Yanks: More Hal Stuff

Hal's "We're not cheap," media blitz is getting a lot of run today, and some others are picking up on the fact that he's just been catastrophically dumb in his role as Yankee owner.    One thing, I and everyone else forgot in rightfully crucifying him for passing on Moncada -- and that is by rule, the Yanks cannot got after another high value young IFA starting in June, for 2 more years.   So it's not like he would have been setting a market he was going to re-visit any time soon.  That makes his decision to pass even more stupendously stupid.

Btw, the Yanks can and probably will grab more 23 and over IFA's from places like Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Cuba in the near to mid term, but it's fairly unlikely any of them will have the upside of Moncada.

As long time readers of the blog recall, we were begging the Yanks to spend big in the draft and IFA before MLB changed the rules and imposed limits where they had not existed.

Being willing to spend 10-15M in each market every year would have rebuilt the farm a few times over by now and gotten the payroll under 200M and thrilled the fan base.  

Instead, Hal wouldn't spend there and he wouldn't spend on Cubans.  So we are where we are - hoping old stars, pitching and D can get us back in the post season.