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Yankees Notes: Russo, Prospects, Granderson

By Mark Polishuk | May 5, 2011 at 7:27pm CDT

The classic musical Damn Yankees opened on Broadway on this day in 1955.  Such noted Broadway stars as Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston and Stephen Douglass formed the original cast, with Douglass in the lead role as fan-turned-Washington Senators slugger Joe Hardy.

Unfortunately for supporters of both Washington's current team and the "Senators" (now the Twins), there is no word of either team signing an out-of-nowhere star prospect from Hannibal, MO.  There is, however, some news about that darn team from the Bronx.

  • The Yankees explored trading Kevin Russo during Spring Training, reports Joel Sherman of the New York Post (Twitter link).  Sherman notes that New York could take Russo off their 40-man roster to make room for Jorge Vazquez as a replacement for the injured Eric Chavez, though Chad Jennings of the LoHud Yankees blog believes Ramiro Pena will be called up instead.
  • Slade Heathcott (29th overall) and J.R. Murphy (76th overall) were New York's top two picks in the 2009 amateur draft and are off to strong starts in low Class A ball, writes George King for Baseball America.  Brian Cashman calls center fielder Heathcott "a five-tool guy," while Murphy "is going to hit for average with average power" while remaining at catcher.
  • Curtis Granderson's early-season success and Austin Jackson's struggles have made the three-team deal involving the two center fielders look a lot better for the Yankees, writes Daniel Barbarisi of the Wall Street Journal.  You still have to consider that deal an overall win for the Tigers — Max Scherzer, Phil Coke and Daniel Schlereth have all contributed this season, and all three pitchers plus Jackson are under control for several more years.
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  1. bonestock94

    14 years ago

    I think everyone did well in that trade, and the dbacks ended up flipping jackson for hudson. Anybody with a knowledge of BABIP and high k% knew the “ajax is better than granderson” line was a load of crap.

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    • JacksTigers

      14 years ago

      You may have only seen Granderson for last year and the start of this year so I’ll try to explain this to you. Granderson strikes out A TON. The numbers may not indicate it, but when he needs to be clutch, he usually isn’t. I think that Granderson and Jackson are very similar players, but Jackson may have a slight upside because of his defense. Granderson is not a .300 hitter no matter what he is doing this year. He has power but don’t expect the 50 that he is on pace for, that’s not going to happen. I saw Grandy play for four seasonds and have a pretty good handle on what he can do with the bat. Don’t get me wrong though, Jackson needs to fix this strike out problem or he is going to struggle in this league. But this is Jackson’s second season which makes it a little difficult to throw too many weird stats at him. Give it about two more seasons to figure out who won this trade. A one month slump is not enough to wright a guy off as bad, even if he did lead the league in strikeouts last year.

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      • bonestock94

        14 years ago

        Yea, Granderson strikes out significantly too, especially against lefties. I don’t expect him to ever hit for average, but he has very real power and has shown improved batting ability after working with Kevin Long in 2010 midseason.

        And I’m not writing off AJax at all, I was excited to see him play back when he was a Yankees prospect. I’m just saying that his 2010 campaign was not indicative of his true talent level. He’s still very young and can obviously improve, but right now his K% is a very big issue. What’s concerning is that this was always an issue in the minors. Also, it would be easier to stomach if the guy hit for power but he doesn’t. Things change obviously, Bautista went from being a utility player to whats looking like one of the best batters in the game.

        Like I said, I don’t think anybody did poorly in this trade. The Tigers got a young CF with tons of potential, Coke, and Scherzer. The Yankees got a great CF that hits for power, and the Dbacks eventually ended up with Daniel Hudson and Ian Kennedy.

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        • JacksTigers

          14 years ago

          Good points. I’d hit the like button but the like button never seems to work.

          Reply
  2. MikeTink

    14 years ago

    The actual year was 1955, in fact, 05/05/1955. 1955 the year the Brookly Dodgers won the World Series!

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  3. ARod's Ring

    14 years ago

    Call up Jorge Vasquez. Ramiro Pena can’t hit a basketball.

