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Word is, they may use the Donaldson money towards signing Story.

The Twins are toast. Dumping $50M and getting a younger 3Bman must have made them say yes. $50M is a lot of money.

Maybe the best part of the trade is how it helps Torres by moving him to 2B and LeMahieu by letting him play 1B more often.

You got a GG SS, which fixes a lot of problems. Donaldson is a high cost 36 year old, who has played in 115 games in '19, 135 in '21 but not much at all in '17, '18 and '20. He should fit right in with the Yanks. The guy can still rake (.827 OPS in 2021 and .865 from '19-'21 while playing in 318 of 384 games (83% is a better percentage than many other Yanks.). Urshela hit .815 since 2019 and played in 291 of 384 games (76%.)

I don't see an overload. Our top 3 are RHPs: Houck, Whitlock & Barnes. Out of the next 3-5, we have Brasier & Sawamura, so having a pool of lefties in the middle and bottom of the pen is not having too many. DHern has options left.

I heard multi-season. DHern K's more. Taylor has better overall numbers. I'm fine with getting him, but I'm not getting all the hype.

The Yanks got a GG SS, too.

1B: LeMahieu & Voit 2B: Torres & LeMahieu SS: IKF & Torres 3B: Donaldson Lots of questions and a ton of money, but looks better on paper than 2021.

Too injury prone. Too uneven, even when healthy. We couldn't keep Betts, and now we should give Betts money to someone who has had an OPS below .730 in 2 of the past 4 seasons? Pure insanity!

$13m/1

Yanks just acquired Josh Donaldson and his full $50M owed to him & Kiner-Falefa for Gary Sanchez & Gio Urshela!

Price was drafted while Bloom was in the Rays organization. True he was promoted to a bigger role, the year after Price was drafted, but I think he may have had a say in that pick. He got a couple good years from Matt Moore before dumping him. Stanek did pretty well as a starter. He traded for Glasnow. Shane McClanahan would be our 3rd starter, this year.

Doesn't "sell high" imply you get something of value back? (sarcasm alert)

Agreed. I'm nearly certain we add a RH'd OF bat that may delegate Duran to AAA to start the season. My point was that as of now, he's about the only plan B we have.

Jake Diekman? Am I missing something? I mean, you guys hated on Ottavino. (I did a little bit, too, I admit.) Diekman is 35. He's coming off a 5.0 BB/9 season, which is exactly his career number. His WHIP was 1.335, which is also close to his career 1.335. His HR/9 number (1.5 in '21) was over twice his career 0.7 mark. Sure he K's a bunch of people, but so did Ottavino and so does DHern. 12.3 K/9 in 2021 (11.5 career) Ottavino was 35 wen we acquired him (not a lefty, I know). He was coming off a 5.1 BB/9 season, but had a career mark of 4.0 not 5.1. He had an awful WHIP in 2020 and had a career mark of 1.312 before 2021. His career HR/9 is 0.9- about the same as Diekman. His career k/9 was 10.4 and was 12.3 in 2020- close to Diekman's numbers. DHern is 25 and has one of the 8th highest K/9 career rates in MLB history at 14.2 (78+ IP). Sure, his 7.4 BB/9 rate blows Ottavino and Diekman away, but he lets up way less hits (6.3 over the last 2 seasons). His HR/9 rate is about the same at 0.9. Look, I'm not saying I'd take DHern over Diekman, but lets not get carried away on this guy, just yet, anyway. Taylor has better numbers: 3.9 career BB/9 (4.3 in '21) 11.3 K rate (11.3 in '21) 1.329 WHIP (1.427 in '21) 0.8 HR/9 (0.4 in '21)

The guy walks 5 per 9- career and in 2021. If he's our best lefty pen arm, that's a tiny incremental gain.

I'm talking about going into the season as a top 4-6 contender, like we were in 2018. That's what you try to do every few years. The 2013's are the pipe dreams, as was our chances in 2021. Yes, miracles can happen, but I think building for a ring window of a few years is the way to plan. Right now, the plan is not to win it all in 2022. It wasn't in 2021, either, and the proof was when even after a great start, we did not do much at the deadline. Had we spent big, this winter, maybe we could have cracked the top 4-6, but I do not think the top brass sees this as "the time."

