{"id":137526,"date":"2020-12-19T20:51:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T17:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-potential-trevor-bauer-slip-and-yankees-deep-dive-sherman\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T20:51:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T17:51:53","slug":"mets-potential-trevor-bauer-slip-and-yankees-deep-dive-sherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-potential-trevor-bauer-slip-and-yankees-deep-dive-sherman\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets&#8217; potential Trevor Bauer slip and Yankees&#8217; deep-dive: Sherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Mets&#8217; potential Trevor Bauer slip and Yankees&#8217; deep-dive: Sherman<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Even in a slow-moving offseason, it is baseball and it is New York, so there is action and attention. So here is a deeper dive into a few stories from the past week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> manager Brian Cashman reiterated that DJ LeMahieu is the Yankees\u2019 priority and that he believes strongly in the 2020 group. So that translates into doubling down for 2021 on a team that in a shortened season fell to the Rays in the AL East and Division <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On paper, the 2020 Yankees were the AL East\u2019s most talented and they almost certainly will be again in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it has been well detailed how inexperienced and uncertain the group of starters is behind Gerrit Cole. There is upside with Deivi Garcia, Domingo German, Michael King, Jordan Montgomery, Clarke Schmidt and Luis Severino. But the downside is a lack of track record for reliable work for a team with championship goals.<\/p>\n<p>If the Yankees re-sign LeMahieu, expect them to find a starting pitcher in free agency or trade for less than $10 million in 2021. If they don\u2019t sign LeMahieu, the Yankees can <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ly more money to the area, but will then also have to address the middle infield.<\/p>\n<p>Cashman said if LeMahieu returns, he would play second. That means sticking with Gleyber Torres at short and Luke Voit at first. Still, even an in-shape Torres is going to be, at best, an ordinary shortstop. The Yankees are looking at ordinary or worse up the middle with Torres, Gary Sanchez at catcher and Aaron Hicks in center.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They also are pretty much committing again to a lineup oversaturated with righty hitters, with only the switch-hitting Hicks currently projected to play regularly and hit from the left side. The Yankees\u2019 righties have hit right-handed pitching well \u2014 an .842 OPS last year (fourth in the majors) and .836 OPS in 2019 (second). All the Yankees\u2019 major righty hitters \u2014 LeMahieu, Sanchez, Torres, Voit, Cint Frazier, Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Gio Urshela \u2014 had at least a .795 OPS plus versus righty pitching over the past two seasons combined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That would support the Yankees\u2019 sentiment to avoid adding an inferior lefty hitter just for diversity if the righties are productive versus righties. The concern is about making the picture too easy for teams with good righty pitching.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees faced only one team in regionalized play last year with an ERA among the 14 best in the majors, and they hit just .213 with a .683 OPS against the Rays \u2014 which was actually lower than Tampa Bay gave up otherwise. The Yankees were 2-8 versus the Rays in the regular season then lost the best-of-five Division Series to Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the Yankees also hit .266 with 67 homers in 31 home <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s and .226 with 27 homers in 29 road games. It is historically counterintuitive because the Yankees used to feast with power at home via lefty might. But the Yankees\u2019 current righties near universally use the short porch to pad their homer totals.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees have shown this offense will get them to the playoffs. But they are designed for more than that. It is difficult to increase postseason chances too much because the short series increases randomness. Nevertheless, a more diverse offense and a more rock-solid defense would make the Yankees a harder out.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Mets signed James McCann to a four-year, $40.6 million pact, and one reason why, expressed by team president Sandy Alderson, was: \u201cWe can afford to wait to fill some [holes], but we can\u2019t afford to wait to fill all of them.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That should sound familiar to this franchise and position. Two offseasons ago \u2014 under the Wilpons and GM Brodie Van Wagenen \u2014 the Mets tried to trade for J.T. Realmuto or sign Yasmani Grandal. They couldn\u2019t find a match with the Marlins for Realmuto. Grandal wanted better than the four-year, $60 million Mets bid. So because they were concerned about waiting on catching and potentially not getting one of the catchers they wanted and missing out on other opportunities, the Mets pivoted to their third choice: Wilson Ramos.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Grandal\u2019s price dropped to a one-year, $18.25 million pact with the Brewers, but not until mid-January.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Sandy Alderson; Brian Cashman\" class=\"wp-image-16863509 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Sandy-Alderson-Brian-Cashman.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Sandy-Alderson-Brian-Cashman.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Sandy-Alderson-Brian-Cashman.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Sandy-Alderson-Brian-Cashman.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Sandy-Alderson-Brian-Cashman.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Sandy Alderson; Brian Cashman<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty, Corey Sipkin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This time, with Alderson as team president and Steve Cohen\u2019s deep pockets, the Mets could not find a match with free agent Realmuto, the best catcher in the game. Alderson said signing McCann \u2014 who was Grandal\u2019s backup with the White Sox \u2014 was \u201cnot a compromise pick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can find non-Mets executives who believe if given a non-complicated, cost-neutral choice in which they could only have held onto one catcher, the White Sox would have picked McCann over Grandal \u2014 in part because McCann became ace Lucas Giolito\u2019s personal catcher. But you will find way more who feel the Mets grossly overpaid for a backup catcher since McCann \u2014 with all of his improvements the past two years \u2014 has no track record that he can consistently hit righty pitching or sustain overall excellence with a No. 1 catcher\u2019s workload.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen\u2019s money was theoretically supposed to take the Mets out of accepting secondary choices. But the marketplace \u2014 including timing \u2014 impacts even the super rich. The Mets believe in the person and the analytics on McCann from the past two seasons and paid high-end starter money (the offseason began with an expectation that McCann would fall into the two-year, $18 million range). It is now fascinating whether they received that high-end starter or a better-packaged Ramos.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here is something else Alderson said when addressing whether the Mets would trade for a third baseman, such as Colorado\u2019s Nolan Arenado: \u201cIf you\u2019re talking about defensively, our third-base situation is probably a little bit up in the air. Is it as glaring a need as like a third or fourth starter? I don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What you could read there is that Alderson still does not think third base is a priority as he continues to state he would rather buy solutions than trade assets for them anyway. But in a Freudian slip, did Alderson also indicate the Mets are not pursuing Trevor Bauer?<\/p>\n<p>I guess, in theory, the Mets could address their No. 3-4 starter by signing Bauer and pushing Marcus Stroman, David Peterson and Seth Lugo down lower into the rotation. More likely, however, is the Mets\u2019 priority for a big spend is center fielder George Springer, and they will then sign a No. 3-4 starter in the Jake Odorizzi or Masahiro Tanaka mode.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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