using the average salary of the new deals signed by (or to be signed by) a-rod, posada and rivera...
Alex Rodriguez $27,500,000
Jason Giambi $21,000,000
Derek Jeter $21,600,000
Bobby Abreu $16,000,000
Johnny Damon $13,000,000
Hideki Matsui $13,000,000
Jorge Posada $13,100,000
Mike Mussina $11,070,423
Mariano Rivera $15,000,000
Carl Pavano $10,000,000
Kyle Farnsworth $5,666,667
Kei Igawa $4,000,000
that's roughly a total of $170,937,090.
that's for 12 players - one (pavano) who will probably not throw a pitch and another (igawa) that will probably be in the minors. obviously the salaries of cano, hughes, joba, kennedy, melky, duncan, wang, betemit, etc will all likely be under $1mil each.
if pettitte comes back or they make any sort of bullpen free agent signing the payroll will be pushing (if not over) $200mil again. thankfully giambi and pavano and i think mussina are all off the books after 2008.
Wang and Cano will probably sign long term deals at some point this year because they will be arbitration eligible after this season so their salaries should be over 1 million when all is said and done.
“It's not 100 percent but I think we are leaning that way,'' Eiland said yesterday about using Chamberlain as a starter. “We haven't had long discussions on that part of it yet. I am sure we will in the near future. We are leaning that way and that's where we would like to see him.''
Just heard on the radio that Shelley Duncan has been released from an Arizona hospital today. Here's what I could find
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Yankees' Shelley Duncan was released from an Arizona hospital after treatment for a circulatory problem believed to be a blood clot in an arm, the New York Post said.
Duncan was admitted to the hospital last week according to agent Barry Meister and Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman, the Post said. There was no additional word on what prompted Duncan's stay or a prognosis, the newspaper said.
Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees have agreed on a $30 million marketing package based on home-run achievements that could raise the total value of his new contract to $305 million over 10 years.
Under the agreement, which remains to be finalized, Rodriguez could receive $6 million each for tying the home-run levels of Willie Mays (660), Babe Ruth (714), Hank Aaron (755) and Barry Bonds (762), and an additional $6 million for breaking Bonds' major league record.
The Yankees could designate each level as a historic event, enabling Rodriguez to receive the added money in exchange for additional personal appearances and signed memorabilia for the club. That enabled the agreement to be allowed by the players' association and the commissioner's office. Baseball generally prohibits bonuses based on statistics such as home runs.
It is not just that it is gross that the Yanks and Rodriguez would cheapen these historic achievements by attaching dollar signs to them. It is that the strategy is dumb. This is about the Yanks not knowing Rodriguez and Rodriguez not knowing himself. He had few bad streaks in his 2007 MVP season, but once he reached 499 homers, he admittedly pressed and strung together horrid at-bats in going 3-for-27 (.111) before hitting No. 500.
Now the Yanks and Rodriguez have brilliantly heightened the pressures around his historic homer chases by putting a price on them. Is there any doubt one or more of these milestones will fall during a September pennant race and Rodriguez will be in his familiar foot-in-mouth position while trying to insist he is swinging for wins, not dollars?
How humbling it must be for Scott Boras to have to wait by the mailbox for a $14-million paycheck without having had to leave his home office.
What a slap in the face it must be for Alex Rodriguez to have to accept a mere $27.5 million a year for the next 10 years -- plus incentives, eventually -- rather than the total of $350 million we were told he would be demanding as an opening bid.
How proud the Yankees must feel to have played Boras and A-Rod for suckers!
And what a crock all of that is.
Any day now, the Yankees will announce that they have finally, officially, irrevocably come to terms with Rodriguez on a deal that will keep him in pinstripes until 2017. And when they do, one other thing will be official: Boy George is an even bigger mark than Boss George ever was.
If any side got suckered here, it was the Yankees. If anyone deserves to feel humbled, it is Hank Steinbrenner. If anyone has earned the right to a good, long, rib-splitting, money-counting laugh, it is A-Rod. And Boras.
