That's baseball's Winter Meetings.
Strap in, everyone - because throughout the years, for better or worse, this is when the Yankees reinvent themselves.
Last year, during these meetings, they signed Max Fried and traded for Cody Bellinger. The year before, they exchanged the farm system for one season of Juan Soto.
In other Decembers, they landed Gerrit Cole, CC Sabathia, Giancarlo Stanton, Alex Verdugo, Curtis Granderson - all winter meeting babes. The list goes on, too painful to revisit. Every year, the first full week of December begets the future of the Yankees.
This is the super-moon, the meteor shower, the impending visit from that interstellar "comet," 3I/Atlas, where an alien Bones McCoy is surely taunting Scotty, as they watch the YES Channel.
For seven years we've suckled at the P.T. Barnum hype teat of Jasson Dominguez. By this time next week, he might be a California Angel.
Since being drafted in 2019, Anthony Volpe has served as a Jeterian stand-in for "the future of the Yankees." By this time next week, he could be a Brewer.
Already, Internet watering holes are filling with rumors. The Yankees will enter this pageant of prudence in desperate search of pitching, pitching, pitching...
God knows what they will look like next Saturday.
Get ready, everybody. It's coming.
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I don't care if the Brain does nothing. Although the prospect of trading Volpe is very, very intriguing.
Just do it, you sunken-eyed, overinflated, gibbering clown.
As for the rest...yeah, whatever.
Or, they could do nothing and just warm up the hype machine and start spewing out drivel about how the future will be built on young pitching, etc.
Brew‘ers you say?
I’m on it !
First pot will be ready in a Jiff !
And Volpe can’t have a cup !
( let him go out and play….. au naturel )
I’d be happy with DomÃnguez being an angel if it means Neto is a Yankee
Supposed "insider" Jim Bowden, who is rarely ever correct with his prognostications, swears that the Yankees will announce the signing of Kyle Tucker on a 10-year, $ 427 million contract by the end of the Winter Meetings. Ditto for Mets closer Edwin Diaz for 5 years at $ 88 million.
AHAHAHA! He must have overheard those gems after imbibing a pitcher of martinis at the GM bar.
GM bar ?
I think that's in Detroit, AA.
Bowden thinks the Yankees would pay Tucker 42 mil a year for 10 years? Hal only pays himself that kind of money.
AA...yup, the GM bar. Reserved only for GMs and agents. Bowden has emeritus status, so he's in.
By the way, I finished my first pot of freshly ground coffee, so I'm about ready to imitate the Cocoa Puff Bird.
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