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Snoochies8
here’s suzuki’s trade value for you: lots defensive, just around none offensively
Nick Parisi
The whole Michael Pineda backlash is getting annoying. I live in New York (Mets fan, unfortunately), and all I’ve been hearing about and seeing on Facebook is how the Yankees should have kept Montero. I really don’t understand. It was a freak accident, and honestly he’s going to be fine. Not only is Montero over valued by Yankee fans (sure he can hit but let’s wait until he’s proven himself on a big league stage – which he hasn’t this year – before we call him the next greater) but he really has no place on the field. The Yankees also have Gary Sanchez, who is few years away but will be a better overall catcher.
The Yankees traded an over valued DH they had no need for to get a front of the rotation starter and potential ace, who is cheap and under team control for five more years (this is important because they are trying to cut payroll as everyone knows). I just do not see what there’s not to like about this trade. It’s unfortunate he got hurt but you can’t hate the trade simply because of that. If my team made a trade like this I would love it. Yankee fans continue to demonstrate to me how the majority of them know very little about baseball, are bandwagoners, and are spoiled by success. Of course that’s not all of them 😛
Ryan Klinkert
In all fairness, the piece you’re presumably responding to labeled the Pineda trade a disaster for the 2012 season, albeit with some understandable concerns down the road regarding potential set-backs, velocity decline, and so on and so forth.
However, I do agree that too many fans are blowing this out of proportion, neglecting to display even a shred of patience and instead choosing to morph into Captain Hindsight and declare the trade a complete and utter bust, when such an assessment cannot possibly be accurately made until years down the road.
In regards to Pineda’s injury…
A labral tear is a far cry from a UCL tear. I underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn labrum a few years ago and was throwing off a mound with close to maximum velocity 4 months later. As I’m sure you can see in my picture, I wasn’t working with much going into physical therapy in regards to upper body/core strength. Pineda is exactly my height plus ~40 pounds of muscle (and to acknowledge all the spring training reports, 20 pounds of fat as well!). There’s no reason to think he won’t fully rebound.
Given the premium on pitching these days, I still believe the Yankees will emerge as the winners of this trade when it’s all said and done.
Nick Parisi
Also I have to wonder if the Mets’ history of injuries is in any way related to the training staff. Sure some teams just get the injury bug for a season every once in a while, but it seems like it happens to the Mets every.single.year. At some point you have to start pointing fingers.