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Post by rgs318 on Nov 9, 2019 7:56:00 GMT -5
...and, hopefully, good news for Yankee fans as well.
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Post by HC92 on Nov 9, 2019 9:41:45 GMT -5
Wow. Congrats to Matt!
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Post by lou on Nov 9, 2019 9:54:43 GMT -5
10 years ago he was a high school coach and in 2015 coached in the Cape League.. now in the big show
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Post by hchoops on Nov 9, 2019 10:10:09 GMT -5
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Post by CHC8485 on Nov 9, 2019 10:12:20 GMT -5
Great hope that he will help lead us to our record shattering 28th. Who’s us? Are you the Assistant to the Traveling Secretary for the Yankees? And is is it really record shattering when you own the r3cord and simply add one more to your existing record???
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Post by hchoops on Nov 9, 2019 11:13:59 GMT -5
So true about my Brooklyns Gil Hodges came to multiple Communion Breakfasts(youngsters will,have to ask oldsters) in our parish. He even gave my cousin a ride to the bus from Ebbets Field on my cousin’s walk from nearby Brooklyn Prep.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Nov 9, 2019 12:30:55 GMT -5
10 years ago he was a high school coach and in 2015 coached in the Cape League.. now in the big show Just four years ago, not 10 .
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Post by hc6774 on Nov 11, 2019 7:35:49 GMT -5
interesting conversation at fball game when this news came up... an HC alum from Tampa said he was please to hear it because he knows former pitching coach Larry Rothchild from Tampa... Declan Cronin was part of the conversation
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Post by HC92 on Nov 11, 2019 7:57:07 GMT -5
Cronin was part of the conversation in what sense?
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Post by hc6774 on Nov 11, 2019 8:12:41 GMT -5
Cronin was part of the conversation in what sense? sorry... he participated in the conversation... still with White Sox...
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Post by purplehaze on Nov 11, 2019 9:46:39 GMT -5
I have a good idea who will be the guest speaker at our 2020 baseball kickoff dinner in February.
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Post by hchoops on Nov 11, 2019 10:23:25 GMT -5
Unless he is at Spring Training
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 11, 2019 10:47:17 GMT -5
As a Yankee fan I am somewhat disappointed that they brought in David Cone for any number of reasons, but may not have been with serious considerations to make him the pitching coach. Great for HC, but as a Yankee fan and a pragmatist, a guy that will cut his teeth at this level with the Yankees... not normally a learn-on-the-job caliber franchise.
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Post by hchoops on Nov 11, 2019 11:48:56 GMT -5
I have to believe that Cone is considered old school and not a proponent of analytics, the route that every team seems to be following
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Post by nhteamer on Nov 11, 2019 13:00:28 GMT -5
wow 'hoops, I thought you only cited the Times.
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Post by efg72 on Nov 11, 2019 17:30:48 GMT -5
He better be good or he will have a very short shelf life
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Nov 11, 2019 18:40:21 GMT -5
I have to believe that Cone is considered old school and not a proponent of analytics, the route that every team seems to be following Sadly this is the way it is with this era's propeller-head skippers, and the over thinking backfires the vast majority of the time.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 12, 2019 9:27:29 GMT -5
Cone is actually extremely well versed in the analytics and is a big fan. He's a SABRmetrician, appreciates and understands WAR, talks spin rates, exit velo, all the terms. That, coupled with his appreciation of the old-school guile (dropping arm angles, changing delivery timings to the plate from the stretch), and going out and getting blitzed after games with the boys, I think would have made him the perfect mix of old and new, a player who has been there and done that, a champion-- someone who won when they were physically in their prime and won when they were physically limited. Alas, we get what we get. Now time for a Crusader to step up and prove their mettle.
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Post by lou on Nov 12, 2019 9:38:33 GMT -5
Why all the skepticism? I'm a RS fan, but Cashman doesn't make many mistakes. Good luck to Blake, and keep Cone in the booth, he's pretty good there
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 12, 2019 11:00:49 GMT -5
Why be skeptical of someone that has never played as a pro, never coached as a pro, going to the premiere franchise in the MLB? Someone my age who's highest on-field rank was as a high school coach? I don't know, I can't think of any reasons...
Sarcasm aside, if this was a hire for Holy Cross that didn't have the requisite experience, I would say skepticism is not only fair, but due. Nevertheless, for both Yankee and HC pride, I am rooting for him no matter what.
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Post by hchoops on Nov 12, 2019 11:07:11 GMT -5
he established such a strong reputation that the Indians hired him even without the traditional stepping stones. I believe some team hired a college pitching coach recently. Some teams are thinking outside the box
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 12, 2019 11:38:49 GMT -5
All well and good. The Yankees brass knows better than me, and that's why we both do what we do respectively. I'm not mad/angry, and not rooting against Mr. Blake. His success means the team's success, means my happiness. But I think it's not unreasonable for me to be somewhat underwhelmed by the hire. He's not being hired to be the guru in the same way he had performed with the Indians. The dugout is a new world. Let's hope he takes the challenge to task.
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Post by HC92 on Apr 1, 2020 23:04:22 GMT -5
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Post by HC92 on Jan 13, 2021 16:46:02 GMT -5
Yankees exploring reuniting Blake with Corey Kluber who has been largely absent the last two years. Maybe he and Blake can find the magic again. Could be good for a Yankees teams sorely in need of starting pitching.
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Post by hchoops on Jan 13, 2021 16:58:46 GMT -5
Kluber fits better with the Mets, the New York team on the rise,
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