The YANKEES have reached the end of their fantastic 2017 season. And a great season it was, accomplishing more than any pundits and most fans expected. But not here at the WIN METHOD, where it was stated the YANKEES would make the playoffs and beyond, and where likely every WIN METHOD fan believed would happen. The YANKEES not only reached the playoffs, but they won the wild card game against the Minnesota Twins to advance to the American League Division Series (ALDS). In the ALDS the YANKEES had the Cleveland Indians waiting for them to play a best of five game series. The Indians won 102 games during the season and were looking to go back to the World Series where they lost in seven games last season. The Indians won the first two games and the YANKEES had their backs to the wall. You WIN METHOD fans, the smartest most intelligent baseball fans never gave up, you rooted your team on, never gave up, and the YANKEES themselves never game up as they went on to defeat the Indians in the next three games. An amazing comeback for the YANKEES. By winning the ALDS the YANKEES moved on to the American League Championship Series (ALCS) where they had the Houston Astros waiting for them. Houston won 101 games over the season and are a young developing great team. The ALCS is a best of seven game series and the winner goes to the World Series and the losing team ends their season. The Astros won the first two games of the series and the YANKEES again had their backs to the wall. The YANKEES never gave up and neither did you WIN METHOD fans. The YANKEES came back to win the next three games of the series. The YANKEES just needed to win one of the next two games in Houston to go to the World Series. The Astros had other thoughts in mend and they also never gave up and the Astros came back to win the two games in Houston and move on to the World Series. The YANKEE season was over. But the blooming and growing was just beginning. The 2017 YANKEES achieved more than the baseball world expected. The WIN METHOD fans were not surprised, WIN METHOD fans being the most intelligent and knowledgeable in baseball were well aware of what their YANKEE team could achieve as the youngsters started to bloom and grow.
Congratulations to the YANKEE players, coaches, management, front office, and ownership for allowing the YANKEE team to bloom and grow.
The off season has arrived for the YANKEES. Time to kick back, rest, relax, and do the things you want to do and the things that you don't have time to do during the season. Enjoy guys, you made you proud and your run is just beginning. During the off season the YANKEE front office will have many decisions to make regarding player personnel. No question the roster for 2018 will change, some new players will come and some will go. The YANKEES are in a position of great power having the best minor league system in baseball and many many players blooming and growing trying to make the 2018 roster and challenge veteran players. The front office has work to do, hard decisions to make, and make them they will.
On a side note, you the WIN METHOD fans, fans from all over the world have made it possible for the WIN METHOD blog, the greatest Yankee and baseball blog/forum in the world to surpass a quarter of a billion views. Thank you fans for your devotion and passion, for being smartest baseball fans that exist, and for standing up against stat frauds and their misguided fools view of baseball. This blog will continue without advertisements and clutter that fills every other site you may visit. I know, you visit them for laughs.
Have fun everyone in the off season. I will go out and find a few more WIN METHOD players to bloom and grow down the road. Spring training 2018 is going to be a lot of fun as the kids make their push for the majors, the brightest lights and the biggest stage in baseball, the New York YANKEES. Yes they can, and they will. Lets go Yankees.
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You’re suggesting that advanced statistics showed Carter was a good player, but they didn’t. That’s why I stated pretty much everyone disliked the move...
Jimbos question is obviously 4. The question to me shows some ignorance in the use of statistics on jimbos part actually.
Also what you say about Cashman is clearly your opinion. I.t seems Cashman felt otherwise at the time.
Ohtani has announced he will not play for the Yankees.
How about these posts from WIN METHOD fans.
1. Jack Bauer said...
There may have been seasons in the past when a player was wise for not wanting to sign with the Yankees. However, when the Yankees are on their good runs, a player would be either a fool or a player who is afraid of the bright lights and big stage. We will find out about Ohtani soon.November 27, 2017 at 2:06 PM
2. Blogger coryankee said...
I wonder just how much WIN METHOD Ohtani may be. He seems more concerned with himself than being a good team player and wanting to help a team be the best they can be.November 27, 2017 at 2:51 PM
3. Quay Ho said...
I am of the opinion that Othani may be one heck of a giant bust in MLB.November 28, 2017 at 3:14 PM
4. yankeedoodledandy said...
