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4/2/12
New York Yankees 25-man
| PITCHERS | LEV | ST | AGE | $2,009 | $2,010 | $2,011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | ||
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| SP1 | CC Sabathia | ML | 32 | $15,000,000 | $24,287,000 | $24,286,000 | $24,286,000 | $24,286,000 | $24,286,000 | |
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| SP2 | Ivan Nova | ML | 25 | $432,900 | $527,200 | NON-ARB3 | ARB1 | |||
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| SP3 | Hiroki Kuroda | ML | 37 | $10,000,000 | $15,433,333 | $12,000,000 | $10,000,000 | FA | ||
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| SP4 | Michael Pineda | ML | 15 | 23 | $414,000 | $528,475 | NON-ARB3 | ARB1 | ||
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| SP5 | Phil Hughes | ML | 26 | $407,650 | $447,000 | $2,700,000 | $3,200,000 | ARB3 | FA | |
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| SP6 | Freddy Garcia | ML | 36 | $1,000,000 | $1,500,000 | $4,000,000 | FA | |||
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| RHMR | Joba Chamberlain | ML | INJ | 27 | $432,575 | $487,975 | $1,400,000 | $1,675,000 | ARB3 | FA |
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| RHMR | Cory Wade | ML | 29 | $402,500 | $404,500 | $508,925 | ARB2 | ARB3 | ||
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| LHMR | Boone Logan | ML | OOO | 28 | $427,500 | $590,000 | $1,200,000 | $1,875,000 | FA | |
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| RHSU | Rafael Soriano | ML | 32 | $7,250,000 | $10,000,000 | $11,000,000 | $14,000,000 | FA | ||
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| RHSU | David Robertson | ML | 27 | $406,825 | $426,650 | $460,450 | $1,600,000 | ARB2 | ARB3 | |
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| RHSU | David Aardsma | ML | 60 | 32 | $500,000 | $500,000 | ||||
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| LHSU | Pedro Feliciano | ML | 60 | 36 | $1,612,500 | $2,900,000 | $4,000,000 | $4,000,000 | $4,500,000 | |
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| CL | Mariano Rivera | ML | 43 | $15,000,000 | $15,000,000 | $15,000,000 | $15,000,000 | FA | ||
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| POSITION PLAYERS | LEV | ST | AGE | $2,009 | $2,010 | $2,011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
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| C | Russell Martin | ML | 29 | $3,900,000 | $5,050,000 | $4,000,000 | $7,500,000 | FA | ||
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| 1B | Mark Teixeira | ML | 32 | $20,000,000 | $20,625,000 | $23,125,000 | $23,125,000 | $23,125,000 | $23,125,000 | |
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| 2B | Robinson Cano | ML | 30 | $6,000,000 | $9,000,000 | $10,000,000 | $14,000,000 | $15,000,000 | ||
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| SS | Derek Jeter | ML | 38 | $20,000,000 | $22,600,000 | $16,000,000 | $16,000,000 | $16,000,000 | $8,000,000 | |
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| 3B | Alex Rodriguez | ML | 37 | $32,000,000 | $33,000,000 | $32,000,000 | $30,000,000 | $29,000,000 | $26,000,000 | |
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| LF | Brett Gardner | ML | 29 | $414,000 | $452,500 | $529,500 | $2,800,000 | ARB2 | ARB3 | |
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| CF | Curtis Granderson | ML | 31 | $3,500,000 | $5,500,000 | $8,250,000 | $10,000,000 | $13,000,000 | ||
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| RF | Nick Swisher | ML | 32 | $5,600,000 | $6,850,000 | $9,000,000 | $10,250,000 | FA | ||
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| DH | Raul Ibanez | ML | 41 | $1,100,000 | FA | |||||
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| C | Francisco Cervelli | ML | 26 | $400,700 | $410,800 | $455,700 | $513,700 | ARB1 | ARB2 | |
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| 3B | Eric Chavez | ML | 35 | $11,000,000 | $12,500,000 | $1,500,000 | $900,000 | FA | ||
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| UTL | Eduardo Nunez | ML | 25 | $419,300 | $523,800 | NON-ARB3 | ARB1 | |||
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| OF | Andruw Jones | ML | 35 | $500,000 | $500,000 | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 | FA | ||
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Baseball and Stuff - Dante Bichette Jr., Ryan Braun, Asdrubal Cabrera, J.J. Hoover
Baseball and Stuff
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Dante Bichette Jr. grew up in Orlando, about a 20-minute drive from Osceola County Stadium
here, and played many games here as a child and a teenager. But on Saturday,
instead of being on a local travel team, he was playing for the Yankees, and
the manager was Joe Girardi, one of his father’s closest friends, while his
parents and younger brother watched from box seats next to the dugout. Junior
made the most of it. Bichette, who doesn’t turn 20 until Sept. 26, saw only two
pitches in his first two major league spring training at-bats. He turned both
of them into home runs. http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/
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Ryan Braun,
MIL – Go ahead, freak out. How could I
possibly go with Braun over Kemp after the season the Dodgers’ outfielder put
up last year? IDIOT. MORON.
