The Yankees announced they’ve designated Clint Frazier, Rougned Odor and Tyler Wade for assignment. The moves create roster space for the selections of prospects Oswaldo Cabrera, Ron Marinaccio, Everson Pereira, Stephen Ridings and JP Sears to the 40-man roster. That keeps all five from being selected in the Rule 5 draft.
Frazier and Wade are arbitration-eligible, but the Yankees evidently determined they weren’t going to bring either player back. It’s easy to envision both attracting interest over the coming days, and New York will ten days to explore offers.
Frazier was a middle-of-the-order presence as recently as last year, when he mashed at a .267/.394/.511 clip. That came in a small sample of 160 plate appearances during a truncated season, but it was the kind of offensive upside talent evaluators have lauded for the former #5 overall pick. While Frazier’s a limited defensive player with swing-and-miss concerns, he also flashed a tantalizing blend of raw power and plate discipline.
The 2021 season was a disaster, though. Not only did the 27-year-old’s line fall to a miserly .186/.317/.317, he didn’t play past the end of June due to recurring vertigo-like symptoms. It’s certainly not how either he or the team would’ve envisioned his time in pinstripes coming to an end.
MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projects Frazier for a modest $2.4MM salary if he were to proceed through the arbitration process. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see another team roll the dice on his upside for that affordable sum, either via trade or waiver claim. If Frazier were to clear waivers, he’d have the right to elect minor league free agency.
That’s also the case for Wade, who’s projected for an affordable $700K arb salary. The 26-year-old doesn’t bring much power potential, but he draws a fair amount of walks, runs well and can handle multiple positions. Wade is coming off a .268/.354/.323 showing in 145 plate appearances, and it’d register as a surprise if he didn’t land elsewhere in the coming days.
The Yankees swung a deal to acquire Odor from the Rangers just before the start of the 2021 season. While the left-handed hitter had some timely hits, his overall production was lackluster. Odor managed just a .202/.286/.379 mark over 361 plate appearances. The 27-year-old will be guaranteed $12MM next season, the final year of his contract. Texas remains on the hook for essentially all of that sum, so any team that acquires Odor would only owe him the league minimum salary.
Turning to the prospects involved, Ridings may be the best known. The big right-hander already made his MLB debut this past season as a COVID replacement. While he only worked five innings of relief, he looked like a potential late-game weapon. Ridings averaged 97 MPH on his fastball and generated whiffs on a massive 18.9% of his offerings. The 26-year-old also posted dominant numbers in the high minors.
Cabrera is the highest-regarded of the group, according to Baseball America. BA’s #8 organizational farmhand, Cabrera is coming off a solid .256/.311/.492 showing with 24 homers over 478 plate appearances at Double-A Somerset. He’s regarded as a high-end defensive infielder with strong bat-to-ball skills and burgeoning power.
Pereira, a lefty-hitting center fielder, was limited to 221 low minors plate appearances by injuries. The 20-year-old probably isn’t a near-term big league option, but the Yankees didn’t want to chance another team taking a shot on his upside. A highly-regarded amateur coming out of Venezuela in 2017, he raked at a .303/.398/.686 clip when healthy enough to take the field this year. Neither Sears nor Marinaccio has ever made an organizational ranking at FanGraphs or BA, but both posted strong numbers in the high minors and could be big league options in 2022.
Poor Clint. I do hope he recovers from his concussion issues. Odor no surprise. Wade a bit of a surprise.
I believe these moves, along with trading Nelson and Sands, opens up five 40-man roster spots. Frazier is the only one who could come back to haunt them, but that concussion has been a killer. Some never fully recover.
Agreed. If Nelson could drop 20-25 pounds and delete the Sizzler app,he can really help Joe.
They’ll be fine without Frazier. He isn’t haunting anyone
Article says Frazier offers poor defense. wasn’t he a 2020 Gold Glove nominee? lol
Legendary swing and miss bat speed …
Yea remember he was never a great OF but he made the basic plays, after the concussion is when he started to look lost out there.
@Yankeesfan22, it looked like he made it all the way back in 2020, but I believe he aggravated the concussion very early this year diving for a ball in RF. I didn’t see anyone report it at the time, but I saw his head snap back on impact. Some team should pick him up and just DH him. The Universal DH will be good for him. DH him, limit his time in the OF. Or, in the AL, the Orioles should claim him, or maybe even his former team, the Indians.
