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    Cashman's Cano Contract Conundrum

    It's worth noting that simple inflation, and MLB's rapidly deepening pockets, will make $22 or $25 million look different in eight or ten years. Paying that much out to a 39-year old DH/platoon-type, while patently absurd in 2013, probably isn't going to significantly hamstring big- and...
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    Cashman's Cano Contract Conundrum

    Serious question: have the Yankees ever let a player like Cano go?   I mean a home-grown, Hall-of-Fame level player...don't the Yankees always keep those guys? Isn't that one of the defining characteristics of the Yankee organization, that they make players like Cano and Jeter and Mo lifers in...
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    Cashman's Cano Contract Conundrum

    If I were the Red Sox, I'd be thinking long and hard about sweeping in and offering Cano something like 5/$155.   From Cano's perspective: that contract would make him the highest paid player ever, he'd stay on the East Coast, he could still get another decent contract at 36, and he'd get to...
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    Heyman: Ellsbury to sign seven-year deal with Yankees

    Just for the record:   2013 Ellsbury: 636 PA, 92 R, 31 2B, 8 3B, 9 HR, 53 RBI, 52 SB, .298/.355/.426, 5.8 rWAR 2013 Gardner: 609 PA, 81 R, 33 2B, 10 3B, 8 HR, 52 RBI, 24 SB, .273/.344/.416, 4.2 rWAR   I expected the Yankees to be the LAST team to get in on Ellsbury, because they already have an...
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    Heyman: Ellsbury to sign seven-year deal with Yankees

    Does this means the Yankees are out on Beltran?
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    Heyman: Ellsbury to sign seven-year deal with Yankees

    All of the talk about the MFY's getting under the luxury tax was a smoke-screen...now they'll go ahead and re-sign Cano and Kuroda, and put a bid in on Tanaka. 
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    Cashman's Cano Contract Conundrum

    I think that fans have a tendency to under-predict the markets for elite players. Certainly, I've reliably underestimated what free agents get on the market. I absolutely did not think that anyone would offer Pujols the salary he received. I underestimated Hamilton's contract. I...
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    Cashman's Cano Contract Conundrum

    As a Sox fan, I hope the Yankees let Cano walk. His average season, over the last five years, has been 160 games played, with a .314/28/103 Triple Crown line, for a 6.8 fWAR. I think it's reasonable that he'll perform at a 5-7 win level for two or three years, and then decline to 2-5 wins per...
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    Hot Stove Rumors - The Fenway Edition

      I would love this.   From April to mid-June, Davis was terrible: .161/.242/.258 batting line, 66 strikeouts, 19 walks. The Mets shipped him down because he was struggling to do anything right.   I don't know what he worked on in the minors, but he was excellent when he came back, posting a...