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Jeter was promised a higher team budget. The owner went back on that. Jeter sticks to his guns. Good for him. Time for the Yanks to bring him home

O’Neill was great for 6 years through the beginnings of the dynasty and was good for the final 3 he was in NY. He was a middle of the order presence who rarely missed games and won 4 titles. It’s not surprising that a dynasty has a lot of retired numbers.

For the first six years in the Bronx, O’Neill was a .900OPS, middle of the order, “warrior” who routinely played 150 games a year. He was a major contributor to a team that won 4 titles and was on a World Series losing team in 2001. It makes sense to retire numbers of major contributors to dynastic teams, especially since there hasn’t been a dynasty since. O’Neill’s WAR isn’t what it could have been because he was generally regarded by metrics as a poor fielder. His offense, though, was top notch

John Valentin’s hands are mighty empty though

Bout time. That guy was part of that core that basically wouldn’t quit.

I loved Frank German as a Yankee prospect. Thing is, people keep trying him as a starter. He’s proven he’s not a starter. Give him a chance as a reliever. His FB Change combo can be deadly in short burst a la Tommy Kahnle

Exactly. McDaniel used to track prospects for the Yanks and has way more inside info vs other sites.

Kiley McDaniel posted his farm system rankings. Sox 16, Yanks 7

Story sucks outside of Colorado. I don’t want him. I’d rather we just find a stop gap and wait til Volpe is ready

Bring on another Wild Card game then.

The lockout really cooled off any ideas the Yanks were going to try, especially with the fact that they did a whole lot of nothing before it started. Now, 2+ months into this thing, the sides are still fighting. But to pass the time, beat writers like to spitball and they all seem to think Freeman is coming to NY. I’d be very skeptical of that. Freeman has been in ATL forever and just won a title there. The pressures of NY (and the taxes) make a deal in NY maybe not as nice as it sounds compared to being an icon in ATL. I think he ends up coming to a deal there to retire a Brave. I’d certainly take him in NY, but 6 year deals for 34 year olds in the drug testing era should be made very sparingly and only for the absolute outliers, and I don’t think Freeman fits that mold. Granted, by the end of his contract, yanks will be dealing with the albatross end of some big contracts and will probably be in a rebuilding phase anyway, so it’s not too painful if he produces. I still would like to know who is playing SS, CF, and who is catching. Sanchez sucks defensively and outside of his one month hot streak he invariably goes on, he sucks offensively. Hicks is a good contributor who can’t stay healthy. Gleyber was moved off SS because he couldn’t handle the position and has been better for it. Right up the middle is where we are weak and that will kill us. Freeman helps, but could be redundant if Voit stays healthy. We have no internal candidates that are ready to fill C, SS and CF

I’d turn that down too if I was Soto. Soto is going to make $16 mil or so in 22. That’ll bring his career earning around $28 mil, so it’s not like this is his first paycheck. He’ll play all of 2022 as a 23 yr old. He will be freshly 26 when he hits free agency. 13 for $350m is $27m a year. Mike Trout makes $36 mil a year. My bet is he targets Trout as the contract to beat and in a couple years, he likely will. This is way different than the Franco deal. Franco didn’t get a full year of service time. Franco’s deal includes all 6 years of team control they already had on him. Also, Franco hasn’t made life changing money already.

Kiley put out his top 100. 3 Yanks in top 32 including Volpe at 6 with a fourth Yankee in the 60s in pereira. Mayer 22 and Yorke and Casas mid 40s in same ranking

It's posturing. The players need the money, the owners don't. Manfred was quoted as saying players only need 4 weeks of ST to get ready. If that is the case, the real drop dead date for a full season is March 1

Law has always had a biased view of the AL East teams like NY and Boston. You can tell who has the best farms by two things. 1. the continuous ability to deal for top talent and 2. the graduations to the bigs.

It’s collusion if there’s an active CBA. During a lockout, they’re negotiating terms, so it’s not collusion. Also, you need to remember, baseball has an anti-trust agreement too, so that plays into it

You’re not starting off on equal footing when the owners can literally take zero revenue from games being played and still be fabulously wealthy and you’ve got the majority of players needing to bring home a paycheck to pay the bills. The players will always cave over time when the owners have nothing to lose. The players have already made concessions. Giving up on arb and pre arb years of control was a huge win for the owners

7 of the top 27 HR hitters of all time (all over 500) are being held out of the hall for steroid use. Only two failed a drug test, Palmeiro and Manny. One was suspended for a year (ARod) but he never failed a test. The idea that we aren’t looking at the steroid era similar to the spitball era is baffling to me.

It wasn’t cheating if there wasn’t testing. We have no idea how many people were on roids in the 80s-00s until testing started. No proof. And Manfred admitted they were testing for non-banned supplements in the 03 survey. You cannot indict a 25 year span and keep them all out of the HOF.

Even if it makes the Sox better, any baseball news is welcome

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/mlb-rumors-red-sox-expected-sign-seiya-suzuki-when-lockout-ends?amp And I forgot the link. Yikes, I’m out of practice

Sorry, I posted the wrong title. Supposed to say “expected to sign” not to sign.

Rumor is the Sox will sign Suzuki when the lockout ends

Good for Papi. He deserves to be in the hall as do all the other guys who may have done or even admitted to using roids yet put up ridiculous numbers. Baseball is hard, and while PEDs may help, it still takes an exceptional human being to do what Papi did. And he’s even got the disclaimer that MLB isn’t even sure he failed a drug screen and was backed by the commish. 100% HOFer

Yanks could target Andrelton Simmons. Just what the injury prone, light hitting Yankees need is an injury prone light hitting shortstop.