Mark Reynolds is unlikely to return to the Yankees, Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News tweets, citing a source who says the Yanks have only offered the infielder a minor-league deal. "He won't take that," Feinsand says.
Reynolds, 30, clubbed six homers for the Yankees in 36 games after they brought him on in August, compiling a .236/.300/.455 line in New York overall. While that OBP is a step down from Reynolds' .329 career average, it's generally a vintage Reynolds line: big power and a low batting average fueled by one of the game's highest strikeout rates. Some have speculated that the Bombers might try to re-up with Reynolds now that they can be certain Alex Rodriguez won't be manning third base for the club in 2014. However, it now appears that they're not interested in anything beyond a minimal commitment.
Stephen Drew is the top left-side infielder remaining on the free agent market, though the Red Sox extended him a qualifying offer. Michael Young is another option, and the Yanks already have Kelly Johnson in the fold.
I rather have baker but as of now they can both make the team, if they get rid of ichiro.I don’t see how roberts deserves a major league deal and he doesn’t.
Agree, why NYY gave roberts 2MM but they want to offer him a minor league deal
Because they don’t think he is good enough. Remember the Indians released Reynolds, he was that poor. He is what he is and teams aren’t exactly knocking down his door.
Yeah that’s very possible that Ichiro is moved. This guy isn’t worth anything that great. He’s whale or flail im just not in the mood for another Granderson at least strikeout wise and was rather bad defensively .I can withstand Michael Young or whoever else they find some interest in. Whoever has the ability of helping the time I’m all for.Agree on Brian Roberts also he’s been hurt for 4 years and it’s just incredibly laughable how he’s been signed by anyone at all.
I can see Ichiro just being a bench player and coming in for defense/pinch running. Maybe a start here and there against a LHP should he hit them like he did last year (yes a LHP). Last year he actually had a .321 BA and .753 OPS vs LHP
Him being a bench player is more plausible now considering that Vernon Wells was released from the team only a couple days ago.
Yeah that’s why I see them likely keeping him as well.
Why don’t they just offer him the major league contract? Of all the other options available he’s the best and guys like Baker and Young won’t want to take minor league contracts anyways. So please either sign Baker or Reynolds and please don’t even consider Young or Nunez *puke*
They should try signing Jeff Baker who does very well against LHP.
A Kelly Johnson/Jeff Baker platoon at 3B would be very good (offensively that is)
Anything is worth it if they’re both good platoon wise im okay with it theyve got enough in their lineup to where this could work out.
Reynolds isn’t exactly in the top 95% defensively of 3b either and that is why NY would want him, not at 1b as a backup where he isn’t bad with the glove.
Some of the other NY fans (not yourself) may not realize that.
Later on in the off season, maybe even during ST a better option could present itself as cuts are made.
Twins need pitching help, Yankees need a young and affordable Third Baseman.
One suggestion I’ll throw out there is Trevor Plouffe. Shouldn’t be hard to acquire.
Twins have no reason to trade Plouffe and guys like Phelps and Warren aren’t enough since the Twins already have guys like that.
Another name to consider would be Gordon Beckham of the Chicago White Sox. I’m simply putting forth suggestions that are outside the box (Baker, Young, Reynolds, etc) to get more creative ideas flowing about how to address the situation. A lot of the Free Agent names are older and wouldn’t address the situation best in my opinion. The Yankees are in good position to make a trade and should do so.
I would respectfully disagree. Plouffe would be expendable should Sano be ready to rock from day 1 in 2014 and it is possible.
But only way Plouffe gets Traded is if Sano wins 3B jobs and the Yankees also need Pitching,
Danny V. Because White Sox have a crowed DH/LF but hasen’t played 3B in years so hasn’t Paul Konerko but that”s another story for one Yankees Catchers.
Viciedo is not a third baseman. Putting him there would be a disaster.
As much as people would laugh at Young to the Yankees, he had a 102 wRC+ last year. The Yankees 3B last year had a 69 wRC+, the worst in baseball.
Especially considering they had Nunez and Youkilis who couldn’t stay healthy for more than a month the 3rd base situation was a complete and total train wreck
I completely understand why people say all teams have injuries and that shouldn’t be an excuse, I’ve said the same myself. However, when you see the rankings from 1 year to the next, you will see why this team missed the playoffs and was very poor offensively
2012 MLB overall WAR rankings for the Yankees by position
C- 14th
1B – 2nd
2B – 1st
SS- 7th
3B- 10th
Overall OF – 11th
DH – 6th out of 14
2013 rankings
C- 23rd
1B- 23rd
2B- 2nd
SS- 28th
3B – 21st
Overall OF – 23rd
DH – 14th out of 15
The reason the WAR is not as low as it is ranked is because they were actually much better defensively in 2013 than in 2012. Thanks in large part to Gardner being out there most of the year as well as, believe or not, Jeter missing a lot of time.
If we take Defense out of the equation and use wRC+ instead of WAR (instead of position by position, I’ll do overall team ranking).
2012 Yankees – Tied for 1st
2013 Yankees – 28th
Can anyone name a bigger dropoff then that?
But what about the fantastic contribution you got out of Luis Cruz?! D:
Eric Jagielo is the future at 3rd base for the Yankees. He’s an absolute stud! I watched this kid play ball in my home town of downers grove Illinois and I’m telling you, the sky is the limit.
Have watched him crack out Homeruns while he played for the Staten Island Yankees, I really liked him a lot he looked so solid in all facets.
Good, can’t stand guys that strikeout at such ludicrous rates and don’t put the ball in play. After getting rid of Granderson didn’t need a replacement for his K’s.
I look at the glass as half full on this one. True, Reynolds strikes out an absurd number of times and his fielding…..well. But, better than grounding into 25 DPs a year and he IS a threat to hit 30-35 HR given the chance.
I personally want Young.
How is Reynolds less effective than Roberts.Roberts hasn’t been in 40 games each the past two seasons.Reynolds can at least hit 20 homeruns and good 3rd base.Just like Russell Martin the Yankees are gonna let go a good player over money.
Reynolds has accumulated a whopping 0.2 fWAR over the past three seasons, mostly due to his modest offensive contributions being erased by his horrible attempts at using a glove and throwing a baseball.
Reynolds does not play a good third base. he doesn’t even play a decent third base. he’s bad. if the yanks were looking for a first base/dh he’d be a decent low cost guy to bring in. you can’t afford his d at 3rd and the strikeouts. too much negative.
we may have a issue at first as of now the only solid Infield position may be Catcher
He might even be worse than Edwin Encarnacion at 3B.
And that’s saying A LOT.
what about Yuniesky Betancourt?
Reynolds should be nothing more than a pinch hitter, his 200+ strikeouts are too costly to play him consistently
Everyone rages about Reynold’s strike-outs, but I don’t know that a team as offensively challenged as the Yanks were last year should be walking away from 20 HRs. And I saw no signs of the below-average defense all the pundits talk about. Girardi was so comfortable with Mark in the field he even put Reynolds a 2B for a few innings and he didn’t embarrass anyone. Don’t know that they can even afford to ignore Young, who was a solid .280 hitter last year. Bottom line is in the AL East you can get away with average pitching, but not average to sub-par offense.