I don’t think he’ll be out of a job for very long, Rob. Really wished it would’ve worked out. I liked the kid.
Brain stuff is so scary. My son played his last football game a couple weeks ago. I seem to pray a bit less now that it’s hoop season.
He going to play in college Ducky? I recall you saying he’s committed to NWU.
Northwestern is legit!
Oh no.
He is a senior in H.S. He has no desire to try & walk on. I did. But he & I are wired quite differently on some things. I had a hard time letting go. He isn’t.
But all the CTE stuff came out after he’d been playing for years. Scared the crap out of me though, serious. My rule was; one head or neck injury & you’re done. Thankfully, it never occurred.
But I don’t think we can separate Frazier’s up & down play & all the concussion stuff he went through. I read an interview with him. Pretty spooky, Clip. Like I said, glad my boy is done playing football, man. Again, just really grateful nothing serious ever happened.
Proud-ass parent moment, man.
You wouldn’t believe the size of the smile on my face right now, @tstats. Don’t get me started though. Trust me. I can brag about my kid with the best of ’em.
I wrestled from 8yrs old till second year of college. I never let my son wrestle. Fortunately he was more into academics. Still go through the pains from HS.
I get it.
I really agonized over it. Being a single parent I second guess myself all the time too. Which made it even harder. Ya know?
But he loved it. & I just couldn’t bring myself to take it away from him. I played. Been knocked out (WR/KR) completely more than once. My girlfriend is 100% convinced I have CTE.
But, he started playing flag when he was…3? (God bless the Y & Park Boards as I got tons of cheap baby sitting out of those folks.) So it was a part of his life before any facts were made known to us.
Like I keep saying. Glad it’s over.
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Proud-ass parent moment, man.
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Those were the best of times. My daughter was 8-8 from the foul line in one of the state championship games. The dude next to screams out ‘will you quit fouling her! She never misses’.
That stays with you for a long time.
Yup.
You’re smiling too.
Nice job Dad!
He’s going to Northwestern so no need to risk anything by playing football. Great school.
Thanks, man.
Back when Northwestern used to routinely get blown out, at the end of games their fans used to chant:
“That’s alright! That’s Ok!
We’re going to be your boss someday!”
It is a good school. The tuition – although high – isn’t too bad. I’m excited for him. But it’s been just he & I the whole time. So, I will certainly miss him.
Yup. She was really tall as a young kid, but I knew it would be only a matter of time before everyone caught up to her, since my wife and I are about average height.
So in the 8th grade AS game, she scored one point in the first half. And I was ‘okay’ with that, since I knew she wasn’t going NCAA Division 1 (actually, I was hoping for Princeton, but that really isn’t what Division 1 means)..
Anyway, she comes out in the 3rd quarter and scores 13 points in 6 minutes. She was playing alongside one of the best point guards in The Bronx, so that helped. After the game, I’m walking behind the nephew of an NBA HOF player. He points to my daughter and says ‘there goes the MVP’. Unfortunately, they don’t out MVPs in those games, but it’s heck of a thing to hear.
Wow, so rare to see heart-felt, positive interactions here on MLBTR, just had a take a moment to call it out in appreciation. Hope to see more like this in the future – keep setting the positive example 🙂
LeeMazzilli: me too! Wrestled from 10-20 years old. Then went into BJJ team comps. Man, neck, back, shoulders….ugh. Some days are bad. My nephew just got a full ride to a D3 school in upstate NY for wrestling and lost in a tourney 8-7 To the #3 in the country! I was proud of him.
Ah, the old days in the wrestling room…. Then the weight room, then the saunas, then the weight room… you know what, never mind.
Those were great times. But I popped out shoulders multiple times and at 45 suffer for it. Neck too.
He had a bad weekend. Misplayed a ball and lost one in the sun. Then got the stigma of being a terrible defender. He is pretty decent out there.
Thanks Dads for everything you do for the kids. Those were some great stories to read.
So the Yankees essentially got 1 year of James Paxson when they traded Miller, by far the best reliever in baseball on a cheap contract. Everyone thought Cashman fleeced the Cubs and Indians when those trades happened. If Torres doesn’t find his bat soon both of them will look bad in hindsight. DFAing Frazier was a mistake. Letting him go to protect potential bullpen pieces was foolish. He should be given another year. Especially after the mess the Yankees dealt with last year in their OF. He has the upside to be a solid starter in LF with a middle of the order bat. The Yankees won’t find that in FA for anywhere close to $2.7m. With Florial stumbling and being their only close to ready OF prospect that has starter potential they should have held onto him. Now he will sign with a team like Arizona and probably have a breakout season. I think it’s time for Cashman to finally go. He has given the Yankees 1 championship in 20 years. With the Cole contract he showed he learned nothing from when ARod got him bidding against himself. He had the Michaels teams when he took over and since then has done nothing but throw money at over priced free agents. His drafts has always sucked and will continue to provide a decent player every 5 years or so. When they changed the International free agent rules they lost their main pipeline for young talent. Sorry about the novel.
Wow, someone’s going to have a nice low-risk flier on Frazier. Feel like the Pirates make sense. Didn’t they show interest earlier in him at the deadline?
Definitely worth a pickup. Had a 149 OPS+ in 2020.
In a very limited number of plate appearances, but yes he certainly improved over his performance from the past couple seasons. He’s really fast and he has decent D. Some team will pick him up as a low-risk move
Damn.
I really thought he had established himself as part of our core moving forward. Saw him play out here in ’17. Played all out which was the first thing I noticed. His “legendary bat speed” was actually apparent as opposed to hyperbole. & he was studying scouting reports (I think) between pitches. After 2020 it really seemed he had broken through.
I had high hopes for this kid. & I will freely admit it. Wade too. Though I have bern soured on him for awhile now.
Also: “Hey” to the PSA fellas.
Cherington could push all the right buttons
Good moves by the Yankees. Each one can be easily replaced.
I was surprised that they didn’t drop Andujar too…
Good trade bait to an NL club for DH purposes. Thinking Miami.
He’ll be gone when they sign a FA and they need the roster spot
Would love to see the A’s grab Frazier and Wade.
Yeah, and watch, Wade will hit like .315 there too. It would figure.
Well, good, Clip.
We sure couldn’t help him. Nice play to preserve Kluber’s no-no. &….not much else I will remember him for.
Keeping Cash’s nudie pics for longer than any other Yankee?
I think that’s what was in the now infamous “sealed letter.”
Sounds like “classified junk mail”
Wade was playing better when he was getting regular at bats. I’m surprised he was DFAd.
Wade was a good hitter in the minors so while it’s not likely, it could happen. We never really saw him play everyday. I did like his versatility and speed. Very good defender and nice weapon to use as a pinch runner.
Yeah, well so was Brandon Wood, yet he turned out to be one of the worst hitters in MLB history, slashing .186/.224/.289 with a .513 OPS and 40 OPS+ in 5 seasons.
I had wade in fantasy when all the inj. Seemed like he was hitting and stealing bases. Then all of a sudden he would be a ph, and start once every 4-5 days then wasn’t hitting
Wow. I understand Odor and maybe Wade, but it’s surprising they’re giving up on Frasier
Think of all the trades Yankees passed up in years past because they didn’t want to give up Frazier.
But I thought Clint Frazier was the main trade piece to get Luis Castillo…
I know right!
Oh wait, we’re you kidding just then?
I think Frazier will end up with the Reds anyways. Seems like a nice buy low target for a hitter friendly park and they have an opening with Castellanos on the move.
Yankees fans on twitter were expecting a Frazier, andujar, voit for Matt Olson trade for a month. Oh well lol
I know, they’re soooo stupid. Why would NY overpay that much?!
Oh, Clip.
Every fan base should be so lucky as to have one of you on the board.
I always try to tell everyone that, Ducky. You’re just the only one who sees it!
No accounting for taste is there?
@Yankee Clipper-no I can see it to Brother, Indeeddownderelikedat!!!
Michael Kay said he heard that Olson could be had for Gleyber and Voit.
Well, that’s Michael Kay. He is wrong. BBTV is far from perfect. But Voit & Gleyber have less than $15MM in trade value. *Combined*. Olsen over 45 mil.
