It is that time again WIN METHOD fans. The 2019 baseball season has concluded. The best teams and the best players made it to the playoffs and after advancing through the playoffs by winning each series and eliminating each team they played, the Washington Nationals won the World Series and are the best baseball team and the best baseball players in the world. Congratulations to the Nationals for all you have accomplished. There is only one way for a team and for players to become the best of the best, and that is with wins and winning. No individual stat matters. Only wins and winning make you the best. Sorry stat frauds, when you learn this you will learn real baseball.
Yes, the 2019 season is over. The YANKEES did their best and it was not good enough as they lost to the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series. However, it looked like the YANKEES took enough out of the Astros that it may have cost them winning the World Series. The YANKEES will need some work to do this winter to find and to put together the last few pieces they need to become the best of the best. Considering the massive amounts of crippling injuries our YANKEE team had to endure over the season, making the playoffs was a fine achievement in itself. But that was the past. Now we look to the future.
There are likely as many opinions as there are YANKEE fans on what the team needs to do over the winter to '"win it all" in 2020. There is the free agent route with several pieces available, there are our own pieces available who if healthy for an entire season will help, and then there are own in house pieces available that are blooming and growing in the minors. Several of which may contribute greatly in 2020. There are also trade possibilities that may become on option.
YANKEE management will be busy this winter. How much money to spend on talent. Is the money spent worth the investment? Paying players very high salaries for multiple years is seldom a remedy, and in fact has hurt teams who have gone that route more than it has helped them, The trade route is a possibility, but it takes two parties to make a deal that each party feels is good for their team. Then there is the bloom and grow route. Spring training will provide some answers, but the hot stove will be only ashes before spring training provides some answers. We will just have to see what happens and how things shake out this winter and spring. Each decision made by management determines how and what the next decision may be. Throwing money at big contracts is up to management. You WIN METHOD fans know my opinion on big long term contracts, 'just say no'. We said no to Harper and Machado last year and it paid dividends over the season as the YANKEES made the playoffs even with all the injuries. Harper and Machado each cost their team a lot of dollars and neither team made the playoffs and are saddled with many years of an overpaid single piece of talent.
Lets all have a fun hot stove season, keep offering your opinions, thoughts, and ideas, and be happy you are not the one making the decisions. Remember fans, the YANKEE management team has more knowledge and information than you (we) do. There must be financial limits and that is one thing everyone should remember. So, here we go, let's turn on the stove and see what we can cook up. LETS GO YANKEES.
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47 days until Yankee spring training camp opens. Think positive.
Slowly but surely we head into a new season with the highest of expectations.
The decisions Yankee management makes are not always the ones certain fans want. Then there are the WIN METHOD fans who realize the Yankee management are the only ones who make the decisions and they readily accept them because they realize that they actually may be best for the team.
Isn't it interesting that stat frauds think they are smarter than the people who run the Yankee team. Demeaning, belittling, insulting, and disparaging them constantly on whatever decisions they make, who they pay, and how much they pay them.
The baseball off season is really cooking. Players are getting signed by all teams as each tries to improve the best they can. Many interesting signings and I believe we will see several teams showing marked improvement in 2020. Can't wait for spring training to start.
Not trying to speak for all WIN METHOD fans, but I bet most of us believe the 2020 season will be special for the Yankees.
What I like about Cashman, he makes a deal with a purpose that has been thought and reasoned out. The issue with the fans who disagree with the deal is they do not understand the trade and even may be incapable of understanding why.
Hal Jenks.....Plus no one knows the Yankee needs better than the Yankee management team. The deals they make may not always turn out the way the Yankees would like them to, but they make the deals with more knowledge and wisdom than any of the fans. The fans should just go with the flow and limit their whining and sniveling. Whining and sniveling is almost no existent here, but go to other forums and the posters there will turn your stomach.
Happy New Year all you fantastic WIN METHOD followers.
Yankee update....No news is good news. Cashman knows what he is doing.
Rumor has it and the rumor is unsubstantiated that the Brewers want Andujar, Frazier, and Garcia for Hader. In my opinion, I tell the Brewers to take a long walk on a short pier. I wouldn't even give any two of the three for Hader. And I bet Cashman doesn't either.
I do not at all like when I read posters on other blogs/forums rip into players. Those posters do not know the players they are ridiculing, never talked with them, never played with them, do not know the mental makeup, their personality, what their work ethic is, and so on. In other words those posters know only about 1% of what the Yankees know. But those posters go on and on making fools of themselves relentlessly. May the new year bring them some brains.
coryankee, well stated and spot on.
