Imagine a fancy wedding for which a three tier wedding cake was ordered from the best bakery in town.
It has elaborate designs in the frosting, candy flowers on the edges, and appropriate replicas of a bride and groom ruling from the top tier.
Imagine, then, that the staff allows the cake to slip off the tray as they approach the cutting table.
The staff does its best to recover salvageable parts of the cake, return them to the tray, refashions the frosting design by smearing it around, pick up the few candy flowers which are still in tact, and clean the frosting off the bride and groom and stick them back in the middle.
No one will ever mistake this cake for what it was.
This is what the Yankees are doing. The Soto cake fell off the trey and the patchwork has commenced.
What results will look exactly like what it is...., a desperate, alternative version of something that once was. The remnant will be edible, and may even have a respectable look to it.
But it isn't ever going to be close to what the bride and groom were hoping for.
What we were all hoping for.
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Even broken cake has its uses. But I'll bet they picked that cake up, slapped hunks of it onto plates to serve and the caterer thought - "Well, at least I'm contending..." Still, nobody will ever think it's not a pile of crap.
I'll have the pie, waiter!
Cashman is in panic mode. He got rid of 3 lefty hitters. Added a right handed hitter he's coveted for years, but has been mediocre to terrible for most of the past 5 years. He bought another lefty pitcher. Now he has 7 starting pitchers. No leftfielder, 1st baseman or 3rd baseman. He has 10 million left from his inheritance from Hal and nothing in the minors to trade with. Except the Martian and Spencer Someday.
What's the little trust funder to do?
I could not have put it better myself, Alphonso.
I'll be the contrarian here. In this case, the broken cake is preferrable. The portions might be smaller due to the carnage but will feed more people because servings will be more evenly spread around the guests rather than a huge portion eaten by one pig partier.
Soto is certainly a great hitter. No one can contest that fact. But in reality, he's just an exalted DH. While it would be great to have him on the team, the money saved on his contract (and others off the 2025 book) would be better spent on slightly lesser players filling needed holes on the team. The money has to be spent wisely and therein lies the problem. Wise and Cashman are not synonymous with each other. However, to this point, he has done a decent job, albeit only a start. They need a third baseman, full-time legitimate first baseman another bullpen arm or two. I'd like to see them nab Arenado if the talent going back is minimal in exchange for eating his salary over the next 3 years. If Bregman wasn't demanding 6 plus years, I'd prefer him. Sure, he dipped a bit offensively this year but is still an elite defender. Even his offensive decline is still much better than what they currently have.
If Cashman can haul in Walker on reasonable deal as well, I'd say the Yankees would be the team to beat. Looking at 2024 honestly, it wasn't necessarily Soto who got us to the World Series. It was the falling of the dominoes just right.
filling holes needing to be fixed*
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