If he is WIN METHOD, it is a slam dunk he signs with Yankees.November 28, 2017 at 7:59 PM
5.Anonymous Lou Lis said...
I tend to agree Ursala. We have so many youngsters ready to bloom and grow there may be no reason to grovel for Ohtani.November 29, 2017 at 10:12 AM
Brilliant stuff guys and gals.
Steven, I never suggested that advanced statistics suggested Carter was a good player. My point which seems to have gone over your head was how Cashman if he used advanced statistics as you claim showed how useless advanced statistics are.
Steven, if the answer to jimbos question is so obvious, why bother with advanced analytical stats? If jimbos question is so ignorant why do so many talking heads and posters on forums talk about exit velocity and distance if it means nothing? Because they are meaningless.
Kudos to the brilliant observations re: Ohtani by several WIN METHOD posters.
Deb F
It shows ignorance because those statistics aren’t used to show which Home run had more value. A home run is a home run, no one would
Argue otherwise.
Exit velocity and Home run distance would be used in predictive analytics. If Jimbo’s question was phrased “which of these would
Indicate a player with more raw power and more likely to hit more home runs” - then that would be more accurate as to how statistics are used. The way he phrased shows that there is ignorance there. Now these things might not interest you, but that’s simply personal preference.
Your point didn’t go over my head but it’s a futile argument l. Neither you nor I know why carter was signed. Furthermore I never suggested advanced analytics are the ONLY thing he uses..but he’s said countless times in interviews that it’s sometbing the organization embraces and that he wanted the new manager to embrace. I.t would appear he doesn’t feel they are “useless”.
Let me know if you understand any of this. Hope it helps.
Steven, you do not need more raw power to hit HRs. They just need to go over the fence. You do need more raw power to hit them a long way. But as jimbos brilliant question made very clear, it is not how far you hit them, which you accepted by your selection.
Don't bet on Boone being a stat fraud, I bet he learned from his grandfather that wins and winning determines the best.
Deb F, You are batting your head against a wall trying to reason with stat frauds. WIN METHOD doesn't use them and he has had more success than anyone in baseball.
Thanks ot Ohtani we have a ton in international free agent cash for WIN METHOD.
bigbadwolf, WIN METHOD also has the best W/L record in baseball since its inception, the most playoff appearances, the most pennants, and the most World Series. That is fact. And he started before before advanced BS stats existed.
Deb
You 100% need power to consistently hit home runs. Who do you think is a better bet to hit more home runs next year- Aaron Judge or Torreyes? Clearly it’d be Judge since he has more power. Do you agree with that assessment?
Bigbadwolf
I don’t see a need to reason with me. I enjoy looking at the advanced stats and you don’t. So what, why do you have such an issue with that?
Steven, Countless players similar to Torreyes are not employed to hit HRs. I find it foolish trying to compare an infield utility player to an everyday starting outfielder. As far as power, any player with enough power to hit the ball over the fence can be a consistent HR hitter. There are many of them. It is when you hit them that matters. On the other end of the scale is 200+ strikeouts make for a lot of futile plate appearances.
Steven, wasn't trying to reason with you, just pointing out the fact that the only team that uses the WIN METHOD has been the most successful and it started before advanced stats became the rage. I wonder why so many teams can't play .500 baseball using advanced stats.
Yeah Deb - I think my point is going way over your head. I think you still have no idea how people are using statistics, which is fine, they aren’t for everyone.
Bigbadwolf - cool, doesn’t really have to do with anything I’ve been talking about.
I would say that the fact that the Yankees have consistently had one of the Largest payrolls in baseball over the last 2 decades has contributed to their success as well no? Or should we ignore that completely and just give winmethod 100% of the credit and no one else in the organization?
Steven, when a team reaches the playoffs often, wins pennants, and wins WS that has a way of increasing the payroll exponentially. You do have to pay players for their success. The caveat, was the afraud signing which was a disaster. WIN METHOD knew that and said so. If the Yankees did not sign afraud they likely win a couple more WS. afruad was signed because the bean counters convinced Steinbrenner the seats would be full. The seats would have been full just by winning.