Two more days and it's 2020. Time for players to shake off the holidays and the cob webs. Time to get ready for the 2020 spring camp reporting dates and the drive to the playoffs.
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
Forty-three days for Yankee spring camp opening. Just a month and a half away. Lets go Yankees.
It behooves me to understand why stat frauds are so willing to trade high quality young Yankee players (albeit maybe extra's) for a player that the Yankees have very little to no need for.
Appears any deal by Yankees, if there be one, will not happen until next year.
Lets conclude 2019 with no trades. Happy New Year.
Happy New Year everyone. Looking for a most successful Yankee baseball season in 2020.
Cashman knows what he is doing. He will not trade away our top talent just to make a trade. He will only make a trade if he believes it makes the team better and win more games.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Happy New Year.
Happy new year.
Happy New Year WIN METHOD fans. 2020 will be our year. Yes we can.
Happy 2020.
Cashman and the Yankees don' need to make any deals. We are locked and loaded. Make the teams who want our talent come crawling to us.
To start the new year off right and set the stat frauds pants on fire....Mike Trout is the most overrated baseball player in baseball. Individually, his stats are gaudy, but any players individual stats do not a winning player make. Eight full years a full time position player, sadly only one time helped his team to the playoffs. That leaves seven years of failure helping his team to the playoffs. Check out what he did that one time in the playoffs. As WIN METHOD has stated, only the best players and the best teams make it to the playoffs most consistently and only the best players and best teams advance through the playoffs the most often. Read it and weep stat frauds.
Cory, great statement. accurate and true based on the facts. However, the stat frauds will blame all of Trouts teammates for all the failures and everything else.
What I find interesting regarding Trout is how the Angels from the decade 2001-2010 were so very good, almost always making the playoffs and even winning a World Series. Then after Trouts arrival in the decade 2011-2020 (2020 yet to be played} the Angles have floundered with the addition of Trout to the team. Trout joined the team in 2011 and has been a full time player since the 2012 season on. A disaster for the Angle organization and team.
Statistically Mike Trout is a great individual player. No individual player makes a team win.
Every player on the team contributes in their own way and in various ways. Teams succeed because of the contributions of every player not just a few.
Trout although a high statistic individual is not WIN METHOD likely because he had the choice playing someplace else or staying with the Angels. He made the choice and was very happy being adored by people who adore individuals even when said individual does not help their team win. The loser fans have built a wall of fake excuses for their loser stars and float a boatload of excuses for their loser by blaming everyone who plays with him ignoring the fans who know he is a loser.
Domingo German has been suspended 81 games by MLB. He will not be able to pitch until some time in June 2020. He has lost 18 games in 2019 and will lose 63 games in 2020.
German coming back in June could turn out to be a boon for the Yankees on several different levels. As usual we will play around all obstacles.
I do not accept domestic abuse of any form. I also do not believe it is any of my bosses business and it should only be a matter between the affected parties and the police if needed.
Mickey Littlebear. I hear you and agree. But, I believe and could be wrong that Germans discretion happened at a MLB public event and that gave MLB the right to intervene.
Trout had a chance to play anywhere he wanted. He didn't take it and stayed where he was. I guess being adored by stat frauds is enough for him and winning does not matter to him in reality. He can always speak of winning while never allowing himself the chance to prove he can win.
If German didn't do what he did, he wouldn't be in this mess. Responsibility.
In any case MLB is making a statement regarding domestic abuse. Their stance and the penalties they have deemed should hopefully be a deterrent to any future misdeeds.
Here's a thought. If this season the Yankees cut in half all the time and games lost to player injuries from last season, how more wins will the team gain?
Fred Slube, I don't think it makes any difference. Producing when it counts determines wins, not who produces them. A team must play through injuries.
No question. When a player gets injured and is out of action be it for a few days, a week or far longer, another player then has the opportunity to step up and prove themselves. Proving yourself means producing when it matters and helping your team win. Wins measures great teams and great players.
"How about that.' A quote from long ago Yankee all time great announcer Mel Allen.
The Yankees have hired Eric Cressey, a well-known and highly sought after performance coach, to oversee their training and strength-and-conditioning departments, sources told The Athletic. As part of an overhaul that will include new hires by Cressey, the Yankees will also transition longtime athletic trainer Steve Donohue to a status akin to trainer emeritus, though it’s expected he will remain involved with the club.
