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.
El Duque - Who could have predicted that the Giants would steal so many back covers from the Knicks on days when the Knicks should have had both?
And now, on the day following a Knick game where they started the game
23-0 (which was insane BTW), set an NBA and a franchise record for offense... They still lost out in the Daily News. To the Yankees? Because Williams disparaged them? Please!
I'm starting to think that Fanduel, Draft Kings etc. are getting to the editors.
The. Fix. Is. In.
.........OHHHHHHHHHH – I thought you speakers of somewhere else.
Yeah, I heard about the Jim Bowden predictions that the Yanks will spend big time. Where is he getting this crap from? All signs, including the HAL interview, say it's penny pinching time. So Bowden's just spinning yarn to generate interest in a lackluster Yankee hot stove.
Unfortunately, the lack of spending also meaneth that they won't make any trades either. The only trades Cashman makes are those where they give away a prospect or young player for an older guy who makes a ton of money, or at best, a young veteran who makes a lot more money than the guy we're giving up.
And we all know that guys like Stanton, who make a ton of money, never get traded by the Yankees. The only way Stanton will leave is when his contract expires. And even then, Cashman will either give him another contract or get someone practically useless to replace him.
So Volpe ain't a-goin' anywheres. Wells ain't going. Jizz Chasm ain't going. Stanton ain't going. They're going to run back the same team as last year, minus Jasson Dominguez, who will be traded away or left to rot in the minors. They'll hand left field to some reject like Austin Slater.
Isn't it amazing how the Yankees haven't developed position players in the LAST QUARTER CENTURY? I think they've developed TWO position players in the last 25 years: Aaron Judge and Robinson Cano. Now, those are two great players, but there ain't no way in hell you can be successful developing only two position players in a quarter century.
They did win the championship in 2009, but with much of the great dynasty still intact. Only Bernie Williams was gone. Jeter, Posada, Pettitte, Mariano Rivera were all still there and still contributing big time.
Amazingly, they made it to the World Series in 2024 but got their butts handed to them. Which was highly predictable because I thought they were waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy overmatched. Again, the only position player they developed was Judge.
Yes, they've brought up guys like Volpe, Wells. But these guys have only proven that they should've been traded. They haven't been successful development projects.
Which brings us to the next question: why are the Yankees so bad at developing position players?
I think they absolutely hate, loathe and detest the concept of development. They can't wait to unload their prospects to get someone who they think is a proven commodity. They also do everything in their power to make their position prospects fail. Bad coaching, bad fundamentals, bad training methods leading to serious injuries.
Let's take two examples of prospects who looked good initially and then got hurt: Miguel Andujar and Jasson Dominguez. Andujar got hurt sliding into third base headfirst, did he not? Dominguez blew out his throwing elbow and needed a pitcher's Tommy John surgery, right? These kinds of injuries happen from poor coaching, poor training. Why was Andujar sliding headfirst? Base runners should always slide feet first, except maybe on a play at the plate when they try to slide around the catcher's tag and swipe the plate with their hand. And I'm pretty sure Dominguez must've hurt his elbow throwing a weighted ball. When have you ever seen a rookie outfielder blow out his elbow like a pitcher? Chances are, their coaching had him doing pitching related exercises to strengthen his throwing.
The lack of development is not just bad luck or a crap shoot. It's mostly driven by management.
A season Ticket Holder since 2009. I really do not give a flying ******. Tired of the Cheapskate Hal, Genius Cashman run Yankees. I dare them to prove they can fix things. Unfortunately, they won't.
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