We’ve said it before: The infatuation with Eduardo Nunez by fans, NY media, and Yankee front office personnel is one of the most bizarre things we’ve seen in our site’s history (Francisco Cervelli might make his way up there too).
On Sunday, the NY Post’s Joel Sherman was the latest to serenade the Knoblauchian infielder.
I continue to believe if he played more regularly that his defense — though never rising to above average — would be less erratic and troubling. Regardless, the Yankees need to find a way to deploy his fast bat and legs to provide much-needed energy…
Yes, he can swipe bags. But why such blind enthusiasm over his bat, Joel? He had a career .679 OPS in the minors, including a .554 OPS in 44 games last year. He has an 88 OPS+ (12% below average) in his major league career, highlighted by his awful .318 OBP which severely limits his ability to steal bases.
And he CANNOT field.
So, he’s a well below-average hitter. He makes tons of errors. And yet, everyone demands his inclusion on the team.
Mind-boggling.
22 Comments
nick February 18, 2013 13:36
Agreed, he has been awful since he first stepped foot on the field. The reason they insist on playing him is because Cash doesnt want to admit his mistake in not including him in the Cliff Lee trade that fell apart. That trade fell apart, we lost the alcs to him and the rangers, cash then goes back to seattle and trades for pineda who has given us nothing, all while keeping nunez because he thought he was the next jeter. One of the worst non moves in cashman’s tenure.
The non-Binder February 18, 2013 14:31
Yeah, but what about the intangibles’?
Dr. Bosch February 18, 2013 15:35
2 for 10….just like the offense should expect from our catchers.
Mike As xia February 18, 2013 16:35
I’ll ask Joe Pawl to write a 98K article on this, complete with pie charts.
Joe Páwlikowski February 19, 2013 15:48
I’m ON IT Mike. As bennnny would say. I miss that jew looking bastard. He doesn’t return my calls.
Shogun February 18, 2013 21:26
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=cano–001rob
You guys don’t know what you are talking about, minor league stats are not everything. Robinson Cano was a career .276 hitter with a .756 OPS and 41 TOTAL homers in 5 FULL minor league seasons!
Try again!
Hmmm... February 18, 2013 21:51
Let me guess. Every fan from every team pulls this shit when their scrub middle infielder sucks.
Manager without braces February 18, 2013 21:39
Remember Brett Gardner will never be anything more than a fifth outfielder. He can’t hit. Look at his minor league stats. He has trouble making contac….
Ramiro Pena February 18, 2013 21:53
I remember when I was cool and people wrote about me.
Andy Philips February 18, 2013 22:21
YEAH!
Shogun February 18, 2013 23:12
I remember Nomaas when they were a site just trying to be funny with an occasional fun fact and opinion, and now years later trying to be a legitimate site full of facts and opinions and the humor has taken a back seat.
Now they ban people from the site, throw up skewed stats to prove their point, have agendas that are far from transparent, and are becoming just another site. I wish they would go back to the humor and allow the users to say whatever they want instead of what they are currently giving us!
Asdfg February 19, 2013 03:31
This is a dumb article because Nunez is awesome and it is his time to shine but your comment is also dumb because Nomaas is cool.
Impeach John & Suzyn February 19, 2013 07:51
Can we get NoMaas to ban Sterling & Waldman from broadcast both?
en shallah February 19, 2013 09:02
I also remember a day when your comments were funny. Quit crying you little infidel.
Shogun February 19, 2013 21:10
This is probably one of the staff members. I have 4 people that agree with me, so I am making sense to some people. This site was TONS better when they were making Curt Schilling into a shark instead of trying to be sabrematricians which they are clearly not! Just like Metallica, they think they can stop being what made them popular to be more popular but just end up cliche and lose their core fans.
Muhammad Morsi March 13, 2013 10:50
I love jews!
Jon Lovitz February 19, 2013 01:13
Because its in the Yankees’ best interest to have a home grown shortstop. More marketable. More potential to be gained from him. And he’d be a free shortstop for the next few years.
Brian Cashman February 19, 2013 01:55
If he were any good than it would totally throw off our team’s track record of developing one above average position player every decade since I’ve been in charge.
Ki m Last February 19, 2013 14:49
Lumps
Sweet Brown February 19, 2013 08:49
OPS? Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Long February 19, 2013 09:45
Desperately trying to find some recent homegrown player to be optimistic about.
Joe Páwlikowski February 19, 2013 15:48
Is it gay if you dream about Nuneee naked?