My Thoughts on Recent Tweets (X) - (1/29/25)
- Paul Semendinger
- Jan 29
- 2 min read
By Paul Semendinger
January 29, 2025
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My Thoughts - The Yankees should be all over this.
My Thoughts - These comments are getting a lot of press. Jeff Passan made these comments on the Michael Kay Show yesterday.
Hummmm, I have been saying the same things since this blog started in 2017.
My Thoughts - And then Hal Steinbrenner says it himself. The mighty Yankees, he says, can't compete with the Dodgers financially.
This is what the Yankees are reduced to. "Well, the Dodgers are great, but they can't compete if a player gets injured..."
Really?
My Thoughts - So many are saying this. So many. (Finally.) The Yankees could spend, they just choose not to
My Thoughts - I do not collect baseball cards any longer, and I'm sure the packs for cards like this are priced at a ridiculous level, but, Topps has been showing some of the very unique cards they're now making on Twitter. Imagine getting a John Hancock autograph?! That would be amazing.
My Thoughts - The Yankees should not be expecting anything out of D.J. LeMahieu. And they still owe him $30 million over two more years. I remember when he was signed and so many (not me) thought the deal was a good one. The Yankees are tied to a budget that is preventing them from getting needed players because they have made deal that didn't make sense at the time and makes less sense today. (Unfortunately, that's been the case every year of the LeMahieu contract.)
My Thoughts - Tickets for Opening Day are on sale. You can even sit down by the field. The Yankees are charging a just bit for fans to sit in the good seats. (This next graphic is a screen shot I took from the Yankees' ticket site.)
There are 15 seats in that row. There are 10 rows in just that section.
$643.75 x 15 (seats in the row) = $9,656.25.
$9,656.25 x 10 (rows) = $96,562.50.
As of the writing of this article there were four empty seats in that specicific section. Most of the other seats in those sections (between the dugouts behind home plate) are sold out. (See next graphic.) By count, there are 14 sections that seem to be in this price range. They all do not have the same amount of seats, but as a rough estimate...
$96,562.50 x 14 (sections) = $1,351,875.00.
That's over a million dollars coming in, for one small section of the stadium, for one game. That (of course) doesn't include any additional monies the people sitting there will pay for anything else while they are there.
Care to see what that number would be over 81 home games? (Are you sitting down?)
$1,351,875.00 x 81 (home games) = $109,501,875.00.
Rough estimate, these seats account for about only 2,100 of the 47,000 seats in Yankee Stadium.
Make of all that what you will.
the Yankees ARE spending
and I'm rather unsure that they should be castigated for failing to pay through the nostrils to sign Soto, a truly excellent hitter and not an excellent all-around ballplayer.
perhaps the organization should be reprimanded for the utter failure to move to the West Coast which has left it in poor position to sign young Asian players.
BTW, so much for Ha-Seong Kim: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43614016/sources-ha-seong-kim-rays-agree-2-year-29m-deal
I've made this comment several times recently, but I find myself having to say it again, even if I use slightly different words.
Randy Levine, current New York Yankees Team President, & brought in by George in 2000, continues to make noise all the time about revenue sharing. Don't you think he has the ear of Hal, and strongly advise him why he shouldn't spend over X amount? But on the flip side, if I'm Levine doing that, I'd be putting pressure on the farm system to constantly produce players, not just have a few in cluster groups every few years
But to defend Levine POV, I really do not see how several revenue receiving teams still get their money…
Of course, the Yankees make a ton of bank ... no surprise however Hal complaining about the Dodgers spending is RICH.... I imagine during the season..... he gets a weekly Excel spreadsheet! If you do not have the "passion" for baseball, then you become just another corporate button down guy counting the money!