40-man Roster:
Infielders:
M. Teixeira BR BP E MLB
R. Cano BR BP E MLB
D. Jeter BR BP E MLB
A. Rodriguez BR BP E MLB
N. Johnson BR BP E MLB
R. Peña BR BP E MLB mi
J. Miranda BR BP E MLB mi
K. Russo BR mi
R. Corona BR mi
E. Nuñez BR mi
Outfielders:
C. Granderson BR BP E MLB
N. Swisher BR BP E MLB
B. Gardner BR BP E MLB mi
J. Hoffmann BR BP E MLB
Catchers:
J. Posada BR BP E MLB
F. Cervelli BR BP E MLB mi
Starting Pitchers:
C. Sabathia (L) BR BP E
A. Burnett BR BP E
J. Vazquez BR BP E
A. Pettitte (L) BR BP E
J. Chamberlain BR BP E
P. Hughes BR BP E mi
C. Gaudin BR BP E mi
S. Mitre BR BP E mi
R. Sanchez BR BP E mi
I. Nova BR mi
W. De La Rosa (L) BR mi
C. Garcia BR mi
H. Noesi BR mi
A. Brackman BR mi
Relief Pitchers:
M. Rivera BR BP E
D. Robertson BR BP E mi
D. Marte (L) BR BP E mi
A. Aceves BR BP E mi
M. Melancon BR BP E mi
J. Albaladejo BR BP E mi
E. Ramirez BR BP E mi
B. Logan (L) BR BP E mi
Coaches:
J. Girardi (Mgr) BR BP
T. Peña (Bench) BR BP
Kevin Long (Hit) BR
D. Eiland (Pitch) BR BP
M. Kelleher (1B) BR BP
R. Thomson (3B) BR
M. Harkey (Pen) BR BP
Free Agents:
J. Damon BR BP E MLB
H. Matsui BR BP E MLB
X. Nady BR BP E MLB
J. Hairston Jr. BR BP E MLB
E. Hinske BR BP E MLB
F. Guzman BR BP E MLB mi
J. Molina BR BP E MLB
C. Wang BR BP E mi
mL free agents:
D. Bernier BR BP E MLB mi
E. Duncan BR mi
M. Vechionacci BR mi
S. Duncan BR BP E MLB mi
J. Rodriguez BR BP E MLB mi
E. Gonzalez BR mi
C. Stewart BR BP E MLB mi
H. Sanchez BR BP E mi
J. Johnson BR BP E mi
Select Minor Leaguers:
AAA Scranton Wilkes-Barre Yankees:
C. Malec BR mi
P.J. Pilittere BR mi
C. Curtis BR mi
G. Kontos BR mi
K. Igawa (L) BR BP E JB mi
Z. Kroenke BR mi
K. Whelan BR mi
AA Trenton Thunder:
J. Snyder BC mi
J. Montero BC mi
K. Anson BC mi
J. Gil BC mi
Z. McAllister BC mi
A. Horne BC mi DL
K. Texeira BR BC mi
W. Arias (L) BC mi
J.B. Cox BC mi DL
A Tampa Yankees:
M. Cusick BC mi
A. Romine BC mi
D. Betances BC mi DL
J. Ortiz BC mi
C. Heyer BC mi
C. Nolte BC mi
B. Smith BC mi DL
Low-A Charleston RiverDogs:
D. Adams mi
B. Suttle BC mi
P. Venditte mi
J. Heredia BC mi DL
Low-A Staten Island Yankees:
Rookie Gulf Coast Yankees:
C. Joseph mi
C. Smith mi
K. Higashioka mi
Key:
BR = Baseball-Reference
BP = Baseball Prospectus
BC = Baseball Cube
E = ESPN
MLB = MLB.com hit charts
mi = MiLB.com
JB = Japanese Baseball.com
Vazquez trade
M. Cabrera BR BP E MLB
M. Dunn (L) BR BP E mi
A. Vizcaino BR mi
Granderson trade
A. Jackson BR mi DET
I. Kennedy BR BP E mi AZD
P. Coke (L) BR BP E DET
Rule 5 draft
Z. Kroenke BR mi AZD
K. Texeira BR mi SEA
2009 Yankees
C. Ransom BR BP E MLB mi PHI mL
A. Berroa BR BP E MLB mi NYM
K. Cash BR BP E MLB mi
B. Bruney BR BP E mi
J. Veras BR BP E CLE
B. Tomko BR BP E mi OAK
J. Towers BR BP E mi LAD
S. Jackson BR mi PIT
A. Claggett BR BP E mi PIT
2009 mLers/campers
J. Leone BR BP mi mL TEX
T. Linden BR BP mi
T. Battle BC mi
E. Hacker BR mi PIT
All I want for Christmas is…
EVERYTHING.
