The Other Team in Town - MFY News 2019

[seawolf17]

Andy Pettitte is going to be one and done on the HOF voting this year and I think that is HILARIOUS.

[Edgy MD]

Steve is going far afield.

Even by Steve J.'s standards.

[batmagadanleadoff]

My head hurts.

[41Forever]

Sorry, no one is "literally a saint" to me.

I meant that it was a formal designation from Pope Francis.

[smg58]

Getting back to baseball: the Yankees wound up with the Mariners #10 for Gray, which was as much as they could hope for. The Reds extended Gray for three more years, which will look great if he rights the ship and terrible if he doesn't. They did do OK getting something out of Matt Harvey, who had a steeper hill to climb than Gray does.

[seawolf17]

HELLO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE MFYs HERE, PEOPLE. FOCUS.

Who are doing something interesting by signing Danny Farquhar, who had an aneurysm in the dugout last spring, to a minor league deal: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/m ... 644452002/

[nymr83]

Sorry, no one is "literally a saint" to me.

She is literally a saint, just as someone knighted by Queen Elizabeth is literally a knight - it is a title bestowed by the church. I'm sure if we went down a list of saints we would find quite a few assholes.

[kcmets]

I'm sure if we went down a list of saints we would find quite a few assholes.

Excluding St. Kevin, of course. Dude was saint and a half.

I don't really follow Yanks story lines, why were so eager to get rid of Gray?
And the Reds immediately give him an extension. Will be interesting.

[Frayed Knot]

I don't really follow Yanks story lines, why were so eager to get rid of Gray?

He wasn't a true Yanqui.

But seriously folks ... he had a horrible record while pitching in YSIII [4-4, 6.98 ERA, 1.91 WHIP in 2018 vs 7-5, 3.17, 1.16 on road]. Not that I believe that was the sole reason for dumping him as I highly doubt Cashman et al view that as a cause-and-effect thing as much as fans tend to do. But certainly such results don't leave a good feeling with the fans, they couldn't very well offer him an extension off that performance, and he'd be a FA at the end of this coming year anyway.

iow, Buh-Bye

[Frayed Knot]

I don't really follow Yanks story lines, why were so eager to get rid of Gray?

He wasn't a true Yanqui.

But seriously folks ... he had a horrible record while pitching in YSIII [4-4, 6.98 ERA, 1.91 WHIP in 2018 vs 7-5, 3.17, 1.16 on road]. Not that I believe that was the sole reason for dumping him as I highly doubt Cashman et al view that as a cause-and-effect thing as much as fans tend to do. But certainly such results don't leave a good feeling with the fans and they weren't going to offer an extension off that performance to a guy who was going to be a FA at the end of this coming year.

iow, Buh-Bye

[Frayed Knot]

In other ex-MFY pitcher news, Al Leiter has informed them that he will not be back in their booth for this coming season.
In addition to his work with MLBN, his son Jack is a HS senior this year and is apparently one of the top pitching prospects in the country although, unlike dad, he's a righty.
Already committed to Vanderbilt, which has produced a ton of ML draft picks in recent years [David Price, Dansby Swanson, and even Sonny Gray], whether he winds up going there or straight into the pros might depend on his draft status come June.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Al should be a Met HoFer

[Frayed Knot]

Al should be a Met HoFer

I agree.

7th all time in innings pitched. Far more appearances/games with NYM than with any other club (more than TOR, NYY, FLA combined in fact)
And if nothing else you've got the '99 & '00 playoff teams and a signature moment in each: the '99 play-in gem, and the nearly as good WS Game 5 even as that one was ultimately unsuccessful.

Not a number retired guy, but, sure, team HoF.
And now that he's broken ties with the evil side of town ...

[41Forever]

Agree on Leiter. Other than Piazza and Franco, I don't think anyone else from those teams been inducted.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgardo Alfonzo deserves to be inducted as well, if he hasn't yet.

[stevejrogers]

Andy Pettitte is going to be one and done on the HOF voting this year and I think that is HILARIOUS.

DAMN IT WOLFIE!

[Frayed Knot]

[conspiracy]One thing going against Al and the NYM HoF is the time he marched into Wilpon's office and demanded that they immediately dispose of Scott Kazmir[/conspiracy]

[seawolf17]

Yeah, I missed by a few votes on Pettitte. I wonder if it's actually *better* if he hangs around 10% for the full ten years, just for comedy value.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Fuckyouyankeebluejeans sign Gio Gonzalez to a minor league deal

[MFS62]

Fuckyouyankeebluejeans sign Gio Gonzalez to a minor league deal

That's going to tick off Joe Beningo. He was saying to day that Gio was scheduled to be interviewed on tomorrow's (Tuesday's) WFAN show about why he hasn't signed with any team yet, but it would "mess everything up if he signs today".
I'm already laughing at what he'll be saying tomorrow.
Later

[MFS62]

Not that I'd wish anyone ill (yeah, surrrre), but ....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/yankees-inst ... 31370.html

The f'n turncoat.

Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Yeah that's not appropriate to joke about. Mazzilli had already dealt with a grand mal seizure possibly related to his Dan Norman collision in 1979.

[Edgy MD]

Ronnie just said Maz took it in the face.

Good job bringing up the Norman collision. It was originally thought that Norman took the brunt of the head impact, and that the real concern with Mazzilli was his foot.

He was their best player, so they got him back in the lineup a few days later with a rubber shoe, but I can't imagine they'd let him get on a plane today.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Getting hit in the face with a pie is funny, getting hit with a batted ball in the face is deadly.

[Edgy MD]

No doubt.

I've been surprised (and at least a little worried) that there hadn't really been any followup. But there was a note that in The Post this evening that Dani reports he's improving and will stay one more day for observation.