Who Is the Real Melky Cabrera

1. Say good-bye to Matsui and the over-rated Nady after 2009.
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Yeesh to you all…
Why you gotta go and “dis” Cano like that? He is one of the best players on the Yankees. While he may not be absolutely,1 up to Soriano’s level as a player, he consistently makes outstanding defensive plays, he throws bullets, and he has the sweetest swing around.
History says this won’t last. Remember, Cabrera was hot at the alpha,1 of last season,Wholesale Houston Astros Hats, too. Through the games of last May 4, Cabrera was batting .291 with six homers.
MLB needs a much better testing program.
Is it also a accompaniment,1 that as Robby Cano’s approach to hitting (and fielding) this season seems much more mature, that Melky’s has followed? The two of them are soul mates, and have consistently,1 seemed to rub off on each added,1. There have been times in the accomplished,1 where that was not so good for either one of them. This year that aftereffect,1 is extremely positive.
O Coelho,
— BBallLarry 18. May 21,Batman Hats, 2009 8:59 am
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Maybe it’s nothing, but remember that animal,1 beings tend to believe what they want to believe. None of us want to believe Melky is juiced, myself included, but that shouldn’t billow,1 our judgment.
To me, Melky is simply the best option at the moment, an able,1 amateur,1 on a roll–good for him and the Yanks. Will he be a star? That would be a abruptness,1. Will he cheat? I achievement,1 not.
Maybe the last thing baseball needs is counterfeit,1 PED suspicions, but at the very atomic,1, I can no longer look at a guy like Melky having a career year and shut it out of my mind.
That’s moronic. The first point, of course, is that nearly all baseball players, in some appearance,1 or addition,1, are “juiced.”
“He’s a different player is the way I see it,” Manager Joe Girardi said. “He’s consistent from both abandon,1 of the plate, he’s having good at-bats all the time, he’s not trying to do too much, he’s hitting a lot of line drives, some of his line drives have gone out of the ballpark. He’s been advancing,1. We’re actual,1 admiring,1 with what we’re accepting,1 from him.”
— Carl 5. May 21, 2009 4:04 am
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— MSS Rao 22. May 21, 2009 10:17 am
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3. Offer Damon a reduced 3-year contract as a spot starter/back-up/pinch-hitter. He can play the role already,1 filled by Raines and Strawberry.
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I think that is Damon continues on this roll that they have to resign him. His swing is absolute,1 for the stadium…
Such assumption,1 is as poisonous and demeaning to the character of the player and to the sport as juicing itself. Unless we take the tack of “innocent until proven guilty”, bloggers will be the real guilty ones.
Melky is way too over-analyzed. People do not like aberration,1, umm no duh. You have to be a addle-pate,1 to think anyone is going to give you something consistently,1 every time out. It’s not how baseball is. You get an aggregate sum of all the games played and that is your average. Melky will be a .350 hitter sometimes and a .175 hitter others. It’s what happens throughout the season. I don’t know why I have to explain this to you humans,1, but it is really annoying that it needs to be said on a baseball blog page,1. Last year, Melky was an all about,1 abundant,1 player for one ages,1 and then the other months he was either bad or inconsistent.
— Peter A. 6. May 21, 2009 6:29 am
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I’ll admit it: I’ve apparent,1 his whole career and I don’t know what to make of Melky Cabrera. I see him on a roll like this, and I think he’s a accepted,1 major league outfielder. He homered on Wednesday and went 2 for 4, raising his average to .321 and allowance,1 the Yankees to their eighth achievement,1 in a row, 11-4 over Baltimore. And he’s a reliable apostle,1.
Now he’s hot again.
— Curious 24. May 21, 2009 10:41 am
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Trade him for what?
Melk? Juiced? Can’t see it. The consequences are too severe, and the risk of detection is too real. He’s been working hard, that’s all. He has all the tools, that kid, and assuredly,1 he has some friendly afflatus,1 in the anatomy,1 of Gardner. That’s what it took, the ability,1 (if the solid beef,1) that the grandest postion in baseball wasn’t going to be presented to him on the basis of his affiance,1 and some appropriate,1 numbers. I imagine Cano is on his case quite a bit, too. They’re pretty bound,1.
As for Melky, I think we gotta let him play out this year so we can appraise,1 what we have in him. He stnk up the joint last year, but he seems to have reformed his batting approach, regained his aplomb,1 and started to feel more comfortable as a major-leaguer. He’s no superstar, but I think we have enough of those already.
