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Saturday December 20, 2008 7:39 pm
Manny Ramirez - Pros and Cons
Posted by Charles Mitri Categories: Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Editorials
A few thoughts on whether the New York Yankees should sign Manny Ramirez.
First, the bad news… and we know it by heart. Manny being Manny. Petulant, moody, a proverbial thorn in the side of teammates, owners, and general managers. Pick your favorite verb or phrase and apply it. No question - he brings a lot of baggage with him. What to do? Grin and bear it.
Stats tell the whole story and Manny has a truckload of ‘em. A lifetime batting average of .314, 527 homers, 1212 career walks and a career slugging percentage of .593. Ten out of 15 seasons hitting .300+. Hits in the clutch, hits for average, hits for power. He is the best hitter since Tony Gwynn and Wade Boggs, the scourge of pitchers in both leagues, and a first ballot Hall of Famer. He made the Cleveland Indians a contender, helped the Boston Red Sox win two World Series and led the Los Angeles Dodgers to the playoffs on the strength of .399 hitting.
Forget all the hoopla and remarks about Manny being Manny. It has nothing to do with his talent. He won’t win any popularity contests, but Manny does his real talking where it counts - at the plate. Everything else is more grist for the mill. At age 37, Manny is now approaching the end of his career, but it doesn’t seem to be slowing him down. Just look at the numbers he posted for the Dodgers. A .399 average, 17 homers, 53 runs batted in, a .489 on base percentage. This writer’s stance on what the Yankees should do is a mere bag of shells. Do what it takes to sign him. If Manny wants two years, give it to him. If he wants an exorbitant amount of money, give it to him. Manny is no cakewalk in the clubhouse and he’ll require a ton of patience, but he is a proven winner.
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Nonsense. The team that hires Manny is essentially saying that giving full effort every day doesn’t matter if you play like a superstar most of the time. An asset you can’t rely on isn’t an asset. Manny has now proven, as he had not before 2006, that he is quite willing to simply not play when his team needs him, if his juvenile nose is out of joint for reasons only coherent in his sub-par brain. Shoeless Joe Jackson, needing and wanting more money, helped throw the World Series and betrayed his fans and the game. Manny Ramirez, wanting to be let out of his contract so HE could make more money, jogged to fist, took three strikes intentionally in a key game as a pinch-hitter and claimed fake injuries while his team was in a pennant race. Both players intentionally under-performed for selfish notives; in terms of honesty and integrity, there isn’t much difference. Selig should have suspended Manny. Paying millions to a player you can’t trust to give a full effort every day is dumb, dumb, dumb, damaging to the team and destructive to the integrity of the game. I wouldn’t call such a player a Hall of Famer, either. He’s a disgrace to sportsmanship.
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Not complete nonsense his numbers are definitely great. But his fielding leaves a lot to be desired and his attitude has to be tuff for any team to live with. He’s a putz two years yes three years maybe. Six like he wants is absolutely ludicrous. He’s a total slacker when he’s unhappy and he’s very moody so that’s a lot of the time. Imagine the numbers he could put up if he gave a 100%, 100% of the time. I do not blame any team in MLB for not signing him. The dodgers have tried but are not foolish enough to sign him for more than 3 years and who could blame them. I think justice would be served if no one made this cry baby an offer. But we all know his numbers are great and when it comes down to it he will eventually except the best offer he gets no matter how long it is. So teams should hold out on the 2 or 3 year obligation as long as no one steps up he will eventually cave in and accept it. If someone does sign him I can see no better place for him than the yankees a team full of ego’s deserves one of the biggest to screw them up even more
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