Odds & Ends: Schueler, Dunn, Yankees, Strasburg

The Yankees will become younger by signing Alrodis Chapman for $70M.

After reading the article, I can see a big pool of drool, on the floor in Cashman's office. Thinking when Mauer becomes a Free Agent.

"Yeah, the Yankees really love the "over 40" crowd."

Haha, good stuff.
At any rate, the Yankees will probably overpay for Chapman and Holliday, although much more in the case of Chapman.

While I agree that the Yanks will sign Holliday, I really don't think they will end up signing Chapman.

Has Chapman thrown a bullpen session in America yet?

The real question is: if Holliday doesn't resign with the Cardinals, who becomes the LF for us? I suggested an idea of signing Polanco and Beltre, and having Polanco play 2B, Beltre play 3B, and move Skip to the OF to play either LF or RF. I think this way would be cheaper. Polanco still hits for good average and is patient at the plate with good defense. Beltre also has good defense and also has some pop. Maybe this would be the better way to go than signing Holliday to a "Teixeira like contract" (as Boras puts it). What do you guys think?

Some big news breaking in this post.

-- The Yankees will want to become marginally younger. Shocking. Most teams are constantly trying to become older. What's next, Neyer informing us that the Red Sox would like to become more athletic or the Angels would like to get better players?

-- The Nats paying Adam Dunn $12m is stupid. With or without Dunn this is a 70 win team. Keep your $12m and trade the guy to a club that needs a DH.

Bjsguess: I agree wholeheartedly. Dunn is the perfect DH, so much of his value is lost on defense. If he could just DH he'd be totally worth $12 million. And just about every AL team should be interested (though some have some financial concerns).

Adam Dunn does not like baseball.

"A team that would be interesting would be the Orioles. Yes he's only signed for the one year. But that means they wouldn't have to mortgage their future like they would for Gonzalez or Fielder. O's desperately need a big power bat, whether they put Scott at first or just trade him I think Dunn would be huge for that offense.

Since I support both teams though its a bit hard for me to say what the O's would need to give up. Maybe a three team trade involving Scott and one of the O's young pitchers (not named Matsuz, Tillman or Arrieta)"

Awful deal for the Orioles.

What benefit does Baltimore get from trading Scott and a pitcher, while spending about $9M, for Dunn, outside of winning maybe 78 games instead of 75?

Thanks, but no thanks.

"The Yankees will probably want to become younger this offseason"

Isn't that what they say every year, but they still keep overpaying for average talent? With the payroll the Yanks have every year, they should be winning the World Series every single year!! I'd love for Philly to come back & win the next 2. Yankees 2009 CHOKE!!! Ha ha ha

If the Yankees sign Holliday then I guess he wont have to worry about hitting at a pitchers park. Holliday might do himself a favor staying out of the AL EAST though. Seriously. He was not impressive in the AL. Not Texiera impressive anyway. Holliday might find more money in the NL. Then again it might have been a slump, and he might hit around 330. with 30+ HR in the right lineup/ballpark.

RedSoxn8tion, in all fairness last years Yankee FA sigings panned out pretty well. I would not consider Tex, CC, or AJ to BE average talents.

Eastcoastbias, really???? Did I not completely give the Yankees props for thier signings????? OH wait! I did! They are great signings NOT average talents. Meaning I was saying they are exceptional talents. Please read before you go all NY on me. Im a Sox fan and I have yet to trash a single comment that was at the very least "reasonable".

Oh and who do you propose the Sox should have signed and where would you have put them??? Last time I checked Theo signed some pitchers for depth hoping they would contribute. He did it because are starting 5 was full and there was no real talent left on the SP market after CC worth taking one are starters spots. As for position players as I remember Boston did try to open its wallet for Tex, very much so. He chose the additional money which is fine.

Theo made some real good moves last offseason non the less. He traded Crisp for Ramirez (Can you spell STEAL). He also brought in Saito.Then V-mart, and Wagner. All very effective deals for us. Besides we got eliminated because of offense problems. We have a couple aging vets clunking up are lineup admittedly. Don't worry though AROD, Jeter, Posada, CC, AJ, Tex, MO....I mean im sure none of their aging will hold the Yankees back from advancing to the WS in the future. They all have massive contracts, and they are not gonna play great forever. I will have plenty of playoffs to watch your team get eliminated because they got oldies clogging up positions long term at such high contracts they will either stay and drag you down, or accumulate to MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in dumped salaries. Then again the optimist in you probably expects them to play like all-stars till their contracts expire.

whoa, hold up a second dude. Manny24, stop being so defensive and learn to differentiate who the comment is aimed at. My comments were towards redsoxnation guy, NOT you.

I was quoting you to agree with you and further add my .02, not to go against what you were saying. I thought that was obvious...?