The 2018 season is over. Small success as the YANKEES reached the playoffs. Big failure as the YANKEES lost the ALDS and did not go as far into the playoffs as they did in 2017. So on to 2019.
The YANKEES had far too many injuries in 2018. Some of the injuries kept players out not for days, but for weeks and months, and some for the season and into the coming 2019 season.
The YANKEES front office has some work to do this winter and the hot stove should be ready to start getting very warm. The YANKEE primary need appears to be a front line starting pitcher and a good left handed bat. Trading away Torres or Andujar would be a major boondoggle and a blunder that the team may not be able to overcome. The YANKEES will not start the season with Montgomery and Gregorius, both out with major injuries. The YANKEES have already resigned Bret Gardner for 2019 on a one season contract deal. I cannot go into who the YANKEES should or should not sign here for proprietary reasons, I will leave that to all you brilliant WIN METHOD posters with all the common sense in the world. I will say that if things go right there will be one giant acquisition that should help the team enormously.
Don't forget, this team despite the countless injuries, won 100 games in 2018 and where eliminated from the playoffs by a team that won 108 games in 2018, defeated the YANKEES and then defeated the Houston Astros who won 103 games in 2018, and then went on to win the World Series easily trouncing the inferior league champion LA Dodgers.
Keep an eye on the hot stove and lets see what happens. I don't touch or go near the hot stove, what happens this winter is up to Brian Cashman, Hal Steinbrenner, and the Yankee hierarchy. Lets hope for the best and LETS GO YANKEES.
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Everything starts anew in a few hours. Decisions to be made by players and owners. Time for players to get into to shape so they do not embarrass themselves when they show up at camp.
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It appears the 2018 baseball year will end with a thud. So be it. Happy New Year everyone and may 2019 be a great year for all Yankee fans.
My concern is if Manny is NOT win WIN METHOD and the Yankees sign him as they did afraud, the same drought will happen. If Manny is WIN METHOD, I can see several World Championships on the horizon. His individual stats really mean little, but his character and team play do matter.
Anyways, HAPPY NEW YEAR Yankee fans.
Wilsonsway, we will know soon if Manny wants to be a Yankee and if he is WIN METHOD. We can only hope for the best and it all works out.
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Kikuchi signing with Mariners. Good place for in in AAAA ball with a team going nowhere.
Kikuchi had no spot on the Yankees or in the AL East.
Time is getting closer to 2019. Happy New Year baseball fans.
Last hour. Happy New Year.
It's 2019. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Happy New Year. 2019 the year of the NEW YORK YANKEES.
Stay safe everyone. Happy New Year.
How many WIN METHOD fans are up and alert at this time? Happy New Year.
Nothing new in the baseball world overnight.
When will Machado affirm his decision? Today, tomorrow, this week, next week?
Paul Hirschman, His agent may still be playing both ends against the middle trying to get every last dollar from the interested parties.
It's amazing with all the professionals out there with all their connections and sources, no one is getting any information on what the three teams interested in Machado have offered in money and years, if there has been any give and take between offers and responses to offers, or just any information at all. What, is Machado holed up in a cave somewhere?
How about this WIN METHOD fans. We tend to use our common sense and intelligence. Unless there is an unnamed team or two involved there are just the Cubs, Phillies, and Yankees vying for Machados services. Machado to the best of our knowledge has stated he wants to be a Yankee. That would put Cashman and the Yankees in the catbird seat. The Yankees offer an amount of dollars for the amount of years they are willing to pay for. They tell Manny if you can get better elsewhere, take it, but this is our offer. As things stand now the Yankees need nothing but maybe another arm or two for the rotation. They do not need Machado or Harper or any other bat. They tell Manny, if you want to win a World Series and be the best you play for us and get all New York has to offer. You think Philly or Chicago have a better chance to win a World Series, play for one of them and see what Chicago and Philadelphia can offer that is better than NY. Win with the Yankees or flounder with the Cubs or Phillies, unless you think you are so good you can carry either of them to a World Series title. The choice is yours. We will win a World Series with or without you.
P.S. The above is all valid if WIN METHOD says Manny is WIN METHOD.
