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Ok everyone, thanks to our dumb ass manager who sat petrified in his dugout and didn't make the right move until too late and our unclutch in the clutch hitters which has been the case all season what moves would you like to see in the off season towards next year. We obviously need via trade or free agency to get a stud type pitcher and if andujar is going to be taken out in the middle of the game or sat completely as in game 4 for his defense (which is pretty bad especially his throwing) maybe he is a chip in a trade for one of these pitchers. Someone mentioned a trade with stanton which i have no problem with but he has a no trade and the only place hell go is the dodgers who I have no idea if they even want him and if they do what pitching they might have to trade for him. The coffers are open now that the season is over is open and I expect cashman to spend like he did in 2009. If they trade andujar, machado becomes the top target to replace him. Imo gardner need to be bought out as well. Need a new left fielder or maybe thats stanton possibly making voit the dh which is what he is and we find a lefty hitting first baseman although I think they probably give bird one last shot before totally giving up on him.
 
They need a top of the order guy who can get on base and steal some bases at a 390 to 400 on base%.
I wouldn't mind seeing Stanton traded but it isn't going to happen. If we can move Andjuar for a top of the order young pitcher I would be in favor of him and Frazier to get back a young stud. Dont think that is happening anytime soon either.

We need to see Chance Adams take a huge step this year and Sheffield. Maybe German becomes more consistent (I think he has the ability).

To me there is no real quick fix here. Need a top of the order guy that isnt feast or famine...a stud young pitcher and for Torres to be Torres of the first half.

A better year from Sanchez and full non injuried year from Judge and perhaps we arent playing a wild card game and games 1 and 2 are at Yankee Stadium...
 
Stanton isn't getting traded so it's not worth the time even discussing it. The Yankees will need another quality starter and then hope one of the kids (Adams or Sheffield) can make an impact. Forgotten was the tough break of Montgomery having to have TJ surgery. Going into next season they have Severino and Tanaka. They would be wise to try and bring Happ back if it's a reasonable contract. I know he got roughed up in game one but he's still a quality arm they will need. If you go into next season with Tanaka, Severino, Happ, a quality free agent or traded for starter and one of the kids. They will be in pretty good shape. Bullpen wise have to resign either Robinson or Britton.
 
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Yankees need a #1 & #2 starters. Corbin is not the answer. He’s a younger Happ, a #3 at best.
I do not expect CC to be retained. Happ may not want to stay in pinstripes. Everything is conjecture.
A leadoff hitter who actually can play small ball and get on base. Bird and Frazier should be given
a more solid chance at their respective positions. Voit would be perfect RDH; had trouble with sinkers
and sliders. Sox exposed his hitting weaknesses. As for Stanton, he’s been an enigma. His at bats with RISP
were abysmal. He never established himself as the “go to guy” in the lineup. His Ks were frequent, well over
220 Ks.

Management wise, this team needs new faces. Apparent needs have not been met in the last few years.
The owners are totally lacking visible support. A GM who makes moves, most being questionable and his
greatest error was selecting a manager with no experience.....a “yes man who would fall in line with
GM’s moves.” No supportive leadership anywhere in management. And the lack of leadership trickled
down to the players. And it showed on the field. Who in this organization has the knowhow to select
people who can lead?
 
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I can't remember how many years Ellsbury was signed for but the Yankees need to get rid of him to clear a roster spot. Stanton is also an albatross and the old Stealers Wheel Song "Stuck In the Middle with you" comes to play. Stanton was completely useless in critical situation of important game. He was so bad that I thought he was failing on purpose. If Happ is reasonable give him a shot but let Lynn go and trade that asshat Sonny Gray. And yeah Montgomery shoud be back, I like the that kid hope he comes back fine. No to Harper & Machado, they are getting older and want huge salaries. Let them go anywhere else. A lot of money will be coming off of the books lets see it spent wisely.
 
Yankeefan5545 said:
I can't remember how many years Ellsbury was signed for but the Yankees need to get rid of him to clear a roster spot. Stanton is also an albatross and the old Stealers Wheel Song "Stuck In the Middle with you" comes to play. Stanton was completely useless in critical situation of important game. He was so bad that I thought he was failing on purpose. If Happ is reasonable give him a shot but let Lynn go and trade that asshat Sonny Gray. And yeah Montgomery shoud be back, I like the that kid hope he comes back fine. No to Harper & Machado, they are getting older and want huge salaries. Let them go anywhere else. A lot of money will be coming off of the books lets see it spent wisely.
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I really like Mongomery but with the 12-18 month recovery. He could be out until anywhere from the middle of next season to missing it all together.
 
Need to have assets to trade for young stud pitcher. Andujar can go in such a trade and yanks sign machado who just turned 26 and easily upgrades third and is a gold glover there. They need a lefty batter to balance the lineup and since money is no longer an object the 26 year old harper can be signed to play left field. Gardy needs to go and though I like frazier he just has too many concussions to be a long term answer imo. He can be added with andujar and another bat to get that young pitcher, Snell would be great if we can pry him out of tampa and the young hitters back is what tampa would want for him. Corbin will be a target but he doesn't seem to be anymore than a number 3 starter. seve, tanaka, need sheffield to make and flourish in rotation, a trade and a free agent to complete the rotation. Boone needs to go and with buck available hopefully Hal finds his balls and tells cashman to make the move and if he doesn't fires him also. Yanks need some aggressive moves to get them over the top as they sit on the precipice right now.
 
Unfortunately, Yankee owners are keeping Cashman. Imagine Trashman still not building the starting pitching.
Keeping CC & Happ. Even keeping Gardner. Even keeping Boone because Booney will listen and obey
Trashman to the hilt. He will be loyal to the company policies. NOT LOOKING FORWARD
TO THIS SCENARIO NEXT YEAR!
 
cagedlion said:
Unfortunately, Yankee owners are keeping Cashman. Imagine Trashman still not building the starting pitching.
Keeping CC & Happ. Even keeping Gardner. Even keeping Boone because Booney will listen and obey
Trashman to the hilt. He will be loyal to the company policies. NOT LOOKING FORWARD
TO THIS SCENARIO NEXT YEAR!
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Whatever anyone thinks about Cashman, how do you justify this GM not developing good talented
pitchers in the Yankee farm system? What doesn’t he and his scouts know that other teams know?
This situation is ongoing for too long......with no accountability. Yet, many are asking, “Who is Cashman
going to obtain in a trade to be the Yankee ace?” The guy hasn’t pulled the trigger in getting one, but he
hasn’t developed many in all his years as Yankee GM.
 
My guesses (or actually, my hopes): Gardy, CC, Gray walk or get traded.

Yankees deal Du and Frazier for a young ace.

Yankees sign FA's Harper (replaces Gardy and may be an option at first base during his contract), Machado (replaces Du), Corbin (#3 behind Sevy and Tank), Dallas Keuchel (to replace CC in the rotation) and finish out the rotation with the young ace they get for Du and Frazier or by resigning of Happ.

Monty will probably miss the 2019 season altogether or come back and have a down year (ineffective) getting used to MLB batters again.

Resign David Robertson, Zack Britton to go along with Chappy, Dellin, Green and Holder in the pen. Maybe Tarpley surprises us and becomes a shut down lefty reliever. We saw how important the bull pen is to winning.

Robby is still a top of the line reliever.

As far as a leadoff hitter with a high OBP and speed, we may have enough pitching in the system to get one.
 
cagedlion said:
Whatever anyone thinks about Cashman, how do you justify this GM not developing good talented
pitchers in the Yankee farm system? What doesn’t he and his scouts know that other teams know?
This situation is ongoing for too long......with no accountability. Yet, many are asking, “Who is Cashman
going to obtain in a trade to be the Yankee ace?” The guy hasn’t pulled the trigger in getting one, but he
hasn’t developed many in all his years as Yankee GM.
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Our two biggest rivals top pitchers are not home grown either...

