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RedRooster
See I told you the QO would kill Samardzija’s value!
Brixton
This team has a ton of money off the books post-2016. They should invest it into starting pitching.
Bird/Ref/Didi/Headley/McCann/Judge/Gardner/Ellsbury
A-Rod/McCann DHs (Murphy would catch if McCann)
Miller/Betances/Wilson/Warren/Shreve/Lindgren/Pinder as the BP
Ace FA/Tanaka/Eovaldi/Pineda/Severino with Nova as the backup
Thats not a bad team at all.
ryan211
If the money comes off the books after 2016, I wonder if we’ll see them try to structure some back-loaded FA contracts: Shields, Martin, and Scherzer could all be contracts to emulate.
MB923
Why would they go after Martin? McCann’s contract ends after 2018 I believe
tdmorgan
He didn’t say to go after Martin…he was talking about backloading contracts and used Martin as a reference.
soxfan1
Emulate…
Draven Moss
I’m not sure if that matters a whole lot to the Yankees. The luxury tax threshold is calcuted with the AAV of contracts I think, so it probably doesn’t matter how the contract is structured to them, unless they really want to save money during the first couple seasons but still get taxed for the full AAV.
MB923
My bad. Read it wrong. Brain has been fried lately.
Drewnasty
I would have Gary Sanchez at C with McCann at DH instead of Murphy but yeah. I would also be behind trading Gardner and signing Heyward, but that is just me.
dstrom21
Why again did Cashman receive an extension? This is a horribly contsructed roster with little to no maneuverability.
NO on Samardzija & NO on Heyward, He isn’t worth the 40 games per season he’ll miss injured. Save money for Harper.
I’d be fine with RR/Ackley platoon but would prefer more RR but Binder is reluctant to play kids so I can’t see him giving RR starting job even if he hit .750 in spring training.
I’d personally drive Gardner to SD or any other location. He is very overrated and has proven he can’t play an entire season, he simply wears down. (No idea how since he NEVER steals a big base!)
Counting the days until Mr. Softee (Tex) & CC is off the books.
rct
Jason Heyward has only missed 40 games in a season once. Also, Harper isn’t a free agent for 3 more years and is no guarantee to sign with the Yankees.
InvalidUserID
Yankees brass won’t spend until current money is coming off the books.
satan
The Yankees entire organization will spend eternity with me
rlongfellow
I like the idea of going after Heyward and do understand that he is a risk for injury, but hey who isn’t right now in our outfield!? I personally have always been a Gradner fan and believe the guy had a off year and was dealing with some issues off the field. But if we can pick up Heyward and assure that we will pick up a staple for the bullpen to emulate what Kansas City has going on, then I’d be the first to pull the trigger. We have young guns in the minors that are eventually gonna need a spot to come up to and that move may make sense. Another thing if I was Cashman and I know a lot of you are probably gonna knock me for it, but go after Price with everything that you have. I know there are younger and cheaper arms on the market, that Price hasn’t been all that Toronto expected in the postseason, but you get him with Tanaka, Severino, Eovaldi, and Pineda…well my friends you have the beginning of a postseason rotation. I know your asking what about CC and Nova and I am not saying get rid of them, but you sit down and talk to CC and explain to him that the best of his career is behind him and we need a long relief arm out of the bullpen. Nova we could hold on to and either do a 6 man rotation, use him because we know Tanaka, Eovaldi, and Pineda will go down during the season with a injury. With a 6 man rotation you take some of the stress off the gut with the constant torquing and normal wear and tear that goes on during a season. You also keep them somewhat fresh as the season ends so then you can turn everyone lose and show why you decide to challenge the Dodgers for the highest payroll in the majors. I haven’t forgotten about Zach Greinke but believe that Price would do better staying in the AL East where he belongs. Of course there is other tweaks to do here or there, but this gets the 2016 team that everyone says that is a year or two away from being to do anything, to doing something potentially BIG.
peyton
The article linked to the wrong Chris Young, just a heads up
27championships
Article states Joe gave liberal days off. This was just not the case. Arod, Headley, Gardner, Gregorius all appeared in over 150 games. Tex and Ellsbury were on DL for extensive time but played in most of the games they were on the active roster. McCann a catcher was in 135 games and Beltran was in 133 Games. They had Drew and Young get 140 and 131 games. The starting players who all but one was over 30 years old played most of the innings and in September this was a old and tired team. 2016 will see these players a year older and will not even repeat the success they had in 2015
bradthebluefish
At least $62.5MM freed up after 2016. Will be interesting if the Yankees will spend some of that freed up cash now.
