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36 yr old 1b’s who’s power is waning are not good long term investments. I know Astros are thinking 23 or bust, but that won’t be a good signing IMO

If he hits the open market, 10-300 will be a starting point

He will get a 10-300 deal at minimum. His combo of age and elite offensive skill will get what he wants

Devers sucked early while Machado didn’t. Devers most recent is akin to Machado’s offensive production.

Market for 26 yr old All Star 3b’s hitting the market was set by Machado at $300 mil and 10 years. He will want to break that and he should

It’s a word from someone familiar with the Mets thinking. If an owner, who has a good friendship with Steiny, decided not to get into a bidding war with Steiny, then that’s not Steiny’s fault. Now is Steiny and Cohen sat down and discussed it, then that’s collusion

Yanks did nothing wrong here yet. It doesn’t even register.

Or it could just be how Cohen feels. I dont think there is anything there. FYI, Yanks in on Matasaka Yoshida. Guys is a lefty hitting outfielder with high avg, walk rate and good power. He plays OF, which is a spot the Yanks need to fill the most.

Been and will continue to be MIA for awhile. New businesses plus my hospital job leave me little free time outside of playing with the kiddos. But Hal’s comments concern me. Yanks now playing big small ball. Need to be efficient with the payroll? No you don’t. Your team is worth 50% more than the team below you. You need to stay on brand and build a winner, not an also ran

Rizzo for 2-$40mil essentially. $17 mil for 23 and 24 with a $6mil buyout of a $17 mil option for 25. He’s a good leader, good defender, power hitter who makes contact and should tremendously benefit by the lack of a shift. I like the move. Price wasn’t prohibitive

Sox have offered Eovaldi a multi year deal. No word on specifics Why, oh why, would the Sox do that. Yes, Eovaldi had a good ERA, but his K rate dropped and more importantly, his velocity fell off a cliff after he went on the IL. I could see a 1 year deal with a generous buyout of a team option for a second, but no way do I commit to him for more than one year.

Injuries will be the telling part for him. He’s never thrown this much before and he broke down late. He had a later career velocity bump that really helped and he developed a cutter that’s almost unhittable in right handed batters that really changed the game for him.

Cortes followed the trajectory of the great finesse pitchers. Most finesse pitchers start off getting shelled and then either flame out or master the art of deception and location. Cortes is a dominant pitcher and he’s the kind of guy who can stand up to the spot light as long as he can stay healthy. I know the Yanks plan on throwing lots of money at Judge and he definitely deserves it. But their current lineup is so bad that they’d probably be better served extending the lineup by splitting the $40 mil AAV it’ll take to sign him and getting two great bats. They’re talking about adding prospects and dealing off Hicks and Donaldson because of payroll concerns, but they could just release them. This whole small market approach to the team is pissing me off. Who gives a f*** when you’re valued at $6-$7 billion about giving away good prospects to save $25 mil for one year. Eat the cost. It’s also rather telling that Boone got the vote of confidence and Cashman didn’t. Rumors swirling that Cash might be fired after the WS

If you’re a Sox or Yanks fan, you cannot root for the Astros over the Phil’s. You just can’t

Cortes has delivered top notch starting performance since middle of 2021. That's pretty good

Not worried about the pen. Yanks have a lot of minor league arm depth and they keep churning out young pitchers who do well in relief roles. I do think we need to add to the pen in free agency, but not to the degree some think. I don't think we need to add to the rotation at all. I think our lineup needs a total overhaul and one that I think throwing all our cash into one player makes us less effective.

Depends on what they do this year. They've got another window coming with what we hope should be a dangerous core of talented position players. But when you can roll out three ace level performers at the top of your rotation and another guy in Montas, who when healthy, can head a rotation then you've got to invest in the team. Judge being an FA is a problem, but aside from a magical regular season, he has been total meat in the post season. Good pitchers know what to do to him. His lack of bat to ball contact has cost him when it matters the most. Strangely, Stanton is a better playoff performer than Judge because Stanton can go periods of time where you cannot pitch to him at all then fade into nothingness. Judge is consistent. Miss middle or up and you're dead. Stay on the margins and down and you'll be ok.

Our window is still open next year due to the pitching staff. Cole-Cortes-Sevy is a hell of a 1-3. If Montas is healthy, that’s a damn good 1-4. Cannot waste years of a dominant staff

IKF’s issue is he shrank with the glove when it matters most. Your bat can slump, but when your D slumps, that’s when it’s in your head and the game gets too big for you. We don’t need a player like that

DJ has to be a utility guy. Two years in a row he doesn’t make it to October. Gotta keep the tank full for the end of the year and not burn him out by overplaying him in May

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We are setup well with our rotation and have a depth guy behind them who deserves a shot. I actually think the Yanks should move on from Judge, the more I think about it. He becomes an all or nothing hitter when we get to the POs and that isnt worth it, IMO