“YOU PLAY BALL LIKE A GIRL!” Okay, now that we’ve gotten that out of the
way, let’s get down to business. When it
comes down to Braun vs. Kemp, we are really splitting hairs, but there are a
few reasons why Braun tops my list. One
is consistency. In Braun’s 5 full
seasons, he’s hit below .300 once (.285), less than 30 home runs once (25),
less than 100 RBI once (97), never less than 90 runs and never less than 14
steals. Matt Kemp has one disappointing
season under his belt (2010) and strikes out too much (23.4%). It’s literally that close, but hey, when
you’re picking between #1 and #2, you have to be that critical. I’ll take the guy who hasn’t missed yet. http://bullpenbanter.com/rtmenu/721-fantasy-preview-top-50-outfielders
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Cleveland
sends Kevin Slowey and Frank
Herrmann to AAA.
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Rangers
trade Kyle Hudson to Rays for future
considerations
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Kyle Hudson
@KHud21 - Thanks for all the comments and support! Very excited to be joining
the #Rays organization! I'm ready to go to work!
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The
Mariners have released Aaron Heilman.
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Yankees
sign RHP Jason Bulger to minor league deal
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Drew Smyly wins
No. 5 spot in Tigers rotation
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Asdrubal Cabrera had one of the most surprising seasons among all players last season, but
his power was largely a mirage. He was physically stronger, at least a little
bit, but talent evaluators believe he’s a guy with more gap power than home-run
power. He’ll hit plenty of doubles, but he’s only reliable for, at most, 15
homers; PECOTA agrees. Even with a power drop-off, Cabrera contributes to five
categories, but leaguemates who place undue emphasis on his anomalous 2011 will
likely drive his price up. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=16347
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Hoover
is no slouch, though. Hulet writes that he “has the potential to be a solid No.
4 starter at the big league level.” Last September, John Sickels wrote the
same, writing:
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J.J. Hoover has
the four classic pitches: fastball, curveball, slider, changeup. His heater is
a tick above average in the low 90s, but works well due to the contrast with
his secondary pitches. All three of his non-fastball offerings are rated as
solid major league average. Although he doesn’t have a genuine plus pitch, none
of them are weak, arsenal is diverse, he mixes them well, throws strikes, and
has been extremely durable in his career. He’s maintained his strikeout rate
and K/BB ratios at each level, and he’s never had a serious injury. He is a
strong fly ball pitcher, but doesn’t give up an excessive number of home runs. For most teams, Hoover would profile as a
solid number three or four starter, chewing up innings at a good clip with
consistent performance. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/braves-trade-j-j-hoover-to-reds-for-juan-francisco/
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"Power
is power" - Game Of Thrones
I May Be Wrong, But… Johan Santana
I May Be Wrong, But… Johan
Santana
Okay, I was
wrong.
In fact, I
was totally wrong.
I wrote a
number of times this off-season that Mets pitcher Johan
Santana would never pitch an inning in another regular season Mets game.
I didn’t say maybe, or I think so, or IMO. No, I said definitely.
Why I said
it is a moot point. What isn’t, is the fact that he will pitch opening day and,
for at least one game, the Mets ship looks on course.
Maybe I should say things like this more often.
Let's see...
The Mets
will never exercise their 2013 option on David Wright plus
they will not sign him to an extension through the 2018 season.
There is no
way in hell that Jason Bay will hit 25 home runs
and knock in 100 ribbys.
Breaking News - RHP Matt Cain
SFGiants and RHP Matt Cain agree to 5-year extension through 2017 with club/vesting player option for 2018.
Baseball and Stuff - Tony LaRussa, Trevor Bauer, Jason Isringhausen
Baseball and Stuff
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Having
Tony LaRussa as a special advisor to major
league baseball can’t be a bad idea. You can’t have too many good heads like
this. You have 30 teams that could all
be having difficult questions needed answering. Sending people like Joe Torre and LaRusso to work it out is a class act.
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Trevor Bauer stood
by his opinion that balls are not necessarily harder hit up in the zone
compared to lower in the zone throughout the debate. While it is possible that
the balls are not physically hit harder, the likelihood for them to end up in
places where the hitter can gain extra bases does increase. Bauer seemed
extremely confident in his position, and by the sound of it he was basing it
off of data – which would be very interesting to see if this were the case. The
numbers ran by Jeff do not necessarily debunk his theory, but they do explain
that more hits come from balls in the lower part of the zone and more extra
bases come from balls up in the zone, which certainly does not help Bauer’s
argument. We will most certainly follow Bauer’s numbers in this regard
throughout the season, once he reaches the Majors, and also throughout his
career - link
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This
is what baseball can do to the soul: it has the ability to make you believe in
spite of all other available evidence. My son, John Michael, is 10 years old.