Steve, I have to hand it to you. You are one of the best posters I have come across anywhere regarding baseball. I agree with your post and would love to see someone come along and challenge your ideas. Open invitation stat frauds.
Come on Manny, put up or shut up.
NJYANKEE and Steve, there is nothing to argue. Steve you are dead on right. Take it or leave it many. Produce when it counts if you can and help the team win or go somewhere else and produce all you want when it doesn't count and don't sniff the WS.
We will learn in time what Machado wants to do. The Yankees can have a successful season without him.
Steve, Nice job.
The Yankees have obtained the services of Troy Tulowitzki for league minimum salary. Tulowitzki is still being paid his full salary by the Toronto Blue Jays who released him. The Yankees hope is Tulo will fill in at shortstop for the 2019 season until Didi Gregorius returns from TJ surgery on his throwing arm sometime in late summer. League minimum salary is 555K. Tulowitzki missed most of the 2017 season and all of the 2018 season with bone spurs in both heels. The Yankees will see what they have in Tulowitzki this spring and the cost will be minimal.
Is Manny Machado still in the picture? Or does the Tulo signing mean nothing?
There is no down side to the Tulo signing. He either is healthy and proves he can still produce during spring training and makes the team or he fails and is immediately cut. If he produces the Yankees got something for almost nothing.
For the fans (almost all stat frauds) who think Machado will add six wins to the Yankees, that would make you wrong. Machado likely adds no wins to the Yankees. The Yankees save a fortune for years keeping Andujar at third, and if Tulowitzki can dut it at short until Didi is back.
Maybe Cashman is just trying to save Hal Steinbrenner some money and/or is smarter than some people give him credit for.
I hope the Yankees are only offering Machado what they think he is worth. And I hope it is for significantly less in dollars and years than Machado is seeking. Although some players have gotten over $30 million a year from teams I do not believe anyone of those players is worth that amount. NO player is that much better than the average really good players. Players who consistently help lead their team to the playoffs, pennants, and World Series are the best players and they are the players who should get paid the most. Why, because they earned it on the field doing what is needed to win and winning is why the game should be played.
Just because one team pays an exorbitant amount of money for a player does not make that the going price. It means that one team was stupidest than all the other teams. Now, if that player helps lead the team to multiple championships the dollars spent could be rationalized and the point made that the dollars spent were worth it. How many exorbitant contract players fall into the win multiple championships category. Most do not, and are just money down the drain. Think and be WIN METHOD.
Cory, Bingo.
These are the highest AAV's in baseball.
1. Zack Greinke, $34,416,666 (2016-21)
2. Miguel Cabrera, $31,000,000 (2016-23)
… David Price, $31,000,000 (2016-22)
… Clayton Kershaw, $31,000,000 (2019-21)
5. Clayton Kershaw, $30,714,286 (2014-20)
6. Max Scherzer, $30,000,000 (2015-21)
7. Roger Clemens, $28,000,022 (2007)
8. Alex Rodriguez, $27,500,000 (2008-17)
… Yoenis Cespedes, $27,500,000 (2017-20)
10. Jon Lester, $25,833,333 (2015-20)
These are the top 10 AAV contracts.
1. Zack Greinke has never been to the WS. Post season W-L 3-4.
2. Miguel Cabrera two WS team 1-1. Post season BA .278.
3. David Price two WS team 1-1. Post season W-L 5-9.
4. Clayton Kershaw two WS team 0-2. Post season W-L 9-10. ##On list twice for 2 contracts##
5. Max Scherzer one WS team 0-1. Post season W-L 4-5.
6. Roger Clemens six WS team 2-4. Post season W-L 12-8. ***Steroid abuser***
7. Alex Rodriguez (afraud) one WS team 1-0. Post season BA .259. ***Steroid abuser***
8. Yeonis Cespedes one WS team 0-1. Post season BA .265.
9. Jon Lester three WS team 3-0. Post season W-L 9-7.
Read the wins and losses. But for Jon Lester everyone of the top AAV players did not help their team to the degree they were paid. But there are countless average paid players who did.