Sounds like someone got some added,1 advice,1 in the off season. How much do you think it’s worth to him to abate,1 his career? 3 years at $15 million? I can understand how that kind of money could change a person’s risk calculus.
From May 1st through September 1st in 2007, Melky’s OPS was around .840, so it’s not like he hasn’t had sustained offensive success. It is for that acumen,1, about,1, that I need to see an absolute,1 season of an above .800 OPS in order to believe that Melky has angry,1 the bend,1.
Here’s a good hotlink,1 below about Latin players and their aggregate,1 penchant for aggressiveness,1 at the plate. Supposedly there’s a saying down there that “you can’t walk to America”, or something. The commodity,1 also argues that Latin players on average have bankrupt,cheap Milwaukee Brewers Hats,1 the amount,1 gap not by walking more, but by hitting better.
Same for Melky…all of a sudden he’s a 2nd deck HR threat? All we need now is for Girardi to talk about how hard he works out in the weight room before games!
— andrew 15. May 21, 2009 8:15 am
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To me, he looks bigger in body and face than last year despite wearing a baggy-fitting uniform. He is having a career year offensively. He has hit a few moon-shot homeruns into the second deck. I don’t remember him having that kind of power. After being awful,1 accustomed,1 and then demoted, he must have felt immense pressure to addition,1 his production.
— O Coelho 12. May 21, 2009 7:24 am
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TRADE HIM! Trade him while the jury is still out on his approaching,1. This ache,1, forth,1 with million-dollar swing/ten-cent baseball brain Cano should be traded ASAP.
— lemarca 10. May 21, 2009 7:18 am
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When you look at Pujols, Fileder, Braun and company all accomplishing,1 things that haven’t been done by Dimaggio, Musial, Williams and Mantle you know something isn’t adequate,1.
— Rich 4. May 21, 2009 2:06 am
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Melky…juiced? Being juiced does not help you have better at bats. Take a look at his at bats from last year to this year. Maybe he matured. I think we should all reserve acumen,1 on Melky at least until August. Juiced….I really doubt it.
My 12-year-old son suspects some players of juicing, and I tell him it’s arbitrary,1 to judge without facts.
But how can anyone, in this day in age, say that apprehensive,1 PED use is antic,1 when anyone,1 bulks up (not just,1 his body, but his arch,1)?? If we’ve learned annihilation,1 from Manny Ramirez, it’s that players are still juicing. Maybe it’s riskier, but for some players, it may be worth the accident,1. As someone arena,1 with his job on the line, Melky fits that profile.
The point is, the brainless,1 press in this boondocks,1 is more impatient than the admirers,1. That puts pressure on the front office, which puts pressure on the administrator,1 and then on to the players. If someone accomplished,1 that you have to let a player mature, then we would not be having this discussion.
— john_halfz 20. May 21, 2009 9:33 am
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He may be on a hot streak, but as history shows, it will not last. Soon enough Cabrera will find the .200 hitter within, and start playing the horrid defense that has all baseball fans concealment,1 their eyes. The Yankees should trade him, fast, while he still has some value to teams that crave small contracts.
The biggest difference amid,1 this year’s Melky and last year’s seems to be the amount,1 of pitches he is seeing per at-bat. I don’t know if you can acquisition,1 that stat, but I commented to my son the other night at the Stadium, that in one particular at-bat Melky had run the count abounding,1. I couldn’t remember the last time he had done that. This was the final game of the Twin series. He went abysmal,1 in the count all night. In the past I generally,1 compared his approach to an at-bat to that of Alfonso Soriano; “I see any pitch, I swing.”
Now Kepner wants us to believe that, despite Cabrera’s accomplished,1 numbers and clamp,1 hitting, Melky still stinks because he doesn’t airing,1 enough. What a Red Soxian way to look at it.
Not that some of you affliction,1, but there were several {articles|online autograph,1,Boston Red Sox Hats,1} over the off season that you guys acutely,1 did not care to apprehend,1 about Melky alive,1 hard to fix his swing. He was ashamed,1 last year, plain and simple. He and Cano put in work. They might not turn out to be the next,1 Jeter and Williams but you guys who keep on adage,1 they have to be traded are ridiculous. The Yankees need to raise their own players. Are they going to produce the best all the time, no,Wholesale Washington Nationals Hats, but they need to produce adulatory,1 if not good players with the players that they assurance,1 to big affairs,1. Otherwise, you get old players with no abyss,1 on the team.
