It is that time again WIN METHOD fans. The 2019 baseball season has concluded. The best teams and the best players made it to the playoffs and after advancing through the playoffs by winning each series and eliminating each team they played, the Washington Nationals won the World Series and are the best baseball team and the best baseball players in the world. Congratulations to the Nationals for all you have accomplished. There is only one way for a team and for players to become the best of the best, and that is with wins and winning. No individual stat matters. Only wins and winning make you the best. Sorry stat frauds, when you learn this you will learn real baseball.
Yes, the 2019 season is over. The YANKEES did their best and it was not good enough as they lost to the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series. However, it looked like the YANKEES took enough out of the Astros that it may have cost them winning the World Series. The YANKEES will need some work to do this winter to find and to put together the last few pieces they need to become the best of the best. Considering the massive amounts of crippling injuries our YANKEE team had to endure over the season, making the playoffs was a fine achievement in itself. But that was the past. Now we look to the future.
There are likely as many opinions as there are YANKEE fans on what the team needs to do over the winter to '"win it all" in 2020. There is the free agent route with several pieces available, there are our own pieces available who if healthy for an entire season will help, and then there are own in house pieces available that are blooming and growing in the minors. Several of which may contribute greatly in 2020. There are also trade possibilities that may become on option.
YANKEE management will be busy this winter. How much money to spend on talent. Is the money spent worth the investment? Paying players very high salaries for multiple years is seldom a remedy, and in fact has hurt teams who have gone that route more than it has helped them, The trade route is a possibility, but it takes two parties to make a deal that each party feels is good for their team. Then there is the bloom and grow route. Spring training will provide some answers, but the hot stove will be only ashes before spring training provides some answers. We will just have to see what happens and how things shake out this winter and spring. Each decision made by management determines how and what the next decision may be. Throwing money at big contracts is up to management. You WIN METHOD fans know my opinion on big long term contracts, 'just say no'. We said no to Harper and Machado last year and it paid dividends over the season as the YANKEES made the playoffs even with all the injuries. Harper and Machado each cost their team a lot of dollars and neither team made the playoffs and are saddled with many years of an overpaid single piece of talent.
Lets all have a fun hot stove season, keep offering your opinions, thoughts, and ideas, and be happy you are not the one making the decisions. Remember fans, the YANKEE management team has more knowledge and information than you (we) do. There must be financial limits and that is one thing everyone should remember. So, here we go, let's turn on the stove and see what we can cook up. LETS GO YANKEES.
Paying millions upon millions for long term deals is not a good idea. The player you get guarantees nothing to the team except they will pay out what the contract calls for with NO guarantee of any specific return. It's a one way deal that in 90% of the cases does not bode well for the team.
ReplyDeleteMoney is the root of all evil. Build from within, trades, and lower cost acquisitions.
ReplyDeleteWIN METHOD has filled out system with talent. Lets roll with them as much as we can and deal some to fill a particular need of the team.
ReplyDeleteGreat post WIN METHOD, love ya,
ReplyDeleteMy hope is for a fully healthy team playing at each players near best. Maybe a fine tune here and there. That may be enough to win it all.
ReplyDeleteWIN METHOD, you hit the nail on the head when you say in your last paragraph "Remember fans, the YANKEE management team has more knowledge and information than you (we) do".
ReplyDeleteWarren Hammond, I agree, when you pay for a FA, no matter how much or for how long, there is no guarantee. Each team needs to decide how much and for how long they are willing to "bet" on any FA acquisition. That is the question. There is not a stat fraud alive that won't say after their team pays a FA millions of dollars on a long term deal and said play fails or gets hurt or doesn't help the team, that the deal is an albatross and should never have been made.
ReplyDeleteHaving known many stat frauds, I can confidently say, they have absolutely no problem with spending someone else's money.
ReplyDeleteAugie Defonce, add in that when the deal and money spent goes south, the frauds will then complain about the deal.
ReplyDeleteNot signing Machado and Harper was the best decision Yankee management made last season. Don't do anything stupid this season.
ReplyDeleteWIN METHOD has filled the Yankee system with talent developing for many years going forward.
ReplyDeleteI just go with the flow and let things turn out as they may because the people in charge know what they are doing and none of us do.
ReplyDeleteAs the hot stove starts to warm, lets go Yankees.
ReplyDeleteI want a 10 game win streak in 2020. I have been waiting to long now.
ReplyDeleteQuay Ho, we all have. Did get to 9 this season. Had a chance.
ReplyDeleteDid the Yankees even have a player that wasn't injured last season.
ReplyDeleteI hope the Yankees figure out how to deal with Gary Sanchez's problems or find a way to get rid of him. He has the afraud issues. He plays for himself and not the team. That is a lot for a team to overcome. afraud hurt the Yankees for a long time and I hope Sanchez does not do the same.
ReplyDeleteAnother question, do the Yankees try to keep Chapman? I could go either way, depending on $$$$.
ReplyDeleteokiened, and likely years for Chapman. To many players are trying to get contracts into theri downward trend years. I rather only pay for their better/best years.
ReplyDeleteThe argument of the players is, if you want me now you need to pay me for later. The problem is, what if the player gets hurt and misses time in the now years. As an owner, I would pay maybe a little more for 2 or 3 now years with no long term deal. Let the player gamble on himself.
ReplyDeleteWhen will a decision on German come about. Knowing his status for next year has to be a factor in decisions going forward. German was an 18 game winner and may be getting even better. He could develop into the best pitcher in baseball being only 27 years old. These next five years are right around a pitchers peak years. His absence during the playoffs may have cost the Yankees a chance of winning it all.
ReplyDeleteThere are ifs with every player in baseball. I would rather stick with the Yankee in house ifs.
ReplyDeleteSigning high cost fee agents guarantees nothing. The two highest priced free agents last year went to teams that didn't make the playoffs. Plus, both were signed for very long terms. Just say no.
ReplyDeleteGerman was a top ten pitcher in MLB last season. The stat frauds aren't high on him. That makes him golden.
ReplyDeleteSteve, stat frauds love Harper and Machado. Their thinking and baseball acumen is backwards.
ReplyDeleteGuys, stat frauds are birds of a feather, they stick to their own sites where they can control comments and people by banning them. There are countless WIN METHOD posters here who have been banned at the stat fraud forum. Many of us have been banned from multiple sites. I think that is why they very rarely post here. They are proven wrong and stupid over and over.
ReplyDeleteThey don't get banned so they have no argument regarding fairness.
Thanksgiving, Christmas, two months of winter, and then baseball.
ReplyDeleteWhere have all the stat frauds gone,
ReplyDeleteLong time passing,
Where have all the stat frauds gone,
Long time ago.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Very nice. Pete Seeger 1955. Good one Walt.
ReplyDeleteEveryone, positive thoughts about next season. Oh, yes we will !!!!
ReplyDeleteThe YANKEES have added one more year to Aroldis Chapman's contract keeping him a YANKEE for the next three seasons. Closer decision is settled.
ReplyDeleteTeena/Bronx, you have gotten a positive result immediately. Nice.
ReplyDeleteNo closer is perfect, however Chapman is the best there is consistently. Pitched in 60 games and helped the team to 40 of their wins. Big keep and great keep for Yankees during his still prime dominant years.
ReplyDeleteWHO DO YOU WANT FOR NEXT SEASON? A or B.
ReplyDeleteA.2019 24 starts 18 wins 4 losses. First year as starter 26 years old turned 27. $577,000
Projected salary 2020 $577,000
B.2019 33 starts 20 wins 5 losses. 7th year as a starter 28 years old turned 29. $13,500,000
Projected salary 2020 $30,000,000++++
Common sense WIN METHOD fans. It is A every time all the time.
jimbo, A then A and then A again.
ReplyDeleteBut, you didn't use any fake stats, you only used real outcomes. How dare you.
The salary alone is a no brainer. A. The W/L record is even. ND. Age. A.
ReplyDeleteGlad we extended Chapman.
ReplyDeleteA is my choice.
A
ReplyDeleteLets go Yankees.
A lot of what German will be able to give the Yankees in 2020 will depend on MLB and their archaic and arbitrary way of handling issues outside of baseball. This PC BS is built on a pile of garbage created by garbage people.
ReplyDeleteStanley Chin, Hear, hear. PC scares me and doesn't ever address the real issues.
ReplyDeletequestion answer is a big fat A.
jimbo, The 30 million dollar pitcher guarantees you nothing. The younger player may be coming into his own. Each's 2019 season is very close. Only a fool would gamble a dollar when he could gamble 2 cents and get the same results or better.