According to Buster Olney at ESPN, Mark Teixeira is going to be a Yankee.
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Yes, as it happens, this is what I wanted for x-mas. Thanks so much. Greed is good. PTL
Ha. Told you that Texeira was still a possibility. Makes me very happy.
Happy Holidays to everyone!
Wow. Just Wow. Its liek the Yankees have done everything I wanted them to do this offseason. What a lineup. What a rotation. AND what a farm system still. The Yankees have managed to younger, better, and hella more expensive without losing a single valuable thing except money.
Soooo, What happens with Swisher and CF now? Damon and Swish and Gardner split between LF and CF with matsui pretty much full tiem DHing?
Light the lights of Hanukah. Oh myyyy God. Please be true. Jodi and Betty be very happy tonight. As am I. Bye, bye, Jason, bye, bye. Wake up Cano. ARod has protection in the lineup and a big, able target at first. Say hello to defense. Score me some runs and not give up any.
When was the last 3-6-3?
[0] Following last week’s column. I expect this press conference to be the same show of pomposity and fakeness. … However, I believe this is the signing the Yankees absolutely had to have, including Sabathia. Burnett, I still disagree with vehemently, especially the five-year commitment.
I have no idea what I’m going to write now. Bear in mind, I wasn’t railing against the Yankees’ greed in my column last week, just the overall snobby air of their press conferences. I guess now, hey, if you can afford these guys, you have a right to look down on every other team in the league. Feel free to call me a hypocrite. You’ll be right.
All in.
Cliff can come off the ledge now. Huzzah!
[3] My thoughts … Now Matsui, Damon and Nady (arbitration eligible), are all expendable. Matsui and Damon are both defensive liabilities. Of the two, I think Damon has more value as a two-way player. I’d look for some kind of trade value for Matsui and do so now. The Yankees can cover the balance of his salary.
I’d make Damon the everyday DH, bat Brett Gardner ninth and keep him as the full-time CF. As Steve Goldman said last week, they need to get more athletic. He gives them that and can be a .350-plus OBP guy. Last year was an aberration in that regard, given his history. I’d sign Nady as another righty power bat and keep him in left. Put Swisher in RF. Damon and Melky as your backup OFs, but have Damon as your full-time DH.
The other thing this does: three full-time switch-hitters in the lineup, and now another one on the bench. Devastating.
Start spreadin’ the news………..WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
I had the shot.
There was no danger.
I took it.
If this happens, I have to admit that it feels a little unseemly to me. Somehow wrong. Then again, that’s one heckuva roster next year. And the following year, even more dead wood comes off the books (unless they are able to trade away Matsui).
One question: is Pettitte-to-Yankees still “inevitable”? I think that the Yankees actually will not sign Andy.
[8] Yeah in the grand scheme of things I sort of feel like Matsui is – sadly – the odd man out. I loved him from start to finish (?) in his time here – there was rarely anyone I’d prefer at the plate when it counted – but his time may now be up.
Nady/Gardner/Swisher in the OF with Damon as DH/back up OF sounds about fine to me.
This line up will rake. Here comes another MVP for ARod…and 120 runs+ each for Damon and Jeter…
[11] Agreed on all counts. I don’t think Pettitte’s return is inevitable. I think it would have been if they did not land Teixeira. I think they would have come up to $13-$15 million if that happened.