The changes the Yankees have made and will make to their training and strength-and-conditioning programs reflect a move toward the contemporary line of thought on player performance. They’ve made similar transitions elsewhere in the organization this winter, primarily throughout their pitching programs.
Cressey, who runs Cressey Sports Performance, works closely with Max Scherzer and Corey Kluber. His approach to player performance reflects a rapidly changing philosophy throughout the sport that emphasizes kinesiology and biomechanics.
But can Cressey hit or pitch?????? Anyone can train. Those who can't play, train.
All is quiet with the Yankees as spring training camp opening nears.
Cashman knows he has the team. He doesn't need to do anything unless it is to the Yankees benefit.
36 days and Yankee spring camp opens in Tampa.
Unlike the stat frauds, Brian Cashman has brians and knows what he is talking about and doing.
2020 the year of the Yankee in the baseball world.
Hoping the Yankees don't trade any of our great young talent, unless it is an amazingly good deal for the Yankees. Spring training should be great for fans watching the guys play for positions, playing time, and even roster spots. Let the fun begin in five weeks.
Gil McKenzie, I agree. I think Cashman is to smart to give any quality player(s) away unless he knows something none of us do.
Tom Wilson, did you mean not give away?
Gil McKenzie, you are right. My first post and I screwed it up. Sorry.
Tom Wilson, no big deal. I bet everyone knew what you were talking about and trying to say.
The Yankee team is loaded with talent there is no reason to give any of the talent away unless it is a no brainer trade where we get something good without giving up our really good players.
The Andujar/Urshela battle for 3b should be fun. Nothing like competition to bring out the best. Could be a big win-win for Yankees.
Any time I read the stat frauds sites it makes me want to puke. It is hard to believe some baseball fans can be so stupid.
Sal Mineo, they are guided by fake man made up stats. They live and die by them and quote then as if they were gospel. Meaningless trash used by very dumb fans.
Who knows, spring training may spring a few surprises on us fans and even Yankee management.
With so many young pitchers and position players in the Yankee system, all will be pushing hard to make a statement and be recognized as trying to be the best. Yes, the Yankees are loaded.
Come on, lets get baseball back in action. Looking forward to this season, it could be very special.
Yankees sign backup 36 year old catcher Chris Iannetta to minor league deal.
Have signed up on a few Yankee talk sites. So far none of the others comes even close to being as easy to sign up, as easy to post, and none of the others has as good a content as this site.
Tom Wilson, welcome to the best. Post and read everywhere you can and then let us here at WIN METHOD know what you find out about the other sites. WIN METHOD is resoundingly the best there is. We have NEVER banned a poster and have had over 740 million views. Again, welcome.
Tom Wilson, when you are on the other forums, just don't mention the WIN METHOD, they hate us because we are number one in the world and we make fools of their arguments about winning baseball and their meaningless stats. Good luck.
Yankees have agreed to 2020 contracts with all arbitration eligible players. No holdouts, looks like everyone wants to win.
Nice for the players and the team to eliminate any issues and possible animosities heading into spring training. Everyone on the same page.
The way things are developing the Yankees are going to have a 'banner' year.
This is the highest hopes I've seen from posters for a successful season in a long time. Posters are always upbeat and positive, but so far this off season it appears expectations for 2020 are very high.
All the guys need to do is win. Everyone will contribute in their own way. Producing when it matters most each game will earn wins, wins earn the playoffs and beyond.
I don't know how many stat frauds are aware that one of their heroes, Bryce Harper jumped from a team he contaminated for years, the Washington Nationals, and immediately the year he left the team won the World Series. Why, they lost nothing in Harper but a high price loser who plays for himself. That is why the Yankees have a gold mine in WIN METHOD, he knows who is garbage and who isn't. Same goes for Manny Machado.
Hobbs, throw in Mike 'fish' Trout also.
Yes we will.
Less than a month left. Yankee camp will be open in less than a month. The fun will begin.
In my opinion I think Cashman is still working on improving the team via some type of deal, but I think Cashman will not do a deal just to do one. He will only deal if he truly feels it will help the team. Also, the way the team is built now, it will be very hard to improve it.
MLB makes fools and embarrasses themselves with their decision on the Houston Astros cheating scandal.
1.The Astros, which won the World Series in 2017, will forfeit its first- and second-round draft selections for the next two seasons.