ReplyDelete'A' is my choice
jimbo, it is A. I would like to see how the stat frauds try to spin the dollars, except for saying the Yankees are the richest team and can pay anything. Paying anything is for fools. Paying fairly for what you get in return is what makes you wealthy and wise.
ReplyDeleteA. why? common sense.
ReplyDeletejimbo, (A). Assuming we are talking Cole and German. Cole will want minimum 5 years and maybe 6 or 7. No way I give any player that much. German for the cost and talent shown in 2019, everyday and twice on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteChapman in the bank, makes many of the back end reliever decisions easier. The Yankees can even trade a piece or two. I would love to find a big left handed bat with contact.
ReplyDeleteOne step at a time Cashman. Good job with Chapman.
ReplyDelete(A)
First job, well done. What's next?
ReplyDeleteMy opinion. No for Cole. I can see a quick nosedive for him.
ReplyDeletejimbo, It has to be player A. I find it hard to even be able to make a case for player B.
ReplyDeleteVince/Brooklyn.....I agree, a strong left handed bat would help a lot.
ReplyDeleteCashman did not waste any time locking down Chapman. So far so good.
ReplyDeleteAll baseball free agents (FA) are open for signing at 5:00PM today.
ReplyDeleteLooks as if Yankees will not extend a qualifying offer to Gregorius.
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees can still sign Didi, but it will be for less than the qualifying offer would have been. The Yankees have beaucoup infielders putting the onus on Didi if he wants to stay and if the Yankees want him.
ReplyDeleteOur great President Trump honored and celebrated the World Champion Washington Nationals at the White House this afternoon. What a great event in front of cheering fans for a group of guys who earned the honor with wins when it mattered most.
ReplyDeleteAll hail the winners.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, there are some stat frauds so ignorant that I find them abhorrent.
ReplyDeleteJohn Hartnett, I feel your pain. Stat frauds are so screwed up with stats that they believe and say the most ignorant things. They feel that the only good players on a team are the high individual stat guys and all the other players are only along for the ride and only all the other players are responsible when their team fails. So sad, so ignorant. I do know what you mean. Don' let it eat at you, posting what you did helps.
ReplyDeleteThe stove is old, it takes a lot of time to warm and then get hot.
ReplyDeleteThe difference in the intelligence level between stat frauds and WIN METHOD fans is the stat frauds would pay players as if the money is someone else's. WIN METHOD fans don't spend someone else's money.
ReplyDeleteHal, keep listening to WIN METHOD.
ReplyDeleteGerman before anyone else.
ReplyDeleteOne year at 30 million is a possibility, 8 years is foolish.
ReplyDeleteNathan Riley, You may be right.
ReplyDeleteTommy Stenchion, You are right.
You don't have 30 teams clamoring for 30 million dollar players. Only several teams will show interest and likely half of them won't really want any 30 million dollar player. But one team will pay and in the end pay the price of wasted money.
ReplyDeleteIt is possible for a 30 million to be paid that much, bu you would want him to be as close to 100% WIN METHOD as possible. Someone like Derek Jeter who has been the best baseball player in baseball of their career.
ReplyDeleteAll peaceful at this time.
ReplyDeleteKeep your powder dry Cash.
ReplyDeleteSlow and easy wins the winter. Only the right deal at the right time. No one or two players win, everyone on the team wins. Only producing when it matters most will make you the best of the best.
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees signed Matt Blake as their new pitching coach, replacing longtime pitching coach Larry Rothschild, for the 2020 season. It turns out that Blake was just promoted to Cleveland’s director of pitching development just two days before the Yankees announced his signing. Blake first joined the Indians as a lower level pitching coordinator in 2015 before getting promoted to assistant director of pitching development in 2016. But the Indians couldn’t hang on to the highly-touted pitching coach, who ultimately the Yankees.
ReplyDeleteFormer Yankee pitching coach Larry Rothschild moves to San Diego as their pitching coach. What an upgrade in weather for Larry and what an upgrade as pitching coach for Padres.
ReplyDeleteWatch for Michael King. WIN METHOD spoke of him last season breaking into the rotation and he hurt his arm in the spring. This spring he gets another chance.
ReplyDeleteI like King. He may not be an ace, but he could easily be a mid rotation winning pitcher for 6 or 7 innings per start.
ReplyDeleteThere is also Montgomery, Schmidt, and Garcia. Garcia probably needs more seasoning in AAA.
