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Originally Posted by Simon  I think you guys are asking WAY too much from too many young players if you expect to win next year or anytime soon.
Tommy, I was going to fill this whole thing out but I really really think they need to eat some contracts and sell off the likes of Jason Giambi and Mike Mussina. They are not helping win that many games at all and take up important position spots. |
I wrote in my post that Giambi and Mussina are both gone after next year...as are Kyle Farnsworth, Carl Pavano, and Abreu and Pettitte, if their options are exercised. If that ends up happening, then it's $85 million per year in bad contracts that come off the books one year from today...$53 million if you exclude Abreu and Pettitte (who may not be back)
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I dunno. I think Brian Cashman and George fucked themselves ever since basically they signed Mussina in 2000. Tossing their money and prospects around like they were candy corn on Halloween night.
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I agree...but then why do you think it's so bad that they're going AWAY from this strategy? Everyone for years has said that the Yankees should be building up their farm system and not spending exorbitant amounts of money for aging veterans...but now that they're actually doing it, all of a sudden they're gonna be terrible? C'mon, you know thats not gonna happen.
Wang has proven to be a good/very good pitcher. Chamberlain and Hughes are absolute studs. A lot of people are very high on Kennedy. Cano is the second-best 2B in baseball. Melky Cabrera is a quality centerfielder...maybe not an absolute stud, but he plays great defense, has a cannon for an arm, and hits JUST enough that he's not a liability with the bat.
Why is this bad? Why is developing your own players through your farm system bad? Especially pitchers, considering pitching is so much harder to come by?
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Think about the money they have spent and what the results have been the past 7 years. Its almost embarrasing. They should win it every single year.
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Yup...making the playoffs 13 years in a row and winning the division 10 years in a row sure is embarrassing. I'm embarrassed to wear my Yankee hat around.
My feelings on the playoffs are well-known around these parts. The playoffs are a big crapshoot. And I value results over 162 games more than a 5-game Division Series
Do you think that the "best" team wins every year? Sure, it happened this year, but what about last year when the Cardinals won? What about when the 116-win Mariners team didnt win it all? What about when the '96 Yankees beat a clearly superior Braves team, or when an 89-win Yankee team won it all in 2000?
Maybe next year will be a down year for the Yankees (kinda like how last year was a down year for the Red Sox), but the Yankees are being smarter with their money, developing young, cheap talent, and shedding payroll so that they can buy valuable free agents. I fail to see how this is a poor long-term plan. It's certainly better than what they were doing before