There is a silver lining with the Yankees losing out on Yamamoto. NOW, the money that they WOULD have spend on ONE player can now be spent on MULTIPLE players who can help them! They can either get TWO very good starting pitchers, Jordan Montgomery AND Blake Snell. OR one of those two pitchers plus Cody Bellinger. OR one of those two pitchers plus a MUCH NEEDED 9th inning CLOSER, Josh Hader, with Clay Holmes moving to a setup reliever role. So the financial flexibility that the "loss" of Yamamoto now gives the Yankees can now result in MULTIPLE much needed pieces.

Brad Scheller

Dec 24, 2023

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Good morning and Season's Greetings Paul!

There is nothing that I would love more than to see Bellinger, Hader, Hicks, and Montgomery wrapped (does anyone EVER remember the air holes?!) under the team tree, and Jennifer Lawrence under my sheets…but my point is to not expect these things. (Jennifer—if you are reading this, I do believe, I do believe.)

I think that since “he who shall not be named” went to play for “them who shall not be named,” Hal will not be willing to spend freely. “He who” was a generational talent, but the remaining players are not. Hal will not want to spend top prospects in any trade, invest in longer term contracts for pitchers over 30 like…

jeff

Dec 24, 2023

A couple of points. Yes, the Yankees offer was approximately $300 Million and the Dodgers offer was $325 Million. BUT. The Yankees $300 Million was for 10 years. The Dodgers $325 Million was for 12 years. This makes the Yankees offer MORE PER YEAR than the Dodgers offer. ANOTHER THING: When Yamamoto met with the Dodgers, the Dodgers were able to bring in multiple Dodger players IN PERSON to be part of that meeting....INCLUDING......Yamamoto's good friend who he famously hugged after Japan won the WBC, Shohei Ohtani. I think the opportunity to have Ohtani as a teammate again, just like he was his teammate playing for Japan in the WBC was too strong a temptation to pass up.…

jeff

Dec 25, 2023

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I believe that you can never have "too much talent". In a perfect world, every player stays healthy and there will be no need to add any of those other players. But unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world, and also unfortunately, injuries to key players are inevitable. And when key players end up on the injured list, that is when adding a surplus of talent becomes the difference between a successful season, or a disappointing season of depending on players like Billy McKinney, Jake Bauers, Willie Calhoun, and Franchy Cordero to fill those holes when players get hurt. So stockpiling great talent can save the season for the Yankees, and be the difference between making the playoff…

Brad Scheller

Dec 24, 2023

Some random thoughts on the loss of "he who shall not be named" to the "they who shall not be named" in LA, and where the New York Yankees should proceed IMHO. I've been following them religiously since 1966 (and regularly attend the church of his holiness St. Horace Clarke of the Second Base).

The loss of “he who shall not be named” to the “they who shall not be named” hurt. And it hurt doubly since Roki Sasaki has declared that he wants to be posted in the winter of 2024. Sasaki said he would only consider LAD or NYY, and that he wanted to play with his friend "he who shall not be named". Guess what that means.…

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