ReplyDeleteThe names mentioned above need to display the WIN METHOD mind set and come to spring training confident (no deer in the headlights) physically fit, and wanting to be the one that EARNS a rotation and goes north with the Yankees. If the Yankee powers that be feel my scenario is very likely, there is no reason to waste money needed to pay our future in house stars, on a Cole signing. Common sense fans, that is the WIN METHOD.
ReplyDeleteI remember a few years back when WIN METHOD mentioned that the Yankees were going to concentrate a great deal on drafting pitchers and he would search them out. So far so good.
ReplyDeleteRemember trades are also possible. Didn't trading Sheffield net us Paxton. It can be done.
ReplyDeleteBuild from within, pay our own, keep our best.
ReplyDeleteThe stat frauds are not going to be happy if the Yankees don't buy a Cole or Strasburg.
ReplyDeleteNoah Geber, that is why they are not very wise.
ReplyDeleteIf we lose German to start the season because of the fool powers that be at MLB, then two of our youngsters could open the season in the rotation.
ReplyDeleteWhy sign high cost 30+ year old pitchers when you have low cost mid 20 year old pitchers blooming and growing in your system.
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees made a very smart decision in hiring a pitching coach quickly. Makes for a seamless turnover of the position and can get everyone on the same page as the hot stove warms up.
ReplyDeleteWhite Knight, that should be a no brainer.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations WIN METHOD fans, you guys have just broken the 700,000,000 (700 million) mark for visits to this blog. You fans are amazing, smartest, and the most knowledgeable fans in the world. Thank you all.
ReplyDeleteWIN METHOD, fantastic. Love ya,
ReplyDeleteWow! That is fantastic. Likely why the WIN METHOD is the best Yankee baseball blog/site/forum.
ReplyDeleteNice job WIN METHOD fans on 700 million. Keep it up, you are the best.
ReplyDeleteThe 700 mil views is great, but in my opinion the quality and content of the actual posts far surpasses any other site. This is a great no nonsense, great information, blog.
ReplyDeleteFred Slube, hear hear.
ReplyDeleteSorry Cole, hope you don't wear the interlocking NY logo.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens is all in the hands of the Yankee bosses.
ReplyDeleteI will root for the Yankees no matter what players are on the field. Only management gets to make the decisions on who they will hire and play for them. Sorry stat frauds, your opinions, as are mine do not mean a thing. Only WIN METHOD has the input and his input has helped the Yankees to more wins than any other team in baseball over the past 2 1/2 decades.
ReplyDeleteVictor Grandozi, right on.
ReplyDeleteYankees revamping coaching staff very quickly this off season. Carlos Mendoza will slide over from his infield coach role to take over as bench coach for Josh Bard, who has been relieved of his duties. And Tanner Swanson has been signed as catching coach. The Yankees previously signed Matt Blake as pitching coach replacing Larry Rothschild.
ReplyDeleteSwanson will have fun with meatball.
Two new guys and one moved up a notch. Can anyone help meatball.
ReplyDeleteGood luck to Tanner. Sanchez has a way of getting coaches fired.
ReplyDeleteAngel Cordero, And managers. He has been more trouble than he is worth. I wonder if some of our pitchers issues may be that they are afraid to all out with their best stuff because they are afraid of Sanchez's ability to catch.
ReplyDeleteBuild from within. That is the path.
ReplyDeletePedro, Seattle, From within is not the only path, but it is usually the least expensive.
ReplyDeleteDecisions, decisions. It isn't easy because other are involved in your decisions and their priorities are much different than yours.
ReplyDeleteCory, Exactly. If a FA does not want to play for a team and he has the ability to control that, there is no way that team will be able to acquire him. Same with a trade if the player can say what teams he would be willing to play or not play for.
ReplyDeleteMy offer for Cole. 3 years 20 million per year. If no, he is free to find a sucker somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who tells someone else how to spend their money in a fool and should be exorcised. The Yankees will do what is right for them, sobeit.
ReplyDeleteCole, like Harper and Machado would be a gigantic waste of resources.
ReplyDeleteBenny Pake, the bigger issue is spending the most does not guarantee anything except you have spent the most.
ReplyDeleteEveryone go back and read the WS game 7 game log. Houston loss because they repeatedly failed when it mattered most and Washington because they produced when it mattered most. That was the difference between which team was the best and second best. The same scenario played out for every series in the playoffs.
ReplyDeleteProduction when it matters most wins games and wins championships. If you do not produce when it counts to win games and earn the playoffs, you are not one of the best players.
