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I'm looking forward to seeing Mike King. I think he could be this year's Jordan Montgomery. Also want to see how Florial looks this year after recovering from injury and spending a full year in AA, seeing Schmidt unleashed as you said, the development of all our young high ceiling arms (Deivi Garcia, Roansy Contreras, Medina, Acevedo, Abreu), and also our two catchers that we drafted 1 & 2 last year.

Arenado will be a Yankee by July

Not to the point where they've dropped to dead last. They may not have MLB ready stars anymore, but they still had 2 guys in the top 100 (Lasagna, Florial) and 1 other guy who Keith Law said was 101st on his list (Pereira). Some of the more reputable team farm rankings don't come out until February, but I'm willing to bet that the Yankees finish somewhere in the middle of the pack.

Please no

Well with half the league tanking this year maybe the 2022 season will be awesome because many of those teams will have been rebuilt.

Shinier turds have a greater chance of being diamonds. That's a saying right? If not then it should be.

The Yankees did have two players in the Baseball Prospectus' top 100 list (released yesterday as well). Lasagna at 64 and Florial at 66. https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/46653/2019-prospects-the-top-101/ I'd say the Yanks' farm ranks somewhere between 15th and 20th. Not great, but not 30th at least

Just when Machado is about to settle for $160M over 7 years with the Phillies is when the Yanks will jump in.

That was unnecessary

So you're saying we have a victory parade in our future?! I'll take it.

That is exactly what I would expect Johnny Damon's signature to look like

The farm is not what it used to be. But that's because the Yanks graduated a bunch of top prospects (Torres, Andujar, Frazier) and traded a bunch of other top prospects (Sheffield, Estrada, Tate) for big league pieces. I think the Yanks have a great outlook for the next several years coming off a 100 win season and still having a solid farm. Their upper level prospects are more likely to be depth/average starters, but that's really all they need at this point with their current roster. The Yankees' most highly talented players are years away from potentially being called up and that's fine considering how the big league team is setup for the next few years.

The craziest stat I saw in favor of Mariano getting in unanimously was postseason WPA compared to everyone else in history: 1.Mariano Rivera: +11.7 2.Curt Schilling: +4.1 3.John Smoltz: +3.6 4.Andy Pettitte: +3.5 5.Jon Lester & David Ortiz: +3.2 (tie) Lot of NY and Boston on that list.

Not a very impressive scouting report for Stowers. Long seemed like the better prospect. But what do I know.

It's almost the same bullpen as last season, except Ottavino replaces D-Rob. Not that it's a bad thing since last year's bullpen had the highest total WAR since 1950. To me the big differences from 2018 to this year will be if Kahnle can become effective again and if Holder can repeat his success with his limited stuff. Also curious to see if Tarpley carves out a role for himself.

Yeah but my guess is they were only able to get him at a reasonable $9M AAV by giving him that third year. I'm sure he would have cost around $12M/year on a two year deal (similar to Dave Robertson).

Well hot damn

I hope he can at least become a below average defender at third. Presently he's gotta be the worst in baseball.

Begrudgingly the Sox are the team to beat in 2019.. but so were the Astros in 2018. Things change!!

Just to divert the conversation to something actually about baseball: Steamer 2019 Projections Severino: 4.5 WAR Paxton: 4.0 WAR Tanaka: 2.6 WAR Happ: 2.8 WAR CC: 1.2 WAR Gray/German/Lasagna: 1.2 WAR 16.3 Total for SPs Sale: 6.1 WAR Price: 3.1 WAR Eovaldi: 2.7 WAR Porcello: 2.6 WAR ERod: 1.9 WAR Velazquez/Wright/Johnson: 0.3 WAR 16.7 Total WAR for SPs ---------------------------------------------------------- Chapman: 1.3 WAR Betances: 1.1 WAR Chad Green: 0.8 WAR Britton: 0.8 WAR Holder: 0.2 WAR Cessa: 0.2 WAR Kahnle: 0.2 WAR Tarpley: 0.0 WAR 4.6 Total WAR for RPs Barnes: 0.8 WAR Brasier: 0.3 WAR Hembree: 0.2 WAR Brewer: 0.1 WAR Carson Smith: 0.1 WAR Mystery Relievers: 1.0 WAR? (I'm sure Boston will sign one above average RP, not sure who else) 2.5 Total WAR for RPs ---------------------------------------------------------- Judge: 4.8 WAR Stanton: 3.7 WAR Sanchez/Romine: 3.7 WAR Hicks: 3.5 WAR Didi/Tulo: 2.9 WAR Andujar: 2.5 WAR Torres/Wade: 2.4 WAR Voit/Bird: 1.9 WAR Gardner: 1.6 WAR 27.0 Total WAR for Starting Lineup Betts: 7.2 WAR Bogaerts: 4.3 WAR JD: 3.8 WAR Nintendo: 3.6 WAR Devers/Nunez: 2.9 WAR JBJ: 2.8 WAR Pedroia/Holt: 2.7 WAR Pearce/Moreland: 1.7 WAR Vaz/Leon: 1.4 WAR 30.4 Total WAR for Starting Lineup ---------------------------------------------------------- Yankees Total WAR: 47.9 Red Sox Total WAR: 49.6 Dammit I figured the Yankees would be ahead by the end. What a waste of time.

A meager $310M.

Good Adam Sandler movies: Happy Gilmore Watchable Adam Sandler movies: Billy Madison Everything else is trash

Yanks lost six guys in the Rule 5 draft (and selected one). Nick Green is the biggest loss but otherwise nothing too notable. Sox actually took one guy from us, Anyelo Gomez, who we lost and regained to the Rule 5 draft last year. I guess nobody wanted Ockimetyakamehameha after all.

Meh. Happ really fell apart towards the end of last season. His velocity and spin rates all got worse which is a bad sign. Hopefully it had more to do with his workload than his age. Edit: the deal is not final supposedly. Premature leak.

I really disliked Mendoza's commentary at first but she has gotten a little better over time. I'd still prefer to watch games on mute though.