It’s old news around here, but Javier Vazquez is again a Yankee. Some Brian Cashman audio here. Cot’s way ahead of the curve. That’s $11.5M and next year his a walk year. So much for $15M savings, eh Cash?
Sorry, I just had to Wikipedia this:
Vázquez was a 5th round draft pick of the Montreal Expos in the 1994 amateur draft. He made his Major League debut for the Expos in April 3, 1998. He started 32 games as a rookie and pitched 172 innings. By 2000, Vázquez had become the ace of the Expos pitching staff and pitched 200 innings or more for four consecutive seasons.
On December 16, 2003, the New York Yankees acquired Vázquez from the Expos in exchange for Nick Johnson, Juan Rivera and Randy Choate. He agreed to a four-year deal through the 2007 season.
Following a disappointing performance and loss to the Boston Red Sox in the 2004 American League Championship Series (whereupon entering the game in the second inning, gave up a grand slam to Johnny Damon on his first pitch), the Yankees sent Vazquez, Brad Halsey, and Dioner Navarro, to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for Randy Johnson on January 11, 2005.
In 33 starts overall, he went 11-15 with a 4.42 ERA.
After pitching the 2005 season with Arizona, Vázquez formally requested a trade from the team, citing a desire to be closer to his family in Puerto Rico.
On December 20, 2005, Vazquez was traded to the Chicago White Sox for Orlando Hernández, Luis Vizcaino, and highly regarded prospect Chris Young. During the 2007 season, he compiled a 15-8 record with a 3.74 ERA (second lowest of his career).
From 1998 to the present, Vázquez has compiled a career 114-113 record with 1806 strikeouts and a 4.29 ERA in 321 games. He has struck out more batters than any other Puerto Rican pitcher in history. He was selected as an All-Star in 2004.
Vázquez agreed to play for the Puerto Rico Team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic, joining fellow Puerto Rican contemporaries Carlos Delgado, Carlos Beltran, Bernie Williams, amongst others representing the island in a team managed by St. Louis Cardinals third base coach Jose Oquendo.
In the 2007 season, Vázquez exceeded the two hundred strikeouts mark. This marked the third time he had done this in his career with the other two occasions being in 2001 and 2003.[2] This season was the seventh season in his career where he had thrown at least two hundred innings.[3] The only season that he was not able to work this quantity of innings was in 2004 when Joe Torre, then manager of the New York Yankees decided to jump some turns in the team’s rotation.[4] Vazquez culminated that year with 198 thrown innings.[5] When asked about Javier’s performance during the season in an interview, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén noted that Vazquez had been throwing well for some time but the team had not been able to capitalize on this until it was too late in the season, specifically referring to the team’s performance during the summer.[6][7]
On December 4, 2008, Vázquez was traded, along with Boone Logan, to the Atlanta Braves for minor league catcher Tyler Flowers, shortstop Brent Lillibridge, third baseman Jon Gilmore and pitcher Santos Rodriguez. [8] With the Braves in 2009, Vázquez had the most successful season of his career, going 15-10, with a 2.87 ERA and 238 strikeouts in 32 starts.He also led the majors in sacrifice hits, with 20.[9]
Javier came in 4th place in the voting for the 2009 NL Cy Young Award.
On December 22, 2009 the New York Yankees re-acquired Vázquez, this time from the Braves with LHP Boone Logan, in exchange for OF Melky Cabrera, LHP Mike Dunn and pitching prospect Arodys Vizcaino.
Meanwhile, the Mets zero in on Dickey Knuckleballs.
what could omar get for pagan, murph and pelfry? anything ?
Boof Bonser
Ducky Medwick
My current favorite is ( you have to pronounce it like a T.V. promo for a cop show, low and gutteral )
Termel Sledge.
Nice pick up, Mets, now sign Pineiro ( you’ll love him ) and let the fun begin.
CDY, Boras is trying to drum up a mystery team from Japan.
P.S. It’s f*ck*n cold out there.
Arrojo and Phillips.
Gotta go get the wife at bus. Later.
Pagan is the perfect 4th outfielder for them.
I would say you could ship him back to the Cubs but Piniella hated him. They were eying Castillo when they were trying to dump Bradley. Put Pelfrey in the mix an you may be able to get Carlos Zambrano and his big contract. Big risk too considering he hasn’t thrown 200 innings since 2007 after doing it for 5 straight years.
MLB Net had the “Prime 9″ SS on last night. I’m sure it was a repeat because it only went up to 2008.