WIN METHOD over advance stats.
Steven, what do you think about Othani? Several posters here nailed him pretty well. Someone also mentioned he only threw 25 innings last year and felt he could not throw a starting pitcher amount over the full season.
Think he’ll be a more effective pitcher than hitter, but tough to project how effective he’ll be. Think he’ll be decent though, but not for us - sounds like he was very focused on being on the west coast. Innings are definitely a concern, but he was so low cost that it was worth the risk.
I don’t know that people nailed it- we don’t know for certain that he’s a bust or his motivations for not wanting to join the Yankees (could want to be closer to home, may not like large cities - who knows). Either way will be interesting to see how he performs.
Steven, I tend to agree. But with just the concerns you mention, Othani seems to come with much baggage. Posters here mentioned that he was worth the risk because of the cost. Then there were these two comments yesterday.
""" YankeeMike said...
IF the Yankees get Othani and he becomes an issue it would then be incumbent that Hal, Cashman, and Boone meet with him and lay down the law. They could always trade him to the Marlins.
December 3, 2017 at 5:01 PM
muchomachoman said...
YankeeMike ... That would be golden. Trading him for 2 or 3 guys and also getting the other team to pay you the 20 million plus dollars it cost to obtain him. Throw in getting the other teams first round draft pick for a couple of years.
December 3, 2017 at 5:30 PM """
Every player is different and people should easily be able to understand why what WIN METHOD does during his process is so valuable and brilliant.
I would love to see Othani crash and burn, he is what a team does not need, a major distraction.
Stan the Man..If Othani gets what he wants, doesn't that satisfy him and make him a good fit for the team and place he wants to be?
Doug Shoen, A player can be WIN METHOD for a team and not for another. However, it appears to me that Othani may not have his mind on the correct priorities for playing the best baseball. He appears to have other priorities not pertaining to playing the game of baseball and has made them more important. There is nothing wrong with that, but I would not want him.
At least the Ohtani event is over for the Yankees and they can move forever and may very well be better for not getting him. We have many players trying to reach the majors who are WIN METHOD and they will help the Yankees more.
Whatever Ohtani's motives, what's driving him, or what he thinks are his issues and the Yankees don't need someones issues creating issues for the team. See you Ohtani and watch your ear hole when Betances is pitching, even when you are in the on deck circle.
Craig Winstead...nice comment, the last sentence is funny.
Montgomery if he progresses and blooms and grows may be a big asset to the rotation in 2018.
Louie Louie, Tanaka, Monty, CC, Grayskies. Adams will get a shot this spring. Then there are a couple possible free agents or some other minor leaguer.
Zack Norris..Then Justus Sheffield if he keeps on blooming and growing may not be to far off.
Not that Ohtani is not going to be a Yankee, I am pretty happy.
I would love to see Ohtani on the Padres.
Likely the only people going to do well off Ohtani is his Japan team who gets 20 million dollars to say goodbye.
Not to be rude or crude, it could be Ohtani is gutless.
We will find out about Ohtani. Good or bad.
Ohtani 42-15 W/L record is brilliant, that is all you need to know, can he do it at the MLB level will be the question.
Matt Cooper, No question, if you don't win you can't be the best. Ohtani may have been the best in Japan, can he be the best in the USA.
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Matt Cooper.... That even more raises the question, why wouldn't Ohtani want to play for a playoff team and prove himself against the best? If his personal preferences are the reason to play for a losing or mediocre organization that would say much about his lack of desire and if he is a snowflake I say let him rot.
Trying to figure out Ohtani's motives and the baggage he appears to be carrying makes be very thankful he is not a Yankee.
WIN METHOD fans, keep in the back of your mind, the Yankees like to show interest in most targeted players even if they have no intention of signing them. That tends to help drive up the price another team has to pay to sign them.
bigbadwolf, anytime you make a team more for a player you have no desire to sign, you are doing your job. Take advantage of anything you can in business.
Last month of R&R for the players. Come January back to preparing for spring training. Lets go guys. Enjoy the Christmas season and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Winter baseball meetings in Orlando just 5 days off. There will be some news to hit the fan.
