Don't feel too bad for them. Because of the unbalanced schedule, the O's fans get to see good baseball teams 4 x 19 times a year.
He takes the Yankees secrets to the team who hires him. And those are some super proprietary analytical types of secrets. Like how to take Gallo from a very good offensive player to one who goes back to his little league roots of swinging at everything.
I mean, he is better than Seager but Correa will likely cost decidedly more. Also Seager is lefty and if NY plans to use Peraza at SS within a year or so, then the defensive difference between Correa/Seager matters less.
Excerpt on my new favorite NYY prospect Josh Breaux from MLB.com: Similar to Gary Sanchez offensively, defensively and physically, Breaux has a lofty ceiling but is a long ways from reaching it. His well-above-average bat speed and strength coupled with an extremely aggressive approach give him the raw pop to deliver 35 or more homers per season. But he also swings and misses excessively, and he'll need to make better swing decisions and loft more balls in the air to fully tap into his power potential.
Didn't we say this about the Rays a decade ago?
Haha! I honestly don't care about him much either and never especially rooted for him as a player, and I would not be so keen to hire him if Cora wasn't the Red Sox manager. As it is, I think it is seriously crazy if NY does not scoop him up in some capacity.
Can he, though? He is maybe holding out for a manager job, Hinch and Cora got rehired a full season ago now.
Is Beltran’s resume more tainted than Cora’s or Hinch’s, who both have jobs again? Was he the leader of the players’ nefarious acts, in Houston and possibly NY?
I think it’s more that Cora and Hinch were already experienced and successful managers, but also Beltran made a ton of money as a player so can presumably be pickier about taking a job.
Fair enough
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I think the linkages between Correa and Detroit make more sense.
For all the questions about Correa’s injury issues, Seager has basically averaged the same number of games as Correa over the past 4 years or so.
| 05/16/2021 | Hand | 60-Day Injured List |
| 08/07/2020 | Lower Back | Day-To-Day |
| 08/02/2020 | Left Quad | Day-To-Day |
| 09/25/2019 | Hamstring | Day-To-Day |
| 06/12/2019 | Hamstring | 10-Day Injured List |
| 01/22/2019 | Elbow/Hip | Day-To-Day |
| 01/22/2019 | Elbow/Hip | Day-To-Day |
| 04/30/2018 | Right Ucl Sprain - Out For Season | 60-Day Injured List |
| 07/09/2021 | Health Protocols | 10-Day Injured List |
| 09/15/2020 | Leg | Day-To-Day |
| 09/24/2019 | Back | Day-To-Day |
| 08/20/2019 | Back | 10-Day Injured List |
| 08/19/2019 | Back | Day-To-Day |
| 05/28/2019 | Rib | 60-Day Injured List |
| 06/26/2018 | Lower Back Soreness | 10-Day Injured List |
Sorry to quote this guy a second time in response (it is not me, heh) but the general money for Story seems to be the consensus, and it's also possible he will take a one year pillow deal to try to rebuild value and sign a much bigger deal next winter.
That's a risk, though, re-entering the market at 31-32 and gambling that, in the meantime, there won't be much of a post-Coors decrease in production
It's been pretty thoroughly proven in recent seasons that playing for COL doesn't really help your overall stats, road games hurt hitters as much as home games help them and switching back and forth between the two (where pitches literally move differently) all season long is very difficult.
Gardner is already 38 (amazing to me), there just isn't much left in the tank there. I would think they could do better
