The Official New York Yankees Thread

igotid88

mookieblalock said:

I bet teams were falling over themselves to give a massive contract to a 34 year old pitcher who missed 3 months last season with elbow inflammation. 

There would have been someone. I just think he thought they would add the extra year. I don't think he wanted to leave. And when they didn't he said "oh I didn't really mean it"

mookieblalock

igotid88 said:

mookieblalock said:

I bet teams were falling over themselves to give a massive contract to a 34 year old pitcher who missed 3 months last season with elbow inflammation. 

There would have been someone. I just think he thought they would add the extra year. I don't think he wanted to leave. And when they didn't he said "oh I didn't really mean it"

Maybe the Dodgers. I doubt it would’ve been the Mets, as the longest deal Stearns has ever given a starting pitcher was for 2 years (Manaea last year). Maybe a mystery team…but It clearly wasn’t going to be the Yankees as they told him to F off.

The contract he would’ve received would’ve been worse, not better, in my opinion from any other team and Boras as much told him that, so he apologized to his daddy, Brian Cashman, for being an idiot and got sent to his room and then was allowed to stay on the deal he originally signed.

igotid88

mookieblalock said:

igotid88 said:

mookieblalock said:

I bet teams were falling over themselves to give a massive contract to a 34 year old pitcher who missed 3 months last season with elbow inflammation. 

There would have been someone. I just think he thought they would add the extra year. I don't think he wanted to leave. And when they didn't he said "oh I didn't really mean it"

Maybe the Dodgers. I doubt it would’ve been the Mets, as the longest deal Stearns has ever given a starting pitcher was for 2 years (Manaea last year). Maybe a mystery team…but It clearly wasn’t going to be the Yankees as they told him to F off.

The contract he would’ve received would’ve been worse, not better, in my opinion from any other team and Boras as much told him that, so he apologized to his daddy, Brian Cashman, for being an idiot and got sent to his room and then was allowed to stay on the deal he originally signed.

I doubt Boras told him that. He usually tells them to opt out. That's why the opt out is there. Boras had a tough time last season getting his players signed. Some not until the season was about to start. And the Yankees did well when Cole was out for the first half

Wobbie

mookieblalock said:

igotid88 said:

mookieblalock said:

I bet teams were falling over themselves to give a massive contract to a 34 year old pitcher who missed 3 months last season with elbow inflammation. 

There would have been someone. I just think he thought they would add the extra year. I don't think he wanted to leave. And when they didn't he said "oh I didn't really mean it"

Maybe the Dodgers. I doubt it would’ve been the Mets, as the longest deal Stearns has ever given a starting pitcher was for 2 years (Manaea last year). Maybe a mystery team…but It clearly wasn’t going to be the Yankees as they told him to F off.

The contract he would’ve received would’ve been worse, not better, in my opinion from any other team and Boras as much told him that, 

I’m not sure Boras told him that, but it’s true.

igotid88

Got to meet Mattingly at the MLB Store

Wobbie

just came across a name of someone I hadn't thought about in a long time....joba chamberlain.

he had a 2.25 ERA in his last year. why did cleveland release him?

mookieblalock

Wobbie said:

just came across a name of someone I hadn't thought about in a long time....joba chamberlain.

he had a 2.25 ERA in his last year. why did cleveland release him?

Legend has it that he routinely cleaned out the pre and post game spreads, ultimately costing the team even more money than Chamberlain was making under contract in just food costs. This also ended up alienating him from teammates who were regularly forced to play on empty stomachs, causing sub par performances for most of the season. 


Tl; dr - he was too fat

igotid88

F Me In The Brain

mookieblalock said:

Wobbie said:

just came across a name of someone I hadn't thought about in a long time....joba chamberlain.

he had a 2.25 ERA in his last year. why did cleveland release him?

Legend has it that he routinely cleaned out the pre and post game spreads, ultimately costing the team even more money than Chamberlain was making under contract in just food costs. This also ended up alienating him from teammates who were regularly forced to play on empty stomachs, causing sub par performances for most of the season. 


Tl; dr - he was too fat

Hahaha.

josevolution

igotid88 said:

Great pick to replace the legend! I use to listen to the fan religiously back when Sims was on the air on the FAN 

xavier mcdaniel

josevolution said:

igotid88 said:

Great pick to replace the legend! I use to listen to the fan religiously back when Sims was on the air on the FAN 

Real nice guy and a terrific announcer. I remember him with Ed Coleman in the midday slot in the infancy of WFAN.

josevolution

xavier mcdaniel said:

josevolution said:

igotid88 said:

Great pick to replace the legend! I use to listen to the fan religiously back when Sims was on the air on the FAN 

Real nice guy and a terrific announcer. I remember him with Ed Coleman in the midday slot in the infancy of WFAN.

Indeed I had forgotten about Coleman & him really good team! 

igotid88

Judge MVP

Wobbie

honestly, there are still a lot of good FA’s out there. most, at a four for one price tag.

igotid88

Yankees get Fried for 8 years 218m

Wobbie

See?

igotid88

Yankees trading Nestor for Devin Williams

mookieblalock

Yankees new passion is trading prospects/young players for one year rentals. Seems like a solid long term strategy.

Wobbie

mookieblalock said:

Yankees new passion is trading prospects/young players for one year rentals. Seems like a solid long term strategy.

he’ll get a suite and go to queens.

mookieblalock

Wobbie said:

mookieblalock said:

Yankees new passion is trading prospects/young players for one year rentals. Seems like a solid long term strategy.

he’ll get a suite and go to queens.

I’m fairness, the Mets already own Devin Williams. 

igotid88

Yankees trade for Cody Bellinger

Wobbie

I think y’all dodged a bullet by not having to pay Soto.

igotid88

R.I.P. Rickey Henderson

Cliffy6745

Teammates CC and Ichiro are first ballot hall of famers. 

Wobbie

Cliffy6745 said:

Teammates CC and Ichiro are first ballot hall of famers. 

nobody thinks of ichiro as a yankee. 

Cliffy6745

Wobbie said:

Cliffy6745 said:

Teammates CC and Ichiro are first ballot hall of famers. 

nobody thinks of ichiro as a yankee. 

Everyone does. 

xavier mcdaniel

Wobbie said:

Cliffy6745 said:

Teammates CC and Ichiro are first ballot hall of famers. 

nobody thinks of ichiro as a yankee. 

maybe not but he was among the few highlights of two painfully average teams in 2013 and 2014.

Get_Right

Seeing Ichiro got me to go out to Yankee Stadium and buy a jersey for my kid. I never do that. He was a special player no matter the team.

xavier mcdaniel

Get_Right said:

Seeing Ichiro got me to go out to Yankee Stadium and buy a jersey for my kid. I never do that. He was a special player no matter the team.

only time I was in Seattle, I went for the 2009 shows on the backspacer tour but also went to the Mariners-Yankee game. Game meant little to the Yankees who pretty much wrapped up everything in the American League and ended with Ichiro hitting a game-ending homer off Rivera. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVejkyVIps