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Yankees Pull Back Lowell Offer?
According to Michael Silverman of the Boston Herald, the Yankees have pulled their offer to Mike Lowell off the table since they're close to signing Alex Rodriguez. The last indication was that Lowell had a four-year offer from the Yanks in the neighborhood of $50-55MM. Reportedly that offer was made with the idea of Lowell moving to first base. If that was true, why would an A-Rod signing change things? The offer was made with an A-Rod signing in mind.
None of the other suitors for Lowell are admitting anything right now. The Phillies seem a logical fit but Pat Gillick is denying it. The Brewers may also enter the market for a third baseman.
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The Yankee's offer is more to keep Lowell away from the Red Sox. The Yankees already have too many players on their depth chart to play first base. Lowell right now is a better fielder than A-Rod at third base. So if anyone that should go to first base, is A-Rod.
Posted by: okojo | November 17, 2007 at 08:36 AM
According to an ESPN article:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3115704
...the Yankees are no longer interested in Mike Lowell. The article cites a NY Daily News article which claims that the alleged 4-year, $56-$60m offer to play first base was "pure fantasy", and that the Yankees were never interested in a big purchase for 1B. I wasn't able to find the NY Daily News article though... maybe it was a TV report.
This could be a good thing for the Red Sox, since as far as I can tell Lowell's next best offer is the Sox's 3-year deal.
Posted by: metafrantic | November 17, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Yes!
That's great for the Yankees. They win either way - either the Sox don't sign him and have a hole at 3B, or they do, and pay for 2007 while they get 2006.
Posted by: bobo | November 17, 2007 at 11:09 AM
The Lowell saga needs to come to an end soon. The Red Sox offered him atleast a 3million a year raise, either accept or decline so we can stop hearing about it pretty much every night on the news.
Posted by: ErroRod1985 | November 17, 2007 at 12:10 PM
...Lowell's 06 wasn't awful, especially given the fact that he was hurt for most of the second half. His BABIP indicates pretty good luck in 2007, and sorta bad luck in 06; if he settles in between for the next three seasons and still plays his usual good defense then while the Sox are overpaying a bit, it's still a lot better then the alternative. (Unless the alternative is a Lester/Ellsbury/3rd-prospect deal for Cabrera, as long as the 3rd isn't Buchholz or Masterson. That'd make me very happy) I'd expect him to hit somewhere in between the two, OPS+ of maybe 115 over the life of the contract.
Posted by: Josh SF (D1) | November 17, 2007 at 02:03 PM
Who knows what to believe when the Yankees are involved; they will stress one thing for a month only to do the exact opposite the next day…
Actually, the Yanks rumored interest in Lowell could be a perfect blessing for the Sox. If they jumped in and raised his perceived value up to 15ish over 4Yrs it will probably keep the Sox away. Well almost everyone already agrees that 3 years, let alone 4, is probably a bad idea and 15M would make him a Top 10-15 highest paid player. If they help keep the BoSox from signing a horrible mistake of a contract then Boston should probably send Cashman and Co a gift basket…
Posted by: darkstar1661 | November 17, 2007 at 02:18 PM
In my opinion that really would have been an awful way for even the Yankees to spend that kind of money. Lowell is a tremendous fielder at 3B, and it would have been a waste of that ability. Also his bat would likely have declined from leaving Fenway, as well as from getting older. Considering they would be signing him primarily for his bat, that seems to leave them no reason for adding him. So I say unless he goes to Boston and repeats 07 for 2-3 years, this is probably a good thing for the Yanks
Posted by: scribbletone | November 17, 2007 at 10:10 PM