In the course of a month, little Steinbrenner has succeeded in undermining his general manager, throwing $21 million of Tom Hicks' money out the window and sending an unmistakable message to every agent in baseball that all his team's tough talk is nothing but hot air.
Oh, yeah, one more thing. He has thrown away any leverage he would have had in three years, when Derek Jeter's time comes. Now Steinbrenner has no choice but to offer Jeter seven more years as a Yankee, at who knows how much money, even though he will be a 36-year-old shortstop with even less range than he has now.
Notice how I haven't even mentioned giving Jorge Posada a four-year contract, so he will be catching for the Yankees when he's 40, and three years to Mariano Rivera, who will be closing at 42.
But hey, at least he was able to keep Boras out of the room.
Just to be clear, signing Rodriguez to a long-term deal is a great move for any club that can afford it. Forget about what happened in October. The Yankees would never have made it out of September without A-Rod. Getting him back was a priority of the highest order.
That they did, but at what cost? First they -- I mean Steinbrenner -- cut the legs out from under Brian Cashman when he pulled a 180 on the team's stated position that it would never negotiate with Rodriguez if he exercised the opt-out clause in his contract.
Cashman had an eminently logical reason for that -- once A-Rod opted out, the Yankees would lose the $7-million-a-year subsidy from the Texas Rangers. Not even The Boss' Yankees were dumb enough to pay full price for something they had been getting for 60 cents on the dollar.
Boy George's Yankees, however, are even dumber than that. Not only did they forfeit that money, they proceeded to jump in and throw money at Rodriguez before any other team had even made a bid. That is known as bidding against yourself, the realm of fools and Dolans. (Pardon the redundancy.)
So now everyone in baseball knows these "young elephants" are a soft touch. Their proclamations mean nothing, and their dollars are as easy to pick up as the salted peanuts at a bar. Casey Close, Jeter's agent, must be rubbing the skin off his palms in anticipation of negotiating with these guys.
It didn't have to be this way, of course. The Yankees could have sat back and waited, made A-Rod and Boras sweat a little bit -- assuming the dire predictions of what the market would offer them turned out to be true -- then swooped back in with the proverbial dollar-more-than-the-next-highest-bid. That would have exposed A-Rod and Boras for what we all know they are, as well as established Boy George as a fearless dealmaker who gets what he wants for what he wants to pay.
Instead, the only thing the Yankees accomplished was making Boras wait outside. Big deal. While Fagin was away, Oliver Twist came in and picked their pockets.
Chances are, he won't be the last. The game is hardball, and The Boss knew how to play it. As for his kid, so far the game is playing him.
Ahhh, don't take anything that writer says seriously. He's the proverbial wet blanket, wants to be the first to rain on any and all parades. Seriously, he is the worst writer in the NY area, and 9 out of 10 of his articles are negative.I can't figure out why Newsday hired him
reading that article on here this afternoon was so much cooler than when i read it this morning over a bowl of cereal.....but most of these newsday writers are just plain fools, not to mention met fans
Ahhh, don't take anything that writer says seriously. He's the proverbial wet blanket, wants to be the first to rain on any and all parades. Seriously, he is the worst writer in the NY area, and 9 out of 10 of his articles are negative.I can't figure out why Newsday hired him
i'm a red sox fan living in boston, so i have no idea who's who between the post, newsday or otherwise. i just know that murray chase is a fool and bob klapisch is a yankee lover.
Has anyone seen the 2008 schedule. I heard they came out but have to see it. I know the Mets come to the stadium in mid may and Yanks go to Shea at the end of June. I have to also asume Yanks open at home because the Mets open in Florida.
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i've pieced it together by looking at other teams, they open the season against toronto, play a four-game series fourth of july weekend at home against the red sox.
