Sunday, June 21, 2009
NY Post: SOURCES: YANKEES SIGN DOMINICAN CATCHER GARY SANCHEZ FOR $2.5M
“He is a big kid with a big arm,” a Latin American talent evaluator for an NL team said of the 6-foot-2, 210-pound Sanchez. “I would like to have him, but $2.5 million is a lot of money. He has a thick body. He is a real good hitter, but he doesn’t hit like Jesus Montero.”
The Yankees gave Montero, a catcher from Venezuela, $1.6 million in 2006 and he has impressed with the bat in two-plus years in the organization. After hitting .356 with eight homers and 37 RBIs in 48 games for Single-A Tampa, the 19-year-old Montero (6-foot-4, 225 pounds) was promoted to Double-A Trenton, where he is batting .283 with three RBIs in 13 games.
“Sanchez shows a lot of power in batting practice, but it doesn’t always transfer to games when the swing gets a little long,” the scout said. “He is an interesting guy.”
The Yankees are also interested in shortstop Miguel Angel Sano.
“If he is 16, I have never seen a 16-year-old with that type of body,” the scout said of the 6-foot-3 Sano.
I’m happy to see the Yankees being aggressive in re-stocking the farm with position players.
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Yeah, this works for me. Let’s hope they can lock down Sano too.
Montero, while not exactly lighting up AA to start, has more walks than strike outs and just got his first XBH a couple days ago. I feel like he’s going to get hot any day now.
It’s definitely a smart use of their financial advantage.
The challenge will be to fill holes that could arise in the OF and possibly at catcher until some of their young position prospects are ML ready without giving out more long-term contracts to veteran players acquired through free agency or trades, who would likely end up being overpaid during their decline phase.
5:05? Who the hell decides to start a game at 5:05?
And why isn’t EI carrying this effin game? Bastards.
If the game runs over 3 hours does the signal get turned off in favor of ESPN?
If Tiger had as consistent a stroke as our guys DP stroke lately he’d never lose a tourney.
CP:bebop::spanishjews:Torquemada
SG, could I please ask you to look at posts [79],[87] and [92] in yesterday’s game chatter and tell me whether there’s any validity to my questions?
Thanks in advance!
Hey Johnny Mac #6:Whaaaa? How’s Patty?
Bebop, I just presumed you were throwing out the Jeter DP thing for the purpose of torturing Cowboy - not so?
And I’m lying in all those TV interviews - Sampras was boring, success created by a graphite racket and an absence of competition, and back in the day I’d have whupped his butt in a trice.
Happy Fathers Day fellas.
Jeter SS
Swisher RF
Teixeira 1B
Rodriguez 3B
Cano 2B
Posada C
Cabrera LF
Gardner CF
Sabathia RHP
Johnny: Patty Smith has more talent though she doesn’t shave under her arms.
Posada shoulda hit into DP in 7th, Jeter and Cano did in 8th and 9.
SG, could I please ask you to look at posts [79],[87] and [92] in yesterday’s game chatter and tell me whether there’s any validity to my questions?
Thanks in advance!
OK, if I’m reading those correctly, you’re wondering if the game conditions are correlated to how effective a pitcher is during any given game, and whether they can close a perceived gap in talent somewhat? I’m not aware of anyone that’s ever tracked anything like thag, but I guess a quick and dirty way to check would be to look at the games logs and see the margin of difference in games. If there are more close games than blowouts that might be an indicator.
Another thing that may show something would be to track quality starts by a pitcher and see if percentage of quality starts by opponent is higher in games that are quality starts versus not.
Baseball Prospectus does track something that might interest you, although it’s not really what you’re asking about. It’s called Support Neutral Value Added (SNVA). They assign a value to each start as its own unit to come up with it.
So say you had two pitchers:
<u>Pitcher A</u>
5 starts
30 IP
15 ER (exactly 3 per start)
4.50 ERA
<u>Pitcher B</u>
5 starts
30 IP
15 ER (one start of 11 ER, 4 starts of 1 ER)
4.50 ERA
A standard linear measure like runs saved above replacement would treat them the same. SNVA would look at the likelihood of the team winning each of the five starts, and value pitcher B more highly. Here’s an article discussing it.
I imagine I would prefer pitcher B against Boston and Becket or Toronto and Halliday but pitcher A against Washington and Stammen(ok maybe he’s not the best example) but pitcher A against weak pitcher/weak team.
Yay for the high-variance preference.
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