Luke Voit’s plantar fasciitis is under control after receiving a platelet-rich plasma injection, per the Athletic’s Lindsey Adler (via Twitter). Voit will be in a walking boot for a week or two, but the Yankees expect him to be healed by the end of that time. Voit didn’t miss any time to the issue, and he certainty didn’t appear to be overly affected while slashing .277/.338/.610 and leading the majors with 22 home runs.
While the Dodgers drub the Braves in game three of the NLDS, let’s stay in the junior circuit and check in on some non-playoff teams…
- The Baltimore Orioles laid off 11 workers and furloughed 35 more, per Nathan Ruiz of the Baltimore Sun. At present, those furloughed employees are set to return to work on February 1st to match the timeline for spring training. Teams all across MLB have laid off large portions of the their staff because of revenue lost to the coronavirus pandemic. No fans were allowed in Camden Yards for the 60-game season, very much complicating the revenue picture for the Orioles (as with other clubs) moving forward. Ruiz provides a quote from GM Mike Elias that sums up the 2020 season, saying: “Baseball teams do a lot of planning, looking ahead, and just all of that is just totally out of the window because of this event that came in and turned the world upside down.”
- Unsurprisingly, the Angels will not be filling their GM vacancy until after the World Series, per Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register (via Twitter). The Angels aren’t particular close to finding their next hire, per Fletcher. It certainly makes sense that they might take some time. On the other hand, given how much work there is to be done in the offseason, some urgency to set a clear organizational direction prior to the impactful events of the offseason also makes sense. Eppler was hired in early October of 2015, though in that case, Jerry Dipoto, the previous GM, had stepped down in July.
Angels need to talk Dan O’Dowd out of retirement.
Meh…
Dan O’Dowd is a Rock Star!!!!!
Besides Buck Martinez, probably the most honest guy in the MLB landscape. But I think he’s 61, and had enough owner intrusion in Colorado He’s got a pretty comfortable gig now at mlb, and may not want to give it up.
Last winter, the network had a GM roundtable hosted by DOD, and it was remarkable that all six of them (rising stars) had started with O’Dowd when they were cutting their teeth. That says something; I doubt he did the picking of the guests. .
Listening to O’Dowd helped me to think like a GM, which has helped me with the I run my Dynasty Team…
O’Dowd is a good baseball mind, but I think the end of his time in Colorado showed that his best days as a GM are behind him.
Thus Moreno will hire him, he’s always a few years behind the curve.
They could hire Refsnyder to be GM…
Like that suggestion
Its the nlcs… tighten and watch out. Braves will win some how. The series that is.
Good on Voit for toughing-it-out despite the bothersome foot injury.
Do yanks fans actually think voit is better than Alonso!?? Like he obviously did better this year. But cmon now….
I watched Voit in College and AA ball . Dude is that good!
Notice Voit played and Bird,who had something similar,did not.
Your comparison is Null and Voit.
As an Angel fan I have no clue what they are thinking. At first it seemed like a no brainer DD thing (which would be horrible). but but Caprino basically implied the organization is broken from the inside out and that implied they really might bring in a person and give the whole kingdom to them.
It would be great if they invested in a proper sytem from teh bottom up and a young GM.
Theo Epstein looking for a new challenge..
I know its not being said in this thread in particular, but I keep seeing people talking about Voit like he’s the most expendable and unremarkable player in the world, that the Yankees should trade him immediately for anything they can get, that they shouldn’t have him in their plans for even next year and I don’t get it. This is what they’ve wanted at least since 2016, if not more realistically 2013, this is what they wanted and kept saying Greg Bird would be when he was a prospect. Luke Voit is the real deal. He’s got some of the best overall numbers of the past few seasons against any player in game for game production.
Why do so many people think the Yankees should trade him? Why are so many people so indifferent to his long term participation as a Yankee?
As a baseball fan for many years, apart from rooting for a team, I root for the rosters on that team. I don’t really root for the uniform as much as I do the make up of the roster- I love that the Yankees salvaged Luke Voit out of St. Louis’ log jam of talent and unleashed him on the league and that he’s turned into an above average defensive first baseman and a first class offensive player- who is cheap-ish and controllable for the next four seasons and going by typical production at every age as a player progresses in their career, by most baseball standards he has around 4 to 8 more years of typical production for what he’s accomplished thus far.
Baseball is a lucrative business and pays its players accordingly and teams’ marketing strategies rely largely on the perennial presence of particular players performing- key word perform- it’s an entertainment business and as much as we love to see new talent emerge, or as intriguing as it is to see players in different uniforms, there’s a ton of value, both in game strategy and in marketing strategy, to play the same guys season in and season out, manning their position that we know and love them in.
I want to see Luke Voit be the Yankees First Baseman/DH for the next 4 or more seasons.
The easy answer is Voit is a one dimensional player with a weak glove and the other fact is we have too many swing for fences or miss players in the lineup and we need more high contact bats to help the lineup flow better so this is a great time to deal Voit at his highest value and build a lineup that can actually threaten pitchers every inning rather then waiting for the big HR. Sanchez should be a back up catcher and platoon at first as well to get him in the lineup. This will open up an additional spot for another left handed bat. Voit, Hicks, Andujar, and a high end pitching prospect like Abreu for Lindor last year. Sign Gardner to platoon in cf with Tauchman. Sign a defensive minded catcher who can make contact. Sign DJ to play all around the diamond. Sign Bauer.
So
a) where do you get all these “high contact bats” your talking about.
b) if Sanchez is highly questionable defensively at catcher, you’re going to hand him a first baseman glove and expect him to do better?
c) the Yankees aren’t going to give 4 guys away anymore in trades to get one guy back…even a guy like Lindor.
d) Gardner and Tauchman in center? Really!
The only good thing you said was re-sign DJ and Bauer which are both great ideas!
Bauer is a great idea but Yankees not signing another big time free agent until they can do some addition by subtraction. Get rid of Stanton sign Bauer or Don’t bring back Gardner, Paxton, and Happ and sign Bauer.
Do we get rid of Stanton before or after we trade Judge, Gleyber, & Sanchez for (one year of!) Lindor?
Remember that doozy you threw out there, @mlbnyyfan?
You strike out wayyyyyyy more than Gary Sanchez, bro!
😉
Seems like you’re a fan of mid-market platoon oriented line ups and you’re ignoring reality in some instances- like even if Sanchez wasn’t the starting catcher his bat hasn’t really been very good either if he doesn’t hit a monster home run. That wouldn’t change if he was moved to first base and his glove might suck there, too, so why give Voit up to play that kind if performance in his stead? Do we know Tauchman can step his game up to be more consistent? He seems like a solid but unremarkable 4th outfielder at the moment. I don’t think he’d be unleashed if he played more. And Voit is not a pure swing for the fences player. The guy hits plenty of singles and doubles. His average reflects this.
Hicks is a pretty consistent hitter with modest power, Andujar has no trade value… why would they take all that on to give us Lindor?
Bauer wouldn’t necessarily sign with the Yankees and there are other teams capable of giving him the kind of money he’ll be expecting and teams he’d be more likely to actually want to play for- and I could see him staying with the Reds.
Bauer needs to sign with the Angels. If not Trout demands a trade to Philadelphia or Mets to be closer to home