    Reply
  4. East Coast Bias

    14 years ago

    Well hello new feature! Hi guys @chiico:disqus @bonestock94:disqus

    As for the topic, that Vasquez kid’s got power. I’ve been waiting to see him come up, but didn’t think it would be this early. Too bad for Chavez, he was having a good year so far too.

    A-Jax’s ceiling is Granderson.

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    • Slopeboy

      14 years ago

      He’ll hit for power, but not too sure about Avg or OBP.

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    • TrueYankeeFanNYC

      14 years ago

      Exactly.

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    • 0bsessions

      14 years ago

      “A-Jax’s ceiling is Granderson. ”

      Very much true, but he’s developing faster than Granderson did and he’s under control for longer than Granderson is. He also came with a couple of pitchers that would probably serve the Yankees pretty well this year.

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      • YanksFanSince78

        14 years ago

        What measure are you using to say that AJ is developing faster? In Grandy’s 1st full year in the majors he hit .260/.335/.438 w/ 19hrs and a 12.4 UZR. AJ had a much better bat avg but the OPB are almost identical while Grandy trumps him in every other measure.

        As for Coke and IPK they were expendable at the time. IPK was not the same pitcher in the AL East and Coke has done nothing to prove he would be better than a lefty out the pen.

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        • 0bsessions

          14 years ago

          Basing it simply on his age. Faster’s admittedly a terrible choice of words, should’ve said developing younger which, while not a significant advantage, is an advantage nonetheless.

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      • YanksFanSince78

        14 years ago

        And as for Grandy, the Yanks are getting near all-star production and they can have him from 2010-2013 so 4 years of “Granderson like” production vs 6 years of a yougster still trying to find his level is sort of a wash. If AJ continues to struggle and never reaches “Granderson like” levels then does it matter if the Tiger’s had him for 2 more years over the Yanks control of Grandy?

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  5. Douglas Rau

    14 years ago

    I think there’s a slight error on this page. I don’t think Damn Yankees opened in 1995.

    Reply
  6. 0bsessions

    14 years ago

    Is anyone else having a massive Disqus issue today? Whenever I type something, it takes ages to actual come out.

    Reply
    • East Coast Bias

      14 years ago

      @0bsessions:disqus added a new feature… maybe that has something to do with it. It should clear itself up within a week or so, usually does.

      Reply
      • MB923

        14 years ago

        @EastCoastBias:disqus has it working good hehe

        Reply
    • JacksTigers

      14 years ago

      I was having that problem yesterday. I was going to say something but then thought that it was my computer. I’m glad to see I’m not a loner.

      Reply
  7. MikeTink

    14 years ago

    test

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    • JacksTigers

      14 years ago

      It works.

      Reply
  8. YanksFanSince78

    14 years ago

    2010 was the year of the pitcher for the Yanks. Thus far, minor issues have slowed Banuelos and Betances from building up their innings and others have had mixed early results. I think the pitchers will come around, especially those pitching up North in Trenton and Scranton but I really think this year the Yanks position prospects will show themselves as Heathcott, Murphy, Flores, Segedin and Lyerly have all shown improvements this hear. Hopefully, Sanchez will start to hit and Dave Adams can stay healthy too.

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  9. Carl

    14 years ago

    I am a Tigers fan, and I love Curtis. I think everyone is overlooking Max Scherzer. I think he could be a better pitcher than Verlander. He has very good velocity and his pitches all have a good amount of movement or sink, a perfecr recipe for a lot of good nights at Comerica. He also shows great poise to pitch out of traffic, where as verlander tends to try and throw his way out of jams. I like Max. Back to Curtis, I think everyone is forgetting the yankees have only played 11 games away from yankee stadium. I think Granderson’s start has been aided by playing to the short porch in right at home. Lets revisit these numbers when we have a better ratio of home and road games to draw on. I tend to think he will have great numbers at Home and so-so numbers on the road, ultimately having career highs based on the numbers he will put up at Home. The 3 pitchers make this a win for Detroit regaurdless of what A-Jax does..

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