by Paul Semendinger
January 1, 2024
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Make of this what you will. All of this from MLBTR.
There are only four MLB clubs that have not signed any free agent players this off-season yet.
Those teams are:
Colorado Rockies
Miami Marlins
Chicago Cubs and
New York Yankees.
The Yankees need pitching. The following free agent pitches have all been signed this off-season:
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Joe Kelly
Ricky Vanasco
Aaron Nola
Eduardo Rodriguez
Nick Martinez
Frankie Montas
Emilio Pagan
Buck Farmer
Seth Lugo
Michael Wacha
Chris Stratton
Will Smith
Sonny Gray
Kyle Gibson
Lance Lynn
Kenta Maeda
Jack Flaherty
Andrew Chafin
Shelby Miller
Lucas Giolito
Cooper Criswell
Reynaldo Lopez
Yuki Matsui
Tyler Mahle
Kirby Yates
Erick Fedde
Tim Hill
Chris Flexen
Luis Severino
Jorge Lopez
Michael Tonkin
Austin Adams
Martin Perez
Craig Kimbrel
Wade Miley
Joe Ross
Zach Plesac
Luis Garcia
Adam Cimber
Adam Kolarek
Ben Lively
Dylan Floro
Trevor Gott
Chris Devenski
Josh Staumont
Don't worry Has says we are just getting started....big things to come....I'll sell you a bridge!!!!
ever since the Yankees traded for Juan Soto, so many people thought that Soto would be a great help to the team and that the Yankees would win a lot of games
but
how many games has he helped them to win thus far?
Make of that what you will
some might argue that it's still too early to claim that Soto has been an utter disappointment
but to these people, we might remind that that it's NEVER too early to panic
and that a first-class organization should expect first-class results
immediately
if not sooner
Paul as Yogi would say, This feels like dejavu all over again
Signing a pitcher just for the sake of signing one is worse than not signing one at all....if it is one who is not going to perform well for the Yankees. On that list you provided, Yamamoto, Nola, and Eduardo Rodriguez are the only ones who I would have loved for the Yankees to have signed. Most of those are of the "They can have them!" variety, ones I am glad the Yankees did NOT sign.