We are in the bleachers. He leans in to me and says that the pitch is going to
come in high and fat. It’s still a new language to me. The pitch is thrown, and
indeed it does — it comes in high and fat, and 94 miles per hour. A-Rod leans
into it like he’s about to fell a tree and smacks the ball and it soars, that
little sphere of cowhide rising up over the Bronx, and it is a moment unlike
any other, when you sit with your son in the ballpark, and the ball is high in
the air, you feel yourself aware of everything, the night, the neon, the very
American-ness of the moment. - NYT
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Jason Isringhausen made the LAA 25-man. Why didn’t the Mets resign this guy? David Rubin
tells me he was too expensive. Yeah that $12mil Frankie Frank deal looks real
good right now.
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In celebration of the new season,
Seamheads.com and The Baseball Gauge are proud to announce our new Wins Above
Replacement. The updated calculation has two major changes from our previous
system. The first upgrade is our Fielding system, which now uses Runs Saved
from Michael Humphreys Defensive Regression Analysis. This allows us to compare
and evaluate fielders from all eras of Baseball history and accurately place a
value on their performance. To find out more about DRA, check out his book
Wizardry and/or take a look at the DRA series at The Hardball Times. Humphreys
also provides an extremely informative appendix, describing the method. Not
only does this new fielding system allow us to evaluate defensive ability, it
also helps us estimate how a team’s defense helps or hurts its pitching staff.
- link
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Astros
Release Livan Hernandez.
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Braves
sign Livan Hernandez.
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Angels
option top OF prospect Mike Trout to Triple-A
Salt Lake
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Blue
Jays acquired former Mets RP Ryota Igarashi from
the Pirates
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Twins
option Drew Butera to AAA Rochester.
All-Star Home Run Derby & 25th Annual Triple-A All-Star Game
Individual Seat Tickets Go ON SALE TOMORROW (9am)
for All-Star Home Run Derby & 25th Annual Triple-A All-Star Game
April 2, 2012 –The Buffalo Bisons will put individual seat tickets for theAll-Star Home Run Derby (on July 9th) and the 25th Annual Triple-A All-Star Game(on July 11) ON SALE TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 3 starting at 9:00 a.m.
On April 3, fans will be able to purchase tickets to either event online at Bisons.com or by calling THE-HERD at (716) 843-4373. Fans can also stop by the Coca-Cola Field Box Office on the Swan St. side of the ballpark, Monday-Friday (9 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) or on Saturday (10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.).
The 25th Annual Triple-A All-Star Game, presented by The New Era Cap Company and The Buffalo News, will be played on Wednesday, July 11 (7:00 p.m.) at Coca-Cola Field. Tickets are $25 each for all sections of the ballpark. After the annual contest between the best of the Pacific Coast League and the International League, fans will be treated to a huge post gameFireworks Show.
The All-Star Home Run Derby, presented by Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel, will take place on Monday, July 9 (7:00 p.m.) and include an appearance byThe Famous Chicken. Tickets for the All-Star Home Run Derby are $15 each for all sections at Coca-Cola Field.
Ticket Packages and Group Tickets –SAVE BIG
Fans can attend both of these marquee events for only $35 with theHR Derby/All-Star Game Ticket Package. On sale now, each package represents a savings of $5 for fans.Groups of 20 or more can also take $5 OFF PER TICKET to either event. That’s just $10 each for a group going to the Home Run Derby or $20 each for a group for the All-Star Game.
Both the HR Derby/All-Star Game Ticket Package and Group Outings are currently on sale at Bisons.com, the Coca-Cola Field Box Office or by calling THE-HERD (843-4373).
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There
are reports out of Queens that the Mets are considering platooning Jason Bay in the 2012 season. I’ve had plenty to say
about this trade over the years, but I’m still a believer of either ‘play the
guy or get rid of him’. These are grown human beings who’s only mistake was to
accept the money someone offered them to play baseball. I’m going to stick to
my “2014” theme and say, play Bay in Queens until September. In addition, move Kirk Nieuwenhuis out of the Bisons centerfield
position and play him in left. Come September, regardless to how well Bay
plays, let Kirk play the month of September with the Mets… in left.
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As
you have noticed, very few of the writers here have posted much over the past
month. I have some off-line plans in the near future and anticipate a lengthy
stay in the Veteran’s Hospital. I want to keep everything going in the right
direction here, but I need 4-5 active writers, plus an administrator that can
get “draft” posts online in their proper order. Please email me at: macksmets@blogspot.com if you can help either way.
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I’ve
revived my old “Mack Attack” column on The Specter Sector (http://www.thespectorsector.net/ ). Check it out.
New Met - IF - Bobby Scales
Mets Sign Bobby Scales to a Minor League Contract
Veteran will join the Bisons in Buffalo
April 1, 2012 –The New York Mets today announced that they have signed INF BOBBY SCALES to a minor league contract. The veteran infielder will join the Bisons in Buffalo.
Scales, 34, played 68 games with the Triple-A Iowa Cubs of the Pacific Coast League in 2011 and hit .304 (70-230) with 22 doubles, nine home runs and 43RBI. He played 61 games with the Chicago Cubs from 2009-2010 and hit .248 (34-137) with three home runs and 17RBI in his major league career.
Scales was with the Chicago Cubs this spring and played in 10 exhibition games. He hit .188 (3-16) with an RBI and a stolen base.
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