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by Kyle Lobner on Jan 28, 2011 9:38 AM CST
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Another day, another note on the Brewers' excellent offseason: Scott Miller of CBS Sports crowned the Brewers as one of his "kings of the winter carnival."
Perhaps the Brewers can use that in their 2011 promotional materials: Brewer Executive VP for Business Operations Rick Schlesinger told Tom Haudricourt he thinks 2008's franchise attendance record is in reach this season. The Brewers drew 3,068,458 fans en route to the Wild Card that season, or 37,882 per game.
The Brewers announced yesterday that they've invited veteran infielder Erick Almonte to major league camp (FanShot). Almonte is 32 and last appeared in the majors with the 2003 Yankees, but hit .320/.377/.415 in 110 games for Nashville last season. He's pretty limited defensively at this point (he's almost exclusively a 1B/DH), but he's probably still more valuable than Mark Kotsay.
Almonte is, at best, unlikely to make the team out of camp or have a significant impact on the 2011 Brewers, but Toby Harrmann of Brewerfan.net says he's a good teammate and likely future coach.
I never would have predicted it two years ago, but John Axford has become one of the most interesting Brewers. David Laurilia of Baseball Prospectus has a Q&A with the Brewer closer with topics ranging from his re-emegence in baseball, his taste in film and Twitter.
Elsewhere in interviews:
- Tom Haudricourt talked to Corey Hart yesterday, who said he's up to 235 lbs and "as strong as I've been in a while."
- Jaymes Langrehr of The Brewers Bar caught WSSP interviews with Randy Wolf and Ryan Braun, and has quotes about their excitement for the 2011 season.
In the minors:
- In Keith Law's organizational rankings, he mentioned pitcher Wily Peralta as one of the Brewers' top prospects. He later elaborated on Twitter, saying he feels like "Peralta has the best chance to start and be more than a back-end guy."
- If you live in Wisconsin and have Time Warner Cable, you're going to get at least ten chances to watch the Timber Rattlers this season: The team announced yesterday that those games will be covered on Sports 32.
- They also unveiled the sixth episode of season two of The Offseason, where we learn that Fang is a pretty poor night watchman.
Around baseball:
Cubs: Signed pitcher Braden Looper and infielder Augie Ojeda to minor league deals.
Pirates: Are expected to sign reliever Joe Beimel.
Nationals: Designated outfielder Justin Maxwell for assignment.
Orioles: Signed pitcher Nick Bierbrodt to a minor league deal.
Rockies: Avoided arbitration with third baseman Ian Stewart and signed catcher Chad Moeller to a minor league deal.
Today in former Brewers:
- Gas House Graphs says Jim Edmonds is a "No-Doubt Hall of Famer."
- John Sickels of Minor League Ball looked back yesterday at his 2006 list of the top 50 minor league pitchers. Jose Capellan was #24.
There are also several former Brewers and Milwaukee Braves on Wisconsin Sports Tap's All-Wisconsin Team.
Today in baseball economics: I recently mentioned that the Rays' payroll for this season was projected to be well under $50 million. Since then, they've signed Manny Ramirez and Johnny Damon...and their 2011 payroll projection is still only $42.2 million.
Meanwhile, it still sucks to be the Marlins: Their home series against the Mariners in June is being moved to Seattle to make room for a U2 concert.
Actually, it still sucks to be the Pirates too. Where Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke? has a look at how 105-loss teams typically fare in the following season.
On this day in 1993, the Brewers signed veteran outfielder Tom Brunansky to a two year deal. He was coming off a big season with the Red Sox (.266/.354/.445 in 1992), but would go on to hit just .187/.263/.317 over parts of two seasons in Milwaukee before being traded back to the Red Sox for catcher Dave Valle. The 1994 season was his last in the big leagues, and he now works as a coach for the GCL Twins.
With help from Brewerfan.net and the B-Ref Play Index, happy birthday today to:
- AZL Brewer John Bivens, who turns 23.
- Nashville Sound Brendan Katin, who turns 28.
- 2004-05 Brewer Lyle Overbay, who turns 34.
- 2004-05 Brewer Junior Spivey, who turns 36.
- 1999 Brewer Steve Falteisek, who turns 39.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get more quarters.
Drink up.
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Looper with the Cubs
It’d be nice if he made it into their rotation… particularly against the Brewers.
