Jason Bay?
Now some websites are reporting the Yankees have an offer out for Jason Bay that is 4/65 and trumps, if slightly, both the offers of the Mets and Red Sox. I find this hard to believe since Bay is below average fielder. He is a very good hitter though and would slide into the 5 hole. I'm gonna see if I can check this out. Holliday should be their target if their gonna go big on a contract, and why give the first round pick the to Sox?UPDATE: This seems to have come from a confused source.
posted by Kalel9 @ 8:58 PM
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I don't believe it. That would be moronic.
I know there were reports that we checked in on him last week. I wonder if it's just one of those nuisance offers they make to bid up the Sox, just as the Sox do to us.
In Francesa-ese, he would be a disasta in LF in NYS.
If the Yankees did sign him, I'd seriously play him in right and Swisher in left.
Seems like the source of the rumor was confused.
Aye, I read what you're referring to. It's the Mets, not the Yankees, that have made that rumored offer.
I support signing Reed, but I hope it doesn't preclude us from netting Holliday. I'm fully convinced he's been Cashman's desired left fielder since day one of the offseason.
The front office needs to move Mitre and Gaudin.
I don't want Reed Johnson.
Puke.
He'd be a great option off the bench for dirt cheap, IMO, but if it precludes us from signing Holliday or trading for a good left fielder, no.
I'm not keen on the idea of him and Gardner platooning in left for a year, and then signing the overrated Carl Crawford.
Carl Crawford worries me.
Assuming Vazquez and Pettitte are replace by Cliff Lee, if Cashman can't find room in the budget for Holliday, I'm not sure how he's finding room for Crawford.
At least, I hope Cashman isn't that dumb...
MikeK, I agree. Crawford is not the answer. Sign Holliday this year and Lee next year and watch the dynasty flourish. I believe all of this garbage about DeRosa, Dye, Reed Johnson, and even Bay is just chatter, but the real prize is Holliday with Damon as second fiddle.
Another possibility is that Cash may feel that he will have enough mL assets to trade for a young LF with an upside a year from now.
Hopefully the Ms extend Lee and F-Her hits FA.
By why trade away even MORE assets (having already lost Jackson and Vizcaino) when Holliday would only cost money and draft picks?
Felix Hernandez already turned down the Yankees once.
We might as well take the Holliday discount now, as our best OF prospects are a few years away (though we have a ton of them in low A and the DR).
Phil,
What are your people hearing?
Is Holliday a pipedream for us or could this be Cashman's plan to wait it out?
My people are saying nothing. Cash is in stealth mode.
Mike K.
Because they may have some redundancy in their system by next season. Again, that assumes that Cash isn't bluffing about Holliday...for once.
new thread.
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