Also, looking ahead, the following players see their team control end after this season: Sale (opt out option) Bogey (opt out option) JD Eovaldi Kike Vaz JBJ ($8M option makes him leaving doubtful) Paxton Wacha Hill Strahm Plawecki (Not countign arb choices) The rebuild is far from over. The Devers choice is looming, if not already upon us.

I don't disagree, but looking at the roster, does it look like one finished rebuilding or in the midst of a normal overhaul of its 40 man roster? We've added 12 names to the 40 man roster since opening day 2021. The fact that we did so well, last year does not mean the rebuild was complete. Sure, we will be projected to win more games in 2022 than we were before the 2021 season, but we have a ways to go to get to top contender status, and looking at the players we added, this winter- almost all on 1 year deals- I'm not seeing signs Henry and Bloom feel like "this is the year," despite what we hoped would happen. No major signings. No major trades. Lost ERod and Ottavino, who despite struggling near the end of the season was one of our best RP'ers, last year. One can say Wacha/Hill/Paxton can replace Perez/Richards/Robles, in kind, but who replaces ERod & Ottavino? Our hope is a full year from Sale and Diekman/Strahm. Who replaces Schwarber/Iggy/Shaw? JBJ, Duran and more play from Arroyo? We are far from the promise land.

We need to add to the RP pool, not take away. Having DHern start the year in AAA is not a sign we are deep enough to trade RP'ers away. Even if we add McHugh, I could see us not trading away DHern or Davis.

Bloom has done a good job building up the farm and 40 man depth, but with limited funding and so many slots to fill it's a wonder we won 92 games, last year. It was not about how little he had to spend, IMO, as it was about the amount of holes he needed to fill. He actually spent quite a bit, last year and will again, this year, but almost exclusively on 1 year deals. The added $20M on the lux tax gives him more wiggle room, but there is still not enough to spend on a $25M+ player, without going over the tax line. IMO, e will be allowed to go over, soon, perhaps next winter. I think the top brass still views the roster as not quite being at the point where a couple big expenditures would make us a top 3-5 contender, and that is the time they are waiting for. In hindsight, one could argue we were 2 big players away, in 2021, and adding Schwarber nearly got us there. The additions we made, so far this winter, hints that this is still team waiting and slowly building to the point where we will pounce. $12M JBJ (1-2 yrs of team control) $10M Paxton (1-3 years of team control through options) $7M Vaz option (last year) $7M Wacha (1 yr) $5M R Hill $??? Diekman $3M Strahm Does this look like additions made by a team done rebuilding or just filling out role slots to supplement the top 17-19 players on the 26? These guys are expected to play a lot, except for Paxton. They are filling the shows of ERod, Ottavino and some others not nearly as good as these two, but who played a lot.

I think Bloom also thought Renfroe needed replacing- both for defense and possibly the belief his O was bound to regress. I hope he's not counting on Duran to take up the slack.

I keep thinking we will trade for a SP'er, but who knows?

McCullers was second in IP for the Astros, last year, so I'm not sure you can say just missing the WS means they made it without him. We lost Richards, Perez and ERod. Two might be considered additions by subtractions, and bot Perez and Richards lost their rotation slots, but it's hard to see Wacha, Hill and later, Paxton as vast improvements, especially thinking of who replaces ER0d. My hope was we added a SP'er capable of keeping Houck and Whitlock in the pen, but sadly, that was not to be. One or both will likely be needed in the rotation, at some point in 2022.

I think Wacha or Hill might move to the pen, but for now, I see our rotation as being... Sale Eovaldi Pivetta Hill Wacha (Paxton late in the season) Our pen from best to worst: R Houck R Whitlock R Barnes L Diekman L Taylor R Brasier R Sawamura/ L Strahm/L Davis (L DHern in AAA) That's 5 of 9 being RHPs and the 4 lefties all being in the bottom 5 or 6.