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
Please Oh Please
Too close for missiles, I’m switching to Ueck.
How Dave Bush must feel
Looper didn’t pitch at all last year and he still got a job before Bush did. Must sting.
Nationwide Writer for SBNation's Nascar Ranting & Raving (www.4ever3blog.com)
"A ringing single for David Eckstein who, in my view, is the perfect size for an American male." -Bob Costas
Dave Bush could have had a minor league deal whenever he wanted
Get a ife broseph
by Supertramp on Jan 28, 2011 4:35 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Agree
That’s why he wouldn’t be jealous of Looper
Get a ife broseph
by Supertramp on Jan 28, 2011 6:34 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Sure he is now
Bush just signed a Minor League deal with the Rangers.
Nationwide Writer for SBNation's Nascar Ranting & Raving (www.4ever3blog.com)
"A ringing single for David Eckstein who, in my view, is the perfect size for an American male." -Bob Costas
Why would he be jealous now?
Bush signed a minor league deal with a team that went to the WS last season.
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
I don't see much chance of Bush making the team.
Nationwide Writer for SBNation's Nascar Ranting & Raving (www.4ever3blog.com)
"A ringing single for David Eckstein who, in my view, is the perfect size for an American male." -Bob Costas
ugh -- brunansky
i remember the brunansky signing. i wasn’t real familiar with him, but wasn’t impressed when i looked up his stat line (and i’m still not impressed). but the brewers tried to pass it off as a big signing that caused them to empty their pocketbooks.
if memory serves, his contract was the first to have a player option in it, which is what enabled them to sign him. so of course he had a terrible year and then exercised that option.
i guess i dislike him less than stubbs, though. and man, we went back to back with those guys!
Crew had quite a run
It was around that same time they gave “big” free agentcontracts to the likes of Candy Maldonado, Ed Nunez, and Brian Harper. All a precursor to the Sean Berry/Jeffrey Hammonds debacle.
by Infield Fly Rule on Jan 28, 2011 11:41 AM CST up reply actions
Don't forget Franklin Stubbs
"That's not a weird stat. Rickie is a run-scorer," Yost said. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter," Yost told reporters. "See, you guys have no concept. He's a run-scorer. So there's nothing weird about it. That's what he does."
BCB Fantasy Football League 1 Champ
I'm not sure I want Hart stronger
I guess it depends upon whether he can keep the sweet swing he apparently developed last year. If he could make as much solid contact as he did last year, but push those warning track shots over the fence (he had quite a few) he’s in for a monster season. If he stays healthy season and some luck he’s seriously flirting with 40 HR this season. 40 HR from Fielder, Braun and Hart would make for a veritable Murder’s Row as 2-3-4 or 3-4-5 hitters.
How many teams have had three 40 HR guys in a single year? 35 HR guys? How about four 30 HR guys with Weeks? Any ideas on where to get that info?
i didnt know how much weight he gained
by BrewCrewBrian on Jan 28, 2011 11:58 AM CST up reply actions
see TH's twitter feed from yesterday
I think it was 6 lbs.
by PagsBrewCrew on Jan 28, 2011 12:38 PM CST up reply actions
Weight gain alone doesn't make one slower.
He could still be slower with minimal or no weight gain… it all depends on what his workout routine has been in the offseason.
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
You can look that up on the Baseball Reference Event Finder (teams with players matching criteria in a season)
I don’t subscribe so I can’t see the full list, but if there are any teams with 3+ 40 HR players in a season there are no more than nine (that’s the number of matches that are blacked out for me)
Ryan Braun: He loves it. -- Four pitchers in history with 8.5+ WAR and <250 IP seasons: Greg Maddux (age 29), Pedro Martinez (age 28), Roger Clemens (age 27), Zack Greinke (age 25).
There’s at least one (’73 Braves)
Ryan Braun: He loves it. -- Four pitchers in history with 8.5+ WAR and <250 IP seasons: Greg Maddux (age 29), Pedro Martinez (age 28), Roger Clemens (age 27), Zack Greinke (age 25).
76-85 final record
- offense in the NL with 799 runs
- pitching staff ERA at 4.25
It looks like they had decent-to-good starters and a terrible bullpen.
I’m hoping for better results than that.
Google and B-Ref gave me these answers...
Teams with three (or more) 40+ HR hitters
1973 Braves
1996 Rockies
1997 Rockies
Teams with three (or more) 35+ HR hitters (excluding the ones above)
2006 White Sox
2004 Cubs
2003 Braves
2000 Angels
1999 Rangers
1998 Blue Jays
1997 Mariners
1996 Athletics
1996 Mariners
1956 Reds
1947 Giants
Teams with four 30+ HR hitters
2006 White Sox
2004 Cubs
2000 Angels
2000 Blue Jays
1999 Rockies
1998 Braves
1997 Rockies
1997 Dodgers
1996 Rockies
1995 Rockies
1977 Dodgers
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
That Axford interview is fantastic
It’s kind of stunning to see an athlete not be completely vapid.
I wonder if he and Greinke will get along.
I had a link here to my blog, but it's now defunct and I guess I've lost the URL. Currently taking suggestions for a new signature.
Agreed.
Very bright, colorful, self-aware guy. It takes that kind of man to fully understand the gloriousness of such an incredible mustache – much less to wear one.
by Cheeseandcorn on Jan 28, 2011 11:18 AM CST up reply actions
Loved it
BCB needs to get a hold of the black and white silent film he made at ND.
Celebrating the addition of Greinke and mourning the loss of my man crush Cain
That CBS article was interesting
As the owner of a restaurant that specializes in steak, I was all set to write it off as the ramblings of a lunatic the minute he said he wanted to put A1 on Filet Mignon, but I stuck around, there were a lot of roster moves I’d already forgotten about. (The Mark Reynolds trade for one)
"Football - For the Touchdowns; Playbook - Full of Touchdowns; PIRATE HAT and BACKUP PIRATE HAT" ~ WR Emeritus Golden Tate
I actually like my steaks medium-well to well-done.
by Noah Jarosh on Jan 28, 2011 11:53 AM CST up reply actions
I shy away from well
but I don’t like my meat to twitch or bleed.
I’ve had a lot of people tell me that the more red it is, the better though. I’ve actually gone less and less well done with my steaks as time goes on, and I’ve developed a greater affinity for rarer and rarer. But I’m not to actual rare yet.
by PagsBrewCrew on Jan 28, 2011 12:40 PM CST up reply actions
The longer the steak cooks, the more the charcoal flavor overwhelms the flavor of the meat.
"Football - For the Touchdowns; Playbook - Full of Touchdowns; PIRATE HAT and BACKUP PIRATE HAT" ~ WR Emeritus Golden Tate
by charcoal you mean the flavor of the carbonized meat, right?
otherwise, does it change if you use something different to fire it?
Basically, I prefer burned to the taste of blood, but that ratio does change as I age. By the time I’m 92, I’m sure I’ll be pure vampire.
by PagsBrewCrew on Jan 28, 2011 12:58 PM CST up reply actions
Your subject line there is exactly what I meant. Charcoal was a misleading term... should have said something else
"Football - For the Touchdowns; Playbook - Full of Touchdowns; PIRATE HAT and BACKUP PIRATE HAT" ~ WR Emeritus Golden Tate
I cringe every time someone orders well done
"Football - For the Touchdowns; Playbook - Full of Touchdowns; PIRATE HAT and BACKUP PIRATE HAT" ~ WR Emeritus Golden Tate
The problem is people aren't truly aware of the definition of the different levels of "done"
Rare – Should be lukewarm through the middle and bloddy
Medium Rare – Hot all the way through but still red
Medium – Pink all through the middle
Medium Well – Slightly Pink
Well Done – No pink
Most people are off by one, they order Rare, when the want Medium Rare. They order Medium Well when they want Well Done. This leads to the meat getting sent back for being “undercooked” so the chef overcompensates because he doesn’t want it sent back again, slowing down his kitchen. Then a hockey puck is sent back to the customer. This is why restaurants put disclaimers saying they are not responsible for anything ordered Well Done. You don’t get to send it back because it’s overcooked when you order well done.
"Football - For the Touchdowns; Playbook - Full of Touchdowns; PIRATE HAT and BACKUP PIRATE HAT" ~ WR Emeritus Golden Tate
That's why I always order mine moo-ing
takes the drama out of things.
