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Sounds like he'd prefer to get someone else but doesn't want to be paying 2 managerial salaries.

 

 

That quote oozes with confidence. 

 

 

Sounds like he'd prefer to get someone else but doesn't want to be paying 2 managerial salaries.

 

Yep same thought I had.

 

 

If he actually wanted Don back, he would have said something like "Of course, Don has done a good job so he'll be back"

 

This statement is just bad. It makes it seem like he's only keeping him because he has to, and he only has to because he doesn't want to pay two managers at the same time.

 

Jeter needs to work on his answers to questions like these.

 

 

Really there is no point in getting rid of don yet. Just ride out the contract and look our options when the contract is done. We would just be spending extra money to lose next year. 

 

 

I have no idea about changing a manager but I'm very unconvinced Jeter could make an optimal decision on coaching staff restructuring. Is there any better man over Donnie, right now? For this hopeless team?

 

 

Just sounds like Jeter doesn't want to be bothered with these type of questions.  He would rather control the narrative and make statements at his discretion.  I take away nothing from his response.

 

 

I think they do bring in "their" guy - both at GM and manager.  The question is whether it happens this offseason or next.

 

 

If I was a famous, wealthy Yankee who then went on to manage the Dodgers and Marlins and I just managed (through a fire sale) a 100 loss team, I would have my bags packed and literally be counting down the days to when I could spend more time with my family and travel the world. 

 

Hopefully that’s Donnie’s mindset. 

 

 

After nearly a year of ownership Jeter has still not shown signs of improving his tone when answering questions that could in anyway lend themselves to a critical line of questioning.   He mastered the athlete non answer when he was young.  He looks so stiff as a office man. Having said that it’s difficult to read between the lines on this one.  My read on it is that he knows people are upset, things may not be going exactly as he envisioned, and it comes out in answers like this even when there is nothing in it in terms of Mattingly’s future here 

 

 

Maybe Jeter wasn't sure if Mattingly is under contract next year, so he was asking anyone that might know.  And here we are getting mad at him for asking.

 

 

Maybe Jeter wasn't sure if Mattingly is under contract next year, so he was asking anyone that might know.  And here we are getting mad at him for asking.

 

I actually wanted to say this. 

 

 

It's not like they're going for a championship next season. Let Mattingly go through all the growing pains, and save money paying an extra salary for a new manager.

 

 

I actually wanted to say this. 

 

Lets hope that wasn't it!

 

 

After nearly a year of ownership Jeter has still not shown signs of improving his tone when answering questions that could in anyway lend themselves to a critical line of questioning.   He mastered the athlete non answer when he was young.  He looks so stiff as a office man. Having said that it’s difficult to read between the lines on this one.  My read on it is that he knows people are upset, things may not be going exactly as he envisioned, and it comes out in answers like this even when there is nothing in it in terms of Mattingly’s future here 

 

After nearly a year of ownership, Jeter has still not shown signs of doing anything right if we’re being honest.

 

 

After nearly a year of ownership, Jeter has still not shown signs of doing anything right if we’re being honest.

 

You mean like trading Yelich, who had a ridiculous contract, for a centerpiece named Brinson, because, as Jeter explained, Yelich would have jumped up and down and soiled his panties if not traded?  Good reason.  I know, the same responses:

 

1. Attendance would not have increased anyway

 

2. They aren't going to win with Yelich and by the time they do, he will be too expensive and besides, Yelich, Stanton and Ozuna have proven that together they were not winners.

 

I think the problem was the rush when there wasn't one and then the return, where there might never be one.  This one just still irks me. I'm over it-maybe.

 

 

Lets hope that wasn't it!

 

It could be... I mean football season started and doesn't Jeter attend football games instead of actually working? 

 

 

You mean like trading Yelich, who had a ridiculous contract, for a centerpiece named Brinson, because, as Jeter explained, Yelich would have jumped up and down and soiled his panties if not traded?  Good reason.  I know, the same responses:

 

1. Attendance would not have increased anyway

 

2. They aren't going to win with Yelich and by the time they do, he will be too expensive and besides, Yelich, Stanton and Ozuna have proven that together they were not winners.