There will be trades, FA signings, and a whole lot of talking.
Chill Cashman. We got a manager and there is blooming and growing coming on.
Hoping the major injury bug doesn't bite us again in 2018. Would be nice to see Bird at first base for a full season, backed by Judge and Sanchez. That is a third of the lineup. Then you have another third of the lineup with proven talent in Gardner, Gregorius, and Castro. The last third is up for grabs and possibly some kids to bloom.
Need to move forward the next several years.
Boone, if he continues in Girardi's footsteps of wins and winning first, can keep the youngsters blooming and growing to their full potential. Instill the importance of producing when it counts, hitting against the shift, playing for the team to win and not individual stats, and wins being the ultimate goal, he will do very well. Aaron Boone, you are the manager, take charge and win, winning is all that matters.
Boone introduction press conference now. Boone "we will play and win as a team."
Question for Boone, "How will you define success?" Boone response, "By wins and losses and the goal is to win a championship."
Some comments from the game that still lead me to believe Aaron Boone and the Yankees don't find analytics useless:
Aaron Boone says he buys in to all of r analytics of the game. “Can’t wait to dive in,” he said.
Boone says he’ll find out which players need to be given analytics info and who to leave alone.
My impression of Boone today. I think he will be a solid manager and continue the Torre, Girardi legacy of winning. He has the team and there should be no excuses.
Steven, there me a misconception between people here. I think WIN METHOD fans find the new analytics meaningless for evaluating players. The traditional stats do that very well. I felt Boone was saying he accepted the use of analytics in trying to help players figure out a plan against each pitcher in certain situations. If we are saying new analytics are being used to help your hitters figure out what a pitcher will try to throw to them and where they may throw the pitch in certain situations that would be no different than what pitchers and hitters have been doing for a very long time. As Boone said, that would be different for each player. Many a player past and present believe in see the ball, hit the ball.
I was impressed with Boone. I just wish the microphone was higher, he seemed to have to hunch over to speak into it. Did like what he had to say however, particularly that he felt he would be measured on wins and losses. That is what every player should be evaluated on. That is the WIN METHOD.
Steven, to go a step further and hopefully make it more clear. WIN METHOD fans largely feel analytical stats that are useless the defensive metric ones, WAR, BABIP, wOBA, wRC+, etc. I don't think Boone was talking about them when speaking of relating to the players.
Hobbs, You got it. Very clearly stated by Boone, I should be measured by wins and losses. Exactly what the game is played for. That is how the best pitchers are really determined, by wins and losses, anything else is smoke and mirrors.
Here are some analytical stats. Bottom of ninth, score tied, no one on the pitcher do up. You want to pinch hit for him. You have two guys on the bench, one guy hits a HR every 25 at bats, the other every 75 at bats, which one do you use? DUH! Same two guys on the bench the next day bottom of ninth, score tied, man on third one out. The man who hits a HR every 25 at bats also strikes out 1 of every 2 at bats. The guy who hits a HR every 75 at bats also strikes out 1 of every 30 at bats, which one do you use? DUH!
There is comment by some, not here, that Boone is a puppet manager for Cashman and that is why Cashman hired him. I do not believe that for a second. I do not think there is any self respecting manager in baseball who would take the job under those conditions. Boone has a family of baseball players dating back to the 1940's. Boone will be no mans puppet or stooge.
If anyone takes a job as a manager and doesn't want to accept control of what they are managing they are whining snowflakes.
Boone said he would like to name his coaching staff within two weeks.
What is truly golden is when Boone was asked how he should be judged, he said by win and losses. Love it.
Now we wait and see who Boone surrounds himself with.
If Boone selects people who believe winning is the goal and only goal, he will do fine. If he selects anyone who says the numbers say this or that and such and such is the only we should move forward, he will have a problem.
Off season is over a month gone and so far so good.
I think Cashman will pull the trigger on a deal of some sort. He is dealing from strength so hopefully he doesn't do anything to stupid.
Merry Christmas everyone. Early because I will not be around for a over a month.
I thought Boone felt relatively comfortable at his roll out.
