This Week on the Blog
Giants: Giants just won, but were basically awful outside of OBJ and JPP. This was really ugly against a Cleveland team that should be contracted. OBJ had two TD's and would have had as many as 5 had Eli not missed him twice and if the punt return TD hadn't been called back on a ticky tack penalty that had no effect on the play. JPP had three sacks, a forced fumble and a interception for a TD. The missing sacks from earlier this year are now coming in bunches. Eli was awful till about the 4th quarter. He was missing everyone and it's unclear if it was wind, an injury or decline. They couldn't run the ball well against the #31 run defense in the league and it's unclear when and even if this Offense will ever come together this year. They are now 8-3, but their 5 final games could leave them at 8-8 or 9-7. They haven't looked like a team that can beat good teams and they have the Steelers next.
Rangers: The Rangers are showing the effects of losing Mika and Buch. Even though Matt Puempel, whom they grabbed off waivers and was a big time scorer in the OHL, scored in his first game, they can't expect to replace the prodcution Mika and Buch were giving them. And it is really exposing their D. They still need to make a deal for a defenseman, though playing Clendening could help in the short term. They have Ottawa later today and it's a game they should win, but they haven't been as automatic lately.
Knicks: The Knicks are a work in progress, and while they've become a dynamic home team, they are now 1-6 on the road. They lost a close one last night where Rose and Melo tried to do too much in their second of back to back games. I do feel like those two are missing KP a lot and KP's disappearing for stretches as a result. Billy and Kuz continue to step up, and regardless of anything being written, Lance Thomas has not been missed. They're next job is to learn how to win on the road, while the three young Euros are still learning D.
Yanks: Agents are saying the Yanks are in on every free agent. They're probably just doing their due diligence. Matt Holliday's name has come up several years too late, as has Beltran's, but I see no reason why the Yanks want an old bat, the kids will need all the AB's they can get. I'm also wondering if the new CBA negotiations are slowing down the signings and trades. I do expect them to sign Chapman, but I have no idea who they will trade for, though I do suppose they could trade for a starter. We'll see. They seem unlikely to move the big prospects they've collected.
Could do some updates this week. Have a great one, everyone.
posted by Kalel9 @ 1:32 PM
33 Comments:
JPP and Hankins must be signed at all cost, but by another GM because of Reese's extreme, long standing negligence in OL construction, putting Eli in a Russian Roulette situation with ridiculous frequency.
Jennings is doing a good job handing out assists. Hermangomez is going to be a near star. He has great skills and you can see that he understands the game.
Hal's counterproductive dual mandate is skewing rumors. We will see if it causes shortsighted signings or trades.
Phil/Lawyer! Both great posts full of facts and truths. Those truths are ones unfortunately those running our teams have failed to see.
Seriously, imagine Eli with the Dallas OL and Elliot. Some of that was built by luck but the Giants passed on Gurley because of many prior OL failures in the early, middle, and late rounds.
The thing with the old bats is you do not need to sign them long term and "sell" to the fans paying big money for seats, that they are not just counting on youth being cheap!
When Knick peeps say they don't bring sufficient intensity, commitment, toughness, whatever, does anyone inside or outside the team have a clue as to why that is?
Great come-from-behind win.
Tentative MLB/PA deal.
New CBA does not include an international draft but caps teams at $5-6M per year on under 23 talent. Also, free agent compensation is not longer a first-round pick.
Yeah, not sure what it means for the Yanks right now, but that hard IFA cap sucks.
That protects most Japanese FA.
Fun Knicks win!!! I hope the new cba doesn't mean Edwin will be a Yankee...... (draft pick)
So compensation is a 2, a 5, and a $1m from IFA signings for teams above the threshold.
The more the details come out the worse this thing seems.
John Heyman: International caps for teams per year actually range from 4.75M (big clubs) to 5.25M (medium) to 5.75M (small) as well as teams over the tax threshold forfeit 2nd, 5th picks plus 1M pool $ for QO FA, teams getting rev. sharing forfeit a 3rd, if in middle, a 2nd & 500K. God forbid the small market teams play on an even playing field, it always has to be slanted. The biggest driver for me to see the Yankees get under the tax is just to see the "small market" teams have to live on their own without stealing the money from Yankee fans trying to support their team.
If the Yankees didn't have a strong farm system, these rules would be a massive problem. But because they do, after a short transition of patience combined with fiscal prudence, they can, as you suggest, exploit this to their advantage
Oh, so we can still blow out the threshold in IFA for the price of a 2, a 5 and a milion bucks rather than two years of penalties?