ReplyDeleteNo to Cole. In my .opinion he appears to be a low life dirtbag.
ReplyDeleteDan Reynolds, If Cole is a dirtbag or not should not make any difference if he can pitch well.
ReplyDeleteMarilyn Zerberini, Even if he pitches well, do you really want someone in your organization who could negatively impact your younger players and team? I would hope not. One player, no matter how good his individual stats may be, can do more harm than good to a team. We have seen this for decades now. The Yankees had one in afraud.
ReplyDeleteHi there would you mind sharing which blog platform you're working
ReplyDeletewith? I'm going to start my own blog soon but I'm
having a difficult time selecting between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and
Drupal. The reason I ask is because your layout seems different then most blogs and I'm looking for something unique.
P.S Apologies for getting off-topic but I had to ask!
Dan Reynolds, I wouldn't want anyone on the team that would negatively affect the team. Is Cole really a dirtbag or as you said just your opinion?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, We use Google blogger.
ReplyDeleteMarilyn Zerbeini, I go back to when the Yankees drafted Cole as their number one pick and he went to college instead. Usually a player who wants to attend college lets teams know he will not sign. Not letting teams know not to waste a pick on him is a nice courtesy which he did not show. Equals a dirtbag in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteDan Reynolds and Marilyn Zerberini, You both make logical points. But if Cole did what he did at the draft on purpose, he is not a good person.
ReplyDeleteThe stove is warming as player inquiries have initiated on several fronts.
ReplyDeleteCole is a no for me because of cost and years. But that decision lies with the team.
ReplyDeleteThe NL Cy Young award winner was 11-8 for the season. What an embarrassment and disgrace that is.
ReplyDeleteAlex Antonius, but, but, but, wins don't count. An 11-8 pitcher is better than a 20-6 pitcher when the stat frauds say so. ROFLOL.
ReplyDeleteWe all know the stat frauds are frauds who have worked hard earning the fraud title by displaying an amazing amount of ignorance and stupidity.
ReplyDeleteThe stat fraud rotation. The WIN METHOD rotation.
1. 200K's 15-11 1. 125K's 18-10
2. 200 innings 16-12 2. 150 inning 16-9
3. 2.25 ERA 11-8 3. 4.00 ERA 17-6
4. 1.10 Whip 14-10 4. 1.45 Whip 15-10
5. 0.7 HR/9 11-11 5. 1.5 HR/9 14-8
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67-52 80-43
Which rotation do you want?
I'll take the WIN METHOD team because wins determine the best. Individual stats are relatively meaningless and if they don't lead to wins and winning they could be considered worthless.
ReplyDeleteThe stat fraud team likely does not make the playoffs and the WIN METHOD team likely does make the playoffs.
ReplyDeleteLast year the stat frauds were all in on spending multi millions on Machado and Harper and where did they lead their new teams. Oblivion and long term despair is the answer. This year they are all in on Cole. None are worth the dollars and years unless they are WIN METHOD, and then it is still debatable.
ReplyDeleteNo one player makes a team but one player can really hurt a team.
ReplyDeleteNO to long term multi million dollar contracts.
ReplyDeleteNO to stat frauds.
ReplyDeleteHalfway thru November and three months until spring training camp opens.
ReplyDeleteYou have to love Brian Cashman. Anyone who can send the stat frauds into conniptions has to be a good fine person. All the great posters here who have banned and run out of stat fraud forums know this well. I know, I was run out of a couple.
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to Andujar's 2018 rookie season. A lot of home runs, but pay attention to the defensive plays shown. Sort of belies the stat fraud fake narrative he can't play defense.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qxXm83oREw
Nice video. Don't want to lose Andujar. There have been several posts from knowledgeable posters here in the past year recognizing Andujars defensive prowess.
ReplyDeleteBut the stat frauds no better than anyone else. If they say Andujar is bad, then he is bad, and they have the fake stats to prove it.
ReplyDeleteMy dream lineup depending on roster.
ReplyDelete1 Torres SS
2 LeMahieu 2B
3 Judge RF
4 Stanton LF
5 Andujar DH
6 Urshela 3B
7 Tauchman CF
8 Romine C
9 Voit 1B
Gardner, Ford, a new catcher, ????
There are many possibilities both coming and going. Gardner, Didi, Hicks return, etal.