So far this season, two steps forward. One, don't get Ohtani. Two, get Boone.
And the next step could be a doozy.
Harry,
All things being equal why is not getting Otani a step forward? Would have been for relatively no cost and been a very good pitcher?
Lets bloom and grow some more in 18.
NJYANKEE, Yes, Boone looked very comfortable for someone going into a big time position for the first time in his career.
Here we are coming upon winter and we are talking of blooming and growing, isn't it great. Lets go Yankees.
Steven, There is no debate that the cost of getting Ohtani is a no brainer. What is in question will be his ability to help a team in MLB. The competition in Japan are a conglomeration of our AA/AAA players. Using the WIN METHOD evaluation process, Ohtani surely didn't want to pitch in New York or the east coast. WIN METHOD tenet, if a player doesn't want to play for you, his heart and soul would not be into it. You do not get his best output. The fact that he eliminated so many teams shows he is coming here with much baggage. Ohtani may be a cancer for the team that gets him, even though he is hand selecting who he will play for. The Yankees at this time do not need his issues.
Ohtani signs with LA Angels. An American League team. At least we will get a chance to take him to the shed a few times.
How about Stanton to the Yankees. He said he would come here after turning down SF and St. Louis.
Maybe Jeter will just let the Yankees have Stanton for a bunch of guys. Gardner, Ellsbury, McKinney, Cave, and one or two others?
Norm Jackson, I like that idea. Maybe even throw in one of the better prospects as a sweetener.
Stanton to be Yankee in trade for Castro and more. All details not finalized yet.
Castro seems like only big Yankee name to go plus several lower level prospects. Still nothing definite.
I love this blog. The nyy forum is over 30 pages with 800+ mostly meaningless or ignorant comments and here we know just as much with just a few comments.
A third step forward for the Yankees with the acquisition of Stanton.
I think the names of the other Yankees beyond Castro going to the Marlins will be announced once Stanton approves deal. Unless the names leak out.
Looking forward to the 2018 season more and more everyday.
It is reported Yanks sending pitcher Jorge Guzman and shortstop Jose Devers to Miami. Not bad for the Yankees. Stanton going to NYC for physical.
Giancarlo i'll play for the Yankees > Ohno I won't play for the Yankees Ohtani. Stanton wins Ohtani loses.
Getting Stanton I think would mean the Yankees do not want Harper nor need Harper.
Not only do we get Stanton but we make room for Torres at 2b. If he wins job during spring training he may start the season there. If not, he will get some more seasoning at AAA and then take over likely around June. Another win win for the Yankees.
Can we all agree that the Yankee signing is the coup of the hot stove season. And it may not be over yet.
Stanley Chin..I think so. More so because they gave up so little.
GM meetings start today for several days. After the Yankees obtained Stanton everything else is secondary. Sweet.
Lets go Yankees.
When George Steinbrenner met WIN METHOD and they came to terms it may have been the greatest move/deal he ever made and it surely made the Yankees the best team in baseball for the past twenty-five years.
Evan Donahue, And looking good for another long stretch. At least a decade.
Stanley Chin >> I agree.
Question - I’ve commonly seen the lack of playoff success used as arguments against trout and Harper - why then does I.t seem like a unanimous excitement for Stanton who has never led his team to the playoffs?
Easy question. If you have completely read the WIN METHOD blog from the beginning, the point you are making has been addressed. A player can be WIN METHOD for one team but not another. Players cannot not control what team drafts them, most of the time a player cannot control to what team they are traded to. Some players can be WIN METHOD for almost any team. It depends on the player and that is what WIN METHOD tries to discover in the interview process that no player he interviews knows. The interview tries to discover each players makeup, desires, culture, attitude, etc. Lets look at Ohtani. He could control where it who he would play for and he obviously did not want to play on the east coast nor the Yankees. Great, play someplace else. He chose the Angels. Look at Stanton, he with his no trade clause in had could also choose where he would play and the Marlins had little choice in the matter and really had to move his contract. Stanton refused to play with two different teams but readily and happily accepted the Yankees.
Also, some players sole desire is money and how much they can milk a team for. Nothing wrong with that, particularly if the player is WIN METHOD.