4 - vs. TAM
5 - vs. TAM
6 - vs. TAM
8 - @ KAN (home opener)
9 - @ KAN
10 - @ KAN
11 - @ Bos
12 - @ BOS
13 - @ BOS
14 - @ TAM
15 - @ TAM
16 - BOS
17 - BOS
18 @ BAL
19 @ BAL
20 @ BAL
22 - @ CHA
23 - @ CHA
24 - @ CHA
25 @ CLE
26 @ CLE
27 @ CLE
28 @ CLE
29 - vs. DET
30 - vs. DET
May
1 vs. DET
2 vs. SEA
3 vs. SEA
4 vs. SEA
6 vs. CLE
7 vs. CLE
8 vs. CLE
9 -@ DET
10 @ DET
11 @ DET
12 @ TAM
13 @ TAM
14 @ TAM
15 @ TAM
20 vs. BAL
21 vs. BAL
22 vs. BAL
23 vs. sEA
24 vs. SEA
25 vs. SEA
26 @ BAL
27 @ BAL
28 @ BAL
30 @ MIN
31 @ MIN
June
1 @ MIN
2 @ MIN
6 vs. KAN
7 vs. KAN
8 vs. KAN
9 vs. KAN
13 @ HOU
14 @ HOU
15 @ HOU
17 vs SDG
18 vs SDG
19 vs SDG
20 vs. CIN
21 vs. CIN
22 vs. CIN
24 @ PIT
25 @ PIT
26 @ PIT
30 - vs. TEX
July
1 - vs. TEX
2 - vs. TEX
3 - vs. BOS
4 - vs. BOS
5 - vs. BOS
6 - vs. BOS
8 - vs. TAM
9 - vs. TAM
11 - @ TOR
12 - @ TOR
13 - @ TOR
21 - vs. MIN
22 - vs. MIN
23 - vs. MIN
25 - @ BOS
26 - @ BOS
27 - @ BOS
28 - vs. BAL
29 - vs. BAL
30 - vs. BAL
31 - vs. LAA
August
1 - vs. LAA
2 - vs. LAA
3 - vs. LAA
4 - @ TEX
5 - @ TEX
6 @ TEX
7 - @ TEX
8 - @ LAA
9 - @ LAA
10- @ LAA
11 @ MIN
12 @ MIN
13 @ MIN
15 vs. KAN
16 vs. KAN
17 vs. KAN
19 - @ TOR
20 - @ TOR
21 - @ TOR
22 - vs. BAL
23 - vs. BAL
24 - vs. BAL
26 - vs. BOS
27 - vs. BOS
28 - vs. BOS
September
2 - @ TAM
3 - @ TAM
4 - @ TAM
5 - @ SEA
6 - @ SEA
7 - @ SEA
8 - @ LAA
9 - @ LAA
10 - @ LAA
12 - vs. TAM
13 - vs. TAM
14 - vs. TAM
15 - vs. CHA
16 - vs. CHA
17 - vs. CHA
18 - vs. CHA
19 - vs. BAL
20 - vs. BAL
21 - vs. BAL
23 - @ TOR
24 - @ TOR
25 - @ TOR
26 - @ BOS
27 - @ BOS
28 - @ BOS
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i've pieced it together by looking at other teams, they open the season against toronto, play a four-game series fourth of july weekend at home against the red sox.
4 - vs. TAM
5 - vs. TAM
6 - vs. TAM
8 - @ KAN (home opener)
9 - @ KAN
10 - @ KAN
11 - @ Bos
12 - @ BOS
13 - @ BOS
14 - @ TAM
15 - @ TAM
16 - BOS
17 - BOS
18 @ BAL
19 @ BAL
20 @ BAL
22 - @ CHA
23 - @ CHA
24 - @ CHA
25 @ CLE
26 @ CLE
27 @ CLE
28 @ CLE
29 - vs. DET
30 - vs. DET
May
1 vs. DET
2 vs. SEA
3 vs. SEA
4 vs. SEA
6 vs. CLE
7 vs. CLE
8 vs. CLE
9 -@ DET
10 @ DET
11 @ DET
12 @ TAM
13 @ TAM
14 @ TAM
15 @ TAM
20 vs. BAL
21 vs. BAL
22 vs. BAL
23 vs. sEA
24 vs. SEA
25 vs. SEA
26 @ BAL
27 @ BAL
28 @ BAL
30 @ MIN
31 @ MIN
June
1 @ MIN
2 @ MIN
6 vs. KAN
7 vs. KAN
8 vs. KAN
9 vs. KAN
13 @ HOU
14 @ HOU
15 @ HOU
17 vs SDG
18 vs SDG
19 vs SDG
20 vs. CIN
21 vs. CIN
22 vs. CIN
24 @ PIT
25 @ PIT
26 @ PIT
30 - vs. TEX
July
1 - vs. TEX
2 - vs. TEX
3 - vs. BOS
4 - vs. BOS
5 - vs. BOS
6 - vs. BOS
8 - vs. TAM
9 - vs. TAM
11 - @ TOR
12 - @ TOR
13 - @ TOR
21 - vs. MIN
22 - vs. MIN
23 - vs. MIN
25 - @ BOS
26 - @ BOS
27 - @ BOS
28 - vs. BAL
29 - vs. BAL
30 - vs. BAL
31 - vs. LAA
August
1 - vs. LAA
2 - vs. LAA
3 - vs. LAA
4 - @ TEX
5 - @ TEX
6 @ TEX
7 - @ TEX
8 - @ LAA
9 - @ LAA
10- @ LAA
11 @ MIN
12 @ MIN
13 @ MIN
15 vs. KAN
16 vs. KAN
17 vs. KAN
19 - @ TOR
20 - @ TOR
21 - @ TOR
22 - vs. BAL
23 - vs. BAL
24 - vs. BAL
26 - vs. BOS
27 - vs. BOS
28 - vs. BOS
September
2 - @ TAM
3 - @ TAM
4 - @ TAM
5 - @ SEA
6 - @ SEA
7 - @ SEA
8 - @ LAA
9 - @ LAA
10 - @ LAA
12 - vs. TAM
13 - vs. TAM
14 - vs. TAM
15 - vs. CHA
16 - vs. CHA
17 - vs. CHA
18 - vs. CHA
19 - vs. BAL
20 - vs. BAL
21 - vs. BAL
23 - @ TOR
24 - @ TOR
25 - @ TOR 26 - @ BOS
27 - @ BOS
28 - @ BOS
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i've pieced it together by looking at other teams, they open the season against toronto, play a four-game series fourth of july weekend at home against the red sox.
4 - vs. TAM
5 - vs. TAM
6 - vs. TAM
8 - @ KAN (home opener)
9 - @ KAN
10 - @ KAN
11 - @ Bos
12 - @ BOS
13 - @ BOS
14 - @ TAM
15 - @ TAM
16 - BOS
17 - BOS
18 @ BAL
19 @ BAL
20 @ BAL
22 - @ CHA
23 - @ CHA
24 - @ CHA
25 @ CLE
26 @ CLE
27 @ CLE
28 @ CLE
29 - vs. DET
30 - vs. DET
May
1 vs. DET
2 vs. SEA
3 vs. SEA
4 vs. SEA
6 vs. CLE
7 vs. CLE
8 vs. CLE
9 -@ DET
10 @ DET
11 @ DET
12 @ TAM
13 @ TAM
14 @ TAM
15 @ TAM
20 vs. BAL
21 vs. BAL
22 vs. BAL
23 vs. sEA
24 vs. SEA
25 vs. SEA
26 @ BAL
27 @ BAL
28 @ BAL
30 @ MIN
31 @ MIN
June
1 @ MIN
2 @ MIN
6 vs. KAN
7 vs. KAN
8 vs. KAN
9 vs. KAN
13 @ HOU
14 @ HOU
15 @ HOU
17 vs SDG
18 vs SDG
19 vs SDG
20 vs. CIN
21 vs. CIN
22 vs. CIN
24 @ PIT
25 @ PIT
26 @ PIT
30 - vs. TEX
July
1 - vs. TEX
2 - vs. TEX
3 - vs. BOS
4 - vs. BOS
5 - vs. BOS
6 - vs. BOS
8 - vs. TAM
9 - vs. TAM
11 - @ TOR
12 - @ TOR
13 - @ TOR
21 - vs. MIN
22 - vs. MIN
23 - vs. MIN
25 - @ BOS
26 - @ BOS