ReplyDeleteWe have 3 months to see how things shake out with the Yankees. Let it be.
ReplyDeleteAndujar's bat may be special. You either keep and play him or you trade him for a real quality piece. If no team wants to give up a quality piece for him just tell them to go to hell.
ReplyDeleteEddie OConnor, Bingo, you don't just give away a great bat.
ReplyDeleteYou don't give away anything. If you have a need and you can fulfill your need with a player from se other team, and that team has a need that they can fulfill with a player from your team. A deal is easy. The problem arises when one of the teams involved feel their player has more value than the other teams player and they want something more in return.
ReplyDeleteYankeeMike, in my opinion the Yankees are one of the best teams in baseball with one of the deepest organizations talent wise. Don't give anything away. Dealing from power, I wouldn't initiate talks with any team. Make them come to you. And make them make the first offer, always.
ReplyDeleteNed Green, Same as buying a car. The dealer has all the models and list a price for every one of them. You look around and when you think you have found the one you want you have to make the first offer. The art of the deal then begins. You have to be ready willing and able to walk away and shop somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteIn baseball you should do the same and easily walk away from Cole, because for sure he is absolutely not worth what some other fool will pay.
With Cole, if you want him, you make you offer, dollars and years. They either take it or not.
ReplyDeleteGo Yankees
ReplyDeleteThere has never been only one player on team more valuable than all players on the team. Never ever and not today nor in the future. The 2019 Yankees are a testament to that fact. Fourty players or more all combined for the team to achieve their 103 win season. Bearing all this in mind, Cole and others can take a long walk on a short pier, Let's go Yankees.
ReplyDeleteJill Byrnes, well said. No one player makes is above all. All over one, always.
ReplyDeleteCole gives me bad vibes.
ReplyDeleteAll's peaceful on rumor mill. No news is good news.
ReplyDeleteIf Didi is gone, Yanks lose LHer in lineup.
ReplyDeleteIf Yankees lose Didi, the only left handed bats would be Gardner if they rehire him and Ford.
ReplyDeleteMore than anything I hope the Yankees obtain a solid lefty bat to help balance the righty bats.
ReplyDeleteHobbs, sounds logical, may logic rule.
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees, although it may be a good thing or not, the Yankees won 103 games last season with very limited left handed bats. The Yankees do have Tauchman also and Hicks for later in the 2020 season.
ReplyDeleteBe wise Cashman, be wise. Ignore any frauds, advice or players.
ReplyDeleteLou Moscowitz, I agree.
ReplyDeleteAndy K, I agree.
Go Yankees.
Yankee management will try to do what they feel is best for the team using common sense, scouting, the WIN METHOD, analytics, and more common sense financially. With back to back 100 win seasons, they aren't doing to bad. Lets make it three 100 win game seasons in a row.
ReplyDeleteRule 5 draft moves by Yankees,
ReplyDeleteWith their roster at 36 and not counting Domingo German, who is likely to be suspended for the start of the 2020 season, the Yankees added seven minor league players, released Jacoby Ellsbury and designated first baseman Greg Bird and lefty Nestor Cortes Jr. for assignment. Ellsbury’s final season at $21 million wasn’t insured. Even released, Ellsbury and his annual average value of nearly $22 million would count toward the Yankees 2020 luxury-tax figure.
The Yankees added outfielder Estevan Florial and right-handed pitchers Deivi Garcia, Luis Gil, Brooks Kriske, Luis Medina, Nick Nelson and Miguel Yajure to the 40-man roster.
Ellsbury is finally officially gone. Still have to pay him for 2020, but he is gone.
ReplyDeleteThe best of all this is the Yankees maneuvered and got several high end bloomers and growers protected without hurting themselves. Another step forward in this hot stove period of the off season.
ReplyDeleteDO NOT, DO NOT overpay Cole and DO NOT give a long term deal. NO one player is worth it, ever.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving WIN METHOD fans.
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees have announced they will contest paying Ellsbury his 2020 salary based on him getting outside medical treatments the past two seasons. There are two sides to every story.
ReplyDeleteEveryone have a happy Thanksgiving with family and friends wherever you may be.
ReplyDeleteMy cousin Deivi says he would like o be a Yankee by 2021 or sooner.
ReplyDeleteSee. The off season is moving along. First holiday is upon us, Happy Thanksgiving. Move quickly into Christmas music and Christmas season, New Years eve and it's next year before you know it. The time of no sports is slowing headed to spring training.
