay is a good player who will not wilt in NY. He isn’t the best defensive OF but it’s not like he’s Jermaine Dye!
But Jeff Passan’s takedown of the Mets organization is as good as you will read:
- “All of this highlights an endemic problem with the Mets that they try to cover with their payrolls, which provided among the highest cost per win in baseball this past decade: Their player-development system is a mess, and not the kind of mess a toddler makes at dinner. It is whole-cafeteria-food-fight bad, and in that respect, the coupling of Minaya and the Mets seems perfectly matrimonious.”
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Earlier this week, I took a look at how many Wins Above Replacement Curtis Granderson may be worth if he plays in center field and if he plays in left field. Today, I’m going to put a dollar amount to that figure, as well as Nick Johnson’s. As a center fielder, Granderson projects to be [...]
Not sure if anyone noticed, given that Mike and Jason did a stellar job of providing content in my absence as well as the fact that many of you have probably been similarly off the grid celebrating the holidays, but I was away this past week (the Bizarre Moves posts from this past weekend were [...]
Earlier today, Ed Price wrote an article about the team of the decade that included the following chart: [image title="aoajuv" size="full" id="13566" align="center" linkto="full" ] Considering that chart, it must be obvious who Price picked as the team of the decade, right? Not so fast: But while the Yankees had the best winning percentage for [...]
Many chuckles from my office upon reading this:
Jason Bay has decided to join the Mets, according to a report on WFAN, pending the results of a physical exam.
The Mets have a four-year offer out to Bay worth about $65 million.
Good for the Mets, I guess. However, wasn’t it said just last week (via Peter Gammons/WEEI) that Bay would rather play in Beirut than for the Mets:
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In the last two days, we’ve seen both Mark DeRosa and Jason Bay agree to terms with the Giants and Mets respectively. While the Giants will play DeRosa at third, they could still use him in left field and other places. Bay will obviously play left field for the Mets, earning at least $66MM over [...]
This is as about as absurd a headline as you will read in baseball circles:
No Rival to Red Sox in 2000s
No rival? C’mon Ed Price, you really don’t believe that? Especially when you yourself lay out the facts that, in fact, show that the Sox weren’t the best team in the 2000′s:
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Its now being reported that the Mets and Jason Bay have come to terms on a four year $66 million contract, pending a physical. The move makes sense for the Mets, so long as Jason Bay has enough power to lift the ball out of cavernous Federal Bailout Park … I mean Citi Field. Bay [...]
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