Voit & Torres for Olsen is a brutal homer trade proposal that we should all just quietly walk away from.
Voit & Torres for Olsen is a brutal homer trade proposal that
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This is why posters come in here with the ubiquitous Andujar & Frazier for Trout memes.
Torres still has some value, but Voit is an injured DH coming off of a meh season. Any team in rebuild mode is not looking for a soon-to-be 31 year old DH.
Baseball Trade Values is an unmitigated joke.
John Butzer, it’s creator, is an A’s fan and has been caught multiple times, pumping values of A’s players for zero reason.
He’s also been caught changing values after trades occur to make it look as though his algorithm works.
Serious baseball fans should reject it.
The Frazier/Wade trade for Castillo must fallen apart at the last minute…. I wish Frazier all the best but when I saw the headline I had a good chuckle.
No sane team would want Tyler Wade, even for the AA team. He was an absolute joke beyond words and I am so happy he is gone. The Ramiro Pena 2.0.
Still one open spot and Gittens still on roster too.
Surprised Brandon Lockridge has not been added. Excellent speed, decent pop and he reached AA as CF.
Clint Frazier’s HOF statue will be right next to Rob Refsnyder’s.
Or should I say “bust”.
I had no idea either of those players were on the HOF track.
If you look up, you’ll see the joke flying right over your head…
huh? you didn’t catch that I was being facetious? you honestly thought that I thought that he thought that both of those player were on the HOF track? really? wow
“Joke”, @abgd123. Just really overdone. & perhaps it was funny before I started posting here. Seems to always attract some upvotes though.
So there’s that.
The guy was a highly rated prospect in 2 organizations until he ran into a near concrete wall at the pirates minor league facility.
Concussions can kill a career but the upside is they can provide entertainment for people like you.
He wasn’t that great before the concussion, but at least it gives an excuse to continue that narrative. I do wish him good health though.
“Clint Frazier’s HOF statue will be right next to Rob Refsnyder’s.”
Frazier’s HOF “bust” will be right next to Blake Swihart’s.
I don’t particularly understand this. I believe all three are tradable, but at least one or two were worth more than a DFA, right?
Frazier, Andujar – Both top 20 prospects and both shining examples of why the Yankees need a true SS. They cannot plan on Volpe / Peraza panning out because….well, ya never know.
Hope Frazier can come back, love Odor’s drive, and glad Cashman finally bought his nudie pics back from Wade.
I would argue that none of them could be traded. The fact that they were DFA’d tells me that. If they could have been traded in an advantageous way for the Yankees and Cashman didn’t make the trade than he should be fired right now for gross malfeasance.
I don’t know, I mean, Wade, for instance, is a solid major league SS on defense. I’d think he would be worth a lottery ticket to one of the financially restricted teams, no? Then again, you could be right. Only Cashman knows.
Apparently not, Frazier = bust. 0.2 WAR in 707 PA over 5 seasons in the majors with a negative WAR in 2021 and he was about t get a raise in arbitration if they kept him. He has no value to the Yankees and none in trade.
Yeah, I see that certainly. I guess I was referring mostly to Wade. Odor isn’t a bad pick-up though because he is free courtesy of TX.
Let’s see who (if anyone) claims any of the 3.
Not Clint Frazier.. just a yr ago Yankees fans said he was worth every superstar available
Oh those darn Yankee fans. All those outlandish claims, uh?
Counterpoint: No. Yankee fans didn’t. You guys just make **** up.
Technically true, because it was really the Yankee Magazine Kool Aid drinkers that were doing it.
Yes many Yankee fans did. Over. And Over. And Over. And Over. And Over again. Every offseason since 2016.
But now the Yankees can’t trade Frazier for a team’s top prospect!!
There goes our trade bait, sure someone will give us a starter for andujar and mike king!
Taking the Clipper approach?
I fear some of these fellas aren’t going to be nuanced enough for it. Either way, should be interesting.
Can also resign each to non-40 spots
I think with Frazier gone now we’re going to hear more about how his personality rubbed everyone in the clubhouse the wrong way. I mean, we know it, but now I think we’ll hear a few more stories.
Rugged Odor seems like he hasn’t been the same since the Joey Bats incident
Predicting Frazier to be claimed by the Cubs
Maybe Yankees can still pull off a Frazier for Soto trade, seems like the Nationals should give up more but might have to accept Juan Soto on this one.
Only if they throw in Robles
This is the hard part about having a decent farm system. You have to make sacrifices. Look, the Rays sold Brent Honeywell to the A’s for cash. Nobody saw that coming either.
WHY NOT SANCHEZ!!!!!!
Sanchez could be a non-tender candidate. I don’t believe his yearly 1 WAR is worth $8m. I wouldn’t be upset bringing back Austin Romaine to pair with Higgy.
You mean the Romine who’s been even less productive than Higgy the past 2 seasons? Lol
Yup, use that extra $6M for some other purpose. At least their defense would be better. The position offense would have less homeruns but same overall WAR.
Lol, man, you can’t stand Sanchez!
Again, look at the state of catching around MLB. Mr Dierkes had a “members only” article on this exact thing. I don’t know how to say it any other way; just because Yankee fans are over the top frustrated with him, in no way means Cash’ll get rid of him.
This is more an indictment catching in general as opposed to an endorsement of Phat Sancho, at this point (sadly enough). Doesn’t change the bottom line, however. Which is: Gary stays. GM’s don’t revenge-DFA guys.
No matter how much you want them too.
Additionally, with the relatively brief glimpse of greatness Sanchez illustrated potential to achieve, there’s no way Sanchez was getting DFA’d. And Ducky knows I’m not very high on Sanchez.
Ducky himself is no longer very high on Sanchez. But. Who is better? How do we get him?
& not, “a LH, .300 hitting, Gold Glove” mythical catcher either. A real actual player with a B-Ref page. Not easy.
Why I keep coming back to upgrading Higgy. That is easier.
Trade the prospects man.
Why not trade Frazier, Wade for some prospects that don’t need protecting? Get at least some low level prospects. Also why Wade and not Andujar at least Wade can play SS.
If they could have, they would have. Frazier has no trade value.
@mlbnyyfan my guess to your question on why it was Wade and not Andujar is because Andujar does have a history of being a very good hitter. In 2018 he had a 130 OPS+ over 149 games. Unfortunately, he hasn’t even played half a season worth of games since. I imagine they want to run him out there again and see if he can repeat 2018. Wade on the other hand has never been an above average hitter.
Gee. Who will Yankee fans include with Andujar in every trade proposal, for everyone?
Garcia?
Sanchez!
Voit
I think this thread is at a stalemate and we need a tie-breaker.
This just shows how hard it is to be a good player in the majors, I thought Frazier was a sure thing when the Yanks got him.
Also shows just how detrimental concussions can be….
Don’t forget the order in which clubs can choose Frazier: (AL- Bottom-to-top and then NL bottom-to-top). I doubt he gets out of the American League unless a NL team makes a deal with an AL team. But with rosters tightening, I guess he may be left untaken..
Yeah, this is a good point. I could envision the O’s taking these guys.
Now people can stop with the overused and non funny Clint trade jokes. A little surprised about Wade but he doesn’t have high upside
Nooooo! Not the future HoFer Clint Frazier?!?
Yeah he’s right up there with Yankee great Horas Clark.
Hold up!! I thought Clint & Tyler we’re future HoF’ers according to Yankee fans & media?!
Who in the world in our fan base said Wade is a HOF ? I tell you fans of other teams beat this joke to death for no reason lol. Fraizer had a ton of potential though, that bat speed is crazy good
Damn…. I understand letting Frazier go but I’m going to miss Wade. Clearing the way for a new SS I guess with Gio as infield utility.
I liked Wade this past season as well but let’s face it, his upside was low. He does have the work ethic that I wish Sanchez and Gallo would have
True. Why the knock on Gallo? I don’t recall him dogging it.
he once mentioned “this is who I am”. If a 27 year old player shows no interest in improving then why keep him ? You should always want to improve period. He’s such a awful hitter and walks can’t hide that
I have never heard Gallo’s work ethic questioned.
He is just stating the obvious. Don’t forget: he is *exactly* what Cash wanted & expected. Same thing with all the other GM’s that tried to get him.
Is he flawed? Yeah for sure! However, almost all players are.