27 - @ BOS
28 - vs. BAL
29 - vs. BAL
30 - vs. BAL
31 - vs. LAA
August
1 - vs. LAA
2 - vs. LAA
3 - vs. LAA
4 - @ TEX
5 - @ TEX
6 @ TEX
7 - @ TEX
8 - @ LAA
9 - @ LAA
10- @ LAA
11 @ MIN
12 @ MIN
13 @ MIN
15 vs. KAN
16 vs. KAN
17 vs. KAN
19 - @ TOR
20 - @ TOR
21 - @ TOR
22 - vs. BAL
23 - vs. BAL
24 - vs. BAL
26 - vs. BOS
27 - vs. BOS
28 - vs. BOS
September
2 - @ TAM
3 - @ TAM
4 - @ TAM
5 - @ SEA
6 - @ SEA
7 - @ SEA
8 - @ LAA
9 - @ LAA
10 - @ LAA
12 - vs. TAM
13 - vs. TAM
14 - vs. TAM
15 - vs. CHA
16 - vs. CHA
17 - vs. CHA
18 - vs. CHA
19 - vs. BAL
20 - vs. BAL
21 - vs. BAL
23 - @ TOR
24 - @ TOR
25 - @ TOR
26 - @ BOS
27 - @ BOS
28 - @ BOS
question on this....its says 1st game is 4/4 vs. Tampa at home , but then its says 4/8 @ KC (home opener)??
Also i don't see the mets games in there. I read they play in the bronx mid may and at shea end of june????
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i meant that game is the KC home opener and when i pieced it together, the blue jays had not released their road games and the mets had not put out their schedule.
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Sooooo Mr. Johan Santana.
I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of trading Phil Hughes and Melky. But Johan is a rare breed. I prefer trading Kennedy than Hughes. Either way Robinson Cano would have a heart attack. But,..I did hear if Melky goes Yanks would pursue Aaron Rowand. That would be sick
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Sooooo Mr. Johan Santana.
I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of trading Phil Hughes and Melky. But Johan is a rare breed. I prefer trading Kennedy than Hughes. Either way Robinson Cano would have a heart attack. But,..I did hear if Melky goes Yanks would pursue Aaron Rowand. That would be sick
it would be real tough to see melky go. good switch hitter, with a rocket for an arm. i'm not too sure about getting rid of hughes either......... tough calls all around.
folks all i know is that SANTANA cannot i repeat cannot end up in BOSTON ,so if he ends up withthe METS OR YANKEES it will be ok by me but i can't stress enough he can not end up as a RED SOX ,that would be an unbeatable staff ,BECKET,SANTANA,SHILLING,DICEK ,enough said .....
If the yankees can send Melky, Kennedy, and another prospect and keep Phil, Joba, & Cano I would be very happy with that.
I'm sure the twins will want hughes/melky though. Also austin jackson's name has floated out there too. I'd like to see the yankees hold on to him if they can to see what he can do.
If they trade melky the yanks will go after Rowand and he might be good for this team as long as they don't overpay for him.