2.General Manager Jeff Lunhow and team manager A.J. Hinch were both suspended without pay for one season.
The team loses four draft picks over the next two seasons, and the GM and manager get suspended for one season. That's it.
While a player gets suspended for half a season for slapping his wife.
What a joke the MLB commissioner is.
Wouldn't it be sweet if the MLB owners got together and fired Manfred and banned him from baseball forever.
Cora came up with the scheme and did it with two different teams, let's see what he gets hit with. Should be more severe.
How about the players themselves, they did the foul deed and cheated baseball fans and players of other teams. At least fine them half their yearly salary and give it to the baseball retirement fund.
Baseball fans from around the world. Just play fair and don't cheat. How can all the cheating players get away unscathed??????????
Bull hockey on MLB officials.
So the players who cheated get away free and a player who slaps his wife loses a half a season. What a screwed up world and a screwed up commissioner.
I will say it and hope the common sense fans here to not get upset....this is what you get from liberals and progressives.
Tony Manchu, hear hear, you were too polite.
Without stripping titles, this will not act as enough of a deterrent against future forms of this type of cheating.
Weak punishment in my opinion. MLB should have led the way with punishment that would make anyone thinking of doing the same quake in their boots.
Sadly, the players who took part in the cheating scam, get paid for winning the WS, get pay increases for their cheating and don't get one iota of punishment. Corruption rules.
Raul Vasquez, I would love to hear how MLB decided not to punish the cheating players in any shape or form.
I wonder how Aaron Boone feels about Cora and Hinch cheating his team.
How do you think the LA Dodgers feel losing the 2017 WS in seven games to the Astros who cheated to win?
No word on the Cora decision yet.
Less than four weeks, just 27 days and Yankee 2020 spring camp will open.
It looks like the takeaway on Mets manager Carlos Beltran is that he is an illegal sign stealing cheat enabler. Sad.
"illegal sign stealing cheat enabler" I think Beltran is a legal citizen.
Cole needs to be the real deal or the Yankees wasted a lot of money. We will find out.
The sux have already fired Cora without any final word from MLB on his cheating scandal for which he shouls be banned from baseball forever.
Carlos Beltran quits Mets before they fire him. I guess it looks better on his resume to not be fired. But he still remains a low life rat fink cheat.
The WIN METHOD is all about wins and winning and how to get there, but not by cheating in any way, shape, or form.
The problem with MLB is they really do not care about the game or the fans. The baseball commissioner works for the owners and he is there to try to make as money for the owners by creating revenue via the media deals and advertisement, etc. MLB let players use drugs because it made for more home runs and more attendance, making for more revenue. They change the making of a baseball when it helps create revenue. They change ballparks and shorten the outfield fences when it helps create revenue. They change rules of the game itself when it helps create revenue. This makes the owners happy and even the players who get paid handsomely and make more money than they could doing anything else. So what if guys cheat and a few get suspended now and again.
Tommy Lee, well said. Sad, no individual cheats get penalized.
When the worm turns on the cheaters, it will be a bitter pill for them to swallow. However, sad to say there will always be a demented lowlife willing to pay the bill for the cheaters.
On January 7th I made my first post here on the WIN METHOD blog. On January 10th I posted that I have signed up with several sites. Five to be exact. Here are the results. I was able to sign up with four of the five and have been able to post on them. On only one site I could not. Ten days after I signed on to the nyyfans forum I was banned with the following message:
"vBulletin Message
You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.
Date the ban will be lifted: Never"
I was never allowed to post and never did, but I was told the time I was waiting was worth the wait. I could log in and I was counted as a member as was every poster here who signed in with them and got banned. Their membership total is a lie and fake and their posters there are a clique of very stupid baseball fans.
Of the four sites that have accepted me and allowed me to post, this site the WIN METHOD blog was the easiest to sing in for and had no restrictions but to post no foul language. The other three sites are all active but no where near the membership, viewership, and posts of the WIN METHOD blog.
The WIN METHOD blog is undeniably the world's number one yankee baseball blog.
All I can say is LETS GO YANKEES.
Tom Wilson, thank you for joining us and posting on the best and most knowledgeable baseball site in the world. I have also gone through the nyy fiasco. They are just a small clique of some very dumb and ignorant fans who don't know baseball and afraid of posters who don't join in to their backwards and ignorant way of thinking about baseball. Yes, once you sign up you are considered and counted as a member. If I am pretty sure they have only several hundred actual posters active. Here at WIN METHOD, we don't even bother counting poster, there are so many from all over the world. We are over 744 million views, yes millions, not hundreds or thousands.
