And it’s entirely self-defeating.Like Sherman says, Frazier’s words Tuesday undoubtedly come off as honest. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Namely: “Stories that shouldn’t have been stories,” including a minor, outrageously stupid 2017 spring-training flap over whether his lovely, bright-red, neck-length hair exceeded the team’s antiquated and silly restrictions, a debunked report that he requested Mickey Mantle’s retired uniform number, and a 2018 incident in which broadcaster Michael Kay seemed to suggest While many in the media react with entitled, knee-jerk negativity to a player ducking them, longtime I do! However, Frazier did speak to one member of the media ...“I’ve been working really hard every day with (OF coach) Reggie (Willits) before BP starts and despite what has been happening during the game, I’m still confident in myself to be able to turn this around soon ... It’s tough to cost the team runs and a potential win especially when playing at home against Boston. And I don’t think there’s any way Frazier himself will prove as much a legitimate “distraction” to his teammates as needing to answer lots of questions about Frazier every day would. There’s every indication that he possesses a bat that will produce value at the major league level. If I see it as a problem, or if someone calls me and says it’s a problem, I’ll let him know. That’s an area of his game that isn’t as far along necessarily as his offensive game.”With two singles in four at-bats Sunday, Frazier lifted his 2019 slash line to .272/.319/.517, a pretty good showing.
But since his willingness to reveal his true feelings to the public is now being rewarded with questions over whether he has the right mentality to play baseball professionally, he’s going to learn eventually that he’s best served just clamming up and spewing pointless platitudes.Look here, and enjoy the youthful exuberance of new Yankees prospect Clint Frazier before he falls victim to our incessant and foolhardy desire for baseball players to be cliche-spewing robots instead of regular young dudes expressing their zeal for life….Frazier should enjoy himself now, because he’s soon to play baseball in a landscape where every sharp-tongued sports-talk radio host and starchy columnist and weasely blogger will be sharpening their pitchforks while they watch and wait for the first time he dares do anything interesting or funny or human after a night he happens to go 0-for-4. The (…)The second leg of the FedExCup Playoffs began Thursday with the BMW Championship from Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia, Illinois. To go a little deeper, the site has a statistic called RZR (Revised Zone Rating), One should remember that Frazier is returning from a fairly serious concussion that ended his season in 2018. He has had multiple defensive lapses this year, to the point where it’s starting to become an issue.
The Atlanta Braves will meet the Philadelphia Phillies in the second game of the three-game series on Saturday as they look to distance (…)Austin Peay and Central Arkansas will kick off the college football season on Saturday. “Know the situations going into it, what might happen before the play even starts and just kind of control the moment and do your best to get clean innings after that.”“It’s part of the game,” Luke Voit said. I don’t know what to tell you.