Now we will see what Ohtani, a big if brings to the Angels. We know what Stanton will bring to the Yankees.
It really is no different than a prestigious law firm not hiring a jerk from Harvard, but hiring a guy they love from Iowa State. The interviewer is the key, if he/she is also a great profiler they are worth their weight in gold. WIN METHOD is golden.
johnsondc, isn't what you stated the reason certain youngsters are taken in trades?
Hobbs, Yes. There is no way the Yankees for example can draft every player WIN METHOD would like, but they can attain them in a deal down the road. Sometimes players attitudes and desires change as they age also changing their WIN METHOD evaluation.
In this day and age there is no reason a player can't go to almost any team he wishes if they will have them. Just don't sign for a real long term contract and play out your time. If a player wants to stay with a team, it his choice. If he feels he is good enough to help a team win and wants to prove it, he can move on.
I would think that the player who is getting paid big bucks for his individual performance and doesn't go to a contending team, can say he wants to win, but likely is just saying it because it sounds good to his fans as the team keeps failing.
I make it easy on myself, I have been here from WIN METHODS first blog post. He knows what he is doing and what he is talking about. I trust him completely. He uses a lot of common sense.
You people get it. Isn't it funny that stat frauds will embrace BS formulas, park factors, defensive metrics and such but will fight common sense and facts.
johnsondc, Oh so true. Take the best player in baseball over the past 25 years in Derek Jeter. Many stat frauds maligned him anyway they could and still do.
The stat frauds would rather believe some half-wit who makes up some numbers, tinkers with them until he gets the results he likes, and fits his preconceived ideas, than the truth.
I love when they use their park adjusted stats. That rivals defensive stats as the most useless and meaningless stats they make up. Pure and utter garbage only fit for the consumption of stat frauds.
Got your shopping done people. Two weeks to Christmas Eve. Time flies for Yankee fans having fun.
The Angels have talked with CC. They may need a good pitcher to teach Ohtani. CC is from California. He said he would rather stay with the Yankees.
I wouldn't think CC wants to end his career on a low with the hapless Angels baby sitting a snot nose rookie. I say he stays a Yankee and goes out flying high.
Stanton to be introduced as a Yankee today at 2 PM in Orlando.
With the Yankees getting Stanton it would make Sabathia's decision to stay a Yankee that much easier.
Time for Stanton.
Giancarlo Stanton -- Pure WIN METHOD. Yankees were number one on my list of teams. Roger Maris is baseballs single season home run leader with 61. I love the culture of the Yankees.
I'll play wherever they need me. I want to win and play in meaningful competitive games.
WIN METHOD, I got the impression Stanton was everything you look for in a player. On the opposite end Ohtani is what you don't want.
We got another gem to go along with all the other gems and the gems still blooming and growing. Thanks WIN METHOD, love ya,
Stanton to wear #27. He and Judge are going to be two very imposing figures in the lineup.
What a difference between afraud and Stanton. Remember fans, WIN METHOD did not want afraud under any circumstances.
Sometimes I feel sorry for stat frauds who try to make baseball fit their broken mold. Seeing kids come through the ranks who just want to play together as a team and win as a team is a joy for me. And this blog has allowed me to enjoy the Yankees and baseball more than I can imagine.
Start of the season at second base likely Torreyes to Torres. Sweet.
It is a long winter before camp. Very likely Cashman is working hard to improve the team in several areas. He has info we don't have.
We will lose players in the rule 5 draft. Nonetheless we are loaded and deep.
Teams can plan all they want as to players and their role on the team, but the players must perform to earn their chance, produce to keep their place, and then hopefully stay healthy. Teams need to have backup players and plans and use players and execute plans as needed.
Ohtani and Trout on the same team. That says it all.
It is always easier to deal from strength than weakness. The Yankees do not really need anything. Sure they can still improve, but their are no glaring needs.
Here is a thought about using modern analytical stats. It seems how they are read and thus used by different people is dependent on each user. There is no facts to their use but the fact they are relatively useless.
Yankees one of several teams involved in talks with Pirates re starter Gerrit Cole.
