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By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:01:37 +0000

[30] Oh good. Then he needs to get with Marcus about his bat >;)

By: cult of basebaal

cult of basebaal — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 02:23:28 +0000

#24

https://viewsfrom314ft.com/kyle-higashiokas-elite-pitch-framing-skill-may-make-him-2020-backup/

By: GaryfromChevyChase

GaryfromChevyChase — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:08:11 +0000

[28] I guess he can

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 19:32:14 +0000

[27] Yeah, umm... pretty sure that Kanye can hit a curve...

By: GaryfromChevyChase

GaryfromChevyChase — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:59:25 +0000

[25] Regarding “Are Athletes Paid too much???, think on this:Taylor Swift made $185 million last year, Kylie Jenner $170 million, and Kanye West $150 million. Even Doctor Phil made $95 million. Not a one of them could hit a curve. And let’s not start talking about corporate CEOs making (Elon Musk $530 million, Bob Iger $146 million).

By: Greg G

Greg G — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:49:19 +0000

Mad Bum to Dbacks and Rangers got Kluber from Cleveland.

Market is moving much more swiftly this year.

I don’t consider the Cole contract an overlay. Strasburg had a lot of injuries and he’s making bank.

I have a feeling that the Stanton contract will be a bust but Cole will put at least 2-3 rings on the Yanks fingers.

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 04:13:17 +0000

*cue "Are Athletes Paid Too Much???" by every yuckmouth call-in, talk show host and sports page dreg in America because the F$%&in' New York Yankees paid the best pitcher in free agency $324 million, while conveniently ignoring the fact that the Los Angeles Angels extended the contract of the best player in baseball with $426.5 million the year before with everyone standing around with their mouths open and nothing coming out* >;)

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:26:13 +0000

[23] He earned it. Even if the Yanks part ways with Sanchez at any point or permanently move him from behind the dish, there’s already another catcher in the system destined to surpass Romine and his name ain’t Kyle (whom I can’t quite understand why they’d trust the backup role to)…

By: rbj

rbj — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:07:55 +0000

So Lettuce gets a starting gig, good for him even if it’s the sad sack Tigers.

By: cult of basebaal

cult of basebaal — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 17:44:00 +0000

[19] Came here to post that … All Hail Gazoo! (my new nickname for GGBG).

By: GaryfromChevyChase

GaryfromChevyChase — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 16:46:09 +0000

Happy Gardy is back, sorry to see Romaine gone. BTW, the NATS are desparate need for a 3rd baseman. Don’t know what they can offer the Yanks, but little Miggy would be an interesting target for them.

By: Greg G

Greg G — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:12:39 +0000

I admittedly was puzzled why they brought back Gardy last year, as I thought they had a really young talented (cheaper) option in Frazier, but you have to trust that the Yanks know their personnel. I worry that if Big Red isn’t traded soon, they might have him ruining the trade value if he languishes in the minors.

Gardy was underpaid last year, and with Hicks down, he knows he will earn the salary this year. His determination and leadership are amazing, and if he thinks (as he likely did last year) that this is his last year with the Yanks, we might get something special again.

Tauchman and Wade will likely still get some time and Frazier too, if they keep him. Judge and especially Stanton, haven’t proven that they can stay off the DL consistently. Judge is still young, but Stanton is a bit of a mess physically, and might be better served DHing more.

By: rbj

rbj — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:30:21 +0000

Yay, Gardy’s back.

By: Bronx Boy in NC

Bronx Boy in NC — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:40:53 +0000

I’m a Didi booster, and whether or not he ever comes back I’ll have happy memories of rooting for him in pinstripes. But right now that is requiring me to consciously wait out a bad taste from his last game with the Yankees.

Third inning. Two outs. Bases loaded. Down two runs in an elimination game.

Ryan Pressly comes in from the bullpen and his very first pitch is a curveball.

Didi swings at it and grounds back to the box. Inning over, threat over.

It takes a lot of little failures to lose a game, some of which you don’t see at the time, some of which stick out. Chapman’s last pitch to Altuve? Catastrophe, but that’s the cookie crumbling. Didi throwing away a rally like that? That’s not an unfortunate athletic outcome. That’s dumb.

Yeah, I’ll get over it. Didi’s a solid guy. But that’s where my brain is at the moment. [end venting]

By: Greg G

Greg G — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:54:05 +0000

So Cole gets a contract that pays him $36 million a year and has an opt out after 5 years? I guess Boras is thinking that Aces will be getting $50 million a year in 2025?

By: Mr OK Jazz Tokyo

Mr OK Jazz Tokyo — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:33:36 +0000

So great to see the Yankees return to doing what it takes to win, while other rich teans (..coughRedSoxcough..) plan to trade THEIR BEST PLAYER AND POSSIBLE HALLOFFAMER (..coughMookieBettscough..)

[9] No chance Stanton ever would opt out that deal, not after this last lost season..?

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:34 +0000

[14] With that kind of deal, it’s easy to move him if he’s playing well and Philly is not. Cynically speaking, it could give the Yanks some time to see if he returns to form on someone else’s dime and then offer a sweet deal if they want/need him either at the trade deadline or next off-season. I don’t know if he takes the deal he got if Joey G. is not there.

I would anticipate such a move if Girardi decides to use him the same way the Yanks used DJ to keep his bat in the lineup every day (and it works as well as it did for DJ).

By: Hank Waddles

Hank Waddles — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 21:42:44 +0000

If Didi had gone someplace for five years and $90M or something like that, it would’ve made sense for him to leave, and it would’ve made sense for the Yankees to let him go. A one-year deal? I can’t imagine the Yankees wouldn’t have loved to have had him back for that same contract or even a bit more. On yesterday’s Hot Stove show on YES — obviously filmed before the Cole signing — they were thinking the same, and they even wondered if maybe Didi had slipped through the cracks while the entire organization was focused on the Gerrit Cole pursuit. I’d be surprised if that were the case, though. I think the Yankees had simply moved on.

By: Greg G

Greg G — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 21:09:00 +0000

The irony here is that we needed more guys like Didi in the playoffs last year. Sure, an ace is great but it was the all or nothing offense that was the bugaboo. Our pitchers and bullpen were great. (This also is a credit to aces like Cole, who kept our guys from hitting too). Didi wasn’t playing up to his potential last year and it was obvious that he wasn’t right.

Perhaps they can trade Happ, Andujar and Frazier and get higher OBP player with good defense and hits for average? LeMahieu and Gleyber are position players that you can build around. If the Yanks got Lindor now, fans of other teams heads would explode.

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 20:42:06 +0000

Just from reviewing the peanut galleries of several baseball sites/blogs, the Yankeehate is as searing as ever. As one of my favorite memes stated, “All these flavors… and you choose to be salty!”

We knew that signing Cole was going to come at a hard cost… the money makes our heads spin (for now), but sacrificing Didi is really hard to swallow. I won’t let it ruin me, but man the business of sports really sucks sometimes.

Nevertheless, that kind of money sure buys a whole lot of hope!