Oh my gosh, the stat frauds have been buried on this blog so many times they are not 6 feet under, they are 600 feet under. This blog has to be a plague for them. Truth and facts kill the stat frauds day in and day out, every day, every time.
jimbo, nice work, thanks for the time and effort getting those numbers.
Two of the guys on the list cheated the game and cheated the teams who paid them. Sad.
Five guys are getting paid an AAV of 30mil or more. Four are pitchers. Those four pitchers have a combined 21-18 record in playoff games. Pathetic. Who is stupid enough to pay them those salaries? Also the top five combined teams won 2 WS and lost 5. No team should be paying those salaries to ANY player. NO ONE PLAYER is worth that kind of money. When you use individual stats to justify paying ridiculous salaries you are being ignorant.
jimbo, you will never see your research posted or acknowledged by any stat fraud or any other baseball site ever. There is no defense or enough stat fraud lies to hide the truth.
WIN METHOD and almost everyone who posts here have been in favor short term contracts with a fair value for the player. Once any player starts asking for 30 million per year just tell him to hit the road and find some fool.
The WAR for stat frauds is negative 10.5.
Machado and Harper are going to try to outdo each other at the expense of the team they each sign with. I can live with the Yankees signing either on the Yankee terms, not theirs or their agents.
There have been some great comments and conversations on here during this winter hiatus.
The best baseball blog is getting better and better while growing and growing beyond our wildest imagination.
No word from Manny.
Come on Manny. Stop playing games and man up.
Nothing new overnight.
If Machado comes to the Yankees I hope it is not at the expense of Andujar. Andujar needs to stay no matter what ever else happens.
HOORAY! HOORAY! WIN METHOD fans.
WIN METHOD said it a few days ago in his post. The WIN METHOD blog has just surpassed one half billion views. The greatest baseball blog in the world with the smartest most intelligent fans in the world has just surpassed 500,000,000 views. YOU, each one of YOU, the fans have made it happen. I guess wisdom, truth, and knowledge are still alive in some parts of today's world.
Thank you, from the four corners of the earth, thank you.
No doubt about it. This blog is the greatest. I gave up on all the others and their nonsense.
Wow. Très bien.
We are number one and the best.
bigbadwolf, very nice and congratulations to all who post here.
Thank you WIN METHOD fans for all you have done for this blog. Without you it would be just my words and beliefs, but it is also your words and beliefs. Thank every one of you.
Thank you fans for you support.
These posts are why this site is so good.
Nothing from Manny. No news anywhere else either so far today.
Thank you WIN METHOD, bigbadewolf, johnsondc, and all the great posters here.
David Robertson signs with Phillies for a two year deal. Yanks let him go without a second thought. They know something the other teams do not.
After being banned by several baseball talk forums, it was the best thing in the world coming to this blog and being able and allowed to speak the truth about baseball, stats, the frauds who live by those stats, and talk freely about what it takes to win and be the best. All anyone has to do is read this blog to realize how great it is. Add in the fact that no poster has ever been banned by the administrator and moderators. Plus they can have vigorous debates with others of differing opinions and views and still attack each other respectfully.
Great blog and a proud long time participant.
Looks like the Yankees have their eye on Zach Britton for the bullpen as they passed on several who have now been signed.
From rumors going around it looks like the only team who will be stupid enough to give Machado a 10 year deal could be the Phillies.
Xavier Young, hey guy, you called Yankee focus on Britton 20 minutes before MLB trade rumors site did. The intelligence and common sense of WIN METHOD fans on display. Good call.
I am new here at WIN METHOD. The content is excellent and I love reading the comments.
Congrats, half a billion views is phenomenal. Lets keep on growing.
Bloom and grow. The Yankees and the WIN METHOD blog.
Still waiting to hear from any stat frauds try to explain how Machado will win six more games for the Yankees next season if he becomes a Yankee.
Victor Bruno, I have been here since the beginning of this blog and I have been banned from many stat fraud forums. I have been in countless debates with stat frauds and am sure many posters here have done the same. I have never seen a WIN METHOD supporter ever lose a debate with any stat fraud. The stat frauds are unable to defend their positions and and their convoluted fake man made stat formulas. WIN METHOD fans use common sense, logic, and irrefutable facts. The only way to shut up the WIN METHOD supporters on their forums is to ban the the WIN METHOD supporters which is what they do.
