Yankees acquire Chase Headly

[TDs3nOut]

Interesting move. He is capable of making a difference, but he is certainly not used to doing so. Will he put NYY over the top in a tight ALE race?

 

[StanMarsh51]

If he can hit at his career averages (113 OPS+), it would be be a plus. If he continues to hit at the level he's hitting this year, then he's not much of an upgrade (if an upgrade at all) at 3rd.

 

[podsox]

That padre lineup.... Woof

 

[Loneranger]

Interesting move. He is capable of making a difference, but he is certainly not used to doing so. Will he put NYY over the top in a tight ALE race?

there's nothing interesting about this. Regardless what happened last nite the guy is just another avg. stiff who will not make one bit of difference on a very avg. team that is going nowhere.

 

[navamind]

If he can hit at his career averages (113 OPS+), it would be be a plus. If he continues to hit at the level he's hitting this year, then he's not much of an upgrade (if an upgrade at all) at 3rd.

Headley was a pretty underrated player.

 

[StanMarsh51]

Headley was a pretty underrated player.

Yea, he still had value in many of his non-2012 years, even if he wasn't hitting for much power.

 

[redseat]

Well he has already paid off. Won the game last night

 

[HammerDown]

That White Sox lineup.... Woof

 

[HammerDown]

If he can hit at his career averages (113 OPS+), it would be be a plus. If he continues to hit at the level he's hitting this year, then he's not much of an upgrade (if an upgrade at all) at 3rd.

The last two months he's hitting well over .300 but even without that, the Yankees were second-worse only to KC in the league for weakest offense from 3B. He's an upgrade.

 

[navamind]

Yea, he still had value in many of his non-2012 years, even if he wasn't hitting for much power.

Even last year, he batted .250/.347/.400 (about league average power) and a 115 OPS+. 3.8 bWAR in 141 games.

Safe to say he isn't hitting 31 HR ever again. His HR/FB rate that year (21.4%) was more than double his career average (10.3%).

 

[Indrid Cold]

Headley is a good example of why you shouldn't get too excited about a guy breaking out of obscurity with a fine year at an advanced baseball age (28 for him)...doesn't apply to Japanese stars coming over, Hamilton being a crackhead when he should have been playing, and (looking at history) guys coming out of the ***** Leagues.

 

[StanMarsh51]

Headley is a good example of why you shouldn't get too excited about a guy breaking out of obscurity with a fine year at an advanced baseball age (28 for him)...doesn't apply to Japanese stars coming over, Hamilton being a crackhead when he should have been playing, and (looking at history) guys coming out of the ***** Leagues.

I don't think anyone is realistically expecting him to duplicate that outlier season. However, many of his other years have been above average by 3B standards, so if he hits at his 2011 or 2013 levels for example, that'll be a positive for the Yankees.

 

[Indrid Cold]

I don't think anyone is realistically expecting him to duplicate that outlier season. However, many of his other years have been above average by 3B standards, so if he hits at his 2011 or 2013 levels for example, that'll be a positive for the Yankees.

He's had several very useful years, but I had to chuckle when some were talking about him being a steady 30 HR guy for years to come.

 

[navamind]

Over the first four months of 2012, he was batting .268/.369/.422 with 21 doubles and 12 HR in 452 PA. That's a 19 HR and 82 RBI pace over 162 games. He was having a pretty good year. From August 1st to October 3rd, however, he was just straight up crushing the ball. Batted .318/.389/.632 with 10 doubles, 19 HR, and 63 RBI over 247 PA in that time frame. He would have been on a 29 double, 54 HR and 180 RBI pace over 162 games.