Yankees Almost Set To Welcome Teixeira

they are going to be really really good this year, a helluva lot younger too with CC Tex and Swisher all under 30

Yah, most teams get young through the draft, the Yankees do it by replacing older 20 million dollar players with younger ways, very savvy moves they've made

Enter moronic Yanks v. Sox debate/inane homerism in 5-4-3-2-1.

The Yankees need 3 more solid starting pitchers. Joba is still a big ? as far as handling the new work load, Wang has to prove he can bounce back, and who is the #5 starter.

You can have all the offense in the world, like the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers and the 1988 Oakland Athletics, but in the end the pitching is what counts, just ask the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers of those same years lol.

But it is good to see the Yanks going young and establishing continuity over a long period of time. The prospects mixed with the stars they need is how you build a winning ballclub.

K-ace, that was some of the simplest, best analysis of the Yankees I've seen all winter. Nothing about how much money they've spent or any of that crap. Well said. I don't think it's necessary to trade from the outfield surplus though, unless we can get good value.

Also... we definitely don't need three more solid starting pitchers. We need one. Two if Joba were to go back to the pen, but hopefully that won't happen. Adding Pettitte would do the trick.

Im pretty excited. I wonder what number he chooses.

At this point in time I hope the yankees franchise ceases to exist. No matter how it comes to be, I will rejoice in their demise.

This coming from a Celtic fan. give me a break.

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The Yankees did spend way too much this offseason. But I could care less because they are wasting their own money. i dont't like their tactic but what can you do. I heard the Yankees want an infielder. I think Miguel Cairo could be a good signing.

I don't care the anti-yankees opinion. We the hard core Yankees are very happy whit the mew pitchers; Texeira and Swisser. In first place, last place, world champions or whatever, I'm a YANKEE with no bleeding colors.

The Yanks should add Pettite and maybe another IF, perhaps Juan Uribe? Or maybe a quality bat to come off the bench sort of like a Ruben Sierra type. Maybe Garciappara?

1b-Tex
2b-Cano
Ss-Jeter
3b-Arod
C-Posada
Lf-Damon
Cf-Gardner
Rf-Nady
DH-Matsui
1B/LF/CF/RF-Swisher
Bench OF-Melky
Back up C-Molina
Utility Inf-Ransom

SP-CC
SP-Wang
SP-AJ
SP-Joba
SP-Pettitte

CL-Rivera
L-Rel-Coke
L-Rel-Marte
R-Rel-Bruney
R-Rel-Roberton
R-Rel-Ramirez
R-Rel-Veras

AAA staff

Hughes
Kennedy
Aceves
Igawa
Chase Wright

Thats a lot of depth in the rotation, the bullpen, the infield and the outfield.

Why hold a press conference? We all know he signed there for the money and ONLY the money but will spin some trash about how he's excited about "being a Yankee". The only reason he's excited is b/c of the paycheck.

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Too bad the Yanks didn't offer the most money.

Why hold a press conference? We all know he signed there for the money and ONLY the money but will spin some trash about how he's excited about "being a Yankee". The only reason he's excited is b/c of the paycheck.

Posted by: icedrake523 | January 04, 2009 at 08:04 PM

he also grew up a huge mattingly fan and now he will be following in his footsteps AND he and his wife supposidly just reallllly didnt want to be in boston, i mean who would

dont forget about the Mattingly thing!

Just to put things in perspective, according to Fangraphs the Yankees are not overpaying Teixera, they are merely paying him what his value has averaged out to being over the last three year. If you average the Fangraphs values for Tex over the last three year of play he is worth $19.6 million, 21.2MM if you weight the years values in a 5/4/3 manner. The Yankees are paying him $20MM each of the next two years and 22.5MM in subsequent years. It's really not a bad contract if you look at it this way. As long as he performs in a similar way the Yankees should get what they are paying for.

I heard the Yankees will sign a bag of cash to fill one of the rotation holes

One play away from DL.

There is zero, repeat, zero evidence that Teixeira will repeat his 2008 performance for even one more year, let alone the 4-5 years he would have to to make that contract worth it. Slightly better than the 2007 performance looks much more realistic, and then you're looking at possible age declining as well.

All in all, a shaky signing, especially for a 1Bman.

Posted by: melonis rex | January 05, 2009 at 02:01 AM

So you dont think batting between A-Rod and Jeter is goin to help his numbers?? I sure do

Without Texeira, there are 40 guys on the roster right now. That means one of them has to go. My money is on Shelley Duncan. However, it could be Dan Giese or Chase Wright.
The excuse of 'the holidays' was used to delay Tex' physical. However, I would think the Yankees have something else up their sleeves. Could this be the day Melky is traded?

I'm really not sure why people have a problem w/ this signing. You guys are acting as if last year was some "fluke" of a season. In fact it wasn't even his career best. He did avg 38 hrs and 118 rbis over the previous 4 seasons. Even if he hit .290/.380/30/110 over next 5 years w/ gold glove defense he would still be the best 1B in the AL.

Morneau and Youks put up good numbers and would probably command close to what in the open market.

Cabrera has great numbers as well but doesn't have the glove that Tex has and he'll make 20 mil or better from 2010 to 2015.