After watching another PO where the MVP cannot hit, I am proposing some changes that could be rather controversial... Catcher- Trevino and Higashioka- No need to make changes. Trevino sucked late offensively, Higgy sucked all season offensively. They were a dynamite duo defensively and managed a pitching staff that was in flux incredibly well. They were a bright spot that should be easily retained on an arb 1 and arb 2 contract First Base- Anthony Rizzo- He has a $16 mil option for 2023 that he is probably going to decline. If I was the Yankees GM, I would offer a QO that is priced around $19 mil. That would be hard for him to turn down as I do not think he sees the AAV that high on another contract and it isnt like he tore the cover off the ball the second half. But he brings good D, leadership, and clutch hitting to a team that is sorely lacking. If he walks from that, then I do not offer him a longer deal and make some adjustments, but for this argument, he is on the team. Second Base- Trea Turner- 8 yr $245 mil contract- 29 yr old MIF coming off 2 consecutive 6 WAR seasons. His offense trailed a little from the year prior, but he is nails defensively. He would immediately jump into the leadoff position and create havoc on the bases. I think his speed is starting to slow a little bit which limits his upper side earnings, so I do not think he reaches Seager territory. But he would be a wrecking ball for this lineup. Shortstop- Carlos Correa- 10 years $325 mil contract- 28 yr old superstar SS who ended the year on fire and has a history of being a clutch performer in the playoffs. He would add stability to the middle infield that sorely needs it. He and Turner would turn the SS-2B defense into the best in baseball Third Base- Gleyber Torres- He will be going into his final 2 years in the Bronx. His bat has been off and on, but his middle infield defense has been awful. Time to move him to third and see if that can help. If not, we can roll with Donaldson as the 8 hitter and hope for one last gasp from his corpse before he retires and then look to the deadline to upgrade. Left Field- Michael Conforto- 1 yr $12 mil with a player option for the second. He will have to prove he is healthy, but what better place for a lefty to get a pillow contract. He gets the second year if he sucks, but can jump back onto the market at the top of his game Center Field- Harrison Bader- defensive whiz when giants arent running in front of him, Bader hit just as many HRs in the POs as he did all season. He is from the Bronx, he can hit enough, can run and can play good D. He is also entering a contract year and I like players like that Right Field- Mitch Haniger- 1 yr $8 mil. He is defensively limited but playing RF in the Bronx isnt that difficult. Add in his power and what should be a lower cost to defray all the upgrades and he could be a guy we bring in a la Renfroe, who rejuvenates his career and goes to greener pastures Designated Hitter- I try all avenues to dump Stanton, but understand there will be almost no way. He was a world beater until July then fell apart physically and mentally. He needs to bounce back and be a useful hitter for the Yanks to have a chance. Lineup- 1. Turner 2B 2. Correa SS 3. Rizzo 1B 4. Stanton DH 5. Conforto LF 6. Haniger RF 7. Torres 3B 8. Bader CF 9. Trevino C Maybe we go Nimmo instead of Haniger and shell out another $20 mil contract, who knows. But the offense needs a financial jolt and I think we would be better served spreading around the cost than using it all on one guy who disappears in the POs

So much to unravel. Last night was a microcosm of the back half of the year. 2 games under .500 the final 78 games of the year. Twice shooting ourselves in the foot vs Cleveland yet overcoming on talent alone. f***ing up in 2 games of the sweep and getting outclassed the other 2. Once again, key players either shrank during crunch time or were too hurt to participate. Now our best player heads towards FA at an age and size that makes a long term deal dicey. Precarious position to be in for sure. The beginning of the off-season has to come with a leadership change. Hal needs to tap into his inner George lest he gets left behind in his own city. If he can’t run the franchise like the Yankees should be run, he should walk away. The Yanks should never give a s*** about salary caps and dumpster dives. They’re the f***ing Yankees. If you don’t want to spend prospect capital then spend actual capital to improve the team til the kids are ready. But this half ass s*** is getting us nowhere. Brian Cashman has been good at handling the management edict, but his time has run it’s course. These savvy under the radar moves almost always blow up in our faces because it takes either growing up in the system or having already had the experience of being a prime time player to succeed here. His signature off-season move was to get JD and IKF and both were corpses by the time the POs roll around. The Bader trade bore fruit as he turned into a monster in the POs and we dealt from our starting pitching depth. We dealt for a cubs reliever who hadn’t tasted anything of competitive baseball as a big leaguer and he blows out his elbow. The kid we dealt was nails the final month of the year. We deal for Beni and he breaks his wrist once he starts to get going. We deal for an injured Montas and are surprised he stayed injured? And what is the infatuation wi the A’s? Every time we get one of their star pitchers, they turn into puppy poo. We passed on Soto, and with the haul Washington got and how he played in SD, that’s not a mission critical misstep. Not getting Castillo hurts, but the cost AND the fact that our pitching was good already, is not too bad of a thing. But beyond an injured Bader and Beni, we didn’t add anyone of impact who swings a bat and this includes last off-season when the Yanks craved offense. Time to rework things here and stop slapping lipstick on a pig. Escalate your internal budget, fire Boone, and see what Cash can do when he can outspend the entire league. Otherwise, get rid of Cash and bring in someone who’s got experience building a title winner on a budget

Mother Nature feels bad for the Yanks