Sale, porcello, price, evolde....
Verlander, cole, morton, keuchel...

Out of those top 8...1 was drafted by their current team.

Yankees swung and miss on sunney grey..it would be nice to see a home grown yankee starter come up through the ranks but isnt required to be a championship team.
 
Sign Dallas Kackel, after all the shit he's talked about the "Evil Empire, sign Clubhouse Cancer Harper no way. Let Abdujar go and sign Machado again no way. The young players the Yankees have may need additional defensive improvements but they are skilled, cheap, and built for a long run. I was glad to see the Yankees get away from the trillions of dollars crap, Wanna buy something, get a pitcher, There are lower level trades and cash to be done. Gardner & CC will be coming off of the books. Trashman would curry a lot of favor if he could figure out how to move Stanton and get Ellsbury gone as well.
 
If Janis Joplin were still with us and a Yankees Fan she'd have done "Mercedes Benz" like so.

Oh Hal, please hire us, a brand new GM,
Cashmans a flake, the fans are tired of him,
Wrap him in concrete, for a Harlem River swim,
Oh Hal, please find us, a brand new GM.
 
Cashman’s press conference.....missed Boone’s take.

Management is set in cement. It’ll be Trashman and BaBoone in 2019. The big news is that Didi Gregorius will
undergo Tommy John surgery and will be ready in mid summer 2019. Thinking that Gleyber will take over at SS.
Pitching was not Cashman’s concern in Games 3 & 4; lack of hitting was more of a concern for Cashman.
( This totally blew my mind! ).

Not surprised by Trashman’s organization policy take of how BaBoone managed. “He’s our guy”. No mention of starting pitching. Sports media people not asking the hard questions
about this team. Trashman as usual is rambling on & on with no answers.

Really pissed that Game 3, 16-1 loss at home, he states....”we let our fans down. It is what it is”.
And his comment ends there. Really?

Sonny Gray...we will try to find a place for him, but if we can’t, we’ll work with him. He is very
talented. ( Don’t like the sound of this).

Trashman must have majored in Bull#hit 101.
“We will have to see what our budget is and we will work from there.”
 
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Yankeefan5545 said:
If Janis Joplin were still with us and a Yankees Fan she'd have done "Mercedes Benz" like so.

Oh Hal, please hire us, a brand new GM,
Cashmans a flake, the fans are tired of him,
Wrap him in concrete, for a Harlem River swim,
Oh Hal, please find us, a brand new GM.
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Steinbrenner brothers have been so settled on Cashman, I do not think they are
capable of getting a new GM.....they will need help......plenty of help! But forget it.....
Trashman is their man.
 
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Analytics is here to stay in Yankeeland......but of course, the people who operate
and interpret the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics are the
real culprits.

I wonder what that data showed on: Sonny Gray, GianKarlo Stanton, etc.???
The human factor is gone......a machine will give us the answer. I wonder if that machine
informed Yankees that Gian Karlo had over 220 Ks in his hollow bat?
 
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Yankeefan5545 said:
Sign Dallas Kackel, after all the shit he's talked about the "Evil Empire, sign Clubhouse Cancer Harper no way. Let Abdujar go and sign Machado again no way. The young players the Yankees have may need additional defensive improvements but they are skilled, cheap, and built for a long run. I was glad to see the Yankees get away from the trillions of dollars crap, Wanna buy something, get a pitcher, There are lower level trades and cash to be done. Gardner & CC will be coming off of the books. Trashman would curry a lot of favor if he could figure out how to move Stanton and get Ellsbury gone as well.
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Didn't hear that Keuchel hated on the Yankees. If he does then he won't sign here (probably sign with Boston or Houston). I would love to keep Andujar and fix his defense. But all I am hearing is that D is not really able to be fixed. I love the guy, personally.

