[外電] Joe Girardi Wishes on the A-Rod Fairy

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Joe Girardi Wishes on the A-Rod Fairy By Steven Goldman on Oct 24, 2:31p http://ppt.cc/nMen Joe Girardi said on Wednesday that Alex Rodriguez would be the everyday third baseman in 2013. But what if Rodriguez is no longer capable of playing every day? I note with some amusement that in today's Joe Girardi press conference he said, "I expect Alex [Rodriguez] to be our everyday third baseman. What's he going to have to show me? That he's healthy and ready to go, that's the bottom line, that he has no concerns and we have no concerns about putting him out there every day." It's nice to see that we're kicking off the winter with a healthy dose of fresh denial. (編按:針對老吉對阿肉在2013的期待值衍生出這一篇分析) I spent a good deal of time last winter arguing that the Yankees needed to have two third basemen this year. Rodriguez's propensity for injury and need for increased rest through the designated hitter position meant that he had started only of 534 of 810 possible games at third since 2007. This isn't a problem if your reserve third basemen is someone productive, but if the backup is Ramiro Pena, Cody Ransom, Angel Berroa, Kevin Russo, Alberto Gonzalez, or even the 2011 version of Eric Chavez, the team is taking a big hit whenever A-Rod goes down... and A-Rod was going to go down. 阿肉從2007年之後每年守備三壘的場次逐漸減少然而這幾年頂替阿肉守三壘的人們在輸出產能上差了一個檔次也包括了查帥哥 It was only due to Chavez's unlikely comeback year that the Yankees weren't burned quite the same way in 2012. Not only does it take almost drunken optimism to think that Rodriguez is going to be "out there every day" in 2013, one also has to be at least somewhat skeptical that Chavez can have another such season at 35 given that he hadn't come close to this level of production since 2004 and had spent, no foolin', an average of 121 days a season on the disabled list from 2007 through 2011. Chavez is now headed to free agency, and though the Yankees can certainly re-sign him, there is considerable risk in relying upon him to once again keep the position above replacement level when Rodriguez is restricted to his Kryptonian healing chamber in the Fortress of Centaurhood. 雖然續簽帥哥的機會很高但並沒辦法根治阿肉老化所產生的三壘輸出產能問題因為帥哥本身其實也處於一個老化的狀態 If the Yankees truly intend to put all their eggs in the A-Rod basket, they are setting themselves up to be in the exact fix they were in before Chavez's revival -- and I'm sorry, but even if you believe that Eduardo Nunez's bat can carry the position (I don't), his defensive problems alone should disqualify him. Conversely, Jayson Nix can field the position, but just isn't enough of a hitter (career .199 average against right-handed pitching) to do much more than platoon there, and even then his percentages against left-handers (.239/.309/.428, worse than that as a Yankee) are poor compared to the advantage the typical right-handed hitter has when facing a southpaw. E哥是有棒子但防守讓人不敢恭維 Nix是有防守但棒子不夠大隻 I know the free-agent list for third basemen is appallingly bad this year, likely consisting of Kevin Youkilis (maybe, if his option is bought out) and guys like Brandon Inge, but that's no excuse for complacency. There are trades to be made, perhaps, but they won't happen if acquiring depth at the position isn't a priority for the organization. You know the cliché about the definition of insanity being doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result. Well, thinking that Rodriguez is going to play 150 games next year is an example of exactly that. 光頭王和英吉被點名了但可能性太低結論:短期之內三壘的問題大概是無解了只能期待阿肉歸位吧 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 122.146.56.233