What's Going On?
Apparently, the Yankees have allowed Cuban SS Adeinis Hechavarria to sign with the Blue Jays. That makes it, Inoa, Sano, Chapman and now Hechavarria in a row of the high impact prospects that the Yanks have balked at signing. What's more, they lowere their draft budget last year and there's no indication that they won't do it again this year. I have no idea what is going on in the organization, but we have a largely old team, and if we ever want to avoid have to use free agents to fill every hole, we have to sign up as many high upside kids as we can. Right now, in the farm, we have less than half a dozen bats that can be projected into a Yankee line-up. And we have nothing at SS, which is the position we just passed on fixing. I have no idea what they're up to, but it doesn't make any sense thus far. Go Yanks?
posted by Kalel9 @ 1:44 PM
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Throwing money at a position like the money he got means he'd better be the closest thing to a sure bet there is. I'm OK with them passing IF it means we get DePaula and Mathias.
Apparently, he passed and not the Yanks. He didn't want to wait around for Jeter to move off short. Still, we need to see some committment.
I think the Yankees will eventually trade for Hanley Ramirez.
Who knows?
I know we have a ton of catcher prospects, and we keep adding more. If Montero turns out even halfway decent behind the plate, they're all expendable.
They're not getting Ramirez w/o including Montero.
Long term commitment to a geriatric 3B/SS could be an albatross that kills this team at some point.
They can't trade Montero.
Not if he's going to remain at catcher.
At some point they will have to move away from the core four. Pettitte will be easy. The others may not be.
I really don't like the idea that Jeter's presence is persuading Hechevarria not to sign. What other potential replacements will act similarly in the future?
There's a Taiwanese SS we're probably going to sign in July who is supposed to be great.
Offensively and defensively?
These days, sadly, reports of Yankee signings aren't official until they are truly official.
yeah, he can hit. We think he's the best prospect to come from there thus far. We signed a teammate of his a few months ago.
Wait. As weird as the Yankees have been with their developmental budget, they were going to sign him and Hechevarria? That seems at odds with their recent behavior.
The kid is 5 years younger.
So what were their plans with Hechevarria?
Per Heyman on Twitter, we offered Hechevarria $8.5 million, but he took $10 million from the Jays, plus a chance to play earlier.
I'm not OK spending $8.5 million on a guy who isn't the surest of sure things, so I'm glad things worked out they way they did. Of course, it also means we'd better get both DePaula and Matias.
The only guy I didn't like us not signing was Sano. He was a premium position player talent at a reasonable price, albeit possibly in the OF. Now there's no excuses not to sign Matias and DePaula.
Not signing Sano made no sense. I would have liked Chapman (much better big-money investment than Igawa), but from what I understand, he wanted guarantees to play in the majors soon, which we wouldn't give him.
I also think we should have signed Ynoa, despite whatever went it was that went down with the agent.
If you have enough of a conviction to spend $8.5m, spending $1.5m more shouldn't be an issue.
He didn't want to play in NY cause of Jeter at SS for the next few years.
He wanted opportunity to play SS and the Jays have that spot for him.
They need to get DePaula and Matias.
They don't have a good system. And it is a shame. With their cash, they should no doubt have the best system
Chaka
Money talks. That's why he signed with the BJs. George Young's quote years ago made that point.
its spending less than the pirates in the draft last year
its only signing 1 of the top 3 draft picks 2 years ago
its the lack of overslots ... and when the overslot they end up with duds like carmen angelini
something is wrong with this org
chaka
As for the farm system, they traded three top ten prospects during the offseason, so of course, it has taken a hit.
I'm not saying the Yankees shouldn't blow teams away in the amateur draft and IFAs, they should, but we have to look at the context in order to be fair.
To this point, however, Hal is being short-sighted.
If he wants to cut costs, stop signing the Mitres, Gaudins, Winns, Parks and Thames of the world. That could save at least $8m.
i get that we traded away top 3. i just think doesn't excuse all the other blown opportunites
chaka
I made that point in response to the current state of the system rather than their recent signing record.
Anyway, good to see you chaka. I only noticed your name after I re-read the anon posts.
It's perplexing. But the farm will take a nice step up this season. We have a bunch of players coming back from injury and a bunch coming to the states for the first time.
Rich - good to talk to you also. You should go back to the other place
btw, Inoa was on PEDs and we didn't go back to him after he back out of the original deal.
Chapman, I've heard no explanation for other than that they were mad he wouldn't throw at the stadium. I think that's what they had invited him to do.
Sano was just foolishness since they didn't believe there was a higher bid.
This guy just didn't want to wait for Jeter. I'm sure the Yanks would have gone a little higher if that hadn't been clear.
Didn't know that about Ynoa, but I still would've liked to sign him.
I think I remember reading that Chapman and his agent didn't want to spend time in the minors developing. If that's his attitude, no thanks.
Sano is inexcusable, as will be DePaula and Matias.
the gerrit cole thing was the real killer
chaka
I blame that on Cole's psycho father.
That was Cole's dad. btw, it has come out that the Yanks actually won the bidding on Hechevarria, but Jeter at short was the problem.
IFA is weak this year so we should be able to grab DePaula and Matias then up the draft budget and swing for the fences.
I saw that, which makes me wrong, and it also makes the kid kind of dumb, because I don't think Jeter will be at SS for much longer, unless, he is afraid of being the player that succeeded Jeter.
I don't believe that source. I hope they didn't actually offer more because the 8.5+ million would have been better served being invested into the draft/IFA.
OT, what a mess at SHU.
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