No; a 2nd and 5th round pick along with 1 Mil reduction to international signing pool is the penalty for the Yankees since they are a luxury tax paying team if they sign someone whom has been given a Qualifying offer. And their international signing pool is already reduced to 4.75 million as a large market team as opposed to 5.75 mil for a small market team. So pool is already reduced by $1 Mil due to market size, and then if they sign a free agent whom has a qualifying offer it gets reduced by another million down to $3.75. As of last night they were reporting every team had the same international signing pool, now its being reported that small market vs big market makes a difference and that the penalty for signing a qualifying offer also is determined based on team payroll.
On the positive side, the All-Star game no longer "counts," and the minimum DL stay is being reduced to 10 days: https://apnews.com/331d6e369c2147709dde04ae7f0507b1/APNewsBreak:-All-Star-Game-no-longer-determines-Series-start
Dense:
http://riveraveblues.com/2016/12/cba-details-disabled-list-all-star-game-luxury-tax-free-agent-compensation-more-147697/
@JeffPassan
Sources: While new CBA essentially prevents Japanese star Shohei Otani from coming to MLB before 2019, rules could be changed to allow it.
They just need to make an exception for Japanese players who are posted. Otani is someone you want to get stateside as soon as possible, period.
-Mike K. at work
Him aside, aren't most of them over the age where there's a salary limit? That was my point above
We're gonna either have to suck or to make more good trades to get top young talent going forward. Also, they are sucking millions of dollars out of the DR baseball machine, and we'll have to see how that effects development.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/terms-new-cba-good-yankees-article-1.2894995
Yankees minor league hitting coordinator James Rowson is leaving the organization to become the Twins’ big league hitting coach. Rowson, a Mt. Vernon native and a graduate of Mount St. Michael High School in The Bronx, was the Cubs’ big league hitting coach in 2013 season. He has been instrumental in Gary Sanchez’s development and was also the Yankees’ coordinator from 2008-11.
It will be interesting to see if they promote someone or bring someone in for Rowson's job. He and Denbo used to share it, then Denbo got promoted.
Brian Cashman said Friday morning he had alerted a host of agents representing available players, as well as executives of other teams with whom he had engaged in trade talks, of his intention to shut down business until the Yankees had a better grasp of the new collective bargaining agreement that was tentatively completed Wednesday night and awaits ratification by the players and owners.
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'“From the early returns, I think the decisions that we made in the summer [trading Chapman, Andrew Miller and Carlos Beltran, another candidate to return] are even that much more important based on what I’m reading [in the media],” Cashman said. “Speeding up the process and going with the youth movement is going to play an even more important part now, more than ever with what appears to be some of the restrictions in the marketplace that are occurring here.”
(The second paragraph suggests a similar view to what I said above. Because they have young talent now, they are in a pretty good position in terms of the new CBA.)
I disagree with those who think that the Yankees should lay low for a couple years and then spend massively when they are under the luxury tax threshold. The CBA incentivizes keeping payrolls relatively low (even adjusting for the Yankees' spending relative to other teams). If they draft and develop well, they will always have the pieces to either utilize them themselves, or package them for a higher end, but still cost-controlled piece. It would take a really special player, at a youngish age, to depart from that, at least in my opinion.
What's troubling really, if the IFA rules go into effect this year, is that the Yanks probably had their class mostly lined up and agreed to. I wouldn't be surprised if they use the current format one more time, since they are still using the old UFA rules, apparently.
Good point. That would be the equitable thing to do.
Yanks non tendered Lindgren. I don't know what the rules are for re-signing him, but obviously this is injury related.
LINJ, I think if you look at the Yankees on the 2000-2010, we had very few prospects really come thru, alot had to do with gambling on high picks and horrible development. We added more free agents than prospects that came thru due to the failure of our minor league system and drafting. The championships had alot to do with the Core players than the additions thru free agency.
Free Agency in recent times was never a successful formula for "building" a team. What works is getting some good young players and then supplement them with free agents.
Hope they re-sign Lindgren. If he ever recovers from TJS I still think he could be a valuable bullpen piece.
lion
Yes, but subsequent CBAs have made free agency a much less useful option because now small revenue teams can keep their best young players longer so by the time they reach true free agency they are usually older, and have often begun their decline phase.
So now a greater premium is placed on development even for the deep pocketed Yankees.
As I said, there will be exceptions, but if they don't get drafting and development right, their ceiling will be much lower.
BelTRAN to the Asros.
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