[USML Announce] Rips Have Nothing But Good Wil Toward Men

[Brad Jansen]

Jeff, thanks for providing us someone else's insight about these two bright
prospects. I am surprised you pay much if any attention to what others
think. While I do not know -nor care- whether you concur with Mr. Law, I
question your statement that the trade of Myers was "a hell of a price to
pay for a fourth place finish." If you refer to the Berliners' projected
4th place finish --and that certainly is how I read that statement, then I
assure you the Myers trade was a fair price to pay.
Mock me, mock my trades at your peril. Hear this my friend: when the Damon
is handed to me next spring I intend to run amok in your office sans
clothing. Just be sure the cardboard boxes you provide me are waist high.

--Brother Brad

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Jeffrey Winick <jhwinick at aol.com> wrote:

> Here's what Keith Law had to say about these two highly touted beans:
>
>  *Wil Myers, OF | Tampa Bay Rays<http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/tb/tampa-bay-rays>
> *
>
> I saw Myers in April<http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/keith-law/post?id=791> and
> was a little concerned about his swing mechanics, especially the soft front
> side, where he rolled over his front foot through contact, pulling his
> whole body in that direction regardless of where the pitch was. Since then,
> the Rays have worked with him on maintaining a firm lower half during
> rotation and contact and on improving his hitting plan at the plate.
>
> Myers has always been a high-walk hitter, but not always as disciplined as
> you would expect given the stat lines, something that became more apparent
> this year in Triple-A, where pitchers with some big league experience could
> get him to get himself out at the plate. He's been on a tear of late, with
> 10 homers in his past 104 plate appearance (dating to the start of a
> four-game series in Scranton), a .354/.385/.760 line in that period and a
> declining strikeout rate.
>
> The sample is too small to be anything more than "a good sign" at this
> point, but, combined with some mechanical adjustments, there's more reason
> to believe he can contribute for the rest of the year, probably with a
> .250-.260 average but 15 or more homers, than there was a month ago.
>
> *Mike Zunino, C | Seattle Mariners<http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/sea/seattle-mariners>
> *
>
> I was floored when the Mariners recalled Zunino last week, and I wasn't
> the only one -- several front-office executives told me they were similarly
> shocked because Zunino wasn't playing well enough to be recalled and,
> worse, because it flew in the face of the long-term interests of the
> franchise.
>
> Starting Zunino's service-time clock prematurely might not matter in the
> long run; if he came up now or in September, and never goes back down (not
> a given), it wouldn't affect his free agency. But they put him on the
> 40-man roster before they needed to do so, a decision that can't be undone;
> he's there for years now, potentially precluding them from making other
> moves now or even during the winter. Worse, given that he didn't show any
> indication he was ready in Triple-A -- after hitting four homers in his
> first five games, he hit .213/.283/.409 until his call-up, with 53
> strikeouts in 184 PAs -- there's a real chance he's not-ready enough that
> recalling him will stall his development. You can't risk screwing up a
> player of his potential or pedigree like this, especially when you still
> have the full six years of control remaining.
>
> That's a long way of saying that I'm not that sanguine about Zunino in the
> short term -- his difficulty making contact in the PCL, a generally
> hitter-friendly league, doesn't bode well for his ability to do that
> against big league pitching. If he doesn't suffer from the early promotion,
> he still has All-Star potential down the road, a catcher who should hit for
> 20-homer power and plenty of average, but this was the wrong move for the
> franchise from a business and a baseball perspective.
>
>
>  It sure sounds to me like Skippy will get the last laugh in his deal
> with Brad Lee.  Hell of a price to pay for a fourth place finish.
>
>  It also sounds like Seattle and whomever is silly enough to trade for
> the young catcher with a running contract (Zunino) will be the losers.
>  Then again, maybe a package of Zunino with Wilhelmson and his potential to
> someday reclaim his role as closer or Rodney and the possibility that he
> will rediscover the form that made him so valuable last year would be worth
> it......or maybe not.
>
>  That is all.
>
>  Jeff
>
>
>
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