Count me in.
Let's celebrate a long-lost rhyme for February 10:
Yogi's view on deja vu:
Tomorrow, it all starts anew.
On that note, let's ponder The Athletic's Eight Reasons to be Excited About Spring Training, and - of course - the Yankee response.
1. ATHLETIC: "This turned out to be the offseason for teams to go outside the box when choosing their new managers... It’s going to be fascinating."
YANKEES: Aaron Boone. Fascinating? Nope.
2. ATHLETIC: "The Mets had an Amazin’ January, quickly rebuilding their team into legitimate contenders."
YANKEES: Nope. Same as last year.
3. ATHLETIC: "MLB is fortunate to welcome new talent from Japan. Three more Japanese stars."
YANKEES: Nope. Same as last year.
4. ATHLETIC: "The most positive clubhouse culture change though could be coming to the Baltimore Orioles with the addition of (Pete) Alonso."
YANKEES: Nope. Same as last year.
5. ATHLETIC: "Detroit will have two aces making more than $30 million at the top of their rotation. But for how long?"
YANKEES: Nope. Tarik Skubal will be a Dodger.
6. ATHLETICS: "There are still several players who were rumored throughout the offseason to be trade targets."
YANKEES: Nope.
8. ATHLETIC: "This year’s potential rookie class is loaded."
8. ATHLETIC: "It’s finally here. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system."
YANKEES: Umm, wait... Holy crap! Get wild, everybody! The ABS! (Along with our IBS.) And.. hold on! I take it all back... this just in:
We have acquired Max "the Cruel Shoe" Schuemann!
Thank God. I thought we were a little short on .200 hitters. This helps a lot. And he's right-handed! We were looking for one of those. Only if he hit .200, though. .250, .270, even .300--no thanks, Hank, we don't need anybody who does that. Especially if he has some power and can drive the ball. Jesus, can you imagine? That would be a disaster.
ReplyDeleteCashman is surely going into the HOF.
The team did so little. Just dumpster diving with other teams castoffs. It started with the idiocy of offering Grisham $22M, and then pretty much do-nothing after that.
ReplyDeleteThe Mendoza line is sinking...
ReplyDeleteThey were even wondering on SNY—the Mets' channel—last night, why the Yanks didn't sign Bichette or Alonso.
ReplyDelete"They really believe in their guys," Anthony McCarron told us.
No, they don't. They "really believe" in Hal holding onto his money. And maximizing his returns. That's it.
The sad part is I read that the payroll is around $330 milion plus the luxury tax. So Hal actually spends the money yet...
ReplyDelete1) We have no shortstop. SHORTSTOP easily the most important infield position.
2) A field only 3B whose salary is $16M combined with dead money (DJ's) 15M So $31M for a field only 3B. (Plus what it adds to the luxury tax.)
I know we say it all the time but... How does Cashman still have a job!
Hoss - Where Brian and Hal could very well be "running it back" for financial reasons (due to massive mismanagement of a decent size budget - see above) the real issue is their total lack of understanding or care about how a fan base operates.
ReplyDeleteLast year was lame. No new toys means no new hope so we can only conclude that this year will be lame too.
It's as simple as that.
In sports you can't just RUN IT BACK even if you are the World Champions.
The Dodgers understand this and added the NUMBER ONE free agent.
Is it overkill or does their front office understand the psychology of fandom.
Hal and Pal may be right. I doubt it. This team could have enough talent to win a pennant but their lack of willingness to improve the roster or even give the illusion of improving the roster is an insult to us all.
Doug, it’s not so much that they don’t understand. It’s that they truly don’t care. They may or may not understand, but their lack of fucks overrides all.
DeleteArtful Draft Dodgers literally came within one inch, ONE INCH, of losing the World Series, so give them credit, they're upgrading to try to repeat again.
ReplyDeleteI don't see how the Yankees can win with a CF like Trent Grisham, a SS like Volpe, a catcher like Wells, a rotating DH that ensures no one can get hot. Still short on starting pitching, still short on bullpen. Never developing any position player who deserves a chance to develop. Trying to force development of players who definitely don't deserve more playing time. Looks like a mediocre season at best. Same old story: maybe make the playoffs, get booted out in the first round. Spend a ton of money, most of it unwisely, and pretend the they're first class contenders. Championship caliber, my ass.
Hal is a rich moron who employs a super moron to run his baseball business. Hal makes money either way. He fails upward. Has has never had to face one consequence in his lifetime for any decision he has made. This is why we cannot have nice things.
ReplyDeleteBig Max, another Cashman dumpster. Another birlliant one. And it goes on and on.
ReplyDeleteHey, I for one believe that Nonlinear Volpe will be our shortstop of the future...
ReplyDelete...whether we like it or not.
ReplyDeleteAbandon all hope, all ye who are Yankee fans.
ReplyDeleteWhat still doesn't make sense, is that if Hal really, really wants to save money in the short run, he should dump Cashman and hire a few of the many baseball people expert on building teams from scratch.
ReplyDeleteYes, the Yankees like to pretend that we fans won't stand for that! But of course, we stand for it all the time in NYC. Every Yankees fan I know would love to see a great team built from the ground up.
The only thing I can conclude from this is the Hal doesn't want to risk having a high-salaried team in the future, EITHER. He wants the stasis that he has now: the profit coming from always contending, but never winning.
It accounts, too, for why he's willing to join yet ANOTHER owners' effort to force a strict salary cap on the players. The only way he can see increasing his profits—ever—is by permanently lowering salaries.
I couldn't agree more, Hoss. Hal has nobody to blame but himself for the payroll. The best fate for any Yankee prospect is to get traded to a team that knows how to develop professional ballplayers.
DeleteBut without his daddy's wealth, he'd never have amounted to anything. That mediocrity defines 21st Century Yankees.
HAL HATES THE YANKEES
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