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i read one rumor today that had red sox as the front runner sending coco crisp, lester, and 2 prospects (lowrie ss & masterson sp).
minnesota would be completely dementedto make that trade. i just can't see how that would make sense. not even including ellsbury or bucholz??
no way
they're not making this trade. not even close. i don't think boston is seriously interested in santana. this is all just an attempt to make hank "isiah" steinbrenner panic. and it sounds like it's working.
i don't know if i can deal with the yankees this year if it turns out that hank is actually dumb enough to trade phil hughes.
and now we're supposed to believe that not only is santana better than the yankees' package (hughes, cabrera, alan horne, jose tabata, and possibly kennedy), he's $150 to $200 million better. because that's what it's gonna cost to get him signed. i don't know that i'd give him that kind of money even without having to sacrifice half the team.
why? because josh beckett beats johan santana in game 7. every single time.
I hope they don't trade Hughes. They spend the last 3 years refusing to trade him. And now it's like he's a throwaway. I was getting excited about next year with Hughes,Chamberlain, and Kennedy in the rotation. I hope the Twins wait til mid-season to see if they're still in the race to keep him or not.
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Wang and Cano will probably sign long term deals at some point this year because they will be arbitration eligible after this season so their salaries should be over 1 million when all is said and done.
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/11212007/sports/yankees/joba_not_a_lock_to_start_next_season_159966.htm
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Yankees' Shelley Duncan was released from an Arizona hospital after treatment for a circulatory problem believed to be a blood clot in an arm, the New York Post said.
Duncan was admitted to the hospital last week according to agent Barry Meister and Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman, the Post said. There was no additional word on what prompted Duncan's stay or a prognosis, the newspaper said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid=aO_naPLeq8GY&refer=home
Yankees' horror show looking like a sequel
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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3126616
Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees have agreed on a $30 million marketing package based on home-run achievements that could raise the total value of his new contract to $305 million over 10 years.
Under the agreement, which remains to be finalized, Rodriguez could receive $6 million each for tying the home-run levels of Willie Mays (660), Babe Ruth (714), Hank Aaron (755) and Barry Bonds (762), and an additional $6 million for breaking Bonds' major league record.
The Yankees could designate each level as a historic event, enabling Rodriguez to receive the added money in exchange for additional personal appearances and signed memorabilia for the club. That enabled the agreement to be allowed by the players' association and the commissioner's office. Baseball generally prohibits bonuses based on statistics such as home runs.
..he doesn't need it....he wants it....
cashman must LOVE the fact that hank has to tell the media about anything and everything he does.
i know.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11272007/sports/yankees/a_mistake_516150.htm
It is not just that it is gross that the Yanks and Rodriguez would cheapen these historic achievements by attaching dollar signs to them. It is that the strategy is dumb. This is about the Yanks not knowing Rodriguez and Rodriguez not knowing himself. He had few bad streaks in his 2007 MVP season, but once he reached 499 homers, he admittedly pressed and strung together horrid at-bats in going 3-for-27 (.111) before hitting No. 500.
Now the Yanks and Rodriguez have brilliantly heightened the pressures around his historic homer chases by putting a price on them. Is there any doubt one or more of these milestones will fall during a September pennant race and Rodriguez will be in his familiar foot-in-mouth position while trying to insist he is swinging for wins, not dollars?
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-spwally1127,0,4972994.column
How humbling it must be for Scott Boras to have to wait by the mailbox for a $14-million paycheck without having had to leave his home office.
What a slap in the face it must be for Alex Rodriguez to have to accept a mere $27.5 million a year for the next 10 years -- plus incentives, eventually -- rather than the total of $350 million we were told he would be demanding as an opening bid.
How proud the Yankees must feel to have played Boras and A-Rod for suckers!
And what a crock all of that is.
Any day now, the Yankees will announce that they have finally, officially, irrevocably come to terms with Rodriguez on a deal that will keep him in pinstripes until 2017. And when they do, one other thing will be official: Boy George is an even bigger mark than Boss George ever was.
If any side got suckered here, it was the Yankees. If anyone deserves to feel humbled, it is Hank Steinbrenner. If anyone has earned the right to a good, long, rib-splitting, money-counting laugh, it is A-Rod. And Boras.
