Odds & Ends: Betemit, Greene, Sano, Draft

Those poor, poor Pirate fans....

I think the Pirates will sign him, I'm just a little worried with more teams starting to have interest in him.

"notes that prospect Miguel Angel Sano will work out for the Yankees"

Well... that puts an end to the Twins and Pirates hopes. With all this talk of Strasburg possibly forcing MLB to fix the June Draft...its the International System that needs fixing. Sano should have to enter the Amateur draft. The End.

Posted by: HumanToilet | June 12, 2009 at 10:20 PM

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WHat I will say will automaticaly be dismissed as a Yankee-ism, but I think there are too many variables to institute an international draft. No way Japaneese players like Dice-K or Matsui or Igawa should be subjected to the draft system, especially after paying their dues for 7 or 8 years in Japan and earning millions and millions of dollars. Realistically, would a team like the Pirates cough up the dough for a foreign player demanding huge multi-million dollar deals? And how do you navigate the posting fees that the Japaneese teams demand? Realistically, an international draft should only apply to non-Japaneese players, and that really isn't fair.

". . .the possible upside of an Albert Pujols-type bat."

Now, I realize you want to project your client as the best he can possibly be, but why not say he has the speed of Willie Mays and the swing of Ted Williams?

Come on, he's a kid, and for every Albert Pujols and Hanley Ramirez that actually become stars, there are a hundred "can't-miss" prospects that should have been the next Reggie Jackson or Sandy Koufax.

Good luck to this kid, he's gonna need it with all this pressure being put on him.

"WHat I will say will automaticaly be dismissed as a Yankee-ism, but I think there are too many variables to institute an international draft. No way Japaneese players like Dice-K or Matsui or Igawa should be subjected to the draft system, especially after paying their dues for 7 or 8 years in Japan and earning millions and millions of dollars. Realistically, would a team like the Pirates cough up the dough for a foreign player demanding huge multi-million dollar deals? And how do you navigate the posting fees that the Japaneese teams demand? Realistically, an international draft should only apply to non-Japaneese players, and that really isn't fair."

The highest paid players in Japan make as much as the average player in America.

Miguel Sano will be a Yankee. They have a big influence with the Latin American talent and if their only competition is the Pirates and Twins, it hurts to say this but the Yankees will have bought another first round talent. This kid translates into a very solid baseball player, but if he does project as a 3B like everyone says then were do they fit him into their plans if he sky rockets through the system?

1. Wilson Betemit is bad. Just awful. Shocker that the Yanks were able to actually get something of value for him, as opposed to nontendering him.

2. "Miguel Sano will be a Yankee. They have a big influence with the Latin American talent and if their only competition is the Pirates and Twins, it hurts to say this but the Yankees will have bought another first round talent"

Isn't this exactly what was said about Ynoa last year?

"If Sano is all he's cracked up to be, then why aren't more teams bidding for his services?"

1 *BIG* reason.. You simply cannot trust the ages of these players from these locales anymore. Why take a 3-4M hit on a player who says the age is 16, in 6 months to a year you find out is 20, lose 3M dollars and you could have drafted a 18YO high school player with actual documented/factual age for less? That is why.

"WHat I will say will automaticaly be dismissed as a Yankee-ism, but I think there are too many variables to institute an international draft. No way Japaneese players like Dice-K or Matsui or Igawa should be subjected to the draft system, especially after paying their dues for 7 or 8 years in Japan and earning millions and millions of dollars. Realistically, would a team like the Pirates cough up the dough for a foreign player demanding huge multi-million dollar deals? And how do you navigate the posting fees that the Japaneese teams demand? Realistically, an international draft should only apply to non-Japaneese players, and that really isn't fair.

Posted by: YanksFanSince78 | June 12, 2009 at 10:42 PM "

I agree. Japan has a deep deep love of baseball, their league is pretty damn good.
No way in hell could the MLB say Japanese players are eligible for the draft.

But.. any player who lives in the Americas should be subject to the draft and should have a year of background checks done before becoming ready for the draft..

the yankees need to investagate Sano and not get taken like what has happen in the case of the epic blunder in the Arod signing...but if Sano's creditials checkout then they need to sign him without a doubt...because he is a position player and the Yanks have a derth of talent in the field in their farm....and after investing in Kei Igawa Ol'Clemens and A.J.Burnett i'd think this type of investment is worth the risk...they need to get younger and if Sano pans out then they actually save alot of money....