Game Thread Tuesday 4/26/16 Yankees @ Rangers 8:05PM

[Rick2583]

I hear you Vic, its just that you never know what you're going to get from this guy & for the most part its generally not good.

 

[Messiah717]

You don't know what you're going to get from any of them which is the point and the major problem. Look at Pineda. Is the fifth starter really the worry?

 

[yankeesince59]

...no more or no less than Headley.

...and actually, CC's contract and those contracts like his are this team's problem...and has been for awhile.

...CC, Headley, Tex, ARod, Ellsbury, Beltran, etc.

 

[Messiah717]

Sabathia is what he is. His first four years were really good and then the wheels fell off. The guy was used like a horse and broke down. Nobody predicted it before hand so it's difficult to play I told you so about it now. Moving forward like I said there's much bigger problems. Headley who was a mistake to begin with is two more years at $13 million a season and absolutely kills you at a corner position. Doesn't hit for average or power and should honestly be a platoon player. The Yankees shed Tex and Beltran after this season and there's thankfully light at the end of the tunnel with Arod's deal. The killer right now is Ellsbury who is signed for four more years and one of the worst contracts in baseball. He could never come close to playing to the value of the deal and it's not going to get better in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

 

[yankeesince59]

^^^and Cashman is the father of all this. Sorry, but some may not like me bashing him as much as I do but the fact is that he has to be held accountable for the current status of this team. Cashman is not a GM, he's a figurehead for the Steins and nobody fears the Yanx anymore...they're a mediocre team that is going nowhere.
...Cashman also gave CC a opt out clause and needlessly resigned CC by tearing up his existing contract and giving him a new one, even though CC never actually opted out...brilliant, simply brilliant.

 

[Rick2583]

His contract (like A-Roids) never should have been upped, Cashman should have let them both walk after they opted out. Especially A-Rod.

 

[cagedlion]

Without a doubt......mediocrity lives in
Yankee pinstripes for a long time. I cannot
get excited anymore at the mention that
the Yankees are on TV.......forget about going
to the Stadium to watch this crap of a team.

 

[Rick2583]

Over the next year or two a shitload of money will be coming off the books, that's the good news. The bad news is that Cashman will be using that money for........WHO?

 

[Messiah717]

What's done it done contract wise even though there was little reason for the Yankees to pile on top of already existing long term deals. I don't want any future long term deals unless their name is Bryce Harper. As for a guy like Headley the Yankees are going to have to eat money on the last two years of that deal and figure out a way to get him out of here. You cannot have him clogging up the corner and doing nothing for two more years.

 

[yankeesince59]

...they're also basically gonna have to eat money in the final years of Ellsbury's, CC's, ARod's contracts too.

 

[Mattingly23NY]

...they're also basically gonna have to eat money in the final years of Ellsbury's, CC's, ARod's contracts too.

If this Team were led by- Led by Guggenheim Partners CEO -- and Chairman of the Bum's -- Mark Walter, all 4 of these guys would be sitting, then some....

Headley would still be playing in San Diego; Prado would still be a Yank....Tex would have a month to prove his worth, or he too would be paid to sit home and watch the games...

after watching Ichiro last night, I'd rather see the Wizard playing LF 'til he's 45 in Pinstripes, than the limp noodle inaccurate arm of Gardner...

 

[Rick2583]

As I said, even once the money is freed up you have to really wonder what Cashman will do with it.

 

[yankeesince59]

As I said, even once the money is freed up you have to really wonder what Cashman will do with it.

...do what he does best I suppose...which is to depend on the Steins' checkbook.

 

[Rick2583]

^^^I meant in the way of signings, will he use the monies to bring in good players who can actually help.

 

[yankeesince59]

^^^I meant in the way of signings, will he use the monies to bring in good players who can actually help.

...I consulted my magic 8-Ball and this is what it said;

 

[Mattingly23NY]

8 balls are never wrong...^^^