ReplyDeleteJuan Pablo Garcia, Dominican Republic, ... Tell Deivi to work hard, keep his feet on the ground, his nose to the grindstone, and his on straight. Reach for the stars, become a Yankee starter and help the team to bi its best.
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees have signed rule 5 player Zack Granite to a minor league deal. He was #1 draft pick by the Twins in 2016. Granite will be a 2020 spring training camp invitee. Granite has an opt out if he is not on the Yankee roster on June 15th. Granite is a speedy great defense center fielder with still unproven batting skills.
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees have made an addition to their player development staff, hiring Rachel Balkovec to serve as a minor league hitting coach. Balkovec played college softball with both Creighton and New Mexico and went on to earn two master’s degrees in kinesiology and the science of human movement. She broke into the industry as the Cardinals’ minor league strength and conditioning coordinator and landed a job with the Astros in Latin America after teaching herself Spanish. With Houston, she would meet Dillon Lawson, who now works as the Yankees’ hitting coordinator and recommended Balkovec for the job. She has also worked with Driveline Baseball, conducting research on hitters’ eye tracking and pitchers’ hip movement, which she hopes to apply in her work with the Yankees. Balkovec is believed to be the first woman employed as a full-time hitting coach at any level of professional baseball. She’ll begin her work in earnest when spring training rolls around in February. The Yankees keep moving forward.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving.
Dakari Folami, Nice. Moving on up in the Bronx.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving baseball fans.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving Yankee fans. You are the best.
ReplyDeleteGoing back to the Houston Astros' cheating in the World Series. It will be interesting to see what MLB decides and the ramifications are.
ReplyDeleteLikely not much if anything happening this week on the Yankee front. People should be with family for Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteI hope the penalties on the Astros are far more severe than those on German.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind sign stealing by natural means on the field. What should be dealt with severely is the electronic use of sign stealing or any other means that is not purely by men in baseball uniform on the field.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving. Enjoy your favored repast. Lets go Yankees.
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ReplyDeleteCole is an overpriced Thanksgiving turkey. Just say no.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Thanksgiving turkeys. Hope everyone has a great day.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to pay a lot for a turkey, and an overpriced turkey is a waste of your money. Same goes for baseball players. You don't have to pay a lot to have a really good player. So, no to Cole.
ReplyDeleteAll, have a great turkey day and a very happy thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteNo Cole.
ReplyDeleteHappy turkey day to all WIN METHOD fans and all Yankee fans.
ReplyDeleteHappy thanksgiving. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteSavor your turkey people. Can't wait for deserts. We have a whole bunch. Happy Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving !!!
ReplyDeleteTurkey day shortly. Nothing will happen of any great shakes baseball wise until next week. But there is much good food to look forward to. Yes, the family get together for Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
ReplyDeleteI have no work, kids no school, relax and food. Maybe even a movie, Frozen 2?
ReplyDeleteHow long does it take MLB to make a decision on German? I doubt they've uncovered any new evidence in the last few weeks. Make a decision already.
ReplyDeleteYankeeforever, there is no rush now. Whatever their decision on German won't take effect until next season. If they find nothing recurrent they may go light on him. If there is more than we don't know it may be a long suspension. What will be will be.
ReplyDeleteNo matter what MLB finds, they should have found it by now. Thus their decision should have been announced by now. Unless there is more to it than meets the eye.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving baseball fans.
ReplyDeleteI hope German can start the season from the beginning, and I want the Astros penalized severely.
Happy thanksgiving friends all over, and all WIN METHOD fans.
ReplyDeleteGreg Bird has cleared waivers and can now sign with anyone. You had your chances and couldn't
ReplyDeletekeep yourself on the field.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone.
Wonder if Bird's goose is cooked.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving. Eat, drink, and be merry.
ReplyDeleteMay everyone's Thanksgiving holiday be joyous, happy, and cordial. For those of you traveling, may your journey be safe and uneventful. HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving WIN METHOD fans.
ReplyDelete""""" Augie Defonce said...
ReplyDeleteWonder if Bird's goose is cooked."""""
Funny, very funny and apropos for thanksgiving.
I would rather give Schmidt, King, Garcia, a non blocked chance before signing Cole for a fortune. Don't block any youngsters.
ReplyDeletePies are cooked and cooling, turkey is prepped and goes in oven 9:00 AM tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving.
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