Honus Wagner, A Rod and Cal were 1,2,3. Jeter was 7th behind Banks, Ozzie and Arky Vaughn.
DJ gets no respect.
say the mets sign molina and murphy is at 1B
whats the line up?
Yeah. They made a big deal to talk about what an “accomplished” hitter Ozzie worked to become. That’s generous.
A Rod needs to sneak in 2 more HR at short to pass Ripken in half the ab as a SS
Reyes
Castillo
Wright
Beltran
Bay
Molina
Francoeur
Murphy
The guy just went from the Yankees to the Nationals and this is what he is thinking about?-
http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2009/12/29/bruney-i-get-to-grow-a-beard-now/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LohudYankees+%28The+LoHud+Yankees+Blog%29
WTF???!!! Bunch of whoreshit
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2009/12/29/no-rival-to-red-sox-in-2000s/
The logic on that pick is dumbfounding. The Yankees won in the beginning and end of the decade, have the same number of WS wins, 2 more WS appearances, more regular season wins, 9 of 10 years in the playoffs, 8 division titles to 2, and the Red Sox are awarded it based on their futility for 86 years.
These sites putting the Red Sox at the top for the 2000′s are just trying to generate controversy because the position is indefensible.
A night out with JRZ:
A drunk walks out of a bar with a key in his hand and he is stumbling
back and forth. A cop on the beat sees him and approaches,
“Can I help you Sir?”
“Yessh! Ssssomebody ssstole my carrr”, the man replies.
The cop asks, “Where was your car the last time you saw
it?”
“It wasss on the end of thisshh key”, the man replies.
About that time the cop looks down and sees the man’s wiener hanging
out of his fly for all the world to see.
He asks the man, “Sir are you aware that you are exposing yourself?”
Momentarily confused, the drunk looks down at his crotch and without
Missing a beat, blurts out….
“Holy shit! My girlfriend’s gone, too!!
Lev,I’m sure Ed Price is a douchebag galore.Yanks are clearly the better team in the 2000′s and this hardon thinks the beaneaters are the best?? What a dumb hump
The Mets were the team of the decade for me. The ups and downs were like no other. Truly the team of the decade.
Say Hey Bay!!!
http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/12/29/major-league-pitcher-chan-ho-park-sues-chad-kreuter-over-loan-go/?icid=main|htmlws-main-w|dl3|link5|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walletpop.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F12%2F29%2Fmajor-league-pitcher-chan-ho-park-sues-chad-kreuter-over-loan-go%2F
Girlfiend’s gone too-ahahahahahahahahahahaha
Yeah Babe. One of the nitwits at ESPN wrote a similar article about “breaking the curse”, blah,blah,blah. Their “mission statement” doesn’t make them “Team of the Decade”. It only puts them on the track that the Yankees have been on for the better part of 90 years. If these guys want to make valid arguments, fine, but to argue on things like the curse and good citizenship is silly.
I guess Korea doesn’t have the old, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” adage.
I agree. Using their logic a mets wildcard berth would make them front runners for team of the next decade.
SECOND COMING?????
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/andy_staples/12/29/dylan-favre/index.html?xid=si_topstories
that is not very nice i would never let jrz get away that easy
Latch on to that thing like a Doberman???
Jason Bay is close friends with Cleveland Indians center fielder Grady Sizemore, who was also a groomsman at Bay’s wedding.
I couldn’t tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on its head. – Yogi Berra
Some of these sites are real bullshit, making Boston the #1 team of the decade,even though there overall stats are not as good as the Yankees. Than MLB putting Jeter #7 as a SS. It real is sickening how jealous and hateful of the Yankees the Media is, but us Yankee fans know better. the Yankees are not only the team of the decade,but also the top sports franchise of all times. GO YANKEES!!! the hell with the up tight Media!!
Good call 1Yank.The media blows and half the pricks that work there are gay beaneaters
Morning fellas. the Mets have potentially 3 guys who could knock in 100 RBI’s in the outfield. Kev to answer your question from yesterday the Nation is jealous that Bay got his money and predicts bad things in the next 5 years, so they didn’t disappoint as far as reaction. I don’t think they can wrap themselves around Beltran Bay and Frenchie trumping who they roll out there. When Henry wouldn’t sign any body he was a cheap skate, but when Bay got his dough Bay was a greedy bastard. Always a good read up there, it’s like visiting a mental institution. I hope the Nation’s Al Sharpton rick is on board today, he’ll need a good double dose of Effexor by late morning.Hopefully you will get a front line starter now
Sally, are you rockin a new name?
