Comments on: Tuesday Notes

By: manny ortez

manny ortez — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:35:46 +0000

#41, I’m not a lawyer, but I am a law student and I can’t see why an employer shouldn’t have the right to punish its employees for illegal conduct. If a player got caught, say, shoplifting, or using cocaine, shouldn’t MLB be able to punish him even though there isn’t an explicit MLB rule against it? NFL players are frequently disciplined for criminal convictions, or even just charges. The caveat to this, of course, is that the player’s union’s lawyers are way, way better than a first-year law student!

By: msb

msb — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:23:40 +0000

why, it is just crazy talk in Crasnick’s ESPN column:

“”Teams have been moving in that direction for a while,” said David Forst, Oakland’s assistant GM. “It’s not a new phenomenon. But when Cleveland and Boston have success in the playoffs with young players in pivotal roles, it certainly brings a lot of attention to the fact you can succeed that way.”

Said Kevin Towers: “Maybe we give a shot to a kid in Triple-A who we think might be a half-year away from being ready. Rather than going out and spending a ton of money when you have no history with a player, you can take a kid you’ve signed and developed and give him an opportunity.”

in an aside, having just tripped over the Sonics game, I am not sure what is weirder. Szczerbiak? the new look Swift? The fact it is Marques on the call with Calabro?

By: Thom Jimsen

Thom Jimsen — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:25:23 +0000

Part of the reason the Gold Glove is a joke is that most Gold Glove winners win the award with their bats.

By: scott19

scott19 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:27:15 +0000

Yo, Adrian — congrats!

With all due respect to Jimmy Rollins, though, I think Tulo may have gotten gypped this year.

By: joser

joser — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:31:12 +0000

Congrats to Beltre on the (much-deserved) gold glove. But the real news: no Jeter! Ding, dong, the witch is dead! Wow, NY lost its division, its coach, and its “gold glove shortstop” all in the same year. The end of an era? Or the calm before the storm?

By: joser

joser — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:25:10 +0000

Ha, nice irony. I make a joke about Perlozzo on yesterday’s thread and here he is today as the third base coach.

Fantasy land time -> Is it too late to convince Mazzone to come along and just pay Stottlemyre to go away? Mazzone + Felix = Good

Doesn’t the Basic Agreement limit the number of “Z”s you can have on your coaching staff?

By: joser

joser — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:22:31 +0000

Stone was using Moyer’s radar gun, apparently. Was wondering where that went. Oooh la la!

By: Chris Miller

Chris Miller — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:15:21 +0000

90-92 strike thrower w/ no out pitch sounds like Baek, and not just because they come from the same continent.

If he really throws mid 90’s with any semblance of control, worse come to worse you could stick him in the pen.

By: Grizz

Grizz — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:36:27 +0000

According to Churchill’s scouting report, Kuroda sits 90-92, so the Franklin comparison may be more apt.

By: eponymous coward

eponymous coward — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:29:28 +0000

He sounds like a #5 starter – a fringe stuff strike thrower without an out pitch. We have enough of those.

Stone has him as having a mid-90’s fastball. Either the radar numbers are off or I suspect he has some more potential than just a #5, because your prototypical #5 strike thrower is somewhere in the 88-91 range ala Piniero or Franklin. Batista’s a better example of a guy with more juice on his fastball, and he’s more a 4.

I could live with Miguel Batista’s Japanese cousin at the right price, I suppose. Ryan Franklin, not so much.