Add to the equation that any stat fraud can come here and debate us and express their views, but they very rarely do because they know they can't support their opinions and can't win any debates. These are the reasons this blog is so successful. That truth TRUMPS everything and buries stat frauds.
bigbadwolf, love your post. Been there done that on the stat fraud forums.
The stat frauds call Hal Steinbrenner a cheapskate and want him to pay players whatever they want. I've run businesses all my life and never paid an employee more than I thought they were worth nor more than my budget would allow. Stat frauds are just plain ignorant.
Saul Irving, it is always to spend someone else's money. People who think they know better how to spend someone else's are ignorant. Stat frauds earn their title "ignorant".
For my two cents, it is really a nice feeling posting here on the world's best baseball blog.
After two years of injuries I would hope Zach Britton should be fully recovered for 2019. If he is recovered he would be a good arm for the Yankee bullpen. That may be the Yankees train of thought and their agenda. Time will tell.
There are many a baseball player who think they are worth a pot of gold. They are not, they are just fake stat ghosts of really good players who help their team win championships by producing when it counts to help their team win. Trout, Harper, and Machado are NOT the best players in MLB.
Common sense thought, if Machado had been offered what he wanted by whom he wanted to play for he would have signed already.
Maybe the owners are wising up. Finally realizing the "fake stat stars" are not what the fraud make them out to be. Wins and winning determine the best players and teams not individual stats.
I also have been banned from some forums. The truth kills the lying stat frauds.
I think it would be really sweet if the Yankees don't sign Machado, but if they do I hope it is not for 10 years and or 300 million.
I too do not mind if the Yankees sign Machado, but it better no be at the expense of Andujar who will be a better hitter than Machado.
40 days and Yankee camp 2019 opens.
2019 season of another World Series Championship.
If Andujar is WIN METHOD and Machado isn't, then Andujar is a better player. Now throw in the cost of each and Andujar becomes a steal while Machado becomes a waste of money.
Victor,
I'm confused by your question, are you suggesting that a player (Machado) who would strengthen the infield defense and lineup wouldn't help us win games next year?
I'm assuming the 6 number you used is a reflection of wins above replacement? In which case I don't think you understand the definition of that.
WaLuigi, I'll give Victor Bruno some time to respond to your question. I'll just preface it with you don't know what you are talking about. Fake numbers do not create wins.
Kojak, And if Machado is WIN METHOD, he still may not add any more wins than Andujar does, but he will not hurt the team.
No major news, trades, deals as we head into day five fo 2019.
Andy K, Fake numbers do not create wins, no question. Producing when it counts creates wins, both offensively, defensively, and when pitching. Conversely, failing to produce when it counts makes for losing, both offensively, defensively, and when pitching.
WaLuigi, I am not suggesting, I am telling. As to WAR, it is a fake made up number based on other fake made up numbers based on man created values.
Read 'Yankeeforevers' post from 10:23 AM today and learn the difference between just accumulated stats and producing when it counts. Teams and players who produce when it counts the most win the most games. It is not the player who accumulates the highest stats for themselves.
Victor Bruno, WAR is utter garbage built on utter garbage and used by stupid people.
Considering there have been comebacks as large as 12 runs, I would imagine "when it counts" is almost always no?
I want my players to go hard every play, what percentage of at-bat/plays would you say "don't count" during the season?
WaLuigi, you must be a stat fraud. First of all, every at bat counts because every at bat, every pitch is recorded and and documented so everyone will know how many x,y, and z's each player accumulates during a game, a season, a career.
Second, if you re-read my post at 11:02 AM today you will see the sentence "Teams and players who produce when it counts the most win the most games." I would think you do not know, do not accept, or just don't care that there are times during games when events are extremely meaningful and when they are extremely meaningless.
I've been learning baseball for about two years now since coming to the United States, and I know the difference.
Victor
Sorry I think my verbiage may have confused you, I'm asking what percentage of at-bats/plays would you say are "meaningless" during the season.
When the Yankees came back from an 8 run deficit against the Orioles last year, I'm sure the first run to make it a 7 run deficit seemed "meaningless" as well, though it clearly wasn't.
