Greg Bird 33 of the New York Yankees is in the tasks before the game against the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium on April 3, 2019 in the Bronx community of New York (Photo via Elsa/ Getty Images).
The Yankees are suffering from walking on water in 2020, largely because the organization of the 2019 Next Man Up contestants not only lived up to their production last season, but they didn’t even play under the same set of rules.
2019 revelations as Mike Tauchman and Mike Ford fight in every facet of the game, saving a patient with a touch of Tauchman who remembers last season’s sustained good fortune. None of the players are driving middle straights right now, let the same remote moves brought to the table in their first season.
Ford, in particular, is lost, lazily tossing fast balls into the opposite box at mid-depth. When the Yankees escaped Baltimore with a pronounced limp, Ford had a remarkably comfortable strike percentage of 0. 282.
However, in addition to that brand, he had something else that might seem very important: minor league options. If the Yankees desperately need to do a Ford upgrade, they can do it by simply flopping it to the bag and wasting one of the few contestants on the 40-person roster (Ben Heller or, gulp, Erik Kratz).
Mike Tauchman has Greg Bird disease “can’t hit a fastball at 92 miles according to the time in the middle of the plate”, but he still doesn’t have the bird decency to break his toe in the shower and escape during 6 months.
– bobby (@mr_bobloblaw) September 3, 2020
So in an ideal world, who would upgrade Ford? Probably like Justin Smoak, just a few years into the 2017 All-Star season with the Toronto Blue Jays, would it be enough to bet on a Smoak resurgence to sacrifice a 40-man spot when the team wouldn’t even do it for Clarke Schmidt? ?Doubtful.
This throws bloodless water over the ultimate fun option imaginable.
A few weeks ago, the Texas Rangers DFA named Greg Bird and he refused to run for the team’s exchange site, eligning himself as a flexible agency. No, no assembly will be performed. But in another year, with another desire for depth of pitch, would a team like the Yankees feel more stressed about swallowing their pride and making that complicated phone call to Camp Bird?
Not long ago it seemed like #Yankees were going to build around Greg Bird and Gary Sanchez. Bird hasn’t even played in the majors this year, and for all the purposes, neither has Sanchez.
– Joel Sherman (Joelsherman1) August 30, 2020
There is no valid way for this to happen, but it is rarely very ironic that after two years of seeing Bird back off and become a passive and patient hitter with very little sustained power, yet they cut the bait, just to see Mike. Will Ford do exactly the same thing in a shortened 2020?
Everything indicates that Ford has lower performance than its peripherals, with an expected wOBA of about one hundred numbers above its actual rating. However, the balls on the floor are in place and Ford’s wary parts appear to be ready, moving and sliding their hard floors to the right side.
Is there a bird to import? Not really. But the fact that Ford now wears a bird dress is even more disappointing as the authentic item still roams the outskirts of the baseball landscape without a team.
For God’s sake, can’t Ford just step in and get this unfortunate idea out of our collective brains?
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