 

I think the problem was the rush when there wasn't one and then the return, where there might never be one.  This one just still irks me. I'm over it-maybe.

 

Yeah, I completely get the Stanton and Ozuna trades, but Yelich seemed like they traded him to make a trade when there was no need to do it.

 

 

And on Chen's returning for 2019,Jeter said "he's under contract,right ?".

 

 

pretty sure jeter is asking the same question about michael hill: who gave this clown a 5 million contract ?

 

 

Yeah, I completely get the Stanton and Ozuna trades, but Yelich seemed like they traded him to make a trade when there was no need to do it.

 

I honestly think they got greedy knowing Yelich could provide the most return in terms of talent... that's the biggest "reason" why he was traded. 

 

Combine that with the thought that he might become a clubhouse problem and that's why he was traded.

 

Everyone has a right to wish they never traded Yelich but I keep seeing people say they don't understand or get why the trade happened and that kinda confuses me because I think the reason was very clear... He was their most valuable trade piece with a possibility of being a clubhouse problem.

 

He wasn't traded for the sake of making a trade.

 

The case could also be made that trading that guy actually advances the rebuild faster. It's not a bad baseball move believe it or not. 

 

 

pretty sure jeter is asking the same question about michael hill: who gave this clown a 5 million contract ?

 

You can make $5 million working as a clown?

 

 

I honestly think they got greedy knowing Yelich could provide the most return in terms of talent... that's the biggest "reason" why he was traded. 

 

Combine that with the thought that he might become a clubhouse problem and that's why he was traded.

 

Everyone has a right to wish they never traded Yelich but I keep seeing people say they don't understand or get why the trade happened and that kinda confuses me because I think the reason was very clear... He was their most valuable trade piece with a possibility of being a clubhouse problem.

 

He wasn't traded for the sake of making a trade.

 

The case could also be made that trading that guy actually advances the rebuild faster. It's not a bad baseball move believe it or not. 

 

I think, most of us, who disagreed with this move, do understand mgts reasoning or the reasons given. We have all heard them.  Just disagree on things, especially the clubhouse cancer.  In cases like this you look at the person, who has no history of being a problem, and understand he was acting on emotion and would, as a professional, as Yelich is, perform to his best as well as helping the younger players.  No difference when we traded all the vets in the first season of the new park when Stanton acted the same way.  He calmed down and enjoyed his new teammates.  Starlin Castro-the same this year.   Sure, we have some hindsight based on Yelich's season and Brinson's to criticize the trade, but not foresight, so no one is right on this yet.  I think the trade was rushed, I think the inexperienced Jeter was in a trade mode by this time and saw no current benefit to holding on to Yelich.  Jeter certainly knows a lot more about baseball than I do, but that has not shielded him from a lot of the criticism that did go his way from others inside the sport.  He has made his fair share of mistakes and is still learning on the job.  

 

 

I think, most of us, who disagreed with this move, do understand mgts reasoning or the reasons given. We have all heard them.  Just disagree on things, especially the clubhouse cancer.  In cases like this you look at the person, who has no history of being a problem, and understand he was acting on emotion and would, as a professional, as Yelich is, perform to his best as well as helping the younger players.  No difference when we traded all the vets in the first season of the new park when Stanton acted the same way.  He calmed down and enjoyed his new teammates.  Starlin Castro-the same this year.   Sure, we have some hindsight based on Yelich's season and Brinson's to criticize the trade, but not foresight, so no one is right on this yet.  I think the trade was rushed, I think the inexperienced Jeter was in a trade mode by this time and saw no current benefit to holding on to Yelich.  Jeter certainly knows a lot more about baseball than I do, but that has not shielded him from a lot of the criticism that did go his way from others inside the sport.  He has made his fair share of mistakes and is still learning on the job.  

 

Yea that's all understandable criticisms, I can't fault anyone for bringing those up... I just responded to you earlier because some people make it sound like they have never heard the reasons for the trade and they were clearly given whether anyone agrees with them or not.