Comments on: Cashman On Not Offering Arbitration To Pettitte & Abreu

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Abreu Signs With Angels : WasWatching.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:51:02 +0000

[...] previously, I got on the Yankees and Brian Cashman for not offering salary arbitration to [...]

By: Raf

Raf — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:51:23 +0000

Sure, you could trade one of them (or Nady). You can also rotate the players around, mixing and matching them.

Nothing wrong with creative roster usage

By: MJ

MJ — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:56:50 +0000

LF – RF – 1B – DH. It’s a matter of time before Matsui or Damon gets hurt
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Agree. But in that case, doesn’t it make sense to trade one of them to make room for Dunn? Otherwise, you’re talking about a starting OF of Dunn-Damon-Nady (awful defensively).

By: Raf

Raf — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:56:30 +0000

Where would you put Dunn?
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LF – RF – 1B – DH. It’s a matter of time before Matsui or Damon gets hurt

By: MJ

MJ — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:33:14 +0000

Abreu-Texiera-Dunn…
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Where would you put Dunn?

By: Raf

Raf — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:47:59 +0000

This potential lineup screams “ABREU-TEXEIRA!” as far as I’m concerned.
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Abreu-Texiera-Dunn…

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:48:55 +0000

As far as offseason moves go, we seem to be of the same opinion, especially on the Outfield or lack of Outfield they have right now.
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Agree completely. I can’t imagine how a team that scored nearly 200 fewer runs last season can think that a Damon/[Melky-Gardner]/Nady OF is sufficient when you also factor in the question marks surrounding Posada and Matsui’s health, Giambi’s departure, Cano’s regression, and Jeter’s rapid aging.

This potential lineup screams “ABREU-TEXEIRA!” as far as I’m concerned.

By: antone

antone — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:37:20 +0000

As far as offseason moves go, we seem to be of the same opinion, especially on the Outfield or lack of Outfield they have right now.

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:54:22 +0000

You can officially be scared now, haha.
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Hey, at least we agree once in a while, right Antone?

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:51:42 +0000

His track record at every level has shown he takes time to adjust and eventually excels, so why not try it at the major league level?
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On a limited basis, I’m all for trying and seeing if your theory works with Gardner. But even as you were citing Gardner’s MiLB stats you were making my case for me. He never posted a SLG higher than .422 in his 1456 MiLB AB’s. That does not bode well if we’re talking about a guy getting 600 MLB AB’s.

Melky Cabrera: 1489 MiLB AB’s .296/.347/.420
Brett Gardner: 1456 MiLB AB’s .291/.389/.385

Those two players’ MiLB numbers look awfully similar to me. They’re both adequate 4th/5th OF’ers at the MLB level.

Essentially if Gardner ends up batting .275 with 30 steals, what exactly does that mean to the Yankees? I’m not the world’s biggest sabermetrics guy but I’m not sure that .275 with 30 steals translates into a whole lot of value, even with better than average defense.