jacksonianmarch

Nunez will become a luxury that you cannot afford at the end of the season. The sox will let him walk and chase a payday as a super UTIL who combines hit and speed to be an everyday player. He'll get 8 figures annually

Good game from Gray again. Aroldis still not right.

You're going to have to. There's no way he signs an extension for 3 years or so.

Sox are said to be trying to get Sale to sign an extension which would include a raise for the next few seasons. That'll be hard. As it stands, Sale has already got life changing money coming to him, and he's slated to hit FA prior to his 31st birthday. My guess is the sox would have to give him a big time extension for him to forgo his only foray into FA

And knowing Harper and his representation, they are going to want that flexibility. If you are guaranteed $330 million, but you get 40% of it in the first 3 seasons, then it gives you options on the opt out. A $40 mil AAV would be crippling in this new lux tax economy. A $33 mil AAV while paying $43 mil would be much more enticing

Boy Judge needed that one. Tie game

Harper's contract is going to be interesting. I don't think we will see a ridiculous $400+mil total. I predicted a 10 year $330 mil contract with an opt out after year 3. The first 3 seasons would be pretty heavily front loaded, allowing Harper to maximize his AAV, allowing him to re-enter FA should he choose, and allowing the signing team to drop the lux tax number due to AAV of the contract. I could see a 3 yr $130 mil start and a 7 year $200 mil finish

Our offense has fallen off a cliff

Trout got guaranteed BIG money prior to even being arbitration eligible while allowing himself to return to the market at 29. I cannot fault him for that.

You pay the premium to own him for his 3 post arb years so you aren't paying him for 10 years post arb. I think the comp is going to be the Mike Trout extension. Trout's 6 year $144 mil contract covered his 3 arb years and his first 3 seasons of FA. That's an AAV of $24.5 mil. Thing is, though, Trout signed it prior to his final pre-arb season. He played 2014 under his pre-arb agreement and started his new contract in 2015. Mookie will be staring at a nice first arb pay-day, so at least the spectre of a career altering injury shouldn't shy him away from getting a good initial payday. I could see Betts getting somewhere along the lines of a 6 year $160 mil extension, which allows Betts the opportunity to hit the open market after banking $160 mil at the age of 30.

He will not be a Rule V guy if added to the 40 man. Players are exposed to the Rule V if they are not on the 40 man and have enough minor league service time. Brentz will become a minor league FA if the sox don't add him. If they add him to the 40 man, then he comes to camp with Boston. If he is out of options and the sox try to send him down, he'd have to pass waivers

He's awful vs the sox for some reason

He's only the second lefty to take him yard ever. Hats off to the kid

Aroldis needs to be removed from the closers role against Boston

Sevy was rolling and fell apart after the Frazier error. Though he is our ace, he's still just 23. Still immature

And Adams is at his innings max from last year already. They're probably gonna have him go 5 more starts and shut him down. That being said, Montgomery did just get concussed by a rogue liner today in BP. We might call him up anyway

Tanaka to he DL. I wonder if it's time for Adams to start

I am an apologist when it comes to player management for sure, mostly because for the better part of my formative years NY was a championship caliber team. But give me a chance to rip Levine or Trost and you have me. The old Yankee stadium had nostalgia, but it also smelled and your feet stuck to the floor. What it also had was affordable seating and at the end, a good product on the field. The new stadium had all the bells and whistles, but Trost and Co forgot that the thing that keeps people coming back is the 3-4 hours that they are watching the game. You build this cathedral, but in the center is the same game. And yes, they built it then poured $400 mil in contracts into the team and saw a title. But after that, the fall came and the team started to look old and slow. Instead of doing what should have been done and seen ticket prices lowered, the brass saw it fit to alienate the fans and trump up their "superior product" in terms of the structure but sat by as the actual product was suffering on the field. The Yankees brass will have a hard time re-convincing the die hard local fan base to come back with maneuvers designed to price gouge them and replace them with people who had bigger wallets. The brass didn't seem to realize that the people who could afford those seats aren't actually living and dying with the team. The guys you just priced out are the guys who were dedicated and now you have an apathetic crowd or no crowd at all. Trost needs to change his tune or else the Yankees games will be watched by all the die hands at home instead of at the stadium

I've had three kids. I'm good with erections

Victory!!!

There is never a way to guarantee a title. Look at the Dodgers. They've been entirely dominant for the past few years and they haven't even made the world series. There are ways to stack the deck so to speak, which will allow you to maximize your chances, but there is never a guarantee that a short series will go your way

Clint Frazier and CC Sabathia likely headed to the DL. Hicks has been rehabbing for a bit and I'd assume he and JMont return. Wouldn't be a bad time to promote Jake Cave, who is murdering baseballs in AAA

well the home plate ump that game was bad too!

Not surprised. He's been so good and last night he couldn't finish his pitches. He's lucky he only allowed 4 runs. Glad we got Garcia

He was very bad, but he was bad for both sides. Very inconsistent. I'm fine with an ump being a little wide or a little tight, but when you're wide one inning and tight another, you're going to be bad. It's not why we lost. Happy was good and once again we struggled with runners on. CC couldn't keep Donaldson in the park either