Harper. Not sure what he does in a locker room where he is not the biggest attraction. He has the desire to play for the Yankees and is the LH power bat we desperately need for our lineup. He has been learning 1b so, in the later years of a contract, he would be a versatile piece.

I Respect your opinion 55. I may be a little giddy with the idea that we can actually spend money this offseason
 
cagedlion said:
Cashman’s press conference.....missed Boone’s take.

Management is set in cement. It’ll be Trashman and BaBoone in 2019. The big news is that Didi Gregorius will
undergo Tommy John surgery and will be ready in mid summer 2019. Thinking that Gleyber will take over at SS.
Pitching was not Cashman’s concern in Games 3 & 4; lack of hitting was more of a concern for Cashman.
( This totally blew my mind! ).

Not surprised by Trashman’s organization policy take of how BaBoone managed. “He’s our guy”. No mention of starting pitching. Sports media people not asking the hard questions
about this team. Trashman as usual is rambling on & on with no answers.

Really pissed that Game 3, 16-1 loss at home, he states....”we let our fans down. It is what it is”.
And his comment ends there. Really?

Sonny Gray...we will try to find a place for him, but if we can’t, we’ll work with him. He is very
talented. ( Don’t like the sound of this).

Trashman must have majored in Bull#hit 101.
“We will have to see what our budget is and we will work from there.”
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Didi being out until mid season may be the nail in the coffin to sign Machado.

I would love to see Du make a huge improvement on D or learn how to play 1b and an OF position. That bat is incredible, young and home grown.
 
Bad news on Didi. You never know with that surgery until it's done and he starts rehabbing. He's not a pitcher but the time table is only an estimate. Sweeney Murti tweeted a reasonable question. He will be a free agent after next season so has he played his last game as a Yankee?
 
Boone on CC, game #4.....”stuff wise, CC was OK.” He made reference that in the past, we were more aggressive because you can see his stuff fall off.....in other words you did not recognize that his stuff may have fallen off if he let seven of the first 12 batters get on base? No wonder Trashman likes this guy, he has double talk down pat.
 
I was not a fan of Gregorius when he first became a Yankee but as the old Virginia Slim Commercial geos "you've come a long way baby". The Yankees won't be hurting with Toe or Hecavarria in defense. If Torres is sent to short who plays 2nd? Can't see Walker being signed. I'm also wondering what will happen at first beteen Bird & Voit. Boner can say anything he likes but all of the criticisms hurled his way have got to sting. Don't want to hear any of that first year manger shit either, Cora was 1st year and won.
 
DD's conditon will give way to Trashman in serious talks with Machado, no doubt. Not sure Manny will sign, and he's NOT a Bor-ass client, but will more than likely be asking for 20-Mil-$$$

Sure GT can play SS, but I doubt he will for long. Keep 'em at 2nd, let both GT and Andujar mature.

DO NOT replace Andujar. His .948 fldg% isn't good, but it wasn't that bad, 149 gms 23 yrs of age, .297 B'Avg, give the kid a fair shake/break, he WILL come around. If Andujar is traded, the trade impact or Andujar he WILL come back around to haunt the Yanx.

Nettles first full season in Cleveland 154 gms at 3b a .973 fld%, 26 yrs of age.
1st season at Thunder Alley in t/Bronx .958 fld% 157 gms (1973) age: 28 with a .234 B'Avg.

Machado signing makes sense, tho' he will not be cheap...


Honestly, I'd toss Stanton, sign McCutchen to a LF spot, keep Hicks in CF, Judge in RF. Hope to hell Frazier can break in finally, and get an endorsement for Excedrin to help him along the yr...

Keep Harper's cancer out of NY/NY... (Scott Bor-ass client.

Mike Trout will be available (maybe) in 2021 at 28/29 yrs of age, is not a Borass Client. Trout will be making 34-35 Mil-$$ by then, not sure any player's worth that much, period....

"I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 than swinging for home runs." Roberto Clemente
 
If Tyler Wade can adjust to ML pitching he could be the Gardner of the middle infield. Love his defense, speed and hustle.
 
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