[11] I think Andy’s on the phone RIGHT NOW with Cash begging him to let the $10 mm offer stand, so he can take it. He can smell a winner . . .
[14] Andy might be asking for more $$, since the Yankees showed a commitment of $20 million a year for Tex. The Yankees let him go unceremoniously once already. I can see it happening again.
Now *this* is a move I heartily approve of. Makes the team, younger, better offensively and defensively. Now, the question is what to do with the OF glut? I say trade Nady while his stock his high and plug Swisher in.
[15] I don’t know about that. Yes, they’ve paid up for others this month – in a big way. But if anything I think the Yanks want to spend $10mm on Andy less now than they did 8 hours ago. I think Andy should consider himself lucky if the 10mm is still on the table…
BTW I’m going to pretend to go to work tomorrow so I can listen to Kellerman :)
[11]
Well, I for one would love to see a salary cap, as a way of helping maintain competitive balance. (And yes, I know that just because a team receives money from the luxury tax doesn’t mean they spend it wisely …)
Small-market teams can contend for a year or two at a time, then their home-grown talent gets too expensive, and the big market clubs swoop in. If the small-market team is lucky, and has a lot of home-grown talent come up at the same time, they MIGHT be able to contend for more than a couple of years at a time.
That being said, you gotta admire the b***s of the Yankees ….
[17] Agreed again. It would not surprise me, though, to see Phil Hughes, IPK, Phil Coke or Aceves plugged in to that fifth spot. If the offer is still there, Pettitte should definitely take it because the carrot won’t be there too much longer.
I think Matsui will have to prove his value during ST, after which he’ll be traded…
Though I was never a Teixeira drum banger, I won’t complain. : ) Holy smokes. Now what, sign Manny to be the back-up catcher. Ha.
[20] Yeah the sentimentalist in me says ’screw it – bring Andy back for 1 more year’ but the realist in me thinks a 5th starter (or two!) can be found among the crew you outline…
[22]
Matsui, Ian Kennedy and Cano for Michael Young and Taylor Teagarden perhaps?
Yeah, and Andy will say, “I was just waiting to see if the Yankees were willing to invest in a winning team.”
HA! Someone give me a booby prize. I started to sense this yesterday and called it in the need of the day comments. Or was it on Sunday? Anyway- I win something, right?
[26] Alex and Cliff will give you a paddleball, in lieu of pay, like Gov. Lapetomaine from “Blazing Saddles.”
This is not unlike 2004, when they laid in the weeds after the A-Rod-to-Boston trade fell through and Cashman swooped in with the Soriano-for-A-Rod coup.
Cash money from the Japanese market helps pay the salaries of all of the Yankees’ new toys so I don’t see Godzilla playing outside of NY while he can still swing a bat.
Small-market teams can contend for a year or two at a time, then their home-grown talent gets too expensive
Those small market teams have bigger issues than that. That certainly isn’t the reasons that say, the Pirates, have been bad for so long.
I suggest those teams plow their resources into scouting & development, and making astute trades. Oakland can contend, the Twins can contend, the Brewers can contend. Provided a team has a competent FO, they can contend :)
Now I really hope the City doesn’t pony up more tax-exempt bonds for the Yanks …
[30]
I wish they didn’t pony up for them in the first place, but I don’t run things…
[26] Sorry big boy I was all over this a few days ago in posts all over the place. It smelled like some combination of the Damon and Beltran situations. Anyway, we’re both right, and it looks like we both get paddleballs :)
[28] I don’t know about that – the Yanks knew that Matsui was gone after next year *anyway*. I can’t imagine they realistically thought they’d resign him then. Yes, the Japanese TV deal loses value (or goes away) but it was going to happen next year anyway.
[29]
I don’t disagree that small market teams can contend through scouting and player development …. I’m just pointing out that its harder for them to retain that talent on a long-term basis …. they become assembly lines/feeders for the big market teams.
Sure, the Pirates are inept and the A’s are smart in terms of their small market management, but in terms of the macroeconomic view, the table is definitely tilted towards the bigger market clubs.
Damn you guys need to stop thinking Matsui’s getting traded.
