作者jayin07 ( ⊙o⊙)
看板NY-Yankees
標題[洋基] Yanks' No. 4 starter could be No. 1
時間Fri Dec 25 10:39:42 2009
http://tinyurl.com/yb4cmbd By Rob Neyer
Catching up after a couple of days out of touch, and was surprised by the
Yankees trading for Javier Vazquez, who did not pitch well in his previous
stint with the club. First thing I did was look for It's About the Money
(Stupid)'s take ...
Yanks fans might remember Javy serving up a nail-in-the-coffin grand
slam to Johnny Damon in Game Seven of the 2004 ALCS. They'd be better off
remembering that he's struck out 1,027 batters over the last five years since
he left. As well as pitching at least 198 innings every year since 1999 when
he started only 26 games in Montreal.
With that, let's go back to 2004 and take a deeper look at Vaz's
monthly splits as clearly there was something wrong with him in the second
half (
Mark Feinsand claims that Vazquez was indeed hurt in the 2nd half of
2004, although
Tyler Kepner, back in 2008, said that Vaz wasn't hurt at all
and it was simply mechanics.
--snip--
For Melky Cabrera and two prospects (one who is really highly
regarded), this is a steal for the Yanks. Yet, it's being said that the
Braves got more from the Yanks in this deal than the Phillies got for Cliff
Lee ... which made me chuckle.
As of now, this trade means two things:
1. What budget limit of $185 million?
2. Gardner becomes the starting left fielder (or, if the Yanks were
aggressive: they'd consider Gardner in center and Granderson in left)
Will the Yanks completely blow up their budget and go after Holliday
now? Who knows?
Try to forget 2004. I am trying like mad.
Recognize the benefits of
this trade and be happy as a Yanks fan.
Vazquez's single season as a Yankee was widely seen as a failure, and it was
a failure despite his 14-10 record. So I was surprised to discover that
Vazquez's only All-Star season was 2004. And yes, that happened because
Vazquez actually pitched quite well before the All-Star Game: 10-5, 3.56 ERA,
3-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio. But a switch didn't get flipped during the
All-Star break. Vazquez pitched fairly well for another few weeks. On August
6, he ran his record to 13-6 (and still had a 4.12 ERA). What ruined his
season were his last nine starts, when he went 1-4 with a 7.30 ERA. And he
got blasted in his three postseason outings, too.
But whether it was an injury or mechanics or just a spot of bad luck,
the
point is that there's little evidence to suggest that Vazquez struggled
because he couldn't handle pitching in New York. If that was the case,
wouldn't it have showed up before August?
Vazquez will not duplicate his 2009 performance in 2010. He was one of the
three or four best pitchers in the National League, and probably won't be one
of the 10 best pitchers in the American League. But of course he doesn't need
to be. Instead he'll probably be the best No. 4 starter in the majors, which
is all the Yankees need him to be.
Happy, as a Yanks fan? I would be
deliriously ecstatic.
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推 joe0726:推 全MLB最強的No 4 12/25 10:45
※ 編輯: jayin07 來自: 163.29.145.25 (12/25 10:50)
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推 wesyrb:襪襪的SP也很有看頭...只能說明天的基襪戰會很好看吧... 12/25 10:59
→ sashar:明天的基襪大戰超精采的 很令人期待!! 12/25 11:07
推 GameDemon:明天? 12/25 11:11
推 danceding:明年打成明天很正常阿........XD 12/25 11:12
推 airandy41:有很正常嗎?正常在哪裡? 12/25 11:16
推 danceding:手誤嘛..... 12/25 11:25
推 cyp001:我也常打錯 不要計較太多嘛 12/25 11:27
推 aidsaids:天跟年只差一個音母 而且剛好在上下 41大不懂? 12/25 11:28
→ jayin07:我也常常打錯 12/25 11:34
→ ckchaos:常打錯+1 12/25 11:50
推 ukcm:名填 12/25 12:13
→ ukcm:二聲跟空白鍵的位置卻差很多0.0 12/25 12:14
推 coronach:誰不會打錯字 計較那麼多幹嘛呢~ 12/25 12:18
推 jokefunny:看的懂就好 有很重要嗎= = 12/25 12:24
→ kee32:身為一個文科官員,我戴金邊眼鏡,想必是很正常的 12/25 12:38
推 wildhog:你什麼時候是津元第一阿? 12/25 13:32
推 fred0780:去年也說襪襪的SP群是頂級陣容，可是結果不如預期 12/25 14:01
推 fred0780:健康打完一季才是王道 12/25 14:03
→ SergioRod:襪襪的投手一直都蠻不錯 去年是打擊比較差一點 12/25 17:39
推 lovecmgirls:其實是今年...@@ 12/25 18:50
推 STNF2007:那是因為打注音使用的數字快捷鍵選錯 很正常阿~ 12/25 18:51
推 TaigerWang:常把明年打成明天+1 12/25 21:41
推 joe0726:這兩篇的爭論點都很奇怪... 算了 這就是洋基板XD 12/25 21:44
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推 Boxster32:無聊! 12/25 22:29
→ hyde7015:松板好可憐喔，國外媒體都沒提到他，都只說前三位先發 12/25 23:13
→ jdtrue:去年投成那樣會被邊緣化很正常阿... 12/25 23:29
推 kauw:Javier Vazquez當年在洋基可是HR製造機到洋基新球場來 阿門.. 12/26 06:32
推 sotight:不過就筆誤 自家人硬要鞭自家人... 12/26 07:17
推 FORECORD:紅襪投手一直不錯 洋基也不是沒補 只是常被酸補到那年糟 12/26 07:45
推 kyo06:我有時甚至會想著明年結果打成明天，不懂計較這個幹嘛 12/26 09:00
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推 azlbf:沒人注意到其實是津門嗎? 12/26 14:51
推 slider4520:禮物勒 12/26 23:24
→ hyde7015:如果休斯和張伯倫都去牛棚加上井川復活 12/26 23:34
→ hyde7015:洋基投手戰力應該是贏紅襪的 12/26 23:35
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推 live4132:隔壁三張ACE真的恐怖,如果松坂在復活... 12/27 00:30
→ hyde7015:的確很恐怖，主要松板恢復水準的機會很高 12/27 00:59
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推 kgjerry:那以後明年＝明天 今年＝今天 ? 12/28 11:07
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