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Brixton
Machado is set to be a FA during his age 26 offseason. He could be a 300M+ player if he continues to have seasons similar to his 2015 year.
GoRav114
The ole dip and duck with DD on Davis. The Os are trying to sign him my arse. What did they offer him confederate money. The Os will offer 6/144 and lose him to another team by 30 million and then say how hard they tried.
alex navarrette
If they offer 6/144 and he gets a better offer somewhere else, then they are better off without a contract like that tied to him.
Joe McMahon
If the O’s miss Davis, they need to rebuild. They are currently the 5th best team in the division that also happens to have the 5th best farm system. That is not a good combination. I would sell anything that’s not tied down and try and rebuild from the ground up.
hojostache
That’s taking a page from the Mets’ ownership. It sucks.
Megadro2000
Why don’t they just Suck it up and give Davis what he wants? Tired of hearing their crap about resigning him. Just give him that 190mil and there ya go
mike156
If the Yankees are wary of the net spending of dollars this year, and would look to deal Miller to create payroll room, that tells you that internally, they don’t have a high degree of confidence in the current roster. Which makes complete sense, because the current roster is, in many place, old, overpaid, ad underperforming. They may have to wait until 2017/8.
tndyank
You can’t say the team is underperforming considering how they played, but you could say they over performed. They are old and will probably not match what they did last year, but with more youth ready to replace injured players next year, they should miss a beat.
jacobywankenobi 2
The Yankees are old in the right spots. The oldest players they have are at DH, an expiring right fielder, a still productive first basemen whose contract is expiring soon, and a #5 starter.
The front of the rotation is young, they’re young up the middle, and have position players in the minors that are ready to contribute at the aging positions.
Believe it or not, the Yankees were 6th in age this season, behind the Royals and Red Sox amongst other teams.
mike156
The Yankees have gotten younger, but they aren’t young yet, and have a ton of money tied up in older players who are highly paid but not performing at the level they are compensated for. Put aside ARod, Tex and CC ($67M for 7 bWAR) and you move to Beltran ($15M for 1bWAR), Headley (13M for 1.1) Elsbury ($21M for 1.9). Add in high salary reasonably productive-but-not-star players like Gardner and McCann, and they still have a cost basis that’s very difficult to move forward with while spending huge this off season. Tex, Beltran and CC will be off contract after this year-presumably, the Yankees will look to replace at least 2 of those 3 with younger and cheaper. I’m not critiquing them as much as I am stating the obvious. Unless they want to go Dodgers, and just eat tons of money and luxury tax, they need to wait a year or two because this roster isn’t championship level.
Mark 21
CC is not a free agent this year. His option will vest.
There is nothing short of shoulder injury stopping the option from vesting. So they only have Beltran and Tex expiring this year. That is only 40 mill worth of what you say dead weight.
mike156
that’s true on CC–I was looking at cots and thinking it might not vest. I didn’t use the phrase “dead weight”. What I was trying to get at were players who were being substantially overpaid for what their on-field value is likely to be. The Yankees have a number of players like that eating a lot of money. They are just going to have to wait a year or two. If there’s something worth investing in next off-season, even though 2017 might not be great, they have the money. If not, a serious rebuild might not take effect until 2018.
hojostache
CC would have been cut a yr or two if he didn’t make ridiculous money. he is the definition of dead money.
Lance
I never really understood the Yanks need to resign ARod and CC to those contracts. But they did. CC’s is dead weight right now but Alex came back this year to have an extremely good year and deserved comeback of the year award as much as Fielder. But, a lot of that is political.
mike156
Agreed–and it’s always tough when you sign a pitcher to a long-term contract. Things happen to even the best of them, and even on not the ultra-long deals–look at Lee and Halladay. One of the few that worked out was Mussina.
Lance
And guys like Grienke and Price will be getting several offers of things like 5-6-7 year deals. More power to them but some teams have more money than sense. Oh well. Not my money. 🙂
orioles13
if the Orioles dont sign Chris Davis then Peter Angelos should just sell the team to someone who is willing to spend. The Orioles won’t win anything by not spending money to keep their players. The players they do pay aren’t worth half of what they give them (JJ Hardy 13 mil, Ubaldo Jimenez, 12 mil) Not to mention Duquette can’t draft us a decent farm system after trading away our best prospects for half year rentals. ( Eduardo Rodriguez for Andrew Miller)
Lance
I don’t criticize the O’s for the Miller deal. When you’re that close and have been out of the playoffs as long as Baltimore had been in 14, you gotta go for the gold and Andrew performed great for them in the regular season and the playoffs. Hard to say if they would have made it to the ALCS without him—but they did and so the deal was worth it IMO. Maybe Rodriguez will in the Cy…who knows?