In their latest article special to ESPN, Baseball Prospectus analyzed some of the major holes that face some of the contending teams in 2009. Regarding the Yankees, they pointed to the catcher position:
Long a vital cog in the Yankee offense, Posada was limited to just 51 games last year, and just 30 behind [...]
Do you see what I did there?
Anyhow, this is courtesy of the always entertaining Jayson Stark, so maybe it was meant to be a joke:
How could baseball have allowed this to happen to itself? How? Can anyone recall any other sport that has ever committed such an insane act of self-destruction?
What [...]
Two quick bits for your A-Rod fix (via WW):
Brian Bruney backs A-Rod and will continue to support him no matter what happens with the steroid allegations. Also, Scott Boras claims that Alex will issue a response to the SI story once he gets back from the Bahamas.
In a phone interview, Brian Cashman spoke candidly with Kat O’Brien (Newsday) about his off-season haul, discussing CC, Burnett and the rotation, in general. Here’s an interesting bit on Burnett.
“This is a guy that our players wanted desperately,” Cashman said of Burnett. “They felt that this guy was a difference-maker. Guys kept banging [...]
Finally, a voice of reason amid all the lunacy (see the headline for Jayson Stark’s article: “A-Rod has destroyed game’s history”) and recriminations:
I hope Alex Rodriguez didn’t cheat. If we do find out that he cheated, I will wish that he hadn’t. But whatever happens, I’m not going to change my opinion that [...]
Yesterday we learned that A-Rod tested positive for anabolic steroids in 2003. Today, the media vultures are out, picking at the bones of the player that they had previously trumpeted as the great clean hope. Buster Olney believes Alex to be tarnished forever, and luminaries such as John Kruk, Tom Verducci, and Bill Madden feel [...]
The Yankees need a backup-infielder as Cody Ransom and Angel Berroa are essentially anomalies. RAB has thrown out two very solid ideas for utility players, noting the presence of Mark Grudzielanek, who is an undervalued commodity, as well as Ray Durham, who was one of the better offensive 2B just a few years [...]
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