Cashman’s got Wood
Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 9:11 pm by SJK
Is that Kerry Wood in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Add another pitcher to the Electric Stuff! pile. Cashman has acquired Kerry Wood.
The acquisition sounds like another case of scouting versus stats, because Wood has eaten corn the long way this season. To his defense, he's only pitched 20 innings, but that's because he's been on the DL twice. He's walked 4.95 batters per nine innings, which is higher than anyone on the Yankees' staff. His strikeouts are down by over 2 per nine innings compared to 2009. His xFIP is a ballooned 5.04.
The last time the Yankees relied on scouting to acquire a reliever was with the late Chan Ho Park, in which they basically ignored a career's worth of stats. That didn't work out well.
It's a low cost (it's only money) acquisition, but we wouldn't let Wood touch important situations until he proves himself. If he has been obtained for high-leverage situations, this is a move that could easily backfire.
I don’t get this move.
But he struck out like thirty guys in six innings once!!!!11
Great move. The greatest photoshop ever.
hold on, the cashman replaces chan ho park and you guys find a way to be upset? I can’t see it.
Its a low risk high reward move, which is really the only way to approach reliever deadline trades. they lose nothing and aren’t likely to gain much, anything they do is gravy, and that’s all they needed.
meh…
The Indians are paying the tab, so meh.
Can’t be worse than CHoP
Low risk, high reward= great move.
Smelleth the pure, solid Wood
Not worse than CHOP, but equal to.
Low risk, high reward, low risk, high reward, low risk, high reward, low risk, high reward, low risk, high reward
Yo Kerry, I’ Happy for ya and IMA letchoo finish but woody harelson is the best wood related name guy ever
ehh low risk high reward type of players usually ends up becoming a big liability . Just ask the 3rd place Boston red sox
Exactly, Praveen. Some fans just spout off talking points. It’s low risk until Girardi uses him in the 7th or 8th and he walks everybody he sees.
That’s when you hope Cashman pulls the plug on KWood and calls up Alby or someone else. But if this trade didn’t go through Cash was going to stick with CHoP. It’s not like he was about to DFA Park anyways and a trade for Wood just happened to come about. We may wish it was otherwise, but that’s reality.
Wood is replacing Park, not Joba (although that’s an entirely different issue) or Robertson. Is Wood better than Park? I say yes, and I also think he can be a lot better than Park. That’s why it’s low risk high reward.
is Joba hitting the steak sauce?
You stay classy, NoMaas.
Everyone deserves a chance. I was low risk high reward once too. Look how that turned out.
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Its still is one of the worst photoshops this site has done, in contrast to old nomaas photoshops lately they are very dull, the same could be said of the forum and the entire layout.
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Does Cash”kid” have wood?
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