It would still be a terrible idea. He's 30 already and that's a whole lot of strike zone to cover as your physical skills decline. If I had to bet, his decline will be sudden and well before those 10 years are up. But the Yankees are made of money, so maybe they don't care at all about half a contract being a waste.
Cashman's plan could come into view over the next 4 weeks. If he acquires an outfielder under control, that might be to take some risk off the table.
Yea, but let's not forget that if Steve is backing up the truck for Judge, it's going to be a massive massive overpay. The rest of baseball wants Judge too and everyone has the money to give him the type of deal we're pretending we know he would sign (10/350ish). If Steve wants to give him $40m/yr for 10 years, go for it. It will suck for the NL and it will suck for Yankees fans but we've been on the back end of a lot of contracts at this point. We'll be fine.
If Hicks is actually adequate again, that definitely helps. An OF under control would be replacing Gallo who is a FA, but certainly another OF under control (like Ian Happ) would help NY's overall position.
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So what counts on payroll. If you pay a guy for 3 months and then deal them is their whole payroll gone. And if you pick up someone new are you responsible for their whole salary for the year.
The middle one, if a guy makes $10M and you get him halfway through the season, $5M counts on your cap.
It would take an injury or two, and clearly I am not rooting for that, but I would like to see Estevan Florial get at least a few weeks of ABs to see if his recent hot streak in AAA translates to the bigs. He hasn't gotten enough ABs for years because of injuries (and Covid wiping out 2020), but he is still 24 and has been raking in recent weeks.
He has a career OPS of .615 in Fenway in 139 PAs. Not saying that matters so much, but worth pointing out.
I put it in here because it's the first public comments that I've seen from Yankees ownership on the Judge situation. I found it interesting that he didn't come out and say that we plan on Judge being a Yankee for life or something of that nature.
What owner would ever say that about anyone entering FA? If someone offers him 10/500, should NY match or top that? Judge is literally my favorite Yankee ever and I would still say 'no thank you'.
I mean don't take it literally but you say that we plan on him being here for the long-term and if something changes then you have a chance of winning the PR battle. "Hey we tried every avenue to sign Aaron, but ultimately it was his decision to move on, etc."
That next contract can buy him a big mansion in Brookline. Wonder who is selling one? I kid, I kid.