"That's not a weird stat. Rickie is a run-scorer," Yost said. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter," Yost told reporters. "See, you guys have no concept. He's a run-scorer. So there's nothing weird about it. That's what he does."
BCB Fantasy Football League 1 Champ
yeah...the problem is
are you supposed to order what you actual want, what the chef wants to do, or what the typical customer’s conception of what the doneness is at a particular level?
I hate to send stuff back to the kitchen. Seems rude to the waiter, chef as well as any customers that may have to eat my cooked saliva.
by PagsBrewCrew on Jan 28, 2011 1:01 PM CST up reply actions
I have sent a steak back twice.
I ordered Medium Rare-Medium and received well done.
Same thing both times (same restaurant even), but on both occasions the steak that came back was perfect.
by BrewCrewBrian on Jan 28, 2011 1:55 PM CST up reply actions
It's supposed to be standardized what each level is, but each restaurant has adjusted to their customers understanding
It’s best to be specific as ecocd says below if you have any doubt
"Football - For the Touchdowns; Playbook - Full of Touchdowns; PIRATE HAT and BACKUP PIRATE HAT" ~ WR Emeritus Golden Tate
That's why I'll ask when I go to a new steakhouse
I want to make sure I get pink all through the middle. Mmmmm.
I’m sure that’s medium pretty much everywhere, but I don’t like to mess around if I’m paying for a good steak. Whether the steak is any good at that point is up to the quality of the steak and seasonings.
I avoid steak sauce unless it’s overcooked or flavorless.
It's got to be a pretty bad steak for me to use any kind of steak sauce.
Even if the steak is marginal, I won’t put steak sauce on it. If anything… a little salt and pepper.
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
I suppose it depends on the seasonings they use on it too
a pure slab of meat isn’t altogether appetizing. This all being said, I’m headed out to a chain restaurant /sportsbar tonight (I didn’t pick the location) and am leaning toward a steak.
Unless anyone has any last minute suggestions of great things on the Champs sportsgrill menu.
by PagsBrewCrew on Jan 28, 2011 4:04 PM CST up reply actions
i've had the opposite problem
i like medium, but typically order medium well, as they always come undercooked. i think chefs are predisposed to cooking lighter than darker because of (a) their own prejudice on how it should taste, and (b) the time to cook on the heavier grillings reduce kitchen throughput.
by Capt Science on Jan 28, 2011 1:42 PM CST up reply actions
According to health articles...
The more done meat is cooked, the harder it is to digest.
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
Makes sense, it's been an incredibly small amount time, evolutionarily speaking
since we stopped just throwing the meat on the fire and started actually regulating the temperature of meat. And I’m sure patience wasn’t a very common quality among our cave dwelling ancestors so I can’t imagine the meat got cooked very long.
"Football - For the Touchdowns; Playbook - Full of Touchdowns; PIRATE HAT and BACKUP PIRATE HAT" ~ WR Emeritus Golden Tate
Out of curiosity what restaurant do you own?
by BrewCrewBrian on Jan 28, 2011 2:01 PM CST up reply actions
Sorry, I try to keep my thin veil of internet anonimity intact
"Football - For the Touchdowns; Playbook - Full of Touchdowns; PIRATE HAT and BACKUP PIRATE HAT" ~ WR Emeritus Golden Tate
Ryan Braun... is that you?!
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
by sjlee on Jan 28, 2011 2:49 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
How'd you know?
Too close for missiles, I’m switching to Ueck.
Blech
I threw up a little when I found this one. At least he isn’t wearing the T-Shirt, I suppose.
Too close for missiles, I’m switching to Ueck.
Timber Rattlers on TV
Great if they would get rid of Bob Brainard as the announcer. This moron really sucks!
by Righteous Brother on Jan 28, 2011 11:36 AM CST reply actions
Here's some food for thought...
According to the new xBABIP/wOBA tool generated over at Beyond the Boxscore, the core 5 Brewer offensive pieces of Weeks, Braun, Fielder, Hart and McGehee outperformed their expected wOBA last year by a cominged .107 points.
I’m not a whiz at wOBA and its effects, but does anyone know what effect it might have on RAR if those 5 regressed even just half way on the 2011 offense?
How did they do in 2009?
I’m little skeptical about the xBABIP statistic. Are they using the Dutton-Bendix formula or a different one? Dutton-Bendix model “yields an R-squared value of .348.” That’s great for baseball statistics, but it’s not particularly great as a projecting tool. I suppose BtB did their homework, but I’m not convinced it would add much to the tool.
How does it work for Fielder who always seems to have a high On-Base compared to his BABIP, particularly due to the shift employed on him, which I don’t believe is taken into account in xBABIP?
Anything that claims it can project Weeks’ 2011 performance from a three year average 2008-2010 is just taking a shot in the dark. Hart’s 2010 was also markedly better than 2008-2009 and projecting 2011 could be an effort in futility. Braun played injured for at least a month and his power numbers reflected that so his overall production would expected to go up. I guess we’ll see what happens.
What do you mean by a combined .107 points? (It matters for how the wOBA "drop off" would be scaled by PA for RAR)
Anyways, I’m not sure how useful that tool really is. If you look at the last three years, of course Hart is going to be “overperforming” his expectations by quite a bit. But if you look at how those players actually performed in 2010 (versus their 2010 xBABIP) only Hart and Braun outperformed their xBABIP by more than 10 points, and even then it was only 12 and 14 (i.e. not very meaningful at all). It’s more than offset by the fact that Prince Fielder was extremely “unlucky” over a larger number of PA.
Ryan Braun: He loves it. -- Four pitchers in history with 8.5+ WAR and <250 IP seasons: Greg Maddux (age 29), Pedro Martinez (age 28), Roger Clemens (age 27), Zack Greinke (age 25).
by SRB on Jan 28, 2011 1:59 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Here's what I mean
Fielder Actual wOBA .388, expected wOBa .389…net -.001
Braun and Weeks beat their expecteds by .033 and .034 each, Hart by not as much nor McGehee
Braun's expected wOBA was .347?
I’m immediately skeptical of any tool that suggests that was the case.
Ryan Braun: He loves it. -- Four pitchers in history with 8.5+ WAR and <250 IP seasons: Greg Maddux (age 29), Pedro Martinez (age 28), Roger Clemens (age 27), Zack Greinke (age 25).
Apparently he's been incredibly lucky his entire career
It seems to have a little trouble with the high BABIP guys like Braun, Ichiro, Omar Infante, Joey Votto. That’s where xBABIP has problems, too. Our favorite Yuniesky Betancourt looks to have a career year next year!
Probably works fine for guys with BABIP closer to the norm.
Fair enough, any current metric seems slightly confused by an extreme like Ichiro (although xBABIP puts him in the .340-.360 BABIP range)
But 2-3 seasons is not nearly enough to declare Betancourt one of those extreme cases. There’s every reason to expect a major improvement next season, as the type of balls he puts into play suggest he’s right at the norm (career xBABIP around .300)
Ryan Braun: He loves it. -- Four pitchers in history with 8.5+ WAR and <250 IP seasons: Greg Maddux (age 29), Pedro Martinez (age 28), Roger Clemens (age 27), Zack Greinke (age 25).
I must be looking at the tool incorrectly
Its wOBA xBABIP, not just wOBA……nevertheless, he beat expectations by quite a bit….
I think you're reading it right, the tool just doesn't make very much sense.
e.g. it expected Ichiro to have a .303 wOBA last season (that’s Betancourt/Gomez territory). Ichiro is a guy who always outperforms advanced metric expectations, but if the tool is really using xBABIP then the “overperformance” shouldn’t be nearly that drastic.
Ryan Braun: He loves it. -- Four pitchers in history with 8.5+ WAR and <250 IP seasons: Greg Maddux (age 29), Pedro Martinez (age 28), Roger Clemens (age 27), Zack Greinke (age 25).
Looking at it further, the xBABIP for Ichiro seems way off.
So I’m not sure what method he’s using to calculate xBABIP, as it’s not the Dutton-Bendix/HBT one. I’m guessing it just might be LD% + .120, which will undersell Braun/Weeks in particular as both have relatively low LD% but maintain a higher BABIP through the rest of their skill set.
Ryan Braun: He loves it. -- Four pitchers in history with 8.5+ WAR and <250 IP seasons: Greg Maddux (age 29), Pedro Martinez (age 28), Roger Clemens (age 27), Zack Greinke (age 25).