So I guess I'm asking for clarification on what the meaningless moments really are and what percentage of events over the season are, by your definition, meaningless?
WaLuigi, That would be a fun job for the stat frauds to calculate. But since they don't know baseball their results would probably come on convoluted and wrong.
Every game is different dependent on which teams are playing, when the game is, and the games importance at the time it is played. Example, I would say that every pitch, every event in the seventh game of a World Series could be extremely meaningful, but there is no doubt that even in a game like this some events, some pitches are going to be more meaningful. You just need to know baseball. Even though each team plays a 162 game schedule and all start out even when the season starts, a game between two teams who likely know they are not going to have a chance at making the playoffs are less important than in a game where two teams who know they have a chance at making the playoffs would be. That explains to a great degree that a player would great individual stats with a losing team and then comes to a playoff contender for whatever reason, his stats do not equal what they were with the losing team. Funniest of all is the reverse can be true. That is were the WIN METHOD comes into the picture.
Here we go again. A stat fraud who does not know when an event is important or not during a game. Heck, you can take and entire game in September between two means completely eliminated from making the playoffs and say the entire game is meaningless (not important). The player stats are recorded, but there is no pressure at all to perform.
I kind of disagree that there is no pressure for players to perform, even on losing teams.
This game is literally their entire livelihood, if they don't perform well, they could be out of a job...
There's always pressure for players to perform.
Allow me for a point of view. Degree of importance and meaningful or meaningless all depend on variable as posted above.
Here are events with variables of importance,
1. You are winning 10-0 and you score 3 runs in the 9th for a 13-0 lead.
2. Your pitcher gives up 4 runs in the bottom of the 9th to win 13-4.
3. You are down 3-0 in the bottom of the 9th and score 4 runs to win 4-3. How did each event that got the 4 runs rank in importance?
There are so many variables, but there is no question that there are meaningless and meaningful games, events, at bat, pitches, etc.
Nancy, are you the same fraud who posted you worked for Hal Steinbrenner? If not, it was a coincidence.
Nancy, it is the degree of pressure. The pressure of playing games with a chance of going to the playoffs and your teammates counting on you is big. The pressure of playing games and knowing you are not going to the playoffs and your teammates don't care is different. But again, people have to know baseball ot know the difference.
Nancy great point. How can you argue anything is "meaningless" to the players when for many their entire careers are at stake? I'm sure we all feel pressure at work to perform, wouldn't these players feel the same.
Hobbs - I agree with the situations you define as meaningless. I will say though, I think the Yankees find themselves in huge blowouts (either winning or losing) very rarely over the course of the season. Can't imagine it happened more than 10 times last season. Would you agree?
How about this for an example, how much does the pressure rise to throw a strike to bowl a perfect game? Was the pressure the same for the first strike as it is for the twelfth strike? I don't think so.
No Victor I am not. My first name is Nancy...it is a common name...
Victor I think you could argue that for many players the pressure of performing and not being sent down to the minors or worse could be event greater! I agree it's different forms of pressure though.
Nancy, it would be smart to use more than just a first name. Common sense?
Still no movement from Machado. Maybe he is finding out he isn't desired by as many teams nor for how much as he thought he was.
Reading the posts from apparent stat frauds it seems they are not the sharpest pencils in the box. Actually they may be the dullest ones.
Victor,
I don't want my full name to be posted on the internet nor I do care enough to show it on here...
Jackson Dewitt-Iowa
What do disagree that they're saying?
Nancy, fair enough. Then you use a moniker so as not to be confused with a like name.
Steven Fischer, long time no see.
To state it simply and to the point. It has been said countless times. To be the best players and teams who have to win. Only wins and winning determine the best teams and the best players.
Hope the Yanks sign Britton for the pen. If he is ready to go all out he is a shutdown inning in the bank.
I hope Tulowitzki has at least one good year left in him. We got him for peanuts since the Blue Jays are paying his contract. What an asset he could be filling in for Didi and if he proves himself sticking with the team for the season and maybe even next. If we stay away from Machado we have better in Andujar at third and it costs us nothing. Save the money for a spot where we really need it. Think!
