MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

When he had that short cup of tea in 2017 with the Indians, you could see the entire dugout part like the Red Sea around him when he walked around.

 

It's always amusing to see whom the fans regard "true Yankees" and who's not.

Donaldson has such a technical swing with so many moving parts that if one thing is fuckeed then they all are.
The problem when all you're doing is thinking about launch angle.

 

There was a period when Reggie's teams made the playoffs 11 straight times, even Baltimore that one year.

 

I cited OPS.

Look I’m not saying those guys stunk but they’re held up as the pinnacle and its below their reg season performance.

Does a lifetime.257 hitter get into HOF? Ever?

My point is only that one guy should not get all the blame, yet they inevitably do because they’re the star. But it’s a team failure.

 

Reggie Jackson career batting average - .262. Harmon Killebrew career batting average - .256. Mike Schmidt career batting average - .267. Look, your main point is indeed valid, but the examples you cite just don't make the point. The disparity between Mantle and Jackson's BAs and OPSs should have told you that.

 

It can't be because they didn't give up anyone they really valued. Taking on next year's contract for Donaldson, and wasting all of those ABs on IKF (whose handling is enough IMO to get Boone fired) makes it closer to the worst than it should be considering who they gave up.

 

Matt Hooper of the Oceanographic Institute voice: "This is what happens."

 

The Yankees will always be less about baseball and more about putting together a roster suitable for Broadway, especially with that stadium/network. Does anyone think for a little minute that the fans would put up with 100-loss tanking to get a high draft pick?

I mean, this isn't Hous-- oh, wait.

 

they could have just kept urshela, who was a pretty good player for them, and used the money theyre paying Donaldson on either a shortstop who did go four months before fitting his first home run or start one of the Oswald rookies.

 

they have all the money in the world to get guys. They could have signed Correa to play short. They could just get rid of Hicks’ contract since he sucks.

and they could actually play young guys ready to come up and contribute instead of giving retreads at bats

 

Nope. Orioles did not make it in 1976.

 

Things are going great