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03-14-2014, 09:24 PM
AL East **tes: Cervelli, Pineda, Drew, Orioles
While much has been made of the*Yankees' lack of infield depth in 2014, Joel Sherman of the New York Post points out (http://nypost.com/2014/03/13/think-the-yankees-have-infield-problems-this-season-just-wait/) that the depth*beyond this coming season is even more concerning. Of the team's starting infielders, only Mark Teixeira (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/teixema01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) is under contract after 2014, and they have little in the way of MLB-ready replacements within the organization. As such, Sherman reports that when scouting other clubs, the Yankees aren't looking for platoon partners for Kelly Johnson (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnske05.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) or Brian Roberts (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/roberbr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com); they're looking for a "500 at-bat" type of player who could start in 2015. Rival scouts are focusing on the Yankees' catchers, and a deal centered around Francisco Cervelli (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cervefr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) and Gordon Beckham (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beckhgo01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) "is **t impossible," writes Sherman. He adds that Mason Williams (http://www.baseball-reference.com/mi**rs/player.cgi?id=willia001mas&utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) could be a trade chip with the Yankees' outfield **w locked in for the foreseeable future.
Here are some more links pertaining to the AL East...
Asked by MLB.com's Paul Hagen (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140312&content_id=69171086&**tebook_id=69183382&vkey=**tebook_nyy&c_id=nyy) about the possibility of being traded, Cervelli replied:*"I don't k**w. I've been here forever. I don't have that answer, because I feel right **w like this is my house.*But if somebody wants me to go over there, I've got to make the adjustment, you k**w?" Cervelli added that his dream has always been to be a starting catcher, but he accepts his role as a backup to Brian McCann (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mccanbr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com). Manager Joe Girardi told Hagen that he feels Cervelli could be a starter for a**ther organization, praising Cervelli's development offensively and defensively.
Hagen also writes (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/nyy/new-york-yankees-will-have-decisions-to-make-on-rotation?ymd=20140313&content_id=69194628&vkey=news_nyy) that Michael Pineda (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pinedmi01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) has made a good impression with the*Yankees this spring, but manager Joe Girardi suggested that he'd be on an innings limit if he won the fifth starter's job. "Let's just say, hypothetically, he was a starter at some point," Girardi said to Hagen. "You're going to have to adjust. Because you're **t getting 200 innings from him."*Pineda shrugged off Girardi's comments when asked about them, stating that he k**ws it's Girardi's choice to make, and he's simply preparing himself to be ready to pitch every fifth day.
Stephen Drew (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/drewst01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) tells Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe (http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/03/13/stephen-drew-would-love-back-with-red-sox-but/dIu0ywjBIIkRZJJcZsJMJL/story.html) that doesn't k**w where he's going to be playing in 2014, but he's confident that a club will sign him and that he can help the team win. Drew is working out with fellow free agent Kendrys Morales (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/moralke01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) at the Scott Boras Training Institute in Miami and says he feels he is coming off his best defensive season in the Majors. He'd love to return to Boston, but ack**wledges that he can see why the team wants to give Xander Bogaerts (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bogaexa01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) a long look at shortstop. Drew doesn't say it directly, but he hints at his displeasure with the qualifying offer/compensatory draft pick system.
Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com hears (http://www.masnsports.com/school_of_roch/2014/03/the-catching-situation-and-johan-santanas-role-as-mentor.html) from scouts outside the*Orioles organization that Baltimore is on the hunt for a backup catcher. The club has yet to commit to choosing solely betwee Steve Clevenger (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clevest01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) and Johnny Monell (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/moneljo01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) for that distinction. Kubatko writes that manager Buck Showalter feels the decision will ultimately come down to defense.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MlbTradeRumors?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MlbTradeRumors?a=pBgs1L_vQNc:gtKQF_j_eOc:yIl2AUoC8 zA)
While much has been made of the*Yankees' lack of infield depth in 2014, Joel Sherman of the New York Post points out (http://nypost.com/2014/03/13/think-the-yankees-have-infield-problems-this-season-just-wait/) that the depth*beyond this coming season is even more concerning. Of the team's starting infielders, only Mark Teixeira (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/teixema01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) is under contract after 2014, and they have little in the way of MLB-ready replacements within the organization. As such, Sherman reports that when scouting other clubs, the Yankees aren't looking for platoon partners for Kelly Johnson (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnske05.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) or Brian Roberts (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/roberbr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com); they're looking for a "500 at-bat" type of player who could start in 2015. Rival scouts are focusing on the Yankees' catchers, and a deal centered around Francisco Cervelli (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cervefr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) and Gordon Beckham (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beckhgo01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) "is **t impossible," writes Sherman. He adds that Mason Williams (http://www.baseball-reference.com/mi**rs/player.cgi?id=willia001mas&utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) could be a trade chip with the Yankees' outfield **w locked in for the foreseeable future.
Here are some more links pertaining to the AL East...
Asked by MLB.com's Paul Hagen (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140312&content_id=69171086&**tebook_id=69183382&vkey=**tebook_nyy&c_id=nyy) about the possibility of being traded, Cervelli replied:*"I don't k**w. I've been here forever. I don't have that answer, because I feel right **w like this is my house.*But if somebody wants me to go over there, I've got to make the adjustment, you k**w?" Cervelli added that his dream has always been to be a starting catcher, but he accepts his role as a backup to Brian McCann (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mccanbr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com). Manager Joe Girardi told Hagen that he feels Cervelli could be a starter for a**ther organization, praising Cervelli's development offensively and defensively.
Hagen also writes (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/nyy/new-york-yankees-will-have-decisions-to-make-on-rotation?ymd=20140313&content_id=69194628&vkey=news_nyy) that Michael Pineda (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pinedmi01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) has made a good impression with the*Yankees this spring, but manager Joe Girardi suggested that he'd be on an innings limit if he won the fifth starter's job. "Let's just say, hypothetically, he was a starter at some point," Girardi said to Hagen. "You're going to have to adjust. Because you're **t getting 200 innings from him."*Pineda shrugged off Girardi's comments when asked about them, stating that he k**ws it's Girardi's choice to make, and he's simply preparing himself to be ready to pitch every fifth day.
Stephen Drew (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/drewst01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) tells Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe (http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/03/13/stephen-drew-would-love-back-with-red-sox-but/dIu0ywjBIIkRZJJcZsJMJL/story.html) that doesn't k**w where he's going to be playing in 2014, but he's confident that a club will sign him and that he can help the team win. Drew is working out with fellow free agent Kendrys Morales (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/moralke01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) at the Scott Boras Training Institute in Miami and says he feels he is coming off his best defensive season in the Majors. He'd love to return to Boston, but ack**wledges that he can see why the team wants to give Xander Bogaerts (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bogaexa01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) a long look at shortstop. Drew doesn't say it directly, but he hints at his displeasure with the qualifying offer/compensatory draft pick system.
Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com hears (http://www.masnsports.com/school_of_roch/2014/03/the-catching-situation-and-johan-santanas-role-as-mentor.html) from scouts outside the*Orioles organization that Baltimore is on the hunt for a backup catcher. The club has yet to commit to choosing solely betwee Steve Clevenger (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clevest01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) and Johnny Monell (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/moneljo01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.typepad.com) for that distinction. Kubatko writes that manager Buck Showalter feels the decision will ultimately come down to defense.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MlbTradeRumors?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MlbTradeRumors?a=pBgs1L_vQNc:gtKQF_j_eOc:yIl2AUoC8 zA)