Now here is a really big deal. The Yankees traded Bryan Mitchell and Chase Headley to the Padres today for 28 year old Jabari Blash who has shown nothing in one plus season with the Padres. The big deal is two spots on the Yankee 40 man roster are now opened up. And unless the Yankees retain Todd Frazier at 3b they might try to fill the position with their highly regarded third baseman Miguel Andjular.
Can you imagine the Yankee lineup if Torres and Andjular start the season at 2b and 3b.
Lets see if the Yankees try to hold onto Frazier for third base.
A fourth step forward today. Yankees shed payroll and open two roster spots by trading Headley and Mitchell. What's next?
Sign CC to stabilize the rotation and provide veteran guidance.
Harry Stavris, how many step plan is this going to be?
As Christmas draws closer it appears like we are getting a present every day from the Yankees.
Merry Christmas WIN METHOD fans.
YankeeMike, as many as the Yankees give us. It's going to be a fun season coming up. WIN METHOD nailed the blooming and growing.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Sabathia has now talked to the Toronto Blue Jays. Also Yankees and Todd Frazier talks have not gotten serious yet. Again Yankees are in a position of strength having Andjular chomping at the bit.
Just keep improving the team any way we can. Merry Christmas.
Ex-Yankee Michael Pineda has signed with the Twins for 2 years. Pineda after TJ surgery may get to pitch late in the 2018 season at the MLB level and he will be no major asset to the Twins until 2019 if at all.
There are at least 10 teams showing interest in Todd Frazier.
It may be possible Andjular starts the season with the Yankees and Torres doesn't. Best scenario is they both start the season in lineup.
Merry Christmas to all. Right around the corner.
Just say no to Machado and Harper.
Ernie, I'm with you. Not worth the cost. Plus, we may not have a spot for either.
Aaron Boone named his entire coaching staff today.
Boone kept several, brought in one or two from within the organization and brought in one or two from outside.
With all the talent developing and the talent on the team now it will be imperative that the team must play together to earn wins and no one player is an island.
We will find out which Yankee rule 5 players are taken today.
We will find out if Chance Adams can make the rotation this spring.
Felix Lopez, also Andujar and Torres and maybe another.
Merry Christmas fans.
Merry Christmas.
The Yankees got thru the rule five draft pretty much unscathed.
Yankee forever
Didn’t we lose 4 winmethod players?
Two months and spring camps open. Isn't it wonderful.
Dave, the rules of baseball, you can't keep and control everyone forever. Why sweat what you can't prevent from happening. Every team is in the same boat. Live and learn baseball.
I’m not sweating it and I know the rules- but I fail to see how losing the most players of any team is considered “unscathed”
Dave, I will assume you are not WIN METHOD. We lost the most because we are the best. We had to lose players, we lost several of our lowest rated players, and still may get some or all back at some point. Your failure to see how losing the most players lends us as being the best in our competitions eyes explains your failure.
Merry Christmas.
Yankeeforever
What are saying, if course it’s a reflection of how strong our players are!
That’s what makes losing so many young promising players hurts, even if they were lower in our organization, they could have still helped us. Now they will be employed against us.
I think you are confused.
Dave, On the contrary. When we get some or all back they may still help us if they are good enough to make the big team. Your negativity is glaring. None of them may ever get in a game against the Yankees. Get a grip, it is not as bad as you are making it out to be. I can see you breaking down and crying at the draft as each Yankee is selected.
Seriously? I’m not even a little upset. You made a comment that was a silly and I called you out on it. We may get them back, yes, but to say we left unscathed doesn’t make any sense. Honestly you seem to be the one getting upset for getting called out on a nonsensical comment. Happy holidays!
Dave, when someone like you tries to make an ignorant point which is in correct and serves no purpose but to incite a non-debate, non-debate because your point has no merit, you thus are unable to call anyone 'out'.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
I’m Jewish
I have yet to see any stat fraud come here and make an intelligent point.
Dave, It's still Christmas.
It’s Hanukkah too :)
Dave, then you should have said Happy Hanukkah. There are many posters here of the Jewish faith.
Alright man I just wanted to include everyone.
