Yanks Lock Up Hicks
More Yanks: They've given Andy Pettitte one of those special advisor roles, like Beltran and Matsui.
Still more: Yanks are working on extending Dellin.
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Monday, February 25, 2019
More Yanks: They've given Andy Pettitte one of those special advisor roles, like Beltran and Matsui.
Still more: Yanks are working on extending Dellin.
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Not that they would want to trade him, but this seems like a tradeable contract if necessary as long as he’s healthy.
Exactly, big upside with health, and always an easy deal to move.
On one hand, the Yankees are taking advantage of the broken free agent system — a system they helped create — by signing their core to contracts that would have been considered under market value just a few years ago. Upcoming free agents are looking at this current free agent climate and seeing the uncertainty, which makes them more likely to want a deal now. On the other hand, if they're not going to spend on big-ticket free agents, at least they're reinvesting the money saved on the luxury tax into the team this way.
Good for Hicks. The analytics department gambled on him and won, and now was the time to pay the man.
Yanks working on Didi and Betances as well.
Good move before these guys get more expensive to retain.
As I suspected this is going to be an ongoing issue:
Andy Pettitte said that Derek Jeter asked him about joining the Marlins front office, but Pettitte's interest was being with the Yankees. -- @BryanHoch
via http://cbssportsapp.com
And this is the second time Petting has shown his loyalty like he did when the Red Sox offered him more as a free agent but he wouldn’t sign with them
Tulo homers in his first PA. Oppo Taco.
I would love to see Tulo play so well they can’t put Didi in the lineup. Not that I expect it.
Higgy homers!
German pitches a clean 3rd.
Judge tops a 2b off the wall to start the 3rd.
I agree: with Axisa: That doesn’t mean, however, that such a statement is any less condescending.
“I just want to make good, sound business decisions,” Cashman said. “I know in this world of social media, there’s a lot of haters, judgers and experts that come along the way, and that’s fine. Fans are short for fanatics, and I get that too. But our job is to make objective decisions and based on real facts. You just want people to be as objective as you are.
“In fairness to people out there that take those positions, they don’t have all the information. I think if they were in a better position to get all the data points that guide our decision-making, they’d be in a better position to understand every course we plot. We’re comfortable with what we have and what we’ve done. We believe in what we’ve got.”
If Hal said to him we have to outspend the Red Sox no matter what, Cashman would have a completely different take on what the fans want. Good GM, not great, but a beyond great company man.
Btw, Paxton, German and all of the pitchers looked good today.
But [Tino] Martinez, 51, has long been a big fan of Bird, having been awed by the lefty’s approach at the plate since he first saw him at Double-A Trenton in 2014.
“I think he’s a great hitter,” Martinez said of Bird, who has two hits and a walk in his first three at-bats this spring.
“I’ve been watching him since he’s in Double-A, and in Triple-A, and the first year he got to the majors and, to me, he’s a complete hitter. He’s a patient hitter who’s not afraid to hit with two strikes. He goes the other way. He takes what they give him. I think he’s a .300 hitter with 20-plus home run power. I just think last year, maybe through the injuries or whatnot, it just seemed like he was trying to hit home runs or over-swinging. But I do think he’s capable of being a great big-league hitter."
Bird looks more atheletic in the early going.
Nolan Arenado is signing a huge extension with Colorado.
Yankees were never signing Arenado. Murti even said in a response to RAB that the "Yankees love Arenado and will wait" storyline came from outside the organization. Worst-case scenario, Andujar never improves or even regresses at third and the Yankees shift Torres there and start LeMahieu at second.
@RandyJMiller
#Yankee Aaron Boone wants Clint Frazier, who missed most of 2018, to just play this spring instead of worrying about earning roster spot (or starting job). I’m hearing #Yankees plan to start him in Triple-A unless they need him on big-league roster due to injury.
Again, I hope Stanton is the primary left fielder, as you're getting more value out of him that way, and it would allow Voit to DH.
Arenado is a big risk away from Coors field. I do not understand how the Yankees had to have this guy, IF they in fact they actually wanted him.
Mike’s post wasn’t up when I hit submit
By the way if Torres ever changes position it should be to short. I don’t get the Didi love players over 30 who don’t have strike zone judgment usually don’t age well, and Didi is getting close to that age
I think Andujar has a great chance to improve, and I'd be surprise if his offense is close to Manny's for the life of Manny's deal.
It’s good to see development but they need to lose a lot too.
Yanks score 4 in the top of the first, highlighted by a Bird 3-run oppo taco. Then Chance Adams gives up 4 runs before recording an out in the bottom of the first.... yikes.
Rich what was your last comment regarding, Andjar or the Knicks?
Knicks. Sorry
Andujar catches a hot shot...
Rothschild comes out for a talk with Domingo Acevedo, who prompltly gives up a Grand Slam. Microcosmic?
If Bird and Voit are both gonna hit then they both need to be in the regular lineup. Thus, Stanton should be the primary left fielder.
If they keep this up definitely
Ageed. Stanton's glove in left is better than Voit's at 1st.
RAB
Who’s impressed Boone so far during Grapefruit League play? Kyle Holder. “(He’s) been a guy that continues to grab our attention. He’s such a gifted defender, and he looks a little stronger this year and that bat continues to come along,” said the manager. [George King]
Clint Frazier has been working with hitting coach Marcus Thames to widen his batting stance. The intention is to help him see the ball better and let it travel a little deeper, and also get around better on inside fastballs. [Pete Caldera]
If as some articles suggest Stanton is going to be their primary DH, they should never have traded or for him and should have awaited for Machado or Harper. That’s too much money for a DH and he can play the field as we’ve seen.
I think this shit will turn out to be..shit:
http://riveraveblues.com/2019/02/two-first-basemen-trending-opposite-directions-2019-season-preview-184485/
Wade is never going to get a regular spot here. Some GM has to sees that and show make what probably doesn’t have to be an overwhelming offer for him.
Harper Phils
13 years???
Yeah I wouldn’t have given him that but the AAV is only $25M, so it’s a good deal in that sense.
RAB; Paxton has been picking Andy Pettitte’s brain this spring. “(We talked) about our back sides, our arm swings. We both have a tendency to get long. Towards the end of his career, he tried to shorten things up, took stress off the shoulder. He was chatting about that a little bit,” said Paxton
Bobby Bonilla will still be getting paid for 4 years after Harper’s contract expires
Warren a Padre
Yankees rank 12th in BP’s farm system rankings
Baseball Prospectus (subs. req’d) posted their annual farm system rankings last week and, like Baseball America and Keith Law, they ranked the Padres and Rays as the top two systems in the game, in that order. They have the Yankees 12th, higher than Law (19th) and Baseball America (20th), probably because BP’s lists always skew toward upside. Here is the Baseball Prospectus blurb:
The Yankees are in transition. They have their usual supply of diamond-in-the-rough pitching finds and toolsy IFAs, but haven’t turned this batch into their next generation of top prospects yet. And they traded two of their last generation for James Paxton. I’d expect them to be back among the top systems by next year’s org rankings.
This is not the first time we’ve heard the “I’d expect them to be back among the top systems by next year’s org rankings” thing this year. Six of the Yankees’ ten best prospects are highly talented teenagers (Anthony Seigler, Everson Pereira, Antonio Cabello, Deivi Garcia, Roansy Contreras, Luis Medina) and top prospect Estevan Florial turned only 21 a few weeks ago. Not everyone will work out, of course, but the sheer volume of very young high-upside prospects bodes well for the future of the farm system.
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