Actually, it's 108 innings and if you say the minors don't count, you're wrong. Everybody can hit at any level, especially the fastball. The people that are still in the minors are there not because they can't hit but because they can't field, run or throw. So, I'll take his 163 SOs in 108 innings anytime and consider him a star. Besides, if hitting was so different in the majors than the minors they would be knocking him all over the field which obviously they aren't doing.
You must be retarded. That's the only possible explanation as to how you can say such dumb things all the time. Actually, no. You're right. Everyone in the minor leagues can EASILY hit .450 with 300 home runs a year. Not one player in the minors is there to work on hitting. How could I have been so blind? Idiot.
Trade you straight up for Papelbon, Theo. You have three seconds to pull the trigger . . . . times up.
I can't wait until he blows out his elbow. At least the yankees paid him over slot. Instead of actually getting him fair and square they overpaid so other teams couldn't get him.
anyone who wished injury upon someone is seriously F'ed up. Whats wrong with you man? and the "other teams that couldn't get him" missed out on him 40 times. He was taken in the sandwich round with the 41st overall pick. That is fair and square. The Yankees made a great pick, and paid him what they did, its not their fault he was passed on 40 times, including once by the Yankees when they took Ian Kennedy 21st overall.
I don't wish injury on him, just pain to the yankees fans. You know Torre is going to overuse him this fall which will hurt his long term development. No it was not fair and square. When you pay a player over slot that's not fair. There is a reason he gets more then slot right?
If a Red Sox player hit 300 home runs in one year in the minors, the Sox fans would be fawning over him like jetsrule fawns over Kaysar
Say goodbye to the Joba Rules. The Yankees are scrapping their Joba Rules, with plans to use rookie reliever Joba Chamberlain on back-to-back days. "We haven't used him two days in a row, (though) we're planning on doing that," Torre said. "We just want to see what our options are, and right now, he's been able to handle everything." The Yankees obviously plan to use the kid as their main set-up man in the postseason, so it's time to prepare him for that kind of workload. The Yankees' organization universally views Joba as a starter long-term, but Torre broke from the party ranks Monday, suggesting that Chamberlain's future could be as a reliever, similar to the way Mariano Rivera morphed from a starter.
That's exactly my point. I'm not saying there are NO good hitters in the minors, but the majority of players in the minors are not ready to hit at the major league level. That's why they're there. Don seems to think that every player in the minors is there exclusively to work on defense, which is retarded. Most players are ready defensively long before they're ready offensively.