[34] Why do you say that? I think it’s extremely likely at this point, provided he shows he can still in fact swing the bat during spring training. He was gone post 2009 anyway…
Even if things are tilted towards bigger market clubs, that doesn’t guarantee a trip to the fall classic.
Anyway, Tex came from a big market team and Moreno had money to spend. The Nationals apparently bid competitively. How high is their payroll?
From the NYPost:
The Yanks will now try to trade at least one player from the group of Damon, Matsui, Nady and Nick Swisher to unclog a logjam in the corner outfield/DH/first base areas, while also trying to reduce some payroll. The player the Yanks would most like to move is Matsui, who is due $13 million a year. The Angels, after failing to land Teixeira, are among the teams looking for a productive bat and have room at DH. The Rangers New York Rangers , A’s and Rays also could fall into that category.
Happy.
Just dropped by to say that.
[37]
New York Rangers ????
Now I know its just a typo …. but I’m trying to imagine Hideki on hockey skates ….
[39] Yeah that’s funny :) Personally I think homey don’t skate but you never know!
I will be sad to see Matsui go, whether this year or next. He always seemed to fit the mold of the dynasty teams, even though he was after the fact. Alas..certainly among the 4 cited in the Post he’s the most expensive by far considering that it’s widely assumed he can’t play the field regularly anymore. At least JD can shag flies in LF.
[35] As far as I know, Matsui has a no-trade clause. I’ve read this more than once … So it’s up to him whether he goes or no, and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t want to.
My vote: Just trade Swisher. Easy in, easy out. I like everyone else. The Yanks need Damon still. A good lead-off man is hard to find, and he’s still good. Hopefully.
[41] Agreed on Damon for sure.
And yes, to my understanding Matsui has a no-trade clause (though what’s interesting is that some of the Tex reports say that the no-trade clause he is being given by the Yanks is something the Yanks have not done before, so I’m not sure which is correct). For Matsui, I think it will come down to what the Yankees tell him. If they tell him he’ll be a full time DH (or gasp a big bat off the bench) then how will that sit with him? If it rankles, he’d approve a trade to a couple spots I’d think, especially since it’d only be for 1 year.
If not for the Burnett Blunder, or maybe even with it, this off season makes me quite happy.
[43] Come on Mattpat, even the most curmudgeonly grinchy grinchster of a Yankees fan should feel good about this off season! :-D
Think of AJ this way – if he gives us 150 innings/year – which is what his track record more or less suggests – then it will be good, no? 750 innings over 5 years – that’s almost 4 years worth of starting pitching innings! :-D
[41] i think Swish should stay. i’d rather see Nady go. damon has value, but i’d like to keep him for the year. i love Mats, but if we can move him, i say do it.
i’m a little slow, took me awhile to realize there’d be a new post about Tex. damn drummers…
[22] get yerself a brand new pair of stix and start bangin’ the Tex Drum!!! hitting things is fun, esp little white round orbs w/ red stitching! : )
[5] i, for one, very much look forward to the Tex press conference, done up Yankees style!!!
btw, Paddleball RULES!!! i wish i still played. i played ALL the time as a kid growing up and competed regularly. my pop and brother still play occasionally. nobody knows that sport here in the southeast… : /
Sony,
I’ll look at it this way. For the next two weeks or so, I’ll pretend the AJ signing never happened and revel in our new ace and first baseman.
I’m just pointing out that its harder for them to retain that talent on a long-term basis …. they become assembly lines/feeders for the big market teams.
Not necessarily true; The Royals traded Damon & Beltran to the A’s & Astros respectively. The Rockies traded Holliday to the A’s. The Twins had Johan Santana for 8 years, 4 of which the Twins made the playoffs, and the season after he was traded, they finished a game out.
There are several other motivating factors than salary relief for a small market team making a trade, those shouldn’t be discounted either.
Bobby V. now on speed-dial.
I wasn’t going to log in over Christmas vacation, but I gotta say:
Merry Christmas!
[41]“Swish”??? Not a game in pinstripes, and you gave him a nickname already??? HA