jaredbaiman7
The Yankees have so many guaranteed contracts that they are sort of forced to get creative to make any changes to the team. I’ve done that for them. Check out my moves I made as armchair GM of the New York Yankees, I’ve laid them out below:
1) The Yankees have an albatross in Jacoby Ellsbury. Injury prone and on the decline, just so happens, there is a team on the West Coast that has their own albatross to contend with, only more expensive. We ship our bad contract for theirs and add Ivan Nova to the package. Yes, I’m referring to the Seattle Mariners. Jacoby Ellsbury and Ivan Nova for Robinson Cano. Welcome back, Robbie.
2) Yankees need to bolster that bullpen with another big arm. They have significant depth at SS in the minors and Didi is only 25 and still getting better. That all makes Jorge Mateo expendable and an amazing trade chip. Also bringing back Cano renders Refsnyder useless, nothing more than the same trade chip Mateo has become. Yankees trade Jorge Mateo, Robert Refsnyder and Adam Warren for Craig Kimbrel and the rest of Jedd Gyorko’s contract.
3) You thought the Yankees were done once they traded Ellsbury? No. The Yankees decide to completely change it up and bolster their starting rotation. We all love Gardy, but they need to make upgrades and everyone’s expendable. They trade Andrew Miller and Brett Gardner to the Nationals for Drew Storen and Stephen Strasburg.
4) Now the Yankees need to fill the gaps left by Gardy and Ellsbury. First order of business: sign a center fielder. The Yankees sign 26 year old Jason Heyward to a 10 year, 200 million dollar contract to play CF for them. I know what you’re thinking: “The Yankees don’t give out 10 year contracts anymore.” Well they don’t do it for people almost at 30. Heyward is 26, a defensive stud and unreal on base numbers. And he hits. What a change. If you don’t like 10 years, he can also be had for 8 years and 190 million.
5) We also need a new left fielder. They don’t have a ton in the system that’s upper level talent for CF or LF like Aaron Judge is for RF so the Yankees double down and sign Alex Gordon to a 7 year, 175 million dollar contract. He’s their new left fielder. This guy hits, is a leader and is the best defensive corner outfielder on the market.
6) Finally, because I never wanted to see this guy go in the first place and the Yankees obviously missed him a great deal, the Yankees trade Dustin Ackley and Chase Whitley to the Marlins for Martin Prado. Super sub, we all know what he can do.
This makes the Yankees significantly younger. Here’s the new lineup:
1) Jason Heyward (CF)
2) Alex Gordon (LF)
3) Robinson Cano (2B)
4) Mark Teixeira (1B)
5) Carlos Beltran (RF)
6) Brian McCann (C)
7) Alex Rodriguez (DH) – he’ll get more fastball here, good spot for him
8) Chase Headley (3B)
9) Didi Gregorious (SS)
Bench: Gyorko (SS, 2B, 3B, 1B), Prado (LF, RF, 1B, SS, 2B, 3B), Murphy (Backup C).
Rotation & Bullpen:
1) Stephen Strasburg
2) Masahiro Tanaka
3) Michael Pineda
4) Luis Severino
5) CC Sabathia
6) Branden Pinder
7) Bryan Mitchell
8) Jacob Lindgren
9) Chasen Shreve
10) Justin Wilson
11) Drew Storen
12) Craig Kimbrel
13) Dellin Betances
That’s a 25 man roster with an average age of 29.36 and this team would be absolutely dynamic. They’d hit for power, hit for average, get on base, play superb defense and strike everyone out.
Let me know what you all think!
benjammin
This isn’t MLB for Xbox where you can dump your over paid, injured, not producing players for the franchise players and stars from other teams.
Especially Cashman and his reputation in the league, if you haven’t noticed it’s the Yankees that always have to overpay or sweeten deals for them to go through.
What makes you think Seattle will willingly send off Cano after dropping that huge deal on him? Strasburg will also cost a lot more than a closer, and a burned out sub-par 30 year old outfielder. Sorry to burst your bubble bud, but this is the Majors.