Maybe Tulo has something to prove as he gets paid by the Blue Jays and shines as a shortstop this season has the Jays pay him to play for the competition.
Lets go Yankees.
Great news, the Yankees have signed Zach Britton to a three year deal with a fourth year option. Britton really solidifies the bullpen alongside Chapman, Betances, and Green.
One more arm may be on the horizon.
Ziggy Mann, you got it. Britton signed with Yanks, just for you.
Things are falling into place. Just as long as nothing stupid happens.
Britton is a better sign than Machado or Harper. Arms win games.
Another step forward with the re-sign of Britton. Paxton, Britton, Happ all on board to start 2019 who didn't start 2018 with Yankees.
Nice discussion yesterday regarding pressure and when things matter most in baseball games. A couple of stat frauds got schooled by several posters here. I hope they learned something.
Remember Yankee fans, Machado and Harper are wants, neither is a NEED. Neither will make the Yankees a better team.
Steve, but either could make the Yankees not as good as they presently are.
Steve & Dave Matthews...wouldn't it be very unwise t pay vast millions of dollars on something you don't need and does not help you!
No Machado, no Harper. We win it all.
All you need to know about hitters abilities is their batting average, on base percent, home runs, walks, and strikeouts. If you want to know how good they are in helping their team win is how many wins their team earns, how many times their team goes to the playoffs and beyond.
If you do not win you can't be the best.
I believe that a lot of fans think that if Machado becomes a Yankee he helps the team win. That could be true, but it surely is not true if as a result of Machado becoming a Yankee, Andujar is no longer a Yankees. The argument then becomes what Andujar brings to the Yankees when he is traded. Lets say Andujar brings in a decent starter who takes CC's spot. You now have to pay Machado big bucks and likely the decent starter big bucks and the end result is the Yankees do not win any more games and waste a lot of money.
Sal Mineo....it is not the fans money, so they don't care, and or don't give a darn. Not a good way to run a business and a good way to go kaboom.
If Machado turns out to be another afraud we will be screwed. But only if we sign him.
Don't just say no to Harper and Machado, say never.
Stat frauds, what is the only stat that gets a team to the playoffs?
The first week of January gone and not a peep from Machado. Whatsup Manny?
Agent Scott Boras comes up with dual option clause for the player and the team which is drawing interest and acceptability from both sides. May help eliminate long term contracts. The issue may be how high it will increase AAV.
I've read a little about the Boras idea. He calls it swellopts. It does put another tool in the shed for both the player and team to discuss. Likely will make the arbitration between the parties involved a little longer because there can be so many variations in the options.
I like innovative thinking. Good job by Boras. In the end it all comes down to both sides have to agree. Just more options. Get it?
The issue a player will have with the team being able to opt out is 1. he will have to produce, 2. if he get injured.
Owners are starting to wise up. Too many owners paid the piper for long term deals that only the player walked away from smiling.
Just to throw this out and I am not proposing the idea, but there is a minimum wage, why not a maximum wage?
The minimum wage is there to help support very low income people. The whole concept for earning is to earn as much as your abilities in whatever field you partake in. Freedom.
Then there is also winning the lottery. New millionaires constantly.
I like the Yankee team just as it is right now. We have young pitchers who will be available if the need arises as either starters or relievers and our lineup is superb. Don't need to waste big dollars. We need to pay our stars down the road who are blooming and growing.
Playing for your own stats and not helping your team win is not WIN METHOD. But the stat frauds will love and laud you until the cows come home.
Scott Boras is good at what he does, but only if clubs cede to his demands. The pendulum may be swinging.
All's mum from Manny the mooch.
With what the Yankees have added so far this winter, they are a better team than last season and have a higher upside this season.
For the fans who want Harper so bad, what if Voit is a bigger asset to the Yankees than Harper would be? Mark these words and bookmark this post.
odiened, I hope you are right. Voit was surely impressive last season. Hit the ball to all fields with power. He is a nice bat to have near the lower end of the batting order when the opposing pitcher thinks he has made it through the tough part of the order, and then bam Voit crushes him.
