Jay on the Radio, Talking Bedard Deal
Jay Yencich · August 1, 2011 at 3:16 pm · Filed Under Minor Leagues
It looks like I’m going to be on Portland-area station ESPN 1080 The FAN-KFXX this afternoon around 4:10 pm or so as a guest on Primetime with Isaac Ropp and Jason Scukanec. I’ll be talking about the pieces picked up in the Bedard deal, the general state of the system, and patience and how much of it we should be exercising. Guess what my opinion on that last one is going to be?
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I should have talked Chiang! whoops.
Jay Yencich on KFXX August 1st.mp3
Well done sir, though that was a pretty short segment. You sounded a little tired
So, Chiang is having a monster season. What reason is there that his 36 doubles and 18 homers through four months is not expected to translate to the majors beyond a utility outfielder?
Is there something about his approach that is a major advantage in AA, but not the majors? Is he too old? Ballpark?
I’ve heard “scouts don’t like him”. Why not?
I was up until 4 am writing the week’s minor league wrap XD
Chiang was really well-regarded back in his prep days in Taiwan. He was on their national teams from a very young age and was always able to hold his own. One of the knocks on him, however, is that for all the power potential he showed in BP, it didn’t really translate to games.
Right now, what people think is that it was an issue relating to his diabetes. The Red Sox hooked him up with a nutritionist and ran some experiments to figure out what a more ideal blood sugar level was for him. Since he’s adapted to that, the power has shown up more. There’s reason to believe that the power he’s been displaying now is actually legit.
I think there’s probably a chance that some of his lapses in focus that eventually moved him from second base to right field (some thought he could be a shortstop when he was a prep player) might also be chalked up to the blood sugar thing. So we’re buying him on the rise hoping that the changes he made are legitimate and sustainable. It seems to make a bit more sense than some other moves we’ve made in the past, buying a guy on the rise.
And thanks again to Liam for capturing the interview!
Twas a good radio day for the Seattle bog community. Former USSM contributor and current Baseball America dude, Conor Glassey, was on the Calabro show today. He was good. Unfortunately, it meant having to bear the on-air inanities of Jim Moore but Conor redeemed the time.
Liam, you rule. Thanks a lot for making the mp3 available.
Nice work, JY.
Jay, the hosts should have brought him up. They should not have ignored the details and counted on you to fill in all the blanks. You showed great professionalism and patience.
The whole “who follows minor leaguers?” comment before you came on sums these guys up. They couldn’t name a position player in the entire Mariners minor league system, and defaulted to the “who is good other than Smoak and Ackley?” angle.
They also name dropped USSM, while forgetting to mention Mariners Minors — which explains why there wasn’t even a grunt of recognition when you referred to Triunfel.
Still, it was really great to hear your insight. Thank you for giving this starving market a few solid minutes of intelligent baseball discussion.