It restarted yesterday. The Grapefruit League. Spring sprang sprung...
Anthony Volpe came up, struck out. So did Joey Gallo, but only once in two at-bats. Midseason form!
Some kid named Wesneski pitched three (3) innings for us. WTF? Either he's been throwing in a secret camp for the last month, or the front office has a pool going on whose elbow will pop first, and Boonie had him. Here's the box score. Not much there, if you seek significance.
Yesterday's real news came in three wows:
1. Carlos Correa settled for a three-year deal with Minnesota. Wow. Only three? They must have confused him by banging on a garbage can lid. The Twins get him for his prime years - 27, 28 and 29. Of course, we'll land him when he's 37, built like Bartolo Colon and ready to cut an album with Lady Gaga. Also, we'll pay twice the salary. (See DONALDSON, JOSH.)
By the way, you know the world is nuts when the Twins are outspending us. And here's a math assignment: What's the diff between what the Yankees will assume with Donaldson's contract, as opposed to signing Correa themselves? How much will we spend on the old guy, so Minnesota can afford the best free agent on the market? And why aren't Yankee fans screaming about Brian Cashman? Oh, wait... they are.
2. The Redsocks are supposedly sniffing Trevor Story's crotch. Could he be their CF? Wow. That'd be a deft "eff you" to the penniless, poormouthing Yanks, who have a vacancy on their 40-man roster and a gaping black hole in center. But Hal shows no signs of opening his wallet. His prevailing narrative goes that the Yankees, as assembled, are "a championship-caliber team." And I'm the Easter Bunny.
3. Michael Pineda signed with Detroit yesterday. Wow. The last vestige of Jesus Montero still walks this earth. Brownnoser Yank bloggers can always claim - rightfully, I suppose - that we "won" that epic 2017 swap of titans. But the dirty little truth is that, in the end, the Twins came out on top. Free of NYC - with its traffic and pine tar - Big Mike put up three relatively decent seasons in Minnesota. He's now 33, working year to year. I wonder if there's a bit of Bartolo in him? Weird game, baseball, am I right?
Today, have an ice cream sandwich in memory of Montero.
Hal just flat out told Yankee fans to fuck off. He HELPED The Twins get a top 5 shortstop on a sweetheart deal by taking on Old McDonald’s contract. At this point if we still root for the Yankees it’s nothing more than Stockholm syndrome.
ReplyDeleteEnough. After 47 years of living and dying with this team I’m walking. I didn’t even want Correa that much, I wanted Seager here but no, we get the shortstop Texas didn’t want. We now get other teams leftovers.
Oh and I didn’t forget Cashgrab, he should fired for aiding and abetting this atrocity. The lying little twerp comes out and talks about money while he got complete outplayed by some no name In Minnesota. They went over the cap for two guys in their decline instead of one 3 year deal that actually helps the team. Fuck the both of them
So: Yanks - Donaldson and Falefa; Twins - Urshela and Correa. The Twins totally outplayed us. Totally.
ReplyDeleteCashman has stumbled through the last dozen years, morphing into a bald version of Dave Gettleman.
A BB GM is not the like the pope, it it is not a lifetime appointment. Not doubt much of the current malaise can
be laid at the feet of Steingrabber, but clearly it’s time for radical change at the top of the organization.
This team needs an enema!
Will the Twins trade Correa to the Yankees at the deadline in July for IFK, the pitcher they sent over, Volpe, and the Yanks two best minor league arms? That'd be fantastic. Make it contingent on taking Sanchez babck too. This is a complete professional humiliation. Cashman is a punch line.
ReplyDeleteBears repeating...Cashman is a man with a 115 IQ in an industry dominated by guys with 130 IQs.
ReplyDeleteUnder Cheapskate Hal, it is on the cheap. Going on 13 years with no World Series and headed for 20.
ReplyDeleteAs I've mentioned many times, the contemptuous and incompetent Bloated Front Office needs to get the axe. Every last one of them.
ReplyDeleteAnd as putrid as Cashman might be, Gettleman is even worse. He disproves the old adage "even a broken clock is right twice a day."
Via the NY Post
ReplyDelete>The Yankees’ already thin catching situation has taken another hit this spring, as newly acquired Ben Rortvedt has been sidelined with an oblique injury, according to Aaron Boone. The 24-year-old is still doing catching drills, but isn’t hitting, which figures to put his readiness for Opening Day in question.
We keep acquiring body builders, and they keep suffering oblique injuries. Every time.
By the way, this means we have ONE (1) healthy catcher on the 40-man roster.
And that's Kyle Higashioka and his career .183/.234/.385 batting line.
BTR... this team doesn't need an enema. It is an enema.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Rortvedt, as the late, great Howard Cosell would say: You heard it hear first.
ReplyDeleteA Red Sox fan friend—yes, I have them!—sent over these tweets:
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Brian Cashman could not find it in the budget to sign Carlos Correa while also helping the Twins adjust THEIR budget to sign Carlos Correa demonstrates why every Red Sox fan in the world wants Cashman to keep his job forever.
Every other GM playing chess while cashman & ownership are playing Go Fish
Make it stop!
Minor leaguer on the DL is still an upgrade over the Sanchino.
ReplyDelete"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die."
ReplyDelete~ Zorba the Greek
What does it smell like when a skunk's toilets start to back up?
ReplyDeleteI'll bite, AA:
ReplyDeleteHal's ensuite in 2005?
Hal's Yankees
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