This Week on the Blog
Yankees: the Yanks only protected three of extra minor leaguers on Friday, so they could get exploited again in the rule 5 which is still a ways away. There've been some trade rumors around both Brett Gardner and Andrew Miller. Either should command a strong return, particularly Miller, and it cannot be like the crap we got in the Lowell, RJ or Sheff trades. They have to be good trades.
Giants: The Giants are off this week, although they've been off most weeks of the season. This week they have to hope they can get Prince and maybe one or two others for their stretch drive. Amazingly, they could still make the playoffs with a strong finish.
Knicks: Despite Coach Fisher's many ponderous moves, the Knicks are now on a winning streak. This is largely because either Melo or Porzingis has been super dominant over each of the last few games. Let's see if they can both get hot at the same time. In KP's case, 2 of his last three games have been sensational, and he still has to find consistency with his threes and his night to night. The Knicks have to figure out if that will be possible with Melo on the team. Whether it is or isn't it may be time to start marketing Melo at the deadline or prior to the draft.
Rangers: The Rangers are 15-3-2 and they still haven't played as well as they can. Nash may have broken out of his slump, that started during the second half of last season. It will be interesting to see if the Rangers market him. They're still not getting what they should from Kreider, Stepan and some of the others, but they are winning, and that will, hopefully, let them make the playoffs without having to play at playoff intensity for two months before the playoffs.
Over, let's hope the Knicks and Ranger keep rolling, and let's hope the Yanks have trade luck. The Giants don't play till one week from today, so let's hope they can avoid non-football injuries till then. Have a great week everyone!
posted by Kalel9 @ 11:58 AM
36 Comments:
Melo's contract makes him nearly important to move in season, and my guess is that he is here for the duration because of the NTC and the contract they wound have to take back.
Melo had an NTC when we traded for him and the cap is going up.
But he was youngish and a desirable impending FA then; now his body may be break down.
Most teams he would probably want to go to don't have young high ceiling assets they would be eager to trade and/or their 1sts are almost 2nds.
I don't, for example, see Chi as ad fit.
Only possibles I see are the two LA teams.
Two LA teams, Cleveland, Chicago, Boston and the Florida teams, though Texas teams and any place else with a piece or pieces could work. The Knicks need picks and one or two more smart trades to really get somewhere. And I think Hernangomez is gonna be good, and he's KP's great friend.
What would you want back from Cleveland or Boston or Miami? Chicago has nothing I want.
Apart from that, I think Melo is going to want to stay here because he thinks it's turning around.
I'd take Jimmy Butler and Mirotic from Chicago in a heartbeat.
From Miami, Whiteside + Winslow.
Boston, the unprotected Nets pick this season.
Cleveland, nada.
I don't think the Butler would be available.
The Miami deal doesn't work with the cap.
Boston won't do that, and again, cap issues.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/sports/basketball/skys-the-limit-for-porzingis-and-hes-closer-to-it-than-most.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
LINJ, I was strictly stating who I'd want back -- they are not actual trade proposals. Good input though.
Also, didn't see this posted anywhere but Gil Patterson is now the minor league pitching coordinator for the A's.
Scott Aldred and Danny Borrell will work together to fill his role with the Yankees.
Billy, where are you hearing that? Didn't he basically leave the A's for the exact same position with the Yankees a few seasons back?
Susan Slusser reported it and then Josh Norris reported the replacement.
I've always liked Aldred since he fixed Joba right after we drafted him back in the day. And Borrell, like Patterson was going to be a part of Yankee rotations if he had not gotten all those injuries. He also hit 20 bombs during his last collegiate season. But by AA he had become a real pitcher and threw a no-hitter... He's been ascendant. He was the re-hab PC down in Tampa a few years ago.
That's unfortunate. It's either family, money or personality. Who knows?
I now do. It wasn't family or money.
Awful show by the Knick bench.
Sorry to see Patterson go, as the minor league system seemed to have been doing better at developing pitchers the last couple of years. I hope they can keep that up, especially with some of the pitchers they've drafted the last few years.
Well, if it's personality, along with Tuck's departure, that's unfortunate.
Tuck was a loss at the major league level, and Patterson was a change at the minor league level. I wouldn't call it a loss yet. Borrell has seemed like the goods, and Aldred has been the AAA coach for years.
After all the credit given the organization for bringing him back and FINALLY terminating Contreras, it's disappointing to me to see him leave. Something has been holding this franchise back from being the machine it was in the '90s beyond ownership and Levine, and it doesn't seem to be gone.
I heard that Whiteside may be a FA without Bird rights after the season?
http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2015/11/24/refsnyder-preparing-spring-opportunity-second-base/
He is going to be a player. It better be here.
I ike Rafsnyder.
Btw, Nardi Contreras is still in the organzation and works with a lot of the youngest pitchers.
Remember, Denbo is now running player D and has a right to shape his team to a certain degree.
With regard to Refsnyder, the smear, and that's clearly what it was, is referenced in the article, and it seems like one person with an agenda fed it to Girardi. The one person who wouldn't have a reason to leak it is Cashman, because he could have just traded him.
The person should be fired because it was insubordination that could harm the value of an asset.
Girardi was a Freudian Slip. I meant Francessa.
Plate discipline. What a novel concept. And it's why I want him getting a real shot this time.
Plate discipline threatens Girardi because it reminds him of what a shitty player he was.
I've gone about this for years, but I hate it when they don't grind.
http://m.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/yankees-seek-2b-offseason-article-1.2445889?cid=bitly
"Guys get better defensively if they're given a chance," the AL exec said.
The scout liked Refsnyder's plate discipline, his ability to work counts and make contact, and while he said the defense "still has a ways to go," he thinks Refsnyder is already ahead of Mets playoff hero-turned-goat Daniel Murphy in the field.
"It wasn't like he was a butcher at second," the scout said. "He's better out there than Murphy. If he gets out there on a regular basis, he'll get better. His best-case scenario is an average defender, but he can get there. If he hits, it won't be a problem."
Me: The question is, do the Yankees feel this way, or are they once again going with the defense-first approach?
He is EXACTLY what they need more of.
PG play is holding this team back.
Fisher takes turns burying players. Now, it's DWill.
Just terrible personnel deployment.
Amundsen is horrible.
Jackson can't see how little Fisher gets out of this talent with his refusal to play his best players together?
Worst loss of the season given the competition. I am just stunned that Fisher: can't run plays for KP; can't deploy Grant with the starters; can't deploy a bench with any offense; buries players; plays Vujacuic and Amundsen at all.
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