No matter, welcome, and we are glad to have you.
Been there done that also guys. I just post here now. Other places are wastes. To say it all, Lets go Yankees.
Just 24 more days until baseball comes alive and the number one sport will be back in action.
Tom Wilson, there are so many posters here that either left or were banned from other places.
The biggest difference here is he quality and character of people here.
Welcome Tom Wilson, remember you don't have to register here. Just post.
Still no word on Cora decision by MLB. They work very slow, shows much incompetence. I am sure their view would be they just want to get all the facts and get it right. Ho ho ho.
Tom Wilson, On all the other Yankee sites you will encounter 90+% stat frauds using made up formulas. They will tell you that some of the most failed players in baseball are the best in the game and that wins don't mean anything. You are better off here in the real world of baseball discussion. You won't get banned before you start and you won't get banned for expressing you views and opinions. Can't say the same for other sites. Here you will find great disdain for stat frauds, plus we encourage them to post here to put there ignorance on display for the entire world to see.
The only thing the Yankees need to do in 2020 is play good clean honest WIN METHOD baseball and they will rule the world once again.
Teena/Bronx, sadly that is something stat frauds know nothing about. They are bad filthy cheats.
Thanks everyone. I am sure I will like it here.
The best of this blog is NO popups, NO selling, NO advertisements, NO Barbra Streisand.
Let the season begin and let the good times roll.
Yankees and Cashman very quiet which is good. They may feel they have what is needed to go into the season loaded. I believe they are correct.
Harry Stavris, I tend to agree. If Sanchez learns to hit instead of swinging like a madman so much that would bode well for minimizing what I believe is our biggest weak spot and help the team immensely.
Don't forget there were 30 different players on the DL 39 different times in 2019? Depth is such a nice problem to have. Let the other GMs come crawling to Cashman.
It's coming. The sounds of baseballs hitting mitts. Soon after the cracks of bats hitting baseballs. Music to my old ears.
KevMac, I bet Cashman is not even looking for a deal. You are right, let the other guys come to you when they need something. We have better than they have.
Three weeks from today and Yankee spring training camp opens in Tampa Florida.
FYI...For your information and just to boast a little...Google "world's best Yankee baseball blog"...your WIN METHOD blog is there on top...and the baseball fans all over the world are reading and posting at the WIN METHOD blog.
Thank you everyone for making the WIN METHOD the number one Yankee baseball blog in the world.
Skoal!!!
Just say no Cashman. We don't need anything, we have enough to be the best. Depth is our key and it proven last season how much depth we have. More than any other team.
Think about this WIN METHOD fans. Last year, without Cole added to their rotation, the Yankees won 103 games despite setting a a major league record with 30 different players going on the DL. The Yankees lost a total of 1,149 days to injuries, 600-plus more than any other team in baseball. The Yankees are flushed with talent and are raring to win it all.
In the Dominican Republic the WIN METHOD blog is the only site to read for positive and productive information about the Yankees. Yes, it is the world's best Yankee site. Go Deivi, show them what you can do.
Lets go Yankees.
Being the best is what I like and I like this blog.
Derek Jeter voted into Baseball Hall of Fame. Misses unanimous entry by one vote.
Whoever it was who did not vote Jeter in, his name should be announced to the world, and he/she should be demeaned and denounced by all baseball fans. What a disgrace this human being is to baseball and humanity. An ignorant lowlife fool and I'd be willing to bet dollars to donuts that the voter is a stat fraud.
So let’s talk about it. Should we cue the condemnations for that voter? Or ho-hum, who cares, this doesn’t take away from Jeter’s accomplishment, nothing to see here, move along?
That’s your choice. And that's the point. This whole Hall of Fame thing is about opinions, not facts. In this arena, yours is just as relevant as the person who decided to leave Jeter off his or her ballot.
The baseball Hall of Fame is the granddaddy of all the Halls of Fame. No other Hall causes the same debates, the same disagreements, the same acrimony, the same awfulness from one human being to another.
And — other than that last one — it’s one of the most beautiful things in all of sports.
Look, as a Baseball Writers Association of America member and Hall of Fame voter, it doesn’t matter to me whether Jeter gets every vote or no votes. I only control my vote, and as Newsday readers may know, I submitted a ballot this year that only contained a checkmark next to Jeter’s name.
