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Cole said it's the same pain/feeling after pitching 100 pitches+ late in a season.

 

That's not really good

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Uh oh

 

. The Yankees do not expect to have a prognosis for Gerrit Cole today, and possibly not tomorrow either, according to Aaron Boone. There will be multiple opinions given regarding his course of treatment
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Imagine lol. Dude pitches his arm off, winning the cy young in a year the Yanks don’t even make the playoffs. Then he misses the next season with elbow-itis
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Couldn’t happen to a better guy

 

I mean, he's a bit of a weirdo and a dick at times but certainly not a bad enough personality that I wish this kind of thing to happen to him. I'm happy at the prospect of the Yankees not being able to use his services for a long time this season, but this is a guy well underway to a Hall of Fame career, and is a true ace/workhorse in an era where those types have significantly diminished, which this potential injury could jeopardize. If this happened to him on any other team outside the division I'd be pretty devastated from a baseball point of view.

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I mean, he's a bit of a weirdo and a dick at times but certainly not a bad enough personality that I wish this kind of thing to happen to him. I'm happy at the prospect of the Yankees not being able to use his services for a long time this season, but this is a guy well underway to a Hall of Fame career, and is a true ace/workhorse in an era where those types have significantly diminished, which this potential injury could jeopardize. If this happened to him on any other team outside the division I'd be pretty devastated from a baseball point of view.

 

f***em

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Aaron Judge is not going to last in CF

 

I don’t understand why they think Judge playing CF is a good idea to begin with. They have Grisham who is a 2 WAR player just with defense alone so that seems like a no brainer to put him in CF and work around Stanton’s existence (maybe platoon him with Verdugo).

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I don’t understand why they think Judge playing CF is a good idea to begin with. They have Grisham who is a 2 WAR player just with defense alone so that seems like a no brainer to put him in CF and work around Stanton’s existence (maybe platoon him with Verdugo).

 

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Laika Cooperstown

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JD Davis wasn’t claimed so he was released.

 

damn

 

heard this on a podcast but Matt Chapman took JD Davis' job back in college too. Bumped him to 1B.

 

this time he bumps him off the Giants...

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JD Davis wasn’t claimed so he was released.

 

Now that he's a FA it seems like it's even less of a possibility that he ends up in TO.

 

He'd have to battle with the island of misfit toys for playing time at 3B and Turner at DH. Vlad is locked in at 1B and Danny Burgers and Canadian Hero Joey Votto also loom as possible bench bats. We also have 2 catchers who are good enough to DH.

 

Seems like there are other teams out there who could give him better opportunities. I suppose if the Jays really like him they could solve all of the playing time problems by telling him that he'd be the starting 3B. But given that he was just available for basically free my guess is that the Jays don't really want him.

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Now that he's a FA it seems like it's even less of a possibility that he ends up in TO.

 

He'd have to battle with the island of misfit toys for playing time at 3B and Turner at DH. Vlad is locked in at 1B and Danny Burgers and Canadian Hero Joey Votto also loom as possible bench bats. We also have 2 catchers who are good enough to DH.

 

Seems like there are other teams out there who could give him better opportunities. I suppose if the Jays really like him they could solve all of the playing time problems by telling him that he'd be the starting 3B. But given that he was just available for basically free my guess is that the Jays don't really want him.

 

There has to be something else to it. Maybe he's a clubhouse problem or something. His salary for the expected production should have gotten him claimed even this late into the preseason.

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There has to be something else to it. Maybe he's a clubhouse problem or something. His salary for the expected production should have gotten him claimed even this late into the preseason.

 

Yeah there is something underneath the hood there. Based on the stats available to us fans, his bat looks good and the defense rates good enough.

 

My guess is his defense is actually atrocious and that the positive metrics he got last year were a blip. So he's basically a 1B who projects for a slightly above average bat.

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Yeah there is something underneath the hood there. Based on the stats available to us fans, his bat looks good and the defense rates good enough.

 

My guess is his defense is actually atrocious and that the positive metrics he got last year were a blip. So he's basically a 1B who projects for a slightly above average bat.

 

Ain't nobody got time for that

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This seems sloppy

 

Davis won an arbitration hearing over the Giants earlier in the offseason, which awarded him a $6.9MM salary. However, under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, that sum isn’t fully guaranteed until Opening Day. By cutting him now, the Giants could potentially only owe him 30 days of termination pay — about $1.11MM. The CBA, however, explicitly states that this applies to players who have “failed to exhibit sufficient skill or competitive ability.”

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