Objectively speaking and as it stands right now, the Mets outfield is twice as good as the Yankees outfield
Wow, and I thought the Mets just signed a guy who has hit 30 HR in 4 of the last 5 years with 2 different teams. I wonder if this guy was one of the scouts who made DeRosa such a “hot commodity”?
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/scouts_solid_pro_holes_in_game_BRxfuJHQ4ptMQSTqzxdQhL
It is certainly much better, Noogs. It all depends on what happens in LF. I am very happy with CG and Swisher. Ya gotta figure they are both good for 25+/80+ and will combine for somewhere like .360OBP. I dont think either of them will kill you with the glove either, I dont put either of them in Damons class in the field. CG can make the spectacular plays look easy, not sure what happened to him at the end of 09.
All of that said, if Gardner and Hoffmann can give them .265/10/65 with 50SBs in the 9 hole and play above average defense, the Yankee OF will be just fine.
I got kicked off yesterday so yeah J. I think Rick turned me in, he told me he was too old for women so I tried to help him out with some suggestions, either that or I copy and pasted off a website and I think that rag will dump you if you do that. the mets outfield is better than both boston and NY’s right now offensively couldn’t agree with you more noogs
Gardner/Pena or Gardner/Cervelli at the bottom of the lineup and it gets awfully short in a hurry.
The name changing that all those freaks do and them turning in 2 names was enough for me. I just cant help but read it though, its like a fuckin train wreck.
I guess Girardi needs to really pick his spots, Levi. I think we are going to see more binder than last year…If thats possible.
I am going to try my darnest to give Garnder the benefit of a doubt for the 2010 season. That will be difficult, given how overmatched he looked in the post season and just how brutal he ran the bases all year, which is a lot more involved than just stealing bases. Most telling, he has a horrible, non-major league swing. Mickey Rivers-like— my ass.
yeah but that Yankee 1 through 7 should remain awfully formidable.
Somebody please tell me that this asshole isnt telling me that he has a mathematical formula that proves that if a team that is only a little better than a .500 team and they add a high impact player that their chances of making the playoffs goes up…..
“The Yankees’ Win Curveby Dave Cameron – December 29, 2009 – Share this Article
A while ago, we talked about the marginal value of a win, and how it differs from team to team, changing the calculation on what a team should pay for a given player given what they already have on the roster. The wins that have the largest impact on playoff odds are in the upper-80s, so if you’re a slightly better than .500 club, adding another additional win or two can have a pretty dramatic impact on your chances of playing in October.”
here is the whole piece, I didnt get past that paragraph…
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-yankees-win-curve/
so I was just perusing that symposium of stu-nod (aka the Boston Herald) & a gaggle of Pink Hat homies talking pretty subversive about the Mets landing Bay. One clown went so far as to guarantee JB would not clock 20 total HRs for the Mets in 2010.
Fanlaughs thinks Omar screwed up. Boston will be all over those metric stats to ease their pain
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/mets-add-bay
Lackey has warts…..hahahahahahahahahahahahah
I had to stop at the first paragraph Sal from FanLaughs. Bay will “push Fernando Martinez to the bench or back to the minor leagues.” That’s funny because I hadn’t heard 1 person who follows the team talk about that kid in the plans for 2010. He was never an option for this coming year and FanLaughs acts like Bay is pushing the kid out. He wasn’t even in.
31 is old now? Guys are coming up later, have to wait 6 years to get to FA and then when they do, they are labeled old? Something sinister may be going on here.
sinister…..nice.
Ouch.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AjVn2uZZqBlX3GfR38_24K45nYcB?slug=jp-metsbay122909&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
I am not seeing how this is a bad deal for the mets but everybody is shitting on it.
I guess if the Red Sux had signed him to the 4 year/$60 mill deal in September it would have been the steal of the century. Now he is an “aging” Jason Bay. Interesting that most of these articles come out after Bay turned down the Sux. The Sux were so worried about the aging Bay that they offered him 4 years to stay 3 months ago. That must have been in a parallel universe because in this dimension, Bay has become an aging guy who just happens to hit 30 a year.
Maybe Bay just didnt wanna wear that hat with the nutsack on the front of it every friday anymore.
Only 3 guys with 30/100 and 100 runs scored 4X since 2005…
Big Al
Pujols
Bay
Tex misses having 4X by one run scored in 06.
Negotiating bluster aside, I bet Bay and Boston both wish he accepted that deal in September, even though the Met deal supposedly has an easily reached fifth year vesting option for 14 mill.
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