The latest rumor has the Yankees and Pirates talking about Clint Frazier etal for Gerrit Cole.
It is believed the Pirates also want a starting pitcher near ready for the majors.
I bet Frazier would love a trade. He could grow out his hair halfway down his back and get a chance to play, because it looks like he won't be able to do either with the Yankees.
I want to wish a very Merry Christmas to all my friends here at WIN METHOD and a Happy New Year. I am really looking forward to the 2018 season.
Ben Rosen/Israel....My best to you and your family.
I think Cashman will pull out another deal from up his sleeve before Christmas.
Merry Christmas and hoping for a championship new year.
coryankee....Clint Frazier can't make the Yankee outfield. He is a chip we do not need. In other words he is a 5 dollar chip for us but could be a 100 dollar chip for another team. He will get his chance to prove himself.
Merry Christmas
Top draft picks have value for a few years. Mainly for their youth and perceived development potential.
Here is a quote from one my favorite Yankee player. For the stat frauds who know nothing about baseball and winning it will give them something to make fun about and thus display their overwhelming stupidity....
“You play the game to win the game and not worry about what’s on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year.”—Paul O’Neill
Phil Jenkins....O'Neill was the consummate WIN METHOD player. Grit, desire, passion, every game every day. Grinding out 8,9,10 pitch at bats. Big hits when it mattered. Loved him.
When O'Neill played for the Yankees that was one of the most WIN METHOD team there ever was. Jeter, Brosius, Posada, Williams, the utility guys, and others were all astounding at producing when it mattered. One of if not the greatest teams of all time.
“You play the game to win the game and not worry about what’s on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year.”
If every fan just reads these words and tries to understand their meaning. Think about it, think about hitting away from the defense, bunting, hitting behind a runner, scoring the man on third with less than two outs, and doing these things consistently as a team, just think about winning the game and not what you can achieve for yourself, even if your team loses.
A very Merry Christmas to all.
The Yankees and CC Sabathia have agreed to terms for 2018. One year deal for 10 million plus incentives. Just what the doctor ordered.
There's our veteran presence. Hope CC can help guide Montgomery and any other youngster. I wouldn't be surprised if this is CCs final season.
YankeeMike, You are asking to much from the stat frauds to understand anything other name their phony numbers.
I remember when WIN METHOD posted before anyone in the world CC would sign with the Yankees back in 2008. CC is big time WIN METHOD and shows it again by not 'holding the Yankees up' and accepting a low cost one year deal. I was newbie back then.
Diane Stahl, I agree. Would love to see go out with a ring.
Merry Christmas.
Reminder: Christmas is just a week away. Get it done people. Merry Christmas.
The Yankees are burning the hot stove coals talking with several organizations regarding several different positions and players. We should know more this week.
I will be keeping an eye to see how Clarke Schmidt progresses his first year back after TJ surgery. WIN METHOD really liked him.
Schmidt should resume game pitching in June 2018. He will need to build his arm strength and should not reach the Yankees until 2019.
OMG, I forgot all about Clarke Schmidt. Another gem who will bloom and grow to watch down the road.
I have just concluded a detailed analysis of the stat fraud conglomeration WAR. It is useless as a tool in evaluating a ny player.
Cory, your findings are indisputable in the real world where wins and losses define who is best. In the fantasy or make believe world, the frauds and people who do not know baseball thrive on WAR.
You guys aren’t too fun at parties are you...
Merry Christmas.
Cory & Steve >>> You both speak to the facts. I am amazed when I see pitchers with losing records and positive WAR. Now I can see a reliever/closer with a small losing record and a whole lot of saves having a positive WAR. There is no way starters with losing records should have positive WARS. They do because the formulas are based on falsities and given inaccurate values therefor making the end result meaningless.
Hobbs, You explained it well. The values the frauds use are subjective. Subjectivity is in the eye of the concoctor, and many times the value is changed to try to reach a desired result.
Guys, WIN METHOD fans and all other readers, google the different formulas, such as FIP, Park Factors, etc, you will see they are all completely useless. They are based on information that is invalid to the result they are trying to reach. Garbage in garbage out that is what you get from most modern analytical stats.
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