The Other Team in Town - MFY News 2019

[smg58]

Getting back to baseball: the Yankees wound up with the Mariners #10 for Gray, which was as much as they could hope for. The Reds extended Gray for three more years, which will look great if he rights the ship and terrible if he doesn't. They did do OK getting something out of Matt Harvey, who had a steeper hill to climb than Gray does.

[seawolf17]

HELLO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE MFYs HERE, PEOPLE. FOCUS.



Who are doing something interesting by signing Danny Farquhar, who had an aneurysm in the dugout last spring, to a minor league deal: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2019/01/22/danny-farquhar-new-york-yankees/2644452002/https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2019/01/22/danny-farquhar-new-york-yankees/2644452002/

[nymr83]

Sorry, no one is "literally a saint" to me.

She is literally a saint, just as someone knighted by Queen Elizabeth is literally a knight - it is a title bestowed by the church. I'm sure if we went down a list of saints we would find quite a few assholes.

[kcmets]

=nymr83 post_id=1548 time=1548185702 user_id=54]I'm sure if we went down a list of saints we would find quite a few assholes.

[Frayed Knot]

=kcmets post_id=1550 time=1548186208 user_id=53]I don't really follow Yanks story lines, why were so eager to get rid of Gray?

[Frayed Knot]

=kcmets post_id=1550 time=1548186208 user_id=53]I don't really follow Yanks story lines, why were so eager to get rid of Gray?

[Frayed Knot]

In other ex-MFY pitcher news, Al Leiter has informed them that he will not be back in their booth for this coming season.

In addition to his work with MLBN, his son Jack is a HS senior this year and is apparently one of the top pitching prospects in the country although, unlike dad, he's a righty.

Already committed to Vanderbilt, which has produced a ton of ML draft picks in recent years [David Price, Dansby Swanson, and even Sonny Gray], whether he winds up going there or straight into the pros might depend on his draft status come June.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Al should be a Met HoFer

[Frayed Knot]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Al should be a Met HoFer

I agree.



7th all time in innings pitched. Far more appearances/games with NYM than with any other club (more than TOR, NYY, FLA combined in fact)

And if nothing else you've got the '99 & '00 playoff teams and a signature moment in each: the '99 play-in gem, and the nearly as good WS Game 5 even as that one was ultimately unsuccessful.



Not a number retired guy, but, sure, team HoF.

And now that he's broken ties with the evil side of town ...

[Frayed Knot]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Al should be a Met HoFer

I agree.



7th all time in innings pitched. Far more appearances/games with NYM than with any other club (more than TOR, NYY, FLA combined in fact)

And if nothing else you've got the '99 & '00 playoff teams and a signature moment in each: the '99 play-in gem, and the nearly as good WS Game 5 even as that one was ultimately unsuccessful.



Not a number retired guy, but, sure, team HoF.

And now that he's broken ties with the evil side of town ...

[Guest 41Forever]

Agree on Leiter. Other than Piazza and Franco, I don't think anyone else from those teams been inducted.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgardo Alfonzo deserves to be inducted as well, if he hasn't yet.

[stevejrogers]

=seawolf17 post_id=1533 time=1548176082 user_id=91]
Andy Pettitte is going to be one and done on the HOF voting this year and I think that is HILARIOUS.

[Frayed Knot]

[conspiracy]One thing going against Al and the NYM HoF is the time he marched into Wilpon's office and demanded that they immediately dispose of Scott Kazmir[/conspiracy]

[seawolf17]

Yeah, I missed by a few votes on Pettitte. I wonder if it's actually *better* if he hangs around 10% for the full ten years, just for comedy value.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Fuckyouyankeebluejeans sign Gio Gonzalez to a minor league deal

[MFS62]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Fuckyouyankeebluejeans sign Gio Gonzalez to a minor league deal

That's going to tick off Joe Beningo. He was saying to day that Gio was scheduled to be interviewed on tomorrow's (Tuesday's) WFAN show about why he hasn't signed with any team yet, but it would "mess everything up if he signs today".

I'm already laughing at what he'll be saying tomorrow.

Later

[MFS62]

Not that I'd wish anyone ill (yeah, surrrre), but ....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/yankees-instructor-mazzilli-hospitalized-being-235831370.htmlhttps://www.yahoo.com/news/yankees-instructor-mazzilli-hospitalized-being-235831370.html



The f'n turncoat.



Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Yeah that's not appropriate to joke about. Mazzilli had already dealt with a grand mal seizure possibly related to his Dan Norman collision in 1979.

[Edgy MD]

Ronnie just said Maz took it in the face.



Good job bringing up the Norman collision. It was originally thought that Norman took the brunt of the head impact, and that the real concern with Mazzilli was his foot.



He was their best player, so they got him back in the lineup a few days later with a rubber shoe, but I can't imagine they'd let him get on a plane today.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Getting hit in the face with a pie is funny, getting hit with a batted ball in the face is deadly.

[Edgy MD]

No doubt.



I've been surprised (and at least a little worried) that there hadn't really been any followup. But there was a note that in The Post this evening that Dani reports he's improving and will stay one more day for observation.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Post runs https://nypost.com/2019/03/20/inside-the-derek-jeter-brian-cashman-feud-that-festered-for-years-before-stanton-heist/an excerpt of Klapisch's new Yankees book; illustrating what we all knew about Jeter's scumminess but no one was brave enough to say during his career.

While Cashman insists that he liked Jeter as a player, it isn't entirely clear that he means it. Or maybe it's fairer to say that there were two Derek Jeters — the happy-go-lucky kid from Kalamazoo who came up at twenty-one and seduced the sport with his cool-hand poise, that gift for the big play on the grand stage, and the thirty-something Jeter who became somewhat hardened by fame. Treated like a civic institution in New York — worshiped by the faithful in their Jumpman-branded garb, teenage fan-girls rocking RE2PECT tank tops, and adored and protected by the tabloid scolds who trolled other stars on Page Six — he somehow remembered every slight and provocation. Jeter grew distant from writers who dared to notice that he couldn't get around on a good fastball. His initial coldness toward Alex Rodríguez was as stark as it was cruel: there was that graceless moment in 2006 when a routine pop fly somehow fell between them. Jeter, hands on hips, glared daggers at A-Rod, emasculating him on national TV. That Derek Jeter wasn't fun to general-manage — or to have playing behind you when you pitched. “When Andy [Pettitte] came back from Houston, there was a ground ball up the middle, and Andy's like, ‘All right, that's an out,' ” says Cashman. “Next thing you know, it goes through for a hit and he's like, ‘Crap, Jetes can't get to those anymore.' ”

[Frayed Knot]

Excerpts like this usually go for the more eye-grabbing quotes so I'm sure that the entire book isn't akin to the above passage and the rest in the linked NY Post article. But in what they did publish Jeter takes a pasting the likes of which I can't imagine he's ever before seen in print. Jeter the player gets questioned (as in above), but also as a negotiator and as an owner right down to the honesty of the ownership prospectus of he and his partner presented to MLB and the public.

[MFS62]

This is my favorite part - something we here all knew about for years:

“At the meeting, Derek said, ‘What other shortstop would you want playing here?' and I started rolling off names,” says Cashman. “I got, like, three names down and Casey said, ‘Stop, this isn't productive.'

All together now -

Fuck Derek Jeter.



Later

[LWFS]

Yankee fans ARE right-- minus the gambling acumen and once-in-a-generation skill set, he IS like the Michael Jordan of baseball.

[Edgy MD]

There was a day when it was revolutionary to print anything bad about Pete Rose, and a goddamned sin to print anything bad about Steve Garvey.



Consensus is a bully. That's my big journalism lesson.

[Frayed Knot]

Yanx' early season sked:

23 of their first 53 games (essentially 1/3 of the season) come vs the Orioles (13!!), Tigers (3) and Royals (7), teams which averaged 106 losses in 2018



Also, first games vs Red Sox not until May 26

- first games in Fenway not until the end of July (the two games in London in late June are both BRS 'home' games ... I have no fuckin' idea why)

- last BoSox games in the Bronx come in the first week of August

- final Bos/NYY game of the year is Sept 9th (18 NYY games remaining after that)

[Frayed Knot]

Giancarlo: 10-Day IL -- Biceps Strain

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Not for nothing but the MFYs suck this year. Baltimore is barely a MLB team and took 2 of 3 at their home, and the beatdown yesterday should have been much worse