The signing leaves three major positional free agents - Kyle Tucker, Bo Bichette and Cody Bellinger - still sashaying on the catwalk before 10 potential suitors. The salivating teams are:
1. The Dodgers, always hot for another star. Maybe sign all three?
2. The Mets, still seated on their blue balls, cramped by unspent money.
3. The Blue Jays, ready to stick it to Trump, if some honky USA team poaches Bichette.
4. The Phillies, always one star away from the brass ring.
6. The Redsocks, who - in theory, anyway - still have that Bregman money.
7. The Mariners, who are way too quiet, considering how close they came.
8. The Padres, San Diego's last pro sports hope, (unless you follow the Wave, Seals, Strike Force and Legion. Ten quatlooms to anyone who can identify what sports those teams represent.)
9. The Rangers, classic lurkers with Texas oil money, soon to be bolstered by free Venezuela tankers. Never turn your back.
10. And, well, us... the Bombers, the Death Barge, the 2009 World Champions! - who have spent this winter recreating last year's second-place team.
In past winters, the Yankee 40-man roster always looked tight. The franchise usually lost a player or two in the Rule 5 draft, due to the overflow of young arms.
Today, the roster holds Kervin Castro, Chase Hampton, Brent Headrick, Kaleb Ort, Jayvien Sandridge and Cade Winquest - their first Rule 5 pick in 14 years. Of this group, only Hampton was born in this millennium; he's coming off surgery.
Without a significant injection of pitching, 2026 looks like a suicide run. Considering Hal Steinbrenner's increased frugality, it's rational to think signing Bellinger would be the Yankees' only splurge. From then on, they'll be trading young players.
That sure doesn't inspire hope, eh?
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Sorry for posting so closely after your post, Duque. I guess I was writing too slow to be a pre-Duque, early morning throwaway of no special purpose.
By the way, Dr. Joyce Brothers is in the Isolation Booth on the $64,000 Question, answering questions about professional boxing. I guess she really knew the answers and it wasn't rigged.
The Sterno season continues. Where is my box of matches?
PS: I think this blog has evolved to where we could credibly create ensemble abstract expressionist free verse at will and feed it to the masses.
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I’ll see your 10 quatlooms & raise you 20 magic beans.
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