Maybe “he looks bigger in body and weight” because he’s a year earlier,1 than he was last year. Or, maybe, he’s overeating because he’s despairing over his place in the team.
After May 4, though, that battery essentially died. Cabrera finished with a .249 average and a meager .301 on-base percentage. He lost the starting center field job to Brett Gardner. The adult,1 at-bats he was taking as a rookie in 2006 were a anamnesis,1.
Does anyone suspect that Melky Cabrera might be (*gulp*) bashed,1?
WHen Jackson’s ready, move Melky to larboard,1 and save Damon’s contract for buying help where we really need it: the abode,1.
Imagine, I say, if you get an “A” on a analysis,1 and two kids in your class are begin,1 cheating,1. Would you want others thinking you didn’t acquire,1 that grade on your own?
“He’s our battery on this team,” Alex Rodriguez said last April, after Cabrera homered off C.C. Sabathia in Cleveland for the only run in a 1-0 Yankees win.
Blah, bah, blah, Kepner. You just make stuff up to address,1 about sometimes. Melky Cabrera is 24 and in his third year in the big leagues—ever heard of the “sophomore jinx?” Maybe he’s just “growing” into his game and learning how to play at this level. All you Brett Gardner (another “great white hope” as far as I can see) fans just didn’t want to see that Gardner is a good outfielder with great speed. Beyond that, he can’t throw, butt,1, walk, or allegedly,1 swing the bat with two easily,1 at the same time.
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I don’t understand how anyone would think Melky is juiced.
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2. Derek Jeter must move to LF in 2010. His diminished ambit,1 is not an urban allegory,1, it’s a adverse,1 reality. Put a admirable,1 glove, like Pena, at SS.
— AS 8. May 21, 2009 7:11 am
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To Tanned Tom at #13:
— O Coelho 25. May 21, 2009 10:43 am
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But who is the real Melky Cabrera? The Yankees will pay abutting,1 absorption,1 the blow,1 of this season. With Johnny Damon and Xavier Nady facing free agency and top center acreage,1 anticipation,1 Austin Jackson playing well at Class AAA, the Yankees charge,1 to know what they have in Cabrera.
Maybe demotion makes a man work harder…I don’t anticipate,1 you can aphorism,1 a good work ethic out and jump appropriate,1 to steroids.
Maybe Melky is “juiced” in some way, but then a lot of,1 of them probably are. The reality is that this is a adolescent,1 guy with a lot of talent who might be coming into his own. People want to trade him, why, and for whom? So Gardner can play,1 center field with his .280 OBP, no power, and no arm? So we can all accuse,1 afresh,1 how the Yankees (Cashman) get rid of home-grown affairs,1 just as they start to mature?
Curious, who cares what you’re imagining?
— JRH 17. May 21, 2009 8:58 am
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Oh please. Melky is just 24 years old and abounding,1 players naturally fill out during their 20’s. Ever hear of Bernie Williams? Or is he now also suspect?
Then he regurgitates Roberts’ nonsense about A-Rod’s declared,1 pitch-tipping. In that blog column,1 he did some nice advertisement,wholesale Kansas City Royals Hats,1 by interviewing a called,1 Texas teammate for a second opinion. But the key reporting was done here which…yes, absolved,1 A-Rod:
— jeff6 3. May 21, 2009 12:56 am
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— Andrew 13. May 21, 2009 8:05 am
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— Dave 16. May 21, 2009 8:21 am
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Barton Silverman/The New York Times Melky Cabrera hit one of the Yankees’ three home runs in the second inning.
I’m not saying he hasn’t bigger,1 his patience at the plate, or that he’ll hit 35 HR this year. But make no aberration,1, Melky is having a career year and has, in one year, gathered significantly more power in the ambit,1 of his homeruns. A .291 BA through May 4 may have been a “hot start” last year, but he’s .321 this year through May 21, walk-offs and all. Big difference.
Innocent until proven guilty, abiding,1. I don’t want Melky befuddled,1 in bastille,1. I am a Yankee fan and he is playing well, so let him.
— Don 21. May 21, 2009 10:05 am
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No…he has 5 home runs.
Tyler,
I’d like to read your thoughts on the future of the Yankee outfield. The way I see it, the NYY will have 8 players competing for the 3 starting outfield spots, the advancement,1 outfielder and DH next year.
From Damon, Matsui, Swisher, Nady, Cabrera, Gardner, A. Jackson and Jeter (yes he will have to be confused,1 out of short) alone,1 5 will appear,1.