Is he productive? Yes. He is. A lot of folks don’t care for the shape of that production. Doesn’t change the fact that he is, though.
As for Gary. This again? He puts in tons of extra work with Swanson. He played winter ball last year to work on his swing. Terrible narrative. Sanchez works hard, bro.
He’s not wrong though. He’s today’s Adam Dunn. Mark Teixeira was onced asked why he doesn’t just lay down a weak opposite field grounder on extreme shifts for a guaranteed hit and his response was that’s not what the Yankees pay him for.
Some of the younger fellas (the same rapscallions that introduced me to Savant actually) encouraged me to look at Gallo as a “glove first” player. Which is reasonable. He just won a well deserved GG.
So.
Looking at him as such, completely changed my perspective of him. He has a career OPS of .823 & is a lock for 40+ jacks. Excellent for a glove first guy, uh? Offensively I can see the comp. Breaks down after that, though.
&…well, Tex is right.
He barely had a 800 ops despite leading the league in walks. How is that being really productive ? He had judge and Stanton protecting him and he was STILL awful !!!
That’s a two month sample.
I’m looking at his career mark. Which entails a significantly larger body of work. I saw Trout play once. He went 0-4 with 2 K’s. Drew a walk. But got cut down trying to steal second. If I were to judge him off that, I would think he kinda stunk.
Ya know?
Gallo is what he is, man. But it totals up to a 4+ WAR player.
War tends to overrate mediocre players. And I’m not judging Gallo off of one at bat as your example showed, I’m judging by what he did here along with the rest of his career. His flaws were amplified even more when he was traded here. He has two I repeat only TWO sac flies his whole career to date. How is that even possible ??? One of the worst hitters I’ve ever seen. His walks and home runs don’t hide that from me
Tell that to the Ray’s.
Anyway: It’s cool. For whatever reason you hate him. I don’t. It’s the internet. Differences of opinion often occur.
Interesting @Joe. Gallo hit his second career sac fly on 9/21/21. Up until then, he’s had 124 plate appearances with man on third and less than two outs from 2,337 total PA. Yeah, that’s pretty bad he’s up at the plate with the same approach EVERY time.
I remember Ricky Henderson yelling at Jose Canseco about that. He said “do you know how many times Mattingly left me on 3rd with less than two outs? -0-“
Ducky, since Gardy is probably gone, looks like your moniker for him can stay and be passed to Gallo, a la GGJG, no?
That is EXACTLY why they let him go.
YBC: With Cashman, I could see the new SS being….. Gio Urshela.
Frazier will be claimed. lets hope wherever he goes he can get a long shot.
I’m honestly thinking that the Pirates would make a whole lot of sense for Clint.
That’s the first team I thought of. He can play every day there, and we’ll truly see what he’s got. Odor, on the other hand, will be lucky to get a minors invite. We’ve seen enough of him to know that even at league minimum he’s no bargain
Remember when the Yankees comped Frazier to Trout? Lmao!!
No.
Yea I remember ! ….. wait no I don’t lmaoooooooo
Uh, oh yeah, that was back in 2010, right? Oh no, that was Trout. Never mind, nope, don’t believe I’ve read, heard, seen that comp anywhere but right here in this thread.
Frazier injuries cost him. Hopefully he can right himself and have a career. Wade backup , with speed and ok glove. Good 24th, 25th man. Odor what took so long!
Let’s remember that the main objective is to allow players the opportunity to actually play MLB. Tyler Wade is a great swiss army knife for any team. With the Yankees signing a new SS at some point, Wade would end up with limited playing time. I hope he gets the chance for 300-400 ABs with somebody.
It’s plausible none get claimed, right now is about the 40 man roster spots. These players are all candidates for minor league contracts with invites to spring training.
Wonder if they will resign any of them after the upcoming rule 5 draft?
Letting Tyler Wade go opens up some questions about their pursuit of a SS. Obtaining a stop gap SS was coupled with the idea of having Wade as a kind of backup in case the stop gap SS was a complete disaster.
Mickey7777:
I’ve talked with a few regular guys here often about the SS situation. Originally pining for Seager, when I saw the contract demands (which continue to rise), my opinion is neither top-tier, nor stop-gap, but a nice compromise.
