Odds & Ends: Matsui, Belcher, Cuddyer, Griffey

Come on JR. Seattle didn't get a chance to give a proper season long fairwell festival. Come on back.

While you're at it, put together a 40 Year Old Bonds (minus the syringes) type season and hit 70 HRs to get to 700.

That's all I ask, not much.

Even though I don't think it will happen, I really hope Pettitte comes back for one more year.

My main memory of Belcher is when Jose Canseco hit that grand slam in the first inning (off the camera in CF) of Game 1 of the World Series. Of course that game ended a bit better for the Dodgers than it began.

"Come on JR. Seattle didn't get a chance to give a proper season long fairwell festival. Come on back."

Uh, yeah they did. It was called 2009. If they didn't properly honor him it was their fault because they did in fact have the chance.

"Uh, yeah they did. It was called 2009. If they didn't properly honor him it was their fault because they did in fact have the chance."

Uhhhh no they didn't. How do you properly have a retirement ceremony if a player hasn't announced retirement?
It would be like having a season long goodbye for Cal Ripken Jr. in 1999.

And I am sure the Twins want Cuddyer to finish his career with the Twins. I a few years Kubel will be gone via free agency and then Cuddyer can move to the DH and all the prospects can come up. Hicks-Revere-Span.

Posted by: Twins777 | November 06, 2009 at 10:44 AM

What about Delmon Young buddy?

I agree with Agent. I like Andy, too. He's a great middle-of-the-rotation pitcher that rarely gets hurt (seemingly). He's always been reliable and his numbers have been pretty steady. But I think it's time for him to retire, while he's on top.

Andy will take time off to think as usual, we wont find out until January so theres no point of sitting here wondering.

Oh, and glad to see there are no Red Sox fans here saying that Matsui is a bum of a DH and should retire. Although his regular season didnt shut them up for some reason, his playoff sure did.

You don't non-tender a 24 year-old former #1 overall pick who hit .340/.364/.544 after August. Maybe he never lives up to the hype (the BB rate is troubling), but far too early to throw in the towel.

chowdah- Matsui gets no love from RSN on this site atleast. I think he'll be back, no reason not to bring him back, at a discounted price though. Even if they want to rest DH Posada and others more, Matsui never made a big deal about moving to DH and resting himself, always a team player.

Fixing some problems lol.

The only real problems I have with the Yankees are with their upper management.

I'm a Red Sox fan, but have great respect for many Yankees. Jeter, Rivera, Posada, Pettitte should all be HoF-bound. A-Rod, Teixeira, Sabathia, Burnett, Joba, Hughes, etc. They're all great players. The only real problems I have with the Yankees is with re upper management. They seem to be way too reliant on Free Agency nowadays when looking for firepower. Some teams can get that from their farms, some can't. I know the Yankees have Cano, Melky, Gardner on the roster for position players (Cervelli and Peña too) that they raised, but the rest are from the 90s or signed via free agency.

That's the only problem I have. Why I can't stand The Boss lol.

Posted by: soxfan93 | November 06, 2009 at 03:13 PM

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QED.

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You don't non-tender a 24 year-old former #1 overall pick who hit .340/.364/.544 after August. Maybe he never lives up to the hype (the BB rate is troubling), but far too early to throw in the towel.

Posted by: vtadave | November 06, 2009 at 02:27 PM"

Its coming very soon. The Towel is coming.."

Posted by: 661dodgerblue
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No towel! Twins would be foolish to non-tender Young. With the trade of Gomez, the Twins outfield appears to be Young, Spann, Cuddyer.

Could be traded I suppose but Bill Smith cannot just let him walk with nothing back. Delmon Young still has too much value.

The best Tim Belcher moment of all-time was in like the early 2000's maybe even 99' I was at an Ana V. La, at Dodger Stadium and it was Belcher V (Chan Ho)Park. AT BAT: Park sacrifices and Belcher fields the ball and tags him out and momentarily after he is tagged Park jump kicks Belcher in the face and the benches cleared. I never found out if Belcher said something or pushed him to start the fight but they show it time to time on ESPN and it's a great memory of mine.