The New York yankees have added Slade Heathcott to the 15 day disabled list with a Grade II quad strain. To fill his roster spot the team will call up Ramon Flores and will have the outfielder on the team for tomorrow night's game. Flores is on the 40 man roster and a roster move will not be needed to accommodate the move.
Has anyone gotten any news on the Cuban 20-year-old Center Fielder Eddy Julio Martinez?
ReplyDeleteSome scouts are talking as though he is the second coming of the great Mickey! This I highly doubt, but he is rated very high with many of the scouts and can be had with the right offer...right now. It is another get him or lose him deal.
What is the bet we lose him as we have with many of the other guys we could have had.
I wrote a blog about him. I never saw the Mickey comparisons and I don't think the Yankees will sign him. I won't have confidence in signing a Cuban player until we sign a couple
DeleteMe thinks you got it in a nutshell Daniel!
DeleteLindgren had nothing tonight. He has everything he needs to be a top of the line back end reliever except one thing, command of the strike zone. He has a history of being a bit on the wild side sometimes. Not bad, just a bit, as we saw tonight when he was wild in the hitting zone. This is correctable and hard work which I am sure they are working on now. His mechanics needs work as he has trouble keeping his arm slot.
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What sucks tho is Girardi won't use him now because of it in one bad outing
DeleteWe have seen it time and again, a pitcher with great stuff and control has a field day in the minors comes to the big show and his command of the zone gets him in trouble.
ReplyDeleteThe talent is there just missing with his arm slot (mechanics) which makes him miss his spot once in a while and then...Boom! Both of these guys need a bit more work on their Command/Control (whichever) of the hitting zone. Those numbers below go up in the show, not down. Both have the talent to be of great help for this team, so the sooner they get things under control the better.
Numbers that worry me:
Severino--7.6 hits per 9
Lindgren--BB9 4.1
I have no idea if Joe will call on him again or not, he has others that have done better and never get called on. The thing that bothers me most is Joe will trot out a player (pitcher or fielder) when they show they are over matched yet let another guy with talent set because he didn't get the job done one time!
Lindren's only had two opportunities so I'm not quite ready to damn him because of his lack of control. He had control issues when we drafted him and he had control issues every single time we promoted him. He is what he is and he was the same when we all got excited about him. He's not closing, he's pitching in the 7th inning or earlier as a rookie. Plenty of time to turn things around.
DeleteI think that is what I was saying, he can come out and blow people away and the next time get himself in trouble. Is that not the case with many of the pitchers. His upside is better than his downside by far...but the question is; will Joe use him in the 5-6-7?
DeleteHe will find a slot for his pitches because that's what good pitchers do.
After he had one bad outing, no probably not.
DeleteIn case one is wondering if I think those two pitchers are not what they are hyped up to be, you are right! They surely have the talent to be something special but need a bit more tweaking to be the lights out guys we have hopes of seeing for the next 10 years or so.
ReplyDeleteIf nothing bad happens to either Lindgren or Severino both starting rotation and Bull Pen should be a force to be recorded with next year, Having Tank, Pineda, Nova, Eovaldi, Severino and CC(?) as the starters and Miller, Betances, Warren, Martin, Rogers, Shreve, Lindgren in the Pen sounds good to me. We also have a couple more BP guys down on the farm that are ready or used for trading chips.
DeleteAll depends on Joe not over doing it with the to Big Guys out there, otherwise they will be toast.
You're definitely right there Reed. The Yankees will have so many options in the pen and rotation that we could throw a new piece of crap against the wall every week until something sticks. Definitely looking on the up and up with the young contributing talent and prospects.
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