So one other writer — who as I type this has not been identified — sent in a ballot that did not include a checkmark next to Jeter’s name.
Under the Hall of Fame’s voting rules, that person may remain anonymous. (It’s important to point out here that the BBWAA years ago voted to make every ballot public. The Hall of Fame, which had the final say, rejected that vote.)
Or that person may decide to reveal the reasons behind his or her decision. I eagerly await that discussion, even if I end up disagreeing with the logic behind that ballot.
But actually this year’s Hall of Fame announcement ended up being more interesting because of the lone dissenter. If Jeter got 100%, that would have made him No. 2 on that list (even though that would have been fitting). Been there, done that. It was just last year.
Now Jeter stands alone as the only person to get into the Hall with 99.7% of the vote and people have something to bang on about. Plus, it gives Rivera something to rib him about for all eternity. Wanna bet that started already on Tuesday night?
It’s OK to get worked up about it — as long as a little respect for other people’s opinions is part of the equation. If your heart was set on Jeter joining Rivera as the two 100 percenters, you have every right to be disappointed by Tuesday’s result.
It’s also OK not to give a hoot. Jeter was one of the greatest baseball players in history, has five World Series rings, by all appearances has had one of the best lives imaginable, and will be standing on the podium in Cooperstown, N.Y, on July 26. Something tells us he’s OK with the one ‘no’ vote.
Wait — it was Jeter himself who told us he was OK with it. After MLB Network whiffed, Jeter was asked about the 'no' vote on the BBWAA conference call (by the first questioner, former Newsday baseball columnist Ken Davidoff, now of the New York Post).
The 99.7% Hall of Famer gave a 100% perfect answer. Would you expect anything less?
“Well, I look at all the votes that I got,” Jeter said. “And it takes a lot of votes to get elected to the Hall of Fame. You know, trying to get that many people to agree on something is pretty difficult to do. So that’s not something that’s on my mind. I’m just extremely honored and excited to be elected.”
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I believe the voters name should be made public and should he/she should not be allowed to hide behind anonymity. Also the voter should never be allowed to vote again in my opinion.
I strongly believe everyone should be allowed to express their opinion. However when 300 "knowledgeable" baseball people express their opinion and only 1 does not agree, I believe that 1 person loses their credibility.
I would be willing to hopefully wish that the 1 naysayer would come forward and tell the baseball world why they did not vote for Jeter and tell us why. I invite that 1 voter to come hear and express their opinions on this the world's greatest Yankee baseball blog.
If there ever was one baseball player that deserved to be unanimously voted into the HOF it was Jeter. Jeter was the best position and greatest player in baseball over his two decade career, bar none. In my opinion the voter who left Jeter off their ballot is a disgrace as a human being and deserves the wrath of any and all baseball fans.
HerecomestheJudge, I agree. I also would love to hear the opinions and views of the voter who did not think Jeter deserved to be on their ballot. 299 to 1 says much about the rational thinking of the majority of 299 while it says nothing for the demented, distorted, bias views of the minority of one.
WIN METHOD best in the world.
I detest that the BBWHOF voters can remain anonymous. That is a slap in the face of baseball fans and would only be supported by corrupt individuals. If you believe in something, step up, step forward, and express your views and explain why like a man, and not hide in a hole like stat frauds.
I want that one person who didn't vote for Derek Jeter to go to jail for the rest of their life. Solitary confinement also.
Im grossed out that one idiot actually felt like they wanted to be cool and not vote for Derek Jeter to be a unanimous HOF...they need to be outed.
Jeter: 99.7% approval is AWESOME but holy moly that one person who we'll find out the name tonight or tomorrow solely did it to get his name out there. What a shame.
It’s insane to me that every single person voted “yes” for Derek Jeter to be in the Hall of Fame except for ONE PERSON. Their vote shouldn’t count and they should be ashamed of themselves. How do you vote that DEREK JETER shouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame? Deserved to be unanimous.
The search for the identity of this one person who prevented Jeter from being unanimously voted into the Hall of Fame should tell you that the voter is a coward and a disgusting person who should never been chosen to vote by the BBWAA.
An interesting piece of factual knowledge .... Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter are the two longest playing teammates who are Hall of Famers. Also they are first and second all time vote getters by percentage of votes in the HOF.
No voter for baseballs HOF should EVER be allowed to remain anonymous. The posers that be are the dirtbags to blame for allowing anonymity. It's a shame.
