Not only that, but taking the guys who played their entire careers post-75, they played in Baltimore, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Diego, Houston, and now New York; not exactly a collection of dominant big-market teams. (Throw Yaz in, since he probably could have gone free agent if he wanted, and you can add Boston to the list).
Correction: Cal Ripken, .276
Boggs played his last two seasons for Tampa, and he got his 3,000th hit at Tropicana Field during a game against the Indians.
Getting back to Jeter for a second - I was so stunned to hear that no Yankee had ever achieved 3k hits that I looked up the list to confirm. I mean, how can Babe Ruth have a lifetime BA of around .330 and not get 3k? But it’s true.
I would just have to guess that Ruth: lots of BB’s; Gehrig: career shortened by illness; DiMaggio: lost a few seasons to WWII. Every other Yankee is just incredibly over-rated. 
What happened to the Latin boycott of the All Star Game? I have heard nothing.
I think for Ruth it was really those pitching seasons. From 1915-1918 he only got ~50 hits a year (still batting over .300) but for the rest of his career he averaged over 160 hits a season. If he starts as an everyday player I think he pretty easily gets those other 127 hits.
The Brewers have easily the worst farm system in baseball. I wouldn’t be too optimistic of the prospects being of any value.
They hired Sandy Alderson. More accurately I think Alderson deserves the benefit of the doubt.
According Rodriguez’s WAR’s as a Met according .3, 1.4, and currently .7. Castillo were .7, 1.8, .7, Bay has been 1.5 and .7. Perez was.. okay lets not go there. Otherwise I’m not seeing much of a difference. They were all minor assets that hamstrung the team by being vastly overpriced.
The BP odds have them at 1.9% chance of making playoffs. That sounds about right me. Getting Wright back will help, but I find it seriously unlikely that they get more value out of Reyes or Davis in the 2nd half than the first.
Yeah, I would probably call that a good deal for the yankees since Arod contract is truly awful going forward. There is of course no team that would offer the yankees that offer though. The yankees have an excuse though as Arod could potentially win a WS for them. Krod might be the difference between 81 wins and 82 if he a particularly impactful 2nd half.
And again it is a completely different management team, though I think Beltran worked out reasonably well. Plus there is always Dickey.
It is a risk, because the union can file a grievance. I suspect if Axford gets hurt, the Brewers would have difficulty justifying making anyone else their closer.
$3 million? The option is for $17.5 million. $14 million if you minus the buyout.
How much dimmer do you think they are exactly? Losing Krod means there playoffs odds go to what? 1.8%? 1.7%? The Mets are losing maybe half a win here. It is a not a large factor. They will have 15 million more to spend next year. I trust Alderson to turn it into more than the 1.0-1.5 WAR that Krod will provide.
I don’t understand how this is the breaking point for you. Throwing out Perez every fifth day is fine, but trading away an overprices slightly above average is a deal breaker? If the mets were so desperate to dump salary why did they wait until July to trade anyone? Why are they still holding on to everyone else? I believe Alderson believed that this was the best deal that they could get (sounds likes Brewers were willing to take the least money) and felt waiting two weeks was pointless and potentially risky.
Jon Heyman on the Rodriguez trade. I think he raises a bunch of good points here in explaining why the Mets made the deal when they did. I would say the biggest point is that the more appearances Rodriguez has, the less valuable he became to any trade partner because absolutely no one wants to deal with that option year on his contract. Milwaukee does not intend to use Rodriguez as their closer, but if something happens, they can use him to finish 20 games before that option vests. The longer the Mets waited, the fewer appearances he could make as a closer and the less valuable he became. The Brewers also had an incentive to make a trade early because, as noted, their farm system sucks and at the deadline they’d be competing with teams who don’t have that problem and they would be at a disadvantage. Also of note is the fact that Rodriguez just hired Scott Boras as an agent, and went from saying he was OK with being the setup for a contender to saying he wants to stay a closer. That might’ve encouraged the Mets to dump him.
I mistakenly thought Jeter’s 3000th had been in St. Petersburg.
Not only the seasons as a pitcher but also those terrible years in Boston Uniforms. Red Sox and Braves at the end.
BTW: It is more amazing to me Yogi and Mickey did not make it, they had played the most games in the Yankee Uniform.
Also, even jokingly dissing Yogi, Bill Dickey, Tony Lazzari and Whitey Ford is just plain wrong.
Pretty amazing first inning in Toronto today.
Colon allowed a hit and a walk but also got the first 2 outs, and was one strike away from getting out of the inning. Instead, Aaron Hill fought back to get a single and the Blue Jays went on to score 8 runs in the inning, all with 2 outs.
If Colon got that third strike on Hill, the whole game could have been very different. Especially since the Blue Jays got all sorts of luck after that. The Yankees should have had the third out, but the Jays survived on an error by Nunez, and then the Jays got two swinging-bunt infield hits in a row.
Jim Thome hit a 490-foot homer today.
Delmon Young was on deck at the time, and i took a screen grab of his reaction.
Man, Josh Beckett and Jeff Niemann sure don’t know how to win, do they?
The M’s are not going to finish around .500 after all. Dropped 9 straight games.
Tropicana Field is such a joke. Foul ball hit a light bulb on a catwalk and huge shards of broken glass rained on the ground next to third base. They had to halt play for several minutes to clean up. How do you not have some shield in place to keep that from happening? Someone could have been seriously injured, either from the falling pieces or from trying to pick them up barehanded.
Baseball is not meant to be played indoors.
Well, certainly not in that stadium (I won’t call it a ballpark, because it isn’t one).
[Crash Davis]
anything travels that far oughta have a damn stewardess on it, don’t you think?
[/Crash]
His expression is somewhere between exultation and horror (“OH GOD THAT POOR BALL”).
Generally agree with the last, but I used to like the old Trop ground rules (catwalk ball is in play, etc.).
Baseball fields are meant to be different from one another.