2016 Off Season Thread

[jacksonianmarch]

I honestly think that our game plan is centered on a return to big budget spending around the time Harper becomes a FA. If we can be a PO contender from now until then, Cashman will be content not spending big money. We have Tex and Beltran coming off the books with CC likely to follow. Arod is gone after 2017. Maybe we go short term or make some deals in preparation for a big jump into the Harper pool

[Kimmi]

I honestly think that our game plan is centered on a return to big budget spending around the time Harper becomes a FA. If we can be a PO contender from now until then, Cashman will be content not spending big money. We have Tex and Beltran coming off the books with CC likely to follow. Arod is gone after 2017. Maybe we go short term or make some deals in preparation for a big jump into the Harper pool

 

I agree that this is the Yankees game plan. They are looking to reset their luxury tax penalty in 2017, then go crazy in 2018, starting with Bryce.

 

The new CBA will be adopted in December. Chances are, the luxury tax limit will be raised.

[jacksonianmarch]

As pitchers and catchers start rolling in, I cannot help but ask, that was it? That was the big off-season re-tool that we were waiting for? We added a different 4th OF, have a different backup catcher, have a new 2b and another pen ace? Losing Bird detracts the biggest security blanket we had, the protectorate of Tex and ARod. Now, we are rolling into 2016 with big plans for our soon to be 36 yr old 1b who has played a max of 123 games over the past 4 seasons, ended the yr on the shelf with a broken leg and is a year older? We also have big plans for our soon to be 41 yr old DH who looked completely done after the ASB last yr? The current model of ARod DH'ing and Tex at 1b without any contingency will be the deathknell of this team this yr. Yes, we have the potential to see some major jump from Jacoby now that he is presumably healthy. Yes, Headley will probably bounce back. Yes, Castro will be a major offensive upgrade to Stephen "I suck" Drew. But this offense funnels to the big boys in the middle and now they are more big old f***s rather than boys anyway. The fact that we quietly lost the guy who was going to spell them enough to keep fresh is disappointing and probably damning for our prospects in 2016. I still think this is a playoff team, but the team that limped across the finish line last yr had no business being in a playoff game. There is no point in making it if your team is too beat up to play. We need another corner IF acquisition

[Northern Star]

the protectorate of Tex and ARod.

 

I don't think you know what that word means, because you're using it wrong.

[User Name]

Damn it, he's a doctor, not a linguist!

[jacksonianmarch]

Lol, supposed to be protector. Guess I either got corrected or had a slip of the fingers

[Northern Star]

Lol, supposed to be protector. Guess I either got corrected or had a slip of the fingers

 

Gotcha.

[Northern Star]

Meanwhile: Mel Stottlemyre is still alive? I was sure he died a few years ago.

[a700hitter]

Stottlemyre has had leukemia for a number of years and one of his sons died from it.

[Northern Star]

Stottlemyre has had leukemia for a number of years and one of his sons died from it.

 

Yeah, I must have played that into him dying of it.

[Spudboy]

Stottlemyre has had leukemia for a number of years and one of his sons died from it.

 

I think it's cool that I saw him pitch so many times. I hope he is okay.

[a700hitter]

He had one of the best sinkers of his generation. I saw him many times too, and I never liked it when we faced him.

[jacksonianmarch]

Sounds like Chapman's punishment is coming. I am hoping for a 50 gamer here. Helps us BIG time

[Bellhorn04]

Sounds like Chapman's punishment is coming. I am hoping for a 50 gamer here. Helps us BIG time

 

Again I say, that is very ironic.

[jacksonianmarch]

It is ironic. We have the pen depth to deal with his absence short term and having him around another yr would be great

[a700hitter]

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