Alex Gordon and the Royals: It’s Just Business
Baseball August 19th. 2009, 3:30pm
Is this what will become of Magglio Ordonez in Detroit as August bleeds into September?
In what looks like one of the most shameful service-time manipulations in baseball history, the Royals demoted Alex Gordon to Triple-A on Tuesday to make room for Kyle Farnsworth on the roster … If the Royals follow through with this and cost Gordon a year of service time, then they’ll still control him in 2013, when he’ll likely be a much better player than he is now.
Brilliant! Alex Gordon, once hailed as a George Brett-caliber superstar (read some serious fawning here), is taking much longer to come around than expected. That being said, he’s only 25, and in four years he should enter his prime, at which the Yankees will slide A-Rod to shortstop, Jeter to a CF or a reserve role, and Gordon will no doubt morph into a .315, 30-100 guy at the hot corner in the Bronx. If he can bring Greinke with him, great. [NBC Sports via CSTB]
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August 19th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Uhhhhh what
August 19th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I’m sorry.. what? He’s a linebacker, not a defensive back now.
That was/is the problem with Gordon. He has the talent, just got over-hyped.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/08/19/jeter/index.html?eref=sihpT1
can’t wait for the hate to pour in on this one
August 19th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Whoa, that came out of nowhere.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
All this over a Topps card, if I remember correctly. That was the first time I heard of him.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Meh. This is like the 13th year in a row we’ve had a “Captain Intangibles for MVP” campaign in the MSM.
/literally
August 19th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
no one would fawn over him if he wasn’t on the yankees. his intangibles are being on the right team on the right time.
and yes, he is over rated and he also hasn’t done shit in the post season in years.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I bet Scott Boras is his agent.
/Jay
August 19th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Jeter is having a great year for a 35 year old shortstop.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Derek Jeter is the finest defensive shortstop I have ever seen play the game.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Not to mention a 39 year old shortstop turned CF that apparently is super human
August 19th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
kanye’s girlfriend … yeah, now i believe the former stripper stuff (Mildly NSFW)
http://www.hollywoodtuna.com/?p=19580
August 19th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Bryce Brown has already been on more magazine covers 97 percent of the players in Major League Baseball. Sorry I harp on it. It’s perfectly reasonable.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
JJ Hardy’s demotion was much worse.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I hate to say it, but if Jeter played on the Reds from the start, no one would give a shit.
/yanks fan
August 19th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Wow. Sinead O’Connor aged quite gracefully.
I’d rather have Jeff Blauser or Mark Lempke anyday.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Shameful? Fuck that, the players agreed to the rules.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
That’s Lemke, and he played second. And Jeff Blauser was a contract year playing asshole.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
@lefty – Was Mike Mordecai or Tony Graffanino on any of those teams in the 90s?
And for the record, I liked Mark Lemke. Jeff Blauser just had a great name, not a great glove.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
That’s Lemke, and he played second. And Jeff Blauser was a contract year playing asshole.
If you’re looking for limited range, and warning track power, with a teeny tiny baseball glove, Mark Lemke was your man.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
And for the record… Derek Jeter is no Shaun Dunston.
/it’s that time of year….
August 19th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Smoltz to the Cardinals and will start against the Pads on Sunday. I’m expecting Bud Black to start an all left-handed hitting lineup…
August 19th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
/yanks fan
August 19th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
The union agreed to this stiplulation, correct? If the union agreed, then it’s completely by the rules. Good for the Royals for keeping him for another year.
How long until the union complains about the rule that they agreed to?
August 19th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
You forgot the annoying nasal voice.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
can’t wait for the hate to pour in on this one
Fail, Joe Mauer…not even close
August 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I really expect better out of you. Shawon Dunston is his name
August 19th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
The move by the Royals might seem more shameful if Gordon wasn’t hitting like a AAA player this season. Sure, they did it because of service time, but he is putting up a .198/.300/.313 line this season, so he really can’t bitch too loudly.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
The veteran’s agreed to it, b/c it’s too their benefit. They chose to screw the incoming MLB players. Of course it’s by the rules, etc., but don’t act like the young guys “agreed” to anything.
/And spare me the “let them go do something else if they don’t want to play baseball” response.
August 19th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
What hate? He’s saying Jeter could be the non-Mauer MVP and that he’s playing his best ball in the last handful of years. Both of those are at least defendable points.