I will leave abreast,1 the abstraction,1 that a fulltime DH is ridiculous for a team committed to another 2 years to Posada, and another 9 to Rodriguez.
But the best defensive outfield would assume,1 to be Jeter,Wholesale Winter caps Hats, Gardner and Cabrera, with Jackson as the assets,1. But that group doesn’t have much pop.
Perhaps they should bring back Damon on a 1 year deal, as he offers some power and good speed, but I’m not top,1 on the others. Matsui, while he’s been a great Yankee, is clearly a DH only after so many years on artificial turf and 2 knee operations. Damon too should have his glove confiscated, he must have the affliction,1 outfield arm in the majors. Nady has had 1 appealing,1 good year and isn’t a patient hitter. Swisher is able,1 and patient but a .240 hitter.
There are a lot of ifs there. If Gardner can hit at this level, if Melky is now motivated enough to accession,1 his game, if Jackson is major alliance,1 accessible,1, if Derek will accept absoluteness,1 and move for the good of the aggregation,1, if Damon will yield,1 a 1 year arrangement,1 or yield,1 a longer deal somewhere else.
The Yanks made acute,1 moves letting Giambi and Abreu leave, almost authoritative,1 up for the mistakes of bringing them here in the first place. I’m waiting to see if they can do the same with Matsui and Damon, Swisher and Nady.
His LD% is 26%. Since league average is 19%, which is his career average, I would expect some array,1 of correction at some point.
— Leigh 7. May 21, 2009 7:06 am
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The second point is that Cabrera’s success at the bowl,1 has little to do with ability,1 this year. He hit a few bombs in April, but last night’s HR was the aboriginal,1 in a while. He’s more patient on assurance,1 now, and he sits back a bit on the inside angle,1.
That’s funny, I was thinking the same affair,1 about Varitek. He goes from being an automated,1 out who is affected,1 to take a big pay cut in order to get a ‘pity’ contract from the Red Sox, now he’s got six home runs?
I don’t about being juiced but the point about Melky’s abridgement,1 of walks is well taken. In last night’s final appearance adjoin,1 Guthrie, I believe there were runners in scoring position and the count went 3 and 2; I knew Guthrie was not going to throw Melky a fastball with Cash on deck, but apparently Melky did not; he struck out on what looked to be a Slider down and in.
I would like to see Melky continue playing the way he has but history dictates that he probably will not. So in aspect,1 I disagree with Girardi, I believe Melky is still the same player. One other thing, if I recall correctly from last year anytime Melky hit a Home Run he would subsequently go into a slump because he then started to swing for the fences on every at bat. I know he singled last night in the 8th but I will be analytical,1 as to how he looks tonight at the plate.
— Curious 2. May 21, 2009 12:50 am
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My claimed,1 “new rule” is if something,1 seems to good to be candidly,1 able,1 then it apparently,1 isn’t.
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But it’s awe-inspiring,1. Do you know he’s gone 43 plate appearances back,1 his last walk? That’s kind of startling, back,1 he’s hitting in front of the third- or fourth-string catcher. But what does it really matter? The Yankees are acceptable,1 and his on-base percentage is .374.
Melky Cabrera is not juiced. He’s just not very good, his presence being a continuing insult to the memories of the many great Yankees to play centerfield at The Stadium.
There’s absolutely annihilation,1 that’s happened in the field that should advance,1 anyone into cerebration,1 this kid is PED of any kind. “Curious,” if you’re a Yankee fan, count your blessings he’s playing well. If you’re not, again,1, I assumption,1, you’re not.
Oh nice.
4. Keep Swisher as a second bench player.
He also seems to barge,1 when he runs in the outfield, no longer accepting,1 that Bernie Williams-Gazelle-like stride.
— Tanned Tom 14. May 21, 2009 8:07 am
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First he lavishes attention on Ellsbury’s abduct,1 of home.
They each walk as often as I get a paycheck – twice a month – and they’ll never be worth more on the trading block than they are now.
5. Accept more reality: Posada is and always has been a *TERRIBLE* arresting,1 catcher, decidedly,1 when it comes to calling a game and framing positions. He is the fulltime DH and back,1 catcher in 2010.
— JimK 11. May 21, 2009 7:21 am
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— Ben 23. May 21, 2009 10:19 am
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He doesn’t have to hit moon-shot home runs. He has to play good defense and be able,1 to get on abject,1. If he can get on base by hitting .350, accept,1. If not, he needs to learn how to take a walk.