5 runs per point of team wOBA (acceptable wOBA range .300-.360)
Expected Runs = -1006 + 5.385 * wOBA
Where wOBA is measured as .301 = 301
95% confidence interval around the coefficient is 5.18-5.60
wOBA explains 89% of the variance of Runs (correlation +0.94)
Work out how much each player contributes to wOBA and you have your answer. If every single position were to lose an average of 21 points of wOBA, that would mean a drop of about 10 wins season-over-season.
"Kings of the winter carnival"
That’s well cool if we are. Especially as I think MLB have introduced a split-season format meaning that we’re guaranteed a place against the World Series winners (the “kings of the summer carnival”) to see who wins the inaugural and most prestigious Baseball Champions of the Universe Carnival title…
Ready and able to turn any discussion into one about Russell Oles Branyan...
:)
If anyone is looking for a laugh, I suggest dropping by the MLB Gameday BIP Location site and mapping Braden Looper’s 2009 hit chart from Miller Park onto Wrigley Field. (Keep in mind that it’s showing where the ball was fielded, so a lot of the xbh right by the wall probably would have been HR too).
Ryan Braun: He loves it. -- Four pitchers in history with 8.5+ WAR and <250 IP seasons: Greg Maddux (age 29), Pedro Martinez (age 28), Roger Clemens (age 27), Zack Greinke (age 25).
That's a pretty interesting tool
Thanks for bringing it up. Also, I chuckled.
Too close for missiles, I’m switching to Ueck.
suck it cards
the magnificent albert says that he’ll reject all trade proposals because he either wants an extension or FA.
I guess he doesn’t understand that even if he is traded, he still gets to be a FA at the same point along the space-time continuum. Okay…maybe not the space part. but you get the point.
He understands it fine, including the space-time continuum
I feel I need no more evidence than Proverbs 15:3 (“The eyes of Pujols are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good”) and 1 Samuel 2:3 (“Pujols is the God of knowledge; and by him actions are weighted”).
He also told me that he knows for real that evolution never happened, that man used to play with dinosaurs and that, for a laugh, he went and buried loads of “fossils” in the earth to fool us all. The cad…
Ready and able to turn any discussion into one about Russell Oles Branyan...
by MrLeam on Jan 29, 2011 9:45 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
The 10 years $300 million rumors are just positioning
I don’t think even the Cubs would go for that. I could see him ending up with 7 years $210 million, but I can’t see anyone putting down a 10-year contract on him. Maybe he’ll be worth $30 million when he’s 40, but now that players aren’t juicing, the 40-year old performances are down quite a bit.
I think he’d change his tune about being traded if (a) the Cards make it clear they won’t meet his demands and (b) the Cardinals are somehow out of the postseason chase by the trading deadline. In those cases, though, there doesn’t seem to be enough a team would be willing to offer for a rental given the fan base backlash of letting him leave. Maybe if the Cardinals management could portray him as a money-grabbing disaloyalist disconnected with his working-class fanbase…..
I love this
Spent years listening to Cards fans talk about Pujols being different from other players and didn’t care about the money.
It would be funny if Hank Steinbrenner just said “F-you” to all of baseball and gave Albert $300MM to be a DH.
I don’t really care how this ends up, just want Pujols’ reputation to take a little bit of a hit.
Get a ife broseph
by Supertramp on Jan 29, 2011 11:07 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
He makes nearly all of his value these days from his bat
He would make for a stupendous DH / backup 1B and he’d earn just about every penny as a DH. I don’t think he’d be particularly happy with only being a DH, but you never know. The substantially reduced wear and tear would certainly extend his career to the point that a productive season could be had at 39 or 40 or whatever.
If the Yankees have the money, and don’t have a good candidate for DH Pujols (or Fielder) are surprisingly good fits.
I feel like the smartest thing the Yankees could do is have Posada as DH this year and Derek Jeter as DH in the long run.
Then they can try and sign Jose Reyes or Jimmy Rollins to play SS.
by Noah Jarosh on Jan 29, 2011 11:23 PM CST up reply actions
I see them moving Jeter to CF and having someone else DH
by BrewCrewBrian on Jan 31, 2011 7:51 AM CST up reply actions
You're talking about a team who had no problems playing Bernie Williams in CF
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
That would be great
if the Yanks signed him to that contract and then found out he was 5 years older than what they thought.
Celebrating the addition of Greinke and mourning the loss of my man crush Cain
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