The 2008 New York Yankees

JSBE wrote:

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.

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.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid=aO_naPLeq8GY&refer=home

someone should notify that guy that it is November 21st, not April 1st. There's a whole lotta offseason left

like the guy really needs the extra $30mil...

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.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Ai.ysat1R_Mn86DOHoib04w5nYcB?slug=ap-yankees-santana&prov=ap&type=lgns

cashman must LOVE the fact that hank has to tell the media about anything and everything he does.

A-Rod got the best of the Yankees

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.

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

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.

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

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

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.

Peace

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.