OFFICIAL 2018 New York Yankees Offseason Thread: We Need Pitching

[jaysonny3]

Any thoughts of developing Wade like we did Gardy? Our lineup is too RH heavy; (on the 09 team we had LH Damon, Matsui, Cano with SH Posada, Tex, Swisher, Melky) Wade unable to make adjustments at April paved the path for Miggy/Torres; Not loving Manny being Manny after Game 1 of NLCS; paying $35M/yr for a guy that doesn’t crack 100RBIs (same goes for Harper/Stanton) consistently but he has gold glove defense

 

[essential1]

Crap. We just had to get to Game 5. To get this Sale. SMH

 

[essential1]

Of our guys, Chapman is the oldest at 30 who will be here more than a couple years.

May be time to cash in on the farm system outside of Sheffield & Florial. With the talent we have on the MLB roster now in terms of our age, we could go all in for a 5 year run, and slowly re-build the farm system to be ready for then.

Looking at the roster, what we need is a Left Handed Bat in LF, 4 starters (again I want to carry 6 starters on the 25). Torres goes to SS, Disco Neil rides again at 2B.

I am against signing Machado for signing sake, just because Didi is going to miss the first half. Also give me Didi at 5 years over Machado at 12. Especially at SS. If Andujar didn't look like a stud this year, it'd be a different story. Then Machado at 3B would fit perfectly. But Machado wants SS. (Only way it works is if Machado agrees to 3B, Andujar then is full time DH, Giancarlo in LF)

I don't want Harper at 12 years either, but if we go for 1 big signing in the field, I have to go Harper. It's the better fit. Harper gets on base significantly more with similar power, and in Yankees stadium, even better. Also if you were to think of it from a business standpoint, as opposed to just baseball decisions, Harper will bring in more money for the Yankees than Machado

Sanchez, Voit, Walker, Torres, Andujar, Harper, Hicks, Stanton
Romine, ???,????, ???
DL: Didi

 

[essential1]

“I don’t want to speak for Hal, but my general feeling from him and for us has been not wanting to line the pockets of others to let them utilize that excess against us. It was mission accomplished in terms of the payroll this year, and taking away advantages that teams have been getting from us because we were exceeding those thresholds.” Cashman added, though, that he believes Steinbrenner’s “a very open-minded person” with respect to spending, perhaps leaving the door open for some big-money moves.

There's a chance we try to stay under the luxury tax of $206mil. If that's the case, we have a maximum of $70-80 mil to spend, and about 11 spots on the roster to fill.

 

[donewithjs]

https://www.pinstripealley.com/2018...-braun-edwin-encarnacion-defensive-runs-saved

 

[essential1]

https://www.pinstripealley.com/2018...-braun-edwin-encarnacion-defensive-runs-saved

But unless Machado will play 3rd. It’s all kind of pointless, and he should get another season to see if he has any improvement.

I’m fine with Machado at 3B. Andujar at DH/1B/3B. And Stanton at LF. But they have to bring in Machado and say he’s a 3B going forward and may get only half a season at SS at most.

 

[essential1]

DBacks are shopping Paul Goldschmidt. Buster Olney thinks we may be a surprise team for him.

 

[nick.]

DBacks are shopping Paul Goldschmidt. Buster Olney thinks we may be a surprise team for him.

 

[kingfoamnyc]

More right handed batters

 

[jaysonny3]

So far for Gerrit Cole tonight

 

[macbk]

DBacks are shopping Paul Goldschmidt. Buster Olney thinks we may be a surprise team for him.

My God this would be

 

[you go boy]

that would be a great pickup if we got him... would fit right in on first base

 

[kingfoamnyc]

He'd hit 250 after being a career 300 hitter. No one comes here and ups their game they always regress

 

[essential1]

He'd hit 250 after being a career 300 hitter. No one comes here and ups their game they always regress

Pulling the good old Mark Teixiera

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Let's take some time to appreciate Masahiro. He was our best pitcher again when it mattered most, I sense a future ALCS or World Series MVP.

 

[essential1]

Tanaka doesn’t have time for your foolish April May and June baseball.

Those months don’t even exist in his calendar

 

[jrp44]

Was randomly thinking of old players the other day. Did anyone within the last like 10-15 years have a great season or two than fall off more than Wang? Dude was nasty that one year and then fell off quick

 

[jrod54life]

chin meng wang the 20 win a season player then bam it was down hill it looks like the case for most of these asian players
look at yu darvish alot of these pitchers come in killing then after batters figure them out they suck

 

[macbk]

Was randomly thinking of old players the other day. Did anyone within the last like 10-15 years have a great season or two than fall off more than Wang? Dude was nasty that one year and then fell off quick

He hurt himself rounding 2nd IIRC in an interleague game vs Houston at the time?

I remember watching him lose his perfect game bid late into a game like it was yesterday.

 

[macbk]

New York Post . What an AWFUL headline.

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Whoever runs that Twitter is fired by tomorrow.

 

[nick.]

My heart sank when I saw that tweet yesterday

 

[macbk]

My heart sank when I saw that tweet yesterday

Try waking up to it this morning with one eye open whoever runs that Twitter deserves a suspension. That's no way you even deliver news in respect to Greenwald and his family...

 

[nick.]

 

[kingfoamnyc]

5 years $150