Oh, God, Marcus Hayes on DNL

Crasnick:

If Jenkins makes a total of 925 plate appearances in the 2008-2009 seasons or 525 plate appearances in 2009, it would trigger a $7.5 million vesting option for 2010. If the agreement fails to vest, he and the Phillies have a mutual option for the third year.

"I'm just so sick of 100 strikeout guys"

wonder why Marcus lost his beat writer job
I wish Mitch Williams was here to counter this fucking goof

R.J. MacReady wrote:

traderdave wrote:

Harry Monroe wrote:So we get rid of a Geoff and get another Geoff.

In my life, I've never met a Geoff (other than Geary).

Can't we sign a Jeff?

Peh.

One of my cousins actually spells his name Geoff; only one I know though.

I remember the first time I saw it was when I first heard of Queensryche and Geoff Tate. I remember thinking it was an odd way of spelling it. The other one that comes to mind is Geoffrey Rush.

I don't if this is before your time but Geoff Zahn was a pretty good starting pitcher for the Twins and Angels.

It boggles my mind at how much of an idiot Marcus Hayes is.

The Eeming Tree wrote:It boggles my mind at how much of an idiot Marcus Hayes is.

Seriously, I was Conlin was on. THAT'S how bad this guy is.
They have Marcus Hayes, Dana (whatever her last name is), and the horse racing guy to talk about this. Why don't they just bring in Stephen A.?

the phillies should sign TO

HUH?!?

philliesphhan wrote:"I'm just so sick of 100 strikeout guys"

wonder why Marcus lost his beat writer job
I wish Mitch Williams was here to counter this $#@! goof

i saw mitch today down at the track in chester today sporting a tired sixers hat.

Who is replacing Hayes on the beat?

Ace Rothstein wrote:

philliesphhan wrote:"I'm just so sick of 100 strikeout guys"

wonder why Marcus lost his beat writer job
I wish Mitch Williams was here to counter this $#@! goof

i saw mitch today down at the track in chester today sporting a tired sixers hat.

did you say anything to him?

Phight On! wrote:Who is replacing Hayes on the beat?

steve king?

Disco Stu wrote:

phuturephillies wrote:I'm kind of worried about Burrell over the next 3 seasons. He's already one of the worst defensive LF in baseball, and has been a negative value defender in 2 of the last 3 seasons. The question is, what will his bat do over those 3 seasons? Will his power stay level or drop off? His WARP the last 3 seasons; 5.0, 5.3, 4.1. Is he better than the options available? Probably most of them. But I don't know if he's a 10M+ a year player, largely because he's a defensive liability.

This is going to be a part of another entry on TGP, but defensive play means less in the CBP than in most stadiums. CBP can mask deficiencies because of the small outfield and prevelance to the homerun.

I know Bill James (via Dewan I think) had him ranked as the worst LF in baseball, non-Manny division. Which, I guess, makes me think he would be really really bad in another park.

Phight On! wrote:Who is replacing Hayes on the beat?

dont know, but he referred to himself as "former beat writer for the phillies"

philliesphhan wrote:

Ace Rothstein wrote:

philliesphhan wrote:"I'm just so sick of 100 strikeout guys"

wonder why Marcus lost his beat writer job
I wish Mitch Williams was here to counter this $#@! goof

i saw mitch today down at the track in chester today sporting a tired sixers hat.

did you say anything to him?

he said he liked the jenkins move and wasnt so high on signing durbin

phuturephillies wrote:I'm kind of worried about Burrell over the next 3 seasons. He's already one of the worst defensive LF in baseball, and has been a negative value defender in 2 of the last 3 seasons. The question is, what will his bat do over those 3 seasons? Will his power stay level or drop off? His WARP the last 3 seasons; 5.0, 5.3, 4.1. Is he better than the options available? Probably most of them. But I don't know if he's a 10M+ a year player, largely because he's a defensive liability.

It would be great to sign him for an extension, but I'd hope that any figure they arrived on would take this into account so that he could be traded at some point as a decent value DH to the AL. But that might be harder to do in the current climate of cash rich mlb.

I just did a funny

1 wrote:the phillies should sign TO

HUH?!?

They were complaining that the Phils sign these average players all the time but never go after the one player that will make them World Series contenders...

BigEd76 wrote:

1 wrote:the phillies should sign TO

HUH?!?

They were complaining that the Phils sign these average players all the time but never go after the one player that will make them World Series contenders...

Who exactly is that one player?

Is Babe Ruth available or something?

BigEd76 wrote:

1 wrote:the phillies should sign TO

HUH?!?

They were complaining that the Phils sign these average players all the time but never go after the one player that will make them World Series contenders...

Freddy Garcia was hyped to be that guy last year.

MattS wrote:For 6.5MM on the year, this is a very solid pickup, IMO. The key is going to be to keep him away from LHP at all costs.

...

If he gets 25 PAs against lefties ...

reality check time. your number of 25 is not realistic for a guy that actually gets the 400ish plate appearances that we seem to be counting on. i think it is generally acknowledged that platoons of loften-michaels in 2005 and of inky-eisy-chamberlin-thompson in 1993 were about as good as it gets.
loften had 48-358 pas vs lh and rh
thompson 65-322
eisenreich 58-304

the ratios just don't get much better than that for guys who see regular action in the field. if you want to hold jenkins under 25 pa's versus lefties, you want him well under 300 pa's in total.

you simply can't pull the lefty hitter every time a lefty pitcher comes in.
the only way to keep the appearences versus lefties low is to restrict jenkins mostly to pinch-hitting.