It is what it is and we can only complain. Likely, the complaining will fall on deaf and dumb ears. Nonetheless, Jeter was the best baseball player in all of baseball over his 20 year career. Being voted in to the HOF with just one dissenter proves that fact.
The lone nay voter is allowed his opinions as ignorant and stupid as they may be.
okiened, well said.
I miss Jetes.
My goal this summer is to go to Cooperstown for the Jeter HOF induction ceremony.
Love the Yankees and love the WIN METHOD.
NJYANKEE, Sweet, do it, it will be something to remember the rest of your life.
As of now we have, barring any unforeseen issues, four starting pitchers. Cole, Louie Louie, Tanaka, and Paxton. For the five spot we will have Monty, Happ, Garcia, Schmidt, King battling for it until German comes back from suspension. Can you say loaded.
White Knight, No matter how well Deivi does this spring he will go to AAA because of his youth and needing more experience. Monty and Happ have MLB experience, are both lefties and are the ones with the inside track. King and Schmidt are both on the cusp. Spring training will be fun.
Slowly but surely the opening of spring camp draws closer and baseball will be back.
Yankees win World Series. Future 2020 headline.
Do we get Sanchez or meatball, that will be the $64,000.00 question.
When you make your prize signing early, everything else becomes almost a none event for the rest of the hot stove season. One and done. Or is it won and done.
For all newcomers to the WIN METHOD blog, I would like to remind you to read each blog post since the beginning and then read the comments from posters in each blog post. You will find information, insight, and baseball knowledge that you will never find anywhere else. You will learn why players who have may have great individual stats do not help their team win and why players with lesser stats may be the best players in baseball. This is the best Yankee baseball blog/site in the world. ENJOY!
johnsondc, you speak words of wisdom. The wise will learn, all others will fall by the wayside.
It is as simple as knowing what is more important, individual stats or wins.
Individual stats are only of value if your team wins. As is stated in this blog "producing when it counts or when it matters" is the key to winning. All players during a season have opportunities to "produce when it counts' and the team with the players who do this most often wins most often. Wins are what gets teams to the playoffs and more. One player does not make a team and one players "highest stats" mean nothing if the team does not win. Therefore paying position players vast millions of dollars per year is a foolish exercise unless he is documented to helping his team to the playoffs consistently.
Steve, that is why WIN METHOD fans recognize all players on a team, not just one or two. All players make a team what it is, good or bad. Wins determine bed not a players stats.
Lets go Yankees.
I second several posters opinions that Yankee spring training will be much fun to watch this spring.
Gingerale, welcome to the WIN METHOD blog, the best Yankee baseball blog/site in the world.
Keep posting.
Zack Norris and etal: The 162 game season will be even more fun.
I see many stat frauds saying Mike Trout is the best player in baseball and an all time great. If you live and die by individual stats you will believe so. I believe Trout is a great individual player and his stats define so. I also believe that if a player does not help his team to the playoffs and beyond consistently he is not a great player in his era because wins determines the best of the best players. Mike Trout is just another highly paid loser who the stat frauds and talking heads can fawn over. Wins and winning determine the best players not individual stats. I am very tired of the stat frauds and talking heads blaming Trouts teammates for his failures to help his team win. Trout could have played anywhere he wanted, he made his choice, now he must live by it. Put up or shut up.
yankeedoodledandy, Trout is laughing all the way to the bank. He made his decision, he will be judged by it by in the know baseball fans, and will still be voted into the HOF by the media.
Players can be great because of what they accomplish individually. I think WIN METHOD fans have posted that throughout this blog on many occasions.
For well over a hundred years of baseball there have been countless great players with great individual stats. Most who have gone into the Hall of Fame for their personal achievements.
HOWEVER: To determine the best of the best, the players who have helped lead their team to great win/loss records {particularly before post season playoffs began} and then those players who did the same after post season playoffs began, and also those players after the expansion of the post season playoffs to what it is today.
To put it simply, the players who played on teams with the best win/loss records and the players who helped lead their teams to the most playoffs and beyond are the best of the best players in baseball. You just can't be a best of the best players unless you help your team win.
will-i-am, you make is so simple 'even a stat fraud can understand it'.
will-i-am, great explanation.
Ivan Noriokos, even a cave man can understand it also.
