Comments on: Yankee Pitching Prospects and Their Injuries http://www.baseball-intellect.com/new-york-yankees-injuries/ Player Scouting, Baseball Mechanics, and Sabermetrics Combined Into One Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:18:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alex Eisenberg http://www.baseball-intellect.com/new-york-yankees-injuries/comment-page-1/#comment-2709 Alex Eisenberg Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:24:08 +0000 http://www.baseball-intellect.com/?p=3709#comment-2709 Steve, I wouldn't call Porcello, Vitters, or Wieters risks. Wieters was about as safe a pick as you could get. Porcello was a highly advanced high school pitcher with clean mechanics and great stuff. Vitters was one of the top prep hitters in the 07' draft. Plus, the risks of drafting a hitter are much different than drafting a pitcher. Brackman slipped in part because of performance, injuries, and cost. I do agree, mid and lower market teams are starting to invest more money into the draft and that's something they should of been doing all along. Take a team that isn't going to compete, who signs an average level veteran for maybe 3 years, $18 million. Instead of signing that player, they could have taken a big chunk of that money and invest it into players that drop due to signability issues. Those lower market teams have to do that because they can't compete with the higher market teams in free agency. They have to make up for that somehow. The only problem with that is the big market teams do it as well, especially the Red Sox. Steve, I wouldn’t call Porcello, Vitters, or Wieters risks. Wieters was about as safe a pick as you could get. Porcello was a highly advanced high school pitcher with clean mechanics and great stuff. Vitters was one of the top prep hitters in the 07′ draft. Plus, the risks of drafting a hitter are much different than drafting a pitcher. Brackman slipped in part because of performance, injuries, and cost.

I do agree, mid and lower market teams are starting to invest more money into the draft and that’s something they should of been doing all along. Take a team that isn’t going to compete, who signs an average level veteran for maybe 3 years, $18 million. Instead of signing that player, they could have taken a big chunk of that money and invest it into players that drop due to signability issues. Those lower market teams have to do that because they can’t compete with the higher market teams in free agency. They have to make up for that somehow. The only problem with that is the big market teams do it as well, especially the Red Sox.

]]> By: Alex Eisenberg http://www.baseball-intellect.com/new-york-yankees-injuries/comment-page-1/#comment-2708 Alex Eisenberg Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:13:26 +0000 http://www.baseball-intellect.com/?p=3709#comment-2708 Thanks for the info, Greg. I've updated my post. Thanks for the info, Greg. I’ve updated my post.

]]> By: Baseballbriefs.com http://www.baseball-intellect.com/new-york-yankees-injuries/comment-page-1/#comment-2704 Baseballbriefs.com Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:36:04 +0000 http://www.baseball-intellect.com/?p=3709#comment-2704 <strong>Baseballbriefs.com tracking back Yankee Pitching Prospects and Their Injuries...</strong> Baseballbriefs.com tracking back Yankee Pitching Prospects and Their Injuries... Baseballbriefs.com tracking back Yankee Pitching Prospects and Their Injuries…

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]]> By: Steve G. http://www.baseball-intellect.com/new-york-yankees-injuries/comment-page-1/#comment-2703 Steve G. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:06:37 +0000 http://www.baseball-intellect.com/?p=3709#comment-2703 In the draft lately, it seems like even the low and mid-market teams, excluding the Blue Jays, have been more willing to go above slot and take a risk on the bigger talents - The Tigers and Porcello, the Cubs and Vitters, Baltimore and Wieters. While the Yankees and Red Sox still have access to guys who have priced themselves out of the plans of other teams, it does mean that prospects with great stuff but questionable health - Ryan Westmoreland, Andrew Brackman - are the ones who slip to them. In the draft lately, it seems like even the low and mid-market teams, excluding the Blue Jays, have been more willing to go above slot and take a risk on the bigger talents – The Tigers and Porcello, the Cubs and Vitters, Baltimore and Wieters. While the Yankees and Red Sox still have access to guys who have priced themselves out of the plans of other teams, it does mean that prospects with great stuff but questionable health – Ryan Westmoreland, Andrew Brackman – are the ones who slip to them.

]]> By: Greg F. http://www.baseball-intellect.com/new-york-yankees-injuries/comment-page-1/#comment-2696 Greg F. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:00:58 +0000 http://www.baseball-intellect.com/?p=3709#comment-2696 http://twitter.com/TylerKepner/statuses/3698910287 Turns out Betances didn't have Tommy John. Thanks for the info, though. I hadn't realized how much Kontos was abused the year he was drafted. http://twitter.com/TylerKepner/statuses/3698910287

Turns out Betances didn’t have Tommy John. Thanks for the info, though. I hadn’t realized how much Kontos was abused the year he was drafted.

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