My Master Plan to Save the Yankees

After reading Duque’s “It's Sunday, so everybody - (yawn) - is unveiling their master plans to save the Yankees.” I realized that no, not everybody participated in said unveiling. I could think of several people who have yet to check in.  Baseball savant George Will,  long time fan Billy Crystal, and the cleaning staff at the recently busted for Covid violations, sex club, Caligula.

BTW, cleaning staff at a sex club is a really bad job. I know somebody has to do it but still…  Is there no other cleaning job available? I think I’d rather follow the elephants around with a shovel at Ringling Bros. 

Does Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey still exist? Who was Bailey? I always think of Bailey as not getting the proper credit and accolades. Kind of like George Harrison.  Maybe his name was George Bailey and somewhere “It’s Still A Wonderful Circus”

But I digress…

Not knowing any of these people I realized that the task of unveiling a master plan fell to me. So, with the weight of this responsibility fully on my shoulder (I have two shoulders but like to leave my options open) I offer, “My (yawn) master plan to save the Yankees.”

My goal is to be realistic. So even though me, and everyone else here, would make number one - have Hal sell the team, we all know that’s not going to happen. Same with firing Brain. It’s a nonstarter. Those are the kinds of ideas that Bailey would come up with in those circus meetings just before they sent him out to get the sandwiches.

I’m going to split this up over the course of the week. Today the infield.  

The Infield

This is not hard because the infield is not as broken as everyone makes it out to be. We need to resign DJ and get a shortstop. (OK that’s actually half the infield so maybe it is broken.) However, doing this basically sets the team up like last year. DJ floats, until the inevitable injuries hit, Gleyber goes to 2^nd base. Luke at 1^st. Urshala at 3^rd.

So, who is this shortstop?  Well there are two types of solutions long and short (no pun intended) .

Long Term

Personally, I like the Korean guy,  Ha-Seong Kim

He seems solid. MLB Trade Rumors provides the following “ 314/.405/.541 slash — good for a 147 wRC+. Kim walked more often than he struck out (12 percent versus 10.4 percent), belted 30 home runs and swiped 21 bases in 23 tries. (He’s 54-for-60 over the past two seasons.)”

He’s prime age (25) Won’t break the bank. Carries some marketing advantages and can probably be traded if he can’t cut it.  Plus, NYC has a lot of Koreans so he will feel at home as well as never having to pay for a salad bar. If he lives up to his potential he will be good to great.

I guess plan B would be Lindor (Next year when he’s a free agent. Don’t give away the farm!  If we have to trade it can’t be Frazier or AnDUjar or any of our pitching.  (Maybe AnDUjar if they do a sign and trade and we have Lindor guaranteed for 5-7.  Do they do sign and trade in MLB? I know it’s big in the NBA)

Short Term

A lot of people seem to think that Marcus Semien has come into his own. (INSERT CALIGULA JOKE HERE). I don’t know, it’s both a short statistical sample and it seems like we want a bigger name here. But, push come to shove (INSERT YET ANOTHER CALIGULA JOKE HERE) I’d be ok with it. 

Be nice to get Didi back, not sure why they let him go in the first place. 

Or we can just leave Gleyber at SS and play DJ at second.  If we don’t resign DJ we can sign a SS and move Gleyber over to second anyway.

Tomorrow, the Outfield.