Surmising we can’t trade for a SS, I’d suggest going for, in this order:
Story: Advantage of Possible 1-year pillow; and if he rebounds, he’s All-Star caliber and we can re-sign him
Baez: Great Defense, but swing and miss. Have to view him as defense first with pop, and versatile.
Semien: 2B but can play SS, great bat, 31.
All of these options provide the Yankees with substantial financial flexibility as they are much cheaper (up to half the price) and require less total years of commitment. They can then trade for Olson (won’t happen), re-sign Rizzo, still get Marte, and address a SP need if they choose (say, like DeSclafani, for argument’s sake). Seems the much better option for the club to me.
Hearing all these Yank fans complaining about Sánchez makes me SOOO HAPPY about Detroit getting a Gold Glover like Tucker Barnhart! Great defensive catchers with offensive upside are so damn hard to find these days. And to only give up a prospect that struck out in nearly 40% of his ABs to get him? What a steal!
That they are
Yeah, many of us were on the Tucker bandwagon and discussing him on our threads. It was a really nice snag by the Tigers. Doesn’t hurt you offensively, but has really good defense – not common, as you said.
Look, I like what Buck said, on MLB Network today, you have a guy in your system for years you know what he is as a player. You can’t wait around to see if you catch lightning in a bottle with guys like Frazier and Wade. These guys rarely pan out. I would put Andujar, Garcia, and Nelson in this category!
This is precisely why they cannot rely solely on Volpe/Peraza in ‘23. Man, is it me or is Volpe/Peraza starting to sound like a presidential candidacy ticket?
Volpe / Peraza ‘23!! Get the vote out!
I see some A’s fans on here with their sad little Clint Frazier and Miguel Andujar jokes. What’s funny is that your team will probably be signing Clint Frazier to start for them this year seeing as how they’re probably cutting payroll down to almost $50 million. Oh and by the way Matt Olson is gonna look awesome in pinstripes. Thanks for doing a good job of grooming him.
Clint Frazier won’t make it past the AL forst 5 of the waiver claim process. BAL, TEX, MIN, KCR and LAA all need OFs.
Tough break for Frazier. Outstanding bat speed. Could’ve, and sill might be a good player.
Good lord
Bucky stfu u idiot
You always have the option of muting me, sir.
Or you can become another Ducky Groupie. Options abound.
But: I won’t be taking my lead from your post. So. You will have to just muddle forward somehow. Who the hell are you anyway lol? I certainly don’t recognize your screenname.
As for the “idiot” charge…well, at least I know how to spell. Glass houses, etc.
I like Ducky.
Frazier, Wade, Odor and Andújar for Trout and Ohtani
I liked Clint Fraser. I think he would produce better numbers if he was an every day player. Hopefully someone gives him that chance
No, seriously? Is this the same Clint Frazier that has been included in trades proposed by well over half the Yankee fans on this site over the past 4 years?
Wade was useful but maybe replaceable. Odor never made much sense. Frazier? Maybe they just ran out of patience, but it’s too bad. Would have liked to see him get 500 ABs
I really don’t know enough about Frazier’s physical ailments last year. If he can overcome them, he has some potential as a hitter for sure. I guess the Yankees didn’t think he was a safe enough bet to hold on to. If the universal DH happens, I think he’d fit well in that role as then he doesn’t need to risk any impact to his head from diving for balls or running in to a wall in the OF.
Wade was out of options or else I think they would have kept him. So I guess the Yanks may turn to Cabrera as a UT guy. If they don’t make a big splash with a SS signing, I wouldn’t mind seeing them sign Villar to play SS until Peraza can claim the job. Villar would then become a nice super-sub.
I never thought I’d say this but I wish they could have kept Wade. He played pretty well last year. I think he should have taken more at-bats from Odor.
Pereira is a right handed hitter.
Wow, yankee news. Cool.
The way the Yankees handled Clint Frazier kinda reminds me of how the Sox did Blake Swihart a few years ago. Dude clearly had a lot of talent but was never really given the chance to put it all together, and instead of moving him while he had potential they just kept him on hand as a depth option for long enough that it stunted his development. Sad to see.
There usually aren’t windows of opportunities for prospects. As Swihart declined in projectability for the RS, other teams are also marking him down. Everyone sees the same things we see.
Come on Marlins go grab Frazier!!!!!
I know Wade was nothing special but how is Gittens more Valuable than Wade. Why protect Gittens at least Wade plays defense and can run.
I wonder what trade Yankees fans will now say that Frazier will headline. LMAO.
Frazier can clearly hit when healthy, but will he ever get healthy from his concussion? If the DH comes to the NL, I’m sure there’s a team that will take a chance on him. He can be stashed there until his defense improves.
The Yankees also traded a catcher Sands to Philadelphia why was that move made when it’s clear the Yankees need to say good bye to Sanchez. The Yankees desperately need to be stronger up the middle. Am I the only Yankees fan that’s done with Sanchez?
No, you’re not. It’s not that many of us aren’t sick of Sanchez’s incredible inconsistency, or terrible stretches on defense,or his complete failure to meet his potential we all saw in ‘17. It’s that we currently have zero other options. Me? I’m a trade-the-farm-for-Contreras guy. We need Contreras more than we need Olson, imho.
Now, on that note, something that does confuse me a little is that Breaux is supposed to be very much like Sanchez (lots of raw power, great cannon arm, and not-so-good defense). But, he’s closer to MLB-ready than any other catcher they have, so why not give him a shot? His defensive blocking is a little better than Sanchez’s (maybe more consistent is a better way to phrase), and he may surprise us. Instead, he’s exposed to rule 5. Just a thought.
Whoaaaaa!!! Clint Frazier designated for assignment? But I thought he was getting traded for Luis Castillo or Corbin Burnes like soo many of those genius trade proposals I’ve seen on this site lol.
Hindsight is always 20/20. How many top prospects have been traded for mlb talent, when prospects amounted to nothing? I would gamble that number is really high.
If Clint can get healthy, tell me he’s not right up Billy Beane’s alley! I could see Frazier clear waivers and sign as a free agent in Oakland and tear it up this year! It’s moves like this that will keep Oakland around .500 this season, even during one of their retooling seasons.
I guess the Andujar + Frazier for Soto trade must of fell apart at the last second. Next year its gonna be Andujar + 1 of Voit, Garcia, & Schmidt
What’s absolutely hilarious? Not your post. Ya know why? Because you must not have read the exact same post by every other anti-Yankee commenter 152 times in this thread.
Plus, Andujar + Frazier is an overpay for Soto – he’s so overrated.
“Fell apart” – that’s something you would be very familiar with after watching it for a full season.
Wouldn’t mind the Mariners making a move on Frazier. We could use the depth.
Cashman should have traded frazier for trout when he had the chance.
Hahaha. That made me laugh, thank you. Cashman could have thrown in Andujar for a Trout/Ohtani package.
LOL
The only one I’m slightly bothered about is Wade. Super utility with insane speed who seemed to finally be finding his way with the bat. Curious to see where he lands.
As for Frazier its time to move on. Guys has all the talent in the world up at the plate but still can’t put it together. He still has a lot of maturing to do first if he is even going to sniff his potential.
So out of all the “talent” received in the trades for Chapman and Miller the Yankees are down to hoping Gleyber rebounds. Cashman ever going to be held accountable for almost never developing major league players with an impact?
It is a shame – but I think Frazier’s days in mlb will be limited. That concussion really did a number on him. I really hope he bounces back, because there is talent there, and he has shown he can improve (runner up to gold glove and strong batting ops+ – in small samples).
I hope the Yanks bring him back and let him work to make the team in ST but if I had to guess he wants nothing to do with the Yanks
Not really sure but I see Frazier becoming a star if he can finally stay healthy. For some reason I see him signing with the Phillies to play with Bryce Harper, for my favorite manager Joe Girardi.
I hope the Jays pickup Odor so the fans can taunt him every game.
Good he sucks.
Instead of a baseball card, I hope they make a catalog for JP Sears.
has anyone experienced symptoms of vertigo? that could be frazier for the rest of his life. wishing him well
The Mets should pickup Frazier and Wade for their bench.
Was just thinking about Frazier. The Mets need two starting OFers, a 4th OFer, a 5th OFer… they’re going nowhere in 2022 and Clint can slot in literally anywhere if he’s capable of playing at all.
Goodbye Odor! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!