Manny is sooooooooooooooooo good, but no teams are killing themselves to get him, and only a very minimal few are even interested. The worm is turning, owners are realizing the fake individual stats are not all they are cracked up to be by the stat frauds.
Good news Yankee and WIN METHOD fans. This just reported......
Veteran lefty CC Sabathia gave Yankees fans some cause for concern when he underwent an angioplasty last month, but the team announced today that followup exams of Sabathia went well. Per the Yankees’ release, Sabathia “has now been cleared to begin working out, which will include baseball activities.”
Sabathia, 38, re-signed with the Yankees on a one-year, $8MM contract early in the offseason, agreeing to return to the Bronx for what will be the final season of his illustrious career. The prognosis at the time of his procedure was reportedly “excellent,” and the quick clearance for Sabathia to resume working out and performing baseball activities speaks to that. In all likelihood, then, the left-hander should be up to speed for Spring Training and on schedule for the Opening Day roster.
Good news on CC. One big final year and a WS?
CC, in his final season can let it all hang out. He helps the team win the WS and it will be a great book and movie.
Yankees 2019. Yes we can and yes we will.
Less pressure on CC with the addition of Paston and a full year of Happ.
Good luck CC. Your the man.
With so few, actually a very minimal amount of teams looking at Machado as a possibility for their team, it appears owners are getting smarter and realizing these high individual stat players are not 'all that,' and the stat frauds are talking out their behind.
We don't need the drama of Machado. But maybe at the right price it is possible. No where near what the sleaze is asking for.
Lyle Lee, Maybe the teams are realizing that the WIN METHOD is the way to go. We all here have known that for a long time now.
It is the same old story repeated countless times...to be the best players or teams you need to win. Losing doesn't cut it unless you are a stat fraud.
Still nothing on Machado and Harper. With so little interest in either it sure looks like the owners have wised up to long term high dollar contracts.
35 days until Yankees open spring training camp. Shape up or ship out.
Another day of nothing.
Lets hope all Yankees and prospects going to camp next month arrive in shape and ready to play baseball. Young guys on the cusp and all those blooming and growing, show what you got and your turn will come.
It is very unlikely that if the Yankees sign Machado they will become a better team.
Augie Defonce, I agree, but they also may not be worse. His character would be the key.
Signing Manny is not a positive.
Bird and Yanks agree to 1.2 million for 2019.
Andujar > Machado.
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Manny in a quandary? Not getting the offers he demands? Ever wonder why?
Zach Britton formerly signed and on 40 man roster this morning. Hanser Alberto DFA'd. Never even wore a Yankee uniform.
The Yankees and second baseman DJ LeMahieu have reached agreement on a two year deal. LeMahieu will likely be a super sub and all position infielder for the Yanks. Hopefully DJ's acquisition eliminates any deal for Manny Machado. The depth and quality of the Yankee infield is now better than last season. What a great deal in my opinion.
Could the DJ signing mean that Machado was determined not to be WIN METHOD, and the Yankees were never really going to be in on him. If true I am elated. Please don't tease me and sign Machado.
The stat frauds are so in love with their fake man made meaningless stats that they are having conniptions about the Yankees likely not signing Machado. The fools believe that their fake stats define players and any team not wanting a 26 year old that their stats say is a great player is beyond their comprehension. Love it, and love the stat frauds are crying. My day has been made.
No Machado would be the best thing to happen to the Yankees this hot stove season. We need players who play for the team and not themselves.
When all this todo about the LeMahieu signing and maybe no Machado comes to a final conclusion. I hope the Yanks not signing Manny was because of WIN METHOD, the most knowledgeable talent evaluator there is.
The ignorant stat frauds refer to Harper and Machado as generational talents. The problem is neither has been able to help eachs team to any great success. Therefor fans, you decide, would you rather have generational talent on your team and lose or just really good talent and win?
Stay the course Cash, no Manny.
Cashman, and no Harper.
As the Yankees keep adding talent the depth of this team is reaching the stage of astounding. If they produce on the field when it counts in 2019 the sky is the limit. To be the best you have to win.
Stat frauds will not accept the FACT that a player can help a team be the best and not have great stats, while a team with great stats can prevent a team from being the best.
