GDT(2/3): New York Yankees @ Toronto Blue Jays - Pineda vs. Dickey - 1:07 PM ET

[Orgfiller]

Or you don't have one and don't like people who don't agree with you. Expand your horizons a little bit. You might like what you see.

 

Positional value has been proven multiple times, you can't just disagree with something that is proven to be true.

 

Exhibit A: EE and Lind both play at an offensive based position, one could even argue that EE last year was more valuable than what Bautista would have done at 1st. Bautista plays at least average defense at RF, you move him to 1B, he instantly lose a great deal of value. It's literally costing the team wins.

[Dylan]

omg colby lol

[xposbrad]

Yanks are going to have some solid pitching. Pineda is looking pretty solid

[fatcowxlive]

I don't think he meant now with what we currently have.

 

I addressed it in the edit. This team's biggest acquisition was Kratz. The farm is in shambles, and we had to pool player salaries to get $13MM in the account. Also we still haven't signed Drew. Where are we going to get these players?

[Anemic0ffense]

K-olby Rasmus

[Horses Fart]

WoW. Pineda looking awesome. He the #5 starter?

[Anemic0ffense]

These are some putrid looking AB's... Pineda has a nice slider going, but he's hung a fair amount of them... Terrible job by the bats today

[Corporal Valdal]

Rasmus needs to sit a few games like if he continues to hit like this for a few weeks he can kiss his big FA contract goodbye

[Dylan]

these bats are dead

[xposbrad]

I addressed it in the edit. This team's biggest acquisition was Kratz. The farm is in shambles, and we had to pool player salaries to get $13MM in the account. Also we still haven't signed Drew. Where are we going to get these players?

 

It's ok, we still have a 2-3 year window! lol

[JFD]

dopey dog's in JPA mode to start the season.

[Angrioter]

Tomorrow lineup

Melky CF

Lawrie 3B

Bautista RF

Encarnacion 1B

Navarro DH

Sierra LF

Kratz C

Izturis 2B

Diaz SS

[fatcowxlive]

This is just an unfair post. I never said you can do this now. But moves in the future that could benefit us. Bringing up Goins was just stupid. It doesn't matter if hes a better defender in this situation because hes not an everday player. People on this board are completely unreasonable.

 

You're right, you didn't see my edit:

 

Edit: For the rest of the quote I hope you know that Jays players wanted to pool money to sign Santana. We don't have $13MM in the account. The farm is also depleted. Where the f*** can we get a good CF, RF and SS? AA doesn't want to even sign Drew

 

We don't have $13MM so basically every premium FA is off limits. No farm means no big trades. Are we just going to pick a shortstop, center fielder and right fielder from the baseball tree?

[Angrioter]

2014 - 21 PA and 10 K's

2013 - 23 PA and 10 K's

[Dylan]

Rasmus won't get started if he's sitting. Throw him in the 7th or 8th spot, not second. Colby is a frustrating streaky hitter.

[bzapple]

Dickey got away with a mistake. Should have thrown something way out of the zone with 2 strikes on Soriano.

[fatcowxlive]

Rasmus won't get started if he's sitting. Throw him in the 7th or 8th spot, not second. Colby is a frustrating streaky hitter.

 

I want Lawrie to try hitting 2nd. He's smoking a lot of balls and has a good approach. Putting him infront of Bautista means more strikes

[Flamingweazel]

This offense is putrid. Looks not diff then last year in april.

[xposbrad]

The Yanks basically have 3 #1 pitchers, and 2 #2 pitchers.

[Dylan]

Diaz is friggen everywhere he needs to be lol

[bzapple]

Diaz knows where to be.

[Anemic0ffense]

The Yanks basically have 3 #1 pitchers, and 2 #2 pitchers.

 

What? lol

 

Name me these "#1's"

[Orgfiller]

Everything factors on what your replacing them with. Im not talking about our current roster. But what our future roster. I would prefer to not have Rasmus in CF and Bautista in RF long term. Long term meaning beyond this year. Please try to understand this.

 

Let's say in a perfect world tomorrow we acquire Craig Gentry, and move Rasmus to LF, yay, good times! Then we have Bautista, who even without playing the best defense at RF is one of the most valuable players (easily) at the position, and what you would be doing is placing him in a position that already has two players that can provide about the same or more value than him.

 

Wow the positioning is spot on for the infield this game. Great job by the staff.

[Dylan]

Lineup vs. CC should be

Melky

Lawrie

Bauista

Encarnacion

Navarro

Kratz

Rasmus

Izturis

Diaz

 

I agree with this, but we probably see Sierra somewhere.

[bzapple]

Seriously stop throwing 2 strike pitches over the plate.

[xposbrad]

What? lol

 

 

Name me these "#1's"

 

uhh

 

Pineda/Tanaka/Kuroda

[Orgfiller]

Obviously we would be bringing in someone else is the case of making. Lets use the example of this past off- season. Signing Sin-Soo Choo to play RF. Moving Bautista to 1B and Edwin to full time DH. In this situation we would be trading Adam Lind. A lot of people wanted him gone last year.

 

Is that not a pure upgrade? I'm just using Choo as an example. Not saying its going to happen.

 

Argues about bringing in better defenders to fill in the position, mentions Choo, smart.

[Dylan]

Excellent game Dickey

[Anemic0ffense]

Seriously stop throwing 2 strike pitches over the plate.

 

It's been a problem with this team for years

[Horses Fart]

Dickey Dun??