Career WAR of 2.0.

... and, at the time of the Dickey trade, he was considered a better prospect than Syndergaard.

Picking an MVP in April.

I'm still pretty sure it's Greg Bird.

A most happy fella, Gio Urshela.

NorthJersey.com with the near-instantaneous breaking story.

Checking in on Tim Tebow in AAA.

BA of .167, OPS of .460.

He's back behind the plate.

Bottom 4: "Goodwin safe at first on a sacrifice plus fielding error by catcher G.Sánchez, Pujols to second."

Chad Green's ERA is 16.43.

It sounds like the answer to a question on a History quiz.

"In what year did the House of Plantagenet end its reign in England?"

Voit wins

I actually thought Bird/Voit would be a plausible platoon.

Voit leads the Yankees in RBIs and he leads the league in consecutive games on base.

Catching up with the Dark Knight.

2019: 0-1, 10.05 ERA.

Career: 41 W, 45 L.

What if I told you ...

Brett Gardner has a higher OPS than Robinson Cano?

I can't prove it, but I think Chris Davis is a steroid cheat.

"No amount of money shortens the distance from the batter’s box to the dugout. No amount of money covers the hard right at first base to the far dugout stairs, not after a while. No house is big enough to soften the looping and hopeless left turn to the dugout on the other side of the field. No fancy car is so smart it would refuse to deliver him to the ballpark, or quite dumb enough to leave him there."

I'm not quite sure I'm in total agreement, but, OK.


"He is oh-fer-ever, has gotten rich for it, and this is the oh-fer-ever part of the story, that he stinks, and extra stinks because he’s paid to be great and isn’t, isn’t close, refuses to be, has no pride, and I don’t believe it. This is what it looks like to fall, to have it all go wrong, to endure it publicly and personally. Who knows why."

I have my suspicions.


"Not him, clearly. The money is not the soft landing, however. It is – or can be – the burden, which almost no one would view as the burden, which doesn’t make it not so."

I don't think Chris Davis is having fun. I don't think he stopped caring. I think he stopped taking steroids.

I also don't feel particularly sorry for the chumps who have to pay him.

"So then it wouldn’t much matter anymore, right? Then it would go back to being a slump, a horrible, unthinkable slump, and a guy caught between swings, between pitches, between routines. Then maybe he can start again, restart the career that brought all that attention, all that responsibility and, sure, all that money.

So, be disappointed he isn’t the player you thought or hoped he would continue to be. It’d also be OK to feel for the person – Chris Davis – who isn’t the player he thought he would continue to be.

Because then he came to the plate in the seventh inning and struck out."

All things considered, I think a disinterested fan base in Baltimore is mostly letting him off the hook.

Same goes for the press, who have ignored one of the worst contracts ever until he set a hitless record. 

I mean, sure: Money does not buy happiness. Neither does being poor.

We all look and this guy and think we'd be fired if we were this bad at our jobs.

In other Yankee news, Greg Bird still stinks.

.192 with 1 HR and 13 Ks in 26 at-bats.

Also a bad fielder and a bad baserunner.

The Mets have one great starting pitcher.

One great starting pitcher and a lot of hype.

The Dark Knight

Matt Harvey is 0-1 with an ERA of 9.00.

Sure, it's only two starts.

I still recall a lot of praise after one mediocre start.

I'll say it again ... he's 26 years old and has played 273 major league games.

"And this blunder occurred in Sanchez’s first game since he was picked off second base during Thursday’s series opener at Oriole Park, an 8-4 Yankees win.

How is this happening?

When Boone was asked if Sanchez’s focus still is an issue, the skipper said 'no' and then did what he always does when his catcher is criticized. He went on the defense.

'I think they’re teachable moments is what I think,' Boone said. 'I think he’s been really hooked up as far as his prep, as far as his game-calling, as far as his focus offensively. I think it’s a case (on Saturday) of getting himself in a little bit of an un-athletic position where he got himself in trouble, and that’s where we’ve got to teach and clean it up. And we will.' "

An empty non-answer from Boone which requires no scrutiny because it's not intended to provide information.

He tripped over third base like a first-grader playing kickball for the first time. I'll say he got himself in a "little bit of an un-athletic position."

Of course, people can trip on the basepaths on occasion, even the best players.

Clearly, Sanchez's problems are more than an occasional physical slip up.

Sanchez is 26 years old.

"These kinds of things shouldn’t happen in high school ball let along the big leagues, but as talented as Sanchez and Torres are, both have made way more than their share of mental mistakes over the last two seasons."

An article that didn't age well.

Fatigue.

Stop talking about this guy! Please!