Stat frauds it appears to look at stats in a vacuum. They create false stats with false values and adjust them with more fake man created stats in order to come out with the results they desire. In other to define their high individual stat as being their "best players" they work backwards to create their formulas to try to show their players are the best using their fake stats that they created.
In the same breath they loathe players with lesser individual stats who help their team win games, help their team reach the playoffs, advance through the playoffs and even win World Series.
Stat frauds when their high stat player doesn't help his team win will always blame his teammates. On the other hand when the lesser stat players help their team win games and more they credit the other players on the team. The games are played for the team to win any which way they can with every player on the roster contributing to the wins, NOT for the individual stats of players and the team to lose games.
Defend yourselves frauds. You won't get banned from this blog.
Bravo WIN METHOD. If any poster here posted on a stat fraud forum what you just wrote they would get banned in a heartbeat. They can't handle the truth, and they try to bury it. Your WIN METHOD blog allows the truth to see the light of day and the sun shine in.
What a great post.
WIN METHOD knows more than anyone here and certainly more than any stat fraud. His post nailed the issue between stat frauds and WIN METHOD fans. To put the final nail in the coffin of the stat frauds I will use the WIN METHOD headline....only wins and winning can determine the best players and the best teams.
The stat frauds can't win this debate. They can't win against common sense and logic. So they make up formulas for everything and set them to make the players they want to look good. WIN METHOD fans use facts, no fake formulas, just the real stats as guides, then wins and winning determine the rest.
Thank you for the post WIN METHOD.
All any baseball fan needs to learn and accept is what WIN METHOD posted above in his first paragraph. It defines baseball and the players involved in the game. It is posted here now.
""Stat frauds will not accept the FACT that a player can help a team be the best and not have great stats, while a team with great stats can prevent a team from being the best.""
Fans, old fans, new fans, anyone coming here and reading this blog, memorize these quoted words, and you will know and enjoy the game of baseball better than you ever have. And very likely, some players should learn them also.
WIN METHOD, What a great post. Your insight and intellect are brilliant. Love ya,
Read several pages on the Yankee forum from the site I got kicked out of for supporting the WIN METHOD. The posters over there are going berserk because they feel they know more about baseball using their meaningless useless stats than the Yankee management team does. They think the Yankees should sign Machado and are idiots and cheapskates if they don't. Pages and pages of rants, raves, and demeaning posts belittling the Yankees and their organization and attacking Hal Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman. What a disgrace those people are. If WIN METHOD could only post what he did last night here over there they would go insane. But WIN METHOD alone knows more about baseball and finding the right players than all of them combined, yes every one of them.
Erica Nuyens, if you don't mind, it seems you only post here after WIN METHOD makes a post. Each time you laud him and then sign off with love ya. May I ask why? If you don't wish to talk about it do not be afraid to tell me to mind my own business, I won't be offended because it really isn't any of my business. Just curious.
The 2019 season is starting to look brighter and brighter.
We all know that the stat frauds will not ever come to a site they do not control and debate their fake stats compared to the WIN METHOD. They can't win an honest debate. They are frauds.
The frauds are blinded by made up formulas. They are sheep, being led astray. Baaaa, baaaa.
Lori Kelly, I don't mind. I met WIN METHOD at an airport several years ago. We met in the boarding area as we were on the same flight. We started to chat and I asked what he did for a living. He mentioned baseball and the Yankees. My husband is a Yankee fan and the conversation went on from there. He mentioned his blog the WIN METHOD and that I and my husband should read it. My husband has posted here since and loves it. I have learned the game mostly from my husband and he told me it was great that I had met WIN METHOD.
Erica Nuyens, very nice.
How about the possibility of Voit/Bird at 1B having a supercombo year? Lets go guys, do it.
The one player I have the most doubt about is Sanchez. I hope to heaven I am wrong and he plays Yankee WIN METHOD baseball and helps the team to a gigantic season.
Erica Nuyens, thank you for sharing your story.
Still have to move Grayskies unless the Yankees decide to ride him out in the bullpen and be the possible sixth starter and injury protection.
Silence from the frauds, they have nothing to say. WIN METHOD wins and winning defeat individual stats all the time.
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