In the course of a month, little Steinbrenner has succeeded in undermining his general manager, throwing $21 million of Tom Hicks' money out the window and sending an unmistakable message to every agent in baseball that all his team's tough talk is nothing but hot air.
Oh, yeah, one more thing. He has thrown away any leverage he would have had in three years, when Derek Jeter's time comes. Now Steinbrenner has no choice but to offer Jeter seven more years as a Yankee, at who knows how much money, even though he will be a 36-year-old shortstop with even less range than he has now.
Notice how I haven't even mentioned giving Jorge Posada a four-year contract, so he will be catching for the Yankees when he's 40, and three years to Mariano Rivera, who will be closing at 42.
But hey, at least he was able to keep Boras out of the room.
Just to be clear, signing Rodriguez to a long-term deal is a great move for any club that can afford it. Forget about what happened in October. The Yankees would never have made it out of September without A-Rod. Getting him back was a priority of the highest order.
That they did, but at what cost? First they -- I mean Steinbrenner -- cut the legs out from under Brian Cashman when he pulled a 180 on the team's stated position that it would never negotiate with Rodriguez if he exercised the opt-out clause in his contract.
Cashman had an eminently logical reason for that -- once A-Rod opted out, the Yankees would lose the $7-million-a-year subsidy from the Texas Rangers. Not even The Boss' Yankees were dumb enough to pay full price for something they had been getting for 60 cents on the dollar.
Boy George's Yankees, however, are even dumber than that. Not only did they forfeit that money, they proceeded to jump in and throw money at Rodriguez before any other team had even made a bid. That is known as bidding against yourself, the realm of fools and Dolans. (Pardon the redundancy.)
So now everyone in baseball knows these "young elephants" are a soft touch. Their proclamations mean nothing, and their dollars are as easy to pick up as the salted peanuts at a bar. Casey Close, Jeter's agent, must be rubbing the skin off his palms in anticipation of negotiating with these guys.
It didn't have to be this way, of course. The Yankees could have sat back and waited, made A-Rod and Boras sweat a little bit -- assuming the dire predictions of what the market would offer them turned out to be true -- then swooped back in with the proverbial dollar-more-than-the-next-highest-bid. That would have exposed A-Rod and Boras for what we all know they are, as well as established Boy George as a fearless dealmaker who gets what he wants for what he wants to pay.
Instead, the only thing the Yankees accomplished was making Boras wait outside. Big deal. While Fagin was away, Oliver Twist came in and picked their pockets.
Chances are, he won't be the last. The game is hardball, and The Boss knew how to play it. As for his kid, so far the game is playing him.
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i'm a red sox fan living in boston, so i have no idea who's who between the post, newsday or otherwise. i just know that murray chase is a fool and bob klapisch is a yankee lover.
