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Yanks add Thames; looking for rest of 2002 roster

February 8, 2010 by Jason@IIATMS

Looks like the Yanks’ unwritten goal of collecting #4 OF types and reconstituting their 2002 team is almost a success, tweets Jon Heyman:

#yankees sign marcus thames, si.com has learned

Thames, as you might remember, broke into the league as a member of the 2002 Yankees, hitting a HR off Randy Johnson, then with the D’backs.

Thames tends to fare better against LHP than RHP, as you can see with his splits below:

I Split PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB
vs RHP as RH 1018 929 217 40 0 61 156 70 281 .234 .291 .474 .764 440
vs LHP as RH 691 620 159 35 3 40 105 66 152 .256 .329 .516 .845 320
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table

All that’s missing are Raul Mondesi, Rondell White, Juan Rivera, Gerald Williams and Karim Garcia.

 
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1 Response » to “Yanks add Thames; looking for rest of 2002 roster”

  1. Christova says:
    February 11, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Jason, you don’t think this is a good pickup for the Yanks? For the price of a minor league contract, and 900k if he makes the ML roster, how can they go wrong? Thames hits lefties well and will not embarrass himself in the field. Plus, he killed the Yanks in the 2006 ALDS, so he has proven he can perform on the big stage. I don’t see the downside, except that he takes up a potential roster space for a youngster, or because of his presence, Gardner is not given a fair chance to see what he can do.



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