New York Daily News suggests Yankees trade Granderson to Phillies for Ruf
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New York Daily News suggests Yankees trade Granderson to Phillies for Ruf
Matt Mullin, Sports Editor
The dust hasn't quite settled in New York after the Yankees were swept out of the playoffs by the Detroit Tigers.
One media outlet is suggesting that the Yankees make a deal with the Phillies, trading Curtis Granderson, a power hitting center fielder who would fill a need for the Phillies, for Darin Ruf, the reigning double-A MVP.
Granderson has a $13M option for 2013, making him affordable for the Phillies, while Ruf is a 26-year-old career minor-leaguer with no real position on the Phillies. In winter ball, Ruf is hitting .276 with four home runs in eight games.
Here is what John Harper of the New York Daily News wrote over the weekend:
It's not that Granderson can't cut down on his strikeouts and get back to being something closer to the player that finished fourth in the 2011 MVP voting. It's just that I don't believe the Yankees are going to commit to a long-term, highly-expensive deal to keep him after 2013, so the time is right to trade him.
Granderson makes a lot of sense for the Phillies, who desperately need power, as well as a center fielder, and they're still very much in a win-now mode, trying to cash in before their high-priced starting rotation gets too old.
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At age 26, Ruf is not really a phenom, having developed his power gradually after being a 20th-round pick out of Creighton. The Phillies are converting him from first base to the outfield, and scouts believe he can play a serviceable left field.
His bat could be valuable to the Yankees in a part-time role in 2013, if he proves ready, and eventually he could become a mainstay in the lineup.
The Phillies might be reluctant to deal one of their few highly-touted prospects, but some scouts, pointing to his high strikeout total (102 K's in Double-A) aren't sold that Ruf will be able to put up big numbers against major league pitching. And Granderson could be a long-term answer in center for the Phillies if they're willing to commit financially.
So what do you think? Would you make the deal?
I don't want to see Ruf go to another team for yet another old guy. The Phils need to hang on to their younger players, and Ruf shows a lot of promise, especially as a hitter.— betsey1- Why the Phillies would want a 3 time All-Star center fielder who has finished in the top 10 in MVP voting twice in the past 6 years, averaging a .350 OBP, 30+ HR, 85+ RBI, 105+ runs and 4+ WAR per season over that span is beyond me. Far better to have a soon-to-be 27 year old with a month above AA ball and no defensive position to speak of.— PhillyPhan4for4
- RUBEN ARE YOU READING THIS?
If you can not get David Wright than this is what you do.
Trade Ruf, Kendrik and a young minor league pitcher to the Yanks.
You get Rodriguez and Granderson plus cash back, 15 mil a year for
Rodriguez and 5 mil for Granderson. Yanks are happy they get young players and lower their payroll. We get players who can hit homers,
that is what this team was build for. After this deal you sign Josh Hamilton and we are set, you platoon Brown and Maybery. You filled all your needs and will sell lots ofs seats and get a great deal for the television contract coming up. Finally we will have again a team
who can hit the bombs like before, like the years we went to the series. And we will still be under the cap. Any questions? just call me. And you guys forget about too much left handed hitters, its not who they hit that matters its how many they hit.— wildgreenman - I'm not sold that Ruf is the real deal, so I'd do this deal in a heartbeat.— sfactor
- LOOK WHO WROTE THE ARTICLE! A NEW YORK writer! Of course he thinks it's a great deal. Where does one start to pick this one apart? Granderson is the direct opposite to what the Phillies need for center field. He DOES hit hrs, but...he has AVERAGED 150 k's/year in seven full mlb seasons - while walking 68 times/year, with a .262 lifetime ba - come on!— dwp66
- Don't trade "Babe" Ruf. Trading a "Babe" never works. Just ask the Red Sox. Ruf's home run last night in the VWL was his 46th combined of the season to lead all professional baseball players so far in 2012. He passed the Tigers' Miguel Cabrera who has 45 homers combined this year with the World Series still to be played for Cabrera.— Dull
- absolutely no! they have too many strikeouts on that team as it is— Old German
- I like Granderson.. despite his strikeouts. 43 homers this year and over 40 in 2011 are nothing to sneeze at. On the other hand, I think Ruf can be a very productive major league hitter. The problem if we do go for Granderson, we really need another corner outfielder which will cost good money.. Keeping Granderson under contract and adding another corner outfielder puts the Phillies back where they were last year with Pence and Victorino salary wise. I do think Granderson's stats are inflated due to the short porch in right in Yankee Stadium. As much as I like Grandy...I think the Phillies best move is to keep Ruf and play him in left and go for a less expensive choice in center field.. like maybe a Pagan..— bradco
- Ruf will be a star. NO WAY!!!— philsfansince1946
- The proposed trade of Curtis Granderson for Darren "Babe" Ruf by a NY writer, has as much to do with NY having a "new Babe" as anything else..There would be huge publicity for that and if Ruf indeed turned out to be a hitting star, it would sell papers like crazy in NY.. To think at this point there is anything fair about moving an all star CF in his prime coming off back to back 40 homer seasons, for an unproven rookie coming out of AA ball, its really all about selling papers and getting away from the negativity of Arod and the collapse of the Yankees in the postseason.— bradco
- Granderson is a great fielder and hits for power. But he KOs a lot and batted .236. Is he better today than Ruf head to head? Sure, he's proven and Ruf isn't. But that's not the issue--Granderson has one year left at 13 million. Ruf will play for the minimum and yes it is time for the Phillies to actually stop the madness and commit to guys like Ruf. so--the trade is a joke. If RAJ doesn't get the message, he needs to be taken out of our misery.— Barneyboy
- Yeah, great idea! Let's trade Ruf because he was drafted in the 20th round. Bull! What round was Mike Piazza drafted in? Ruf broke Howard's minor league HR make so perhaps it's best to trade Ryan and see what the younger Ruf can do!— vietnamvet
- was that 4 homers in 8 games in winter ball and batting .276 for Ruf?....Gee Just last week he was 1 for 12..He must be on a tear with that quck powerful swing......They need this guy to bat 5th and force people to pitch to Howard......Keep Granderson in NYChitty....We don't have that 300ft right field that gives him the big HR numbers....— mainstreet
- The writer must think the Phillies have Ruth! sooo sad isn't it?!— MooseBreathMints
- Granderson aside, don't you just love the way the lapdog media in this town, TO A MAN, properly recite whatever it is that Rubens A Moron, Jr. wants them to recite? In this case:
Ruf is a 26-year-old career minor-leaguer with no real position on the Phillies. In winter ball, Ruf is hitting .276 with four home runs in eight games.
"No real position on the Phils". You mean the same team that had Juan Pierre in left this year, and Pat Burrell a few years before him and Greg Luzinski a generation before him? And the team that now features the always entertaining Domonic Brown in right? That team?
Clearly, Ruf means nothing to Amaro other than as a trade chip and while that might be the right thing to do, it just kills me that the choir has already warmed up and is singing form the same hymnal this fast. It's still October, the kid has played 8 games in LF since the off-season began and he's already toast!
— advantasux
