Sexson Waived By Yankees

by r0ry on Aug 15, 2008 12:40 PM PDT Comment 30 comments

"In a move designed to boost the Yankees' sagging offense, the team today will demote Melky Cabrera to the minors, waive Richie Sexson, and promote Brett Gardner and Cody Ransom from Triple-A, The Post has learned.

Sexson was brought in with the idea of giving the Yankees a better attack against lefty pitching. But the dramatic holes in the first baseman's swing made him too easy an out.

Sexson had 28 at-bats as a Yankee, hitting .250 with one homer. He did hit .273 in 22 at-bats vs. lefties. But with Nady and Ivan Rodriguez now here, the Yankees must feel they have more righty options and wanted the roster flexibility and decided to subtract Sexson."

Huh. Does anyone else give him a shot this year?

He hit 250/.371/.393 overall for the Yankees and .273/.393/.455 vs. lefties.

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"Does anyone else give him a shot this year?"

I thought the odds of anyone giving him a shot in the first place were pretty low.

by great gonzalez on Aug 15, 2008 12:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

9 = 8

by JI on Aug 15, 2008 12:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Cody Ransom is now an improvement?

9 = 8

by JI on Aug 15, 2008 12:46 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I see Richie is now taking the Bret Boone path to career doom

He’s just one fight with a bartender and a failed ST with somebody else away from retirement.

by Gomez on Aug 15, 2008 12:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Watch the Clark/Multnomah County police blotters in the next few weeks.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Aug 15, 2008 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yamhill County FTW

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Aug 15, 2008 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah...

Doing 90 down Corbett Hill Road…

My layout.spellcheckDefault goes to 11

by PositivePaul on Aug 15, 2008 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Isn't Melky one of the future best 50 players in baseball according to Neyer? haha

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Aug 15, 2008 12:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yup

Melky joined a list that also featured Robinson Cano, Dustin Pedroia, As-Cab, and no Felix or Lincecum.

by katal on Aug 16, 2008 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Brought in to hit lefties, OPS'd .848 against them, gets cut.

What?

Yesterday's Pants
A blog-thingy about the Mariners and stuff.

by BrettJMiller on Aug 15, 2008 1:00 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

He was never any good to begin with.

9 = 8

by JI on Aug 15, 2008 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That doesn't make sense. They hired him to do a job, and he did it. And they're paying him the minimum. Why cut him?

Yesterday's Pants
A blog-thingy about the Mariners and stuff.

by BrettJMiller on Aug 15, 2008 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He's generally worthless

They picked up Nady who can play 1st, they don’t need him.

9 = 8

by JI on Aug 15, 2008 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Best guess: While his small sample was so far successful, they realized what he was and realized they had better in-house options

by Gomez on Aug 15, 2008 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Article makes it clear

they wanted roster flexibility… they had better options.
They also knew he had no future with the organization.
Good news for Sexy is that he did do his job… so there might be another team willing to take him on.

by johnbai on Aug 15, 2008 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs