This June will mark a rare occasion when the Yanks have 4 top 100 picks. They could have had more situations like this -- including last year, but the Yanks have been too in love with paying over 30 FA's to decline, than they have been in securing a new young core or compiling assets that can be traded for young stars. Before the rules changes the Yanks, particularly once Hal took over, did a bad job of spending on the draft or playing the arbitration game. Simlilarly, they did a bad job of gaming IFA before this past year. Also under Hal.
Back to this years draft. The Yanks pick 16th, 30th, 57th and 92nd -- and if the pool looks right, perhaps they can trade for a competitive balance pick or two. As it stands 2 or three of those picks could be college seniors in order to move budget out of the top 10 rounds.
Needless to say, the Yanks need to rock this draft, and have enough scouting talent to do just that, so keep your fingers crossed.
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Re-post, so you can all share in my misery:
Just got to work and my computer is fried, along with an extensive list of important work contacts.
The company won't replace my Mac with a new one, but I'm getting someone else's Mac so they can give them the cheaper PC.
I think Hal Steinbrenner runs my company.
No data backup?
Sorry about your computer. Probably knew about the Moncada news early and that fried it.
LINJ,
My own damn fault for not putting the document on the server. It won't be difficult to require the info (we have an older document on the server that's only missing about 10 new contacts or so), but it's still annoying.
*re-acquire
new yankee post.
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