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8 - @ KAN (home opener)
9 - @ KAN
10 - @ KAN
11 - @ Bos
12 - @ BOS
13 - @ BOS
14 - @ TAM
15 - @ TAM
16 - BOS
17 - BOS
18 @ BAL
19 @ BAL
20 @ BAL
22 - @ CHA
23 - @ CHA
24 - @ CHA
25 @ CLE
26 @ CLE
27 @ CLE
28 @ CLE
29 - vs. DET
30 - vs. DET
May
1 vs. DET
2 vs. SEA
3 vs. SEA
4 vs. SEA
6 vs. CLE
7 vs. CLE
8 vs. CLE
9 -@ DET
10 @ DET
11 @ DET
12 @ TAM
13 @ TAM
14 @ TAM
15 @ TAM
20 vs. BAL
21 vs. BAL
22 vs. BAL
23 vs. sEA
24 vs. SEA
25 vs. SEA
26 @ BAL
27 @ BAL
28 @ BAL
30 @ MIN
31 @ MIN
June
1 @ MIN
2 @ MIN
6 vs. KAN
7 vs. KAN
8 vs. KAN
9 vs. KAN
13 @ HOU
14 @ HOU
15 @ HOU
17 vs SDG
18 vs SDG
19 vs SDG
20 vs. CIN
21 vs. CIN
22 vs. CIN
24 @ PIT
25 @ PIT
26 @ PIT
30 - vs. TEX
July
1 - vs. TEX
2 - vs. TEX
3 - vs. BOS
4 - vs. BOS
5 - vs. BOS
6 - vs. BOS
8 - vs. TAM
9 - vs. TAM
11 - @ TOR
12 - @ TOR
13 - @ TOR
21 - vs. MIN
22 - vs. MIN
23 - vs. MIN
25 - @ BOS
26 - @ BOS
27 - @ BOS
28 - vs. BAL
29 - vs. BAL
30 - vs. BAL
31 - vs. LAA
August
1 - vs. LAA
2 - vs. LAA
3 - vs. LAA
4 - @ TEX
5 - @ TEX
6 @ TEX
7 - @ TEX
8 - @ LAA
9 - @ LAA
10- @ LAA
11 @ MIN
12 @ MIN
13 @ MIN
15 vs. KAN
16 vs. KAN
17 vs. KAN
19 - @ TOR
20 - @ TOR
21 - @ TOR
22 - vs. BAL
23 - vs. BAL
24 - vs. BAL
26 - vs. BOS
27 - vs. BOS
28 - vs. BOS
September
2 - @ TAM
3 - @ TAM
4 - @ TAM
5 - @ SEA
6 - @ SEA
7 - @ SEA
8 - @ LAA
9 - @ LAA
10 - @ LAA
12 - vs. TAM
13 - vs. TAM
14 - vs. TAM
15 - vs. CHA
16 - vs. CHA
17 - vs. CHA
18 - vs. CHA
19 - vs. BAL
20 - vs. BAL
21 - vs. BAL
23 - @ TOR
24 - @ TOR
25 - @ TOR
26 - @ BOS
27 - @ BOS
28 - @ BOS
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What a way to close out Yankee Stadium against the biggest rivalry in baseball the Boston Red Sox.
Can't wait for training Camp down in Fort Myers, Florida.
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Also i don't see the mets games in there. I read they play in the bronx mid may and at shea end of june????
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"Constant recoil,..sometimes life don't leave you alone."
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Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
Fenway 2, 2018
MSG 2022
St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
MSG 2024, MSG 2024
Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of trading Phil Hughes and Melky. But Johan is a rare breed. I prefer trading Kennedy than Hughes. Either way Robinson Cano would have a heart attack. But,..I did hear if Melky goes Yanks would pursue Aaron Rowand. That would be sick
EV - 5
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it would be real tough to see melky go. good switch hitter, with a rocket for an arm. i'm not too sure about getting rid of hughes either......... tough calls all around.
I'm sure the twins will want hughes/melky though. Also austin jackson's name has floated out there too. I'd like to see the yankees hold on to him if they can to see what he can do.
If they trade melky the yanks will go after Rowand and he might be good for this team as long as they don't overpay for him.
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minnesota would be completely dementedto make that trade. i just can't see how that would make sense. not even including ellsbury or bucholz??
no way
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they're not making this trade. not even close. i don't think boston is seriously interested in santana. this is all just an attempt to make hank "isiah" steinbrenner panic. and it sounds like it's working.
i don't know if i can deal with the yankees this year if it turns out that hank is actually dumb enough to trade phil hughes.
and now we're supposed to believe that not only is santana better than the yankees' package (hughes, cabrera, alan horne, jose tabata, and possibly kennedy), he's $150 to $200 million better. because that's what it's gonna cost to get him signed. i don't know that i'd give him that kind of money even without having to sacrifice half the team.
why? because josh beckett beats johan santana in game 7. every single time.
http://keephughes.blogspot.com/