A growing number of recent additions have failed to live up to expectations, but that doesn’t mean they won’t play a pivotal role this season
I like what Wins Above Replacement attempts to do, if nothing else than for motivating us to try to think about how we would rate a whole player – hitting, defense and baserunning, in the case of a position player.
Advanced statistics say Isiah Kiner-Falefa was a better defender at shortstop last year than the eye test indicated.For a contending team in the Yankees’ market, part of the equation has to be whom you trust having the ball hit to them with a one-run lead in the ninth inning at Fenway Park. Kiner-Falefa exhibited a jitteriness with both his glove and throws that worsened in big spots as the season progressed.
And in a flip-flop, Joey Gallo, the player who was most clobbered by the crowd even during the feel-good early months, signed in the offseason with Minnesota. I thought it might be fun to put a few over/under numbers on these players and the others the Yankees have obtained since the beginning of last year in what mainly has been a hail of ineffective moves to date.1. Ben Rortvedt: Over/under 0.5 major league games played
Kiner-Falefa always was the odd man out in the shortstop competition. Unless both were atrocious in the spring, either Peraza or Anthony Volpe was going to be the shortstop. Donaldson was good in 2021, and is a prideful player with a strong track record. I think there is a 25-30 percent chance he has a 25-homer, .750-plus OPS season with strong defense.
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