Sunday, October 12, 2025

The Yankees' off-season strategy for 2026, in brief.

1. Wait for the Dodgers and Mets to sign the top two or three free agents on the market. Finish second in the bidding on each auction.

2. Collect the table scraps, aging stars past their prime, and overpay for them.

3. Chase the "White Whale," Cashman's annual pitching target, buy trading a package of young players; explain that none were actual prospects, but that the Yankees cleverly outmaneuvered other teams into thinking they are.  

4. Leave at least two gaping holes in the lineup, with the understanding that the front office will "make some deals" at the August 1 trade deadline.

5. Repeat, over and over, until the YES announcers have memorized  it, that none of the young players who were traded were actually ever part of the franchise's plans.

6. Watch the Mets, Giants, Jets, Knicks, Rangers, Nets, Islanders, Liberty and - is there a NY Cornhole team? - everybody else to implode. 

10 comments:

DickAllen said...

I am not available for comments as I will continue sitting shiva for the foreseeable future.

13bit said...

That sounds like the usual plan. It has worked well so far. Why change it? All they have to lose is the fanbase. Anyone remaining who's not completely enraged is just a poser who likes Yankee swag.

AboveAverage said...

I’m not a poser and I like my jerseys and caps .

Perhaps a new life awaits us in the Off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!”

Doug K. said...

I only wear the Renagades, Cider Donuts (Renagades Alt. name), and Pizza Rats (Alt name of the now defunct Staten Island Yankees)

Doug K. said...

El Duque, sadly, has nailed the off season. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same. As. It. Ever. Was.

AboveAverage said...

I didn't say that they were Yankees Jerseys or Caps . . .

AboveAverage said...

BUT THEY ARE - and they were all acquired during a different and better time in our collective history . . . .

Doug K. said...

So this one then? https://cdn.staticsbb.com/uploads/101078/cart/resources/20241110/5A81ED5E-1EBC-4878-5E7C-9AB4BC5F2EF7.jpg

Publius said...

Penn State fired James Franklin. Take heed, Hal.

AboveAverage said...

Thankfully not🤣