Hello! (Tap tap.) Yankees? Can you me in there! Can you breathe? Yankees, is that you? Say something. Can you move? Can you speak? Blink if you hear me. Hello?
The Redsocks have discovered a new money source. They have signed Adrian Beltre. Do you understand what I am saying? They are spending money. You are saving money. You are waiting for Jamie Hoffmann. Hello? Yankees? Can you hear me? Are you in there? Are you alive? Is this it? You're just going to lie there? Hello, Yankees?
Awesome! Beltre sucks! Duque: repeat after me: the RedSocks just overpaid for mediocre talent. You complain about how many HRs Nick Johnson hit last year. Wanna take a guess to Beltre's total? The number may sound familiar. Johnson got on base at a .426 clip last season (.831 OPS). Beltre? .304 (.683 OPS!)
ReplyDeleteThat said, I agree that the Yanks should give J. Damon (and his Boston taint) 2 years at $9M per, and they'll have a better lineup than the Redsocks.
ReplyDeleteMy fear is that they'll somehow turn Mike Lowell and a bag of old rocks into Holliday with a 4-team deal.
"Pujols to the Bronx?
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Could you imagine the lineup in New York if Albert Pujols ended up in pinstripes? Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune wrote Sunday that the New York Yankees are keeping their DH spot open for the possibility of acquiring Pujols, via trade or through free agency.
Rogers also writes that the defending champs will monitor the situations of Joe Mauer, Prince Fielder and Adrian Gonzalez, as will the Boston Red Sox, and that both clubs are staying out of the Matt Holliday race this winter in order to retain the flexibility necessary to be a player for one of the four.
If it came down to free agency, it's a free-for-all where the rich get richer, but in a trade situation, the Yankees and Red Sox wouldn't be alone. The problem for the other 28 teams in the league, however, would be getting the player they are acquiring to agree to a contract extension before the farm is sold to bring him aboard.
Pujols in the Bronx, hitting behind Derek Jeter and ahead of Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira -- that's scary, as is the payroll tallies should the Yankees be able to pull it off.
As for King Albert's deal, right now he's got $16 million coming next year, with a $16 million (no-brainer) team option for 2011. But if there's no extension done by next fall, expect things to get really interesting."
-espn insider
I would only take Damon for 1 yr. Then next yr sign Crawford to a huge deal and piss everyone in Boston, Tampa and everywhere else off.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous beat me to the punch.
ReplyDeleteIf the Yanks signed Beltre we'd be reading about how awful he was last year.
And BTW, if Johnson stays healthy [admittedly a big IF], he'll be the one benifiting from the jet stream to rightcenter that made Damon's HR total soar last year.
Baseball Reference.com says Johnson's 162 game HR average is actually higher than Damon's.
But still, I'd rather see Damon in left next year than Gardner or Hoffman.
There is no way Pujols is coming to the Bronx. Where exactly is he going to play?
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