Yes, there is a difference between accumulating massive personal stats that don't create wins for your team and producing when it counts at a lower rate and helping your team win and go to
the playoffs and also win in the playoffs.
The newer baseball fans over the past 2 or 3 decades have been brainwashed with individual stats being the end all in rating players. Wins do not count in the fake made up convoluted stats world. Everything is pointed directed to the fantasy game world and they demean pitchers who win and rather rate pitchers by any other stat than wins and winning. They rate position players only by cumulative numbers and made up formulas with subjective values which have little bearing on real games and which team wins or loses. I can go on and on. Don't even get me started on the totally fake defensive fake metrics they use.
Spring training is so close I can feel the warm Florida sunshine.
We all have heard the phrase 'dumb as a rock'. A new one is taking it's place, 'dumb as a
stat fraud'.
Two weeks, only fourteen more days and the New York Yankees will open their spring training camp in Tampa Florida for pitchers and catchers followed a few day later for all players followed a few day later by the first spring training game. The abyss of a sports less off season will be memory. Lets go Yankees.
LOL, dumb as a stat fraud. There are far too many of them in this world.
Hoping for Yankee players to stay healthy this spring and season and have a season to remember.
Where are the stat frauds to defend themselves. Not here, because they have no defense. We go their forums, express our opinions, and get banned. They come here, express their opinions and do not get banned. Ever wonder why? WIN METHOD fans know why. The stat frauds have no argument to they can defend. They love losers, hail losers, adore losers, and are losers themselves.
It is palin as the nose on your face. To be the best you have to win.
13 days!
Really like the way the Yankees and Cashman are handling the hot stove season. Caught the biggest WIN METHOD fish and then let the others go fish.
Watch what Monty, Schmidt, King, and Garcia show this season.
Mark Wagoner, the stat frauds have no defense, unless you consider made up fake formulas a defense.
What makes the WIN METHOD site so special is there is no baloney from posters saying how stupid the Yankees and or Cashman are for not doing what posters think they should do. Here there are realistic intelligent views posted all the time. No made up scenarios, no made up trades, no meaningless rumors, just the smartest baseball fans in the world. Lets keep it that way.
Margo Walley, there is so much bickering on those other sites. Posters there argue about made up deals that they themselves makeup. On and on nonsense that means nothing. I want just the facts about real things pertaining to the Yankees. We get that here.
Hoping the players don't try to outdo themselves this spring competing for playing time. Just play hard and the best you can, everything will come out in the wash. Don't hurt yourself trying to do more than your body can take.
With a new training staff in place, the Yankees may get a better program that keeps the players on the field.
12 days!
Walt Belamy, wouldn't that be great.
This Yankee team is so very deep. Stay healthy and we roll to the playoffs as the team just gets better as the season moves into the playoff phase.
The stat frauds want the Yankees to try to get Nolan Arenado. Another idiotic idea from the peanut brain gallery.
The stat frauds really go for the very high dollar contracts. Well it's not their money they like to throw away. Like little kids in the candy store...."I want this, this, that, this, and that. Then wind up sick losers upchucking over themselves.
11 days left until Yankee spring training camp opens!
Jerry Curcio, Your post made my day starting it off with a laugh. Thanks.
It is nice to see so many Yankee players arrive in camp so early. The early bird catches the worm.
New Yankee training staff has told and are telling players arriving in camp to talk with them about each players training regimen.
Maybe the training staff will try to get players to back off the weights to try to keep the guys from getting muscle bound, to tight, and then be able play baseball.
Likely with the now training staff of not the injuries this coming season will be nowhere as many as last seasons.
Injuries or not this season's roster is going to be much deeper than last years.
Great site.
I am a firm believer in the WIN METHOD and that every player on a team has a role to play for their team. From the 'ace' pitcher to the '26th' man utility player. And everyone in between add value to their team to create wins by what each does for the team. That is why unequivocally the best teams and players win when it matters most. Over 162 games teams just need enough wins to make the playoffs. From then on those teams start from zero and then play in the 'second season', the playoffs. Again the teams who win each round of the playoffs advance to the next round and eventually the world's greatest competition, bar none, the World Series. Only wins and winning will get them their. There is not one player's individual stats that mean a rat's rear end.
Steve, 100% agree. Baseball the way it has been played forever. Many great individual players for over 100 hundred years, but the best of the best, "the greatest" lead their teams to wins the most.
I would like to see anyone come and post here their views of what Steve said as being wrong and/or inaccurate. Also, explain why.
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