CASHMAN GO GET TEIXIERA MAKE HIM A YANKEE

by JUMBOHAWK on Dec 13, 2008 7:03 PM EST Comment 19 comments

I AM HOPING THE YANKS GET REALLY GREEDY AND ALSO GET MARK TEIXEIRA

NOT ONLY TO SCREW THE REDSOX NATION BUT TO FILL IN THE MUCH NEEDED HITTING AND GREAT FIELDING FIRST BASEMAN WE HAVE BEEN WITHOUT SINCE TINO RETIRED AND WE GOT STUCK WITH GIAMBI THAT STIFF WE NEED TO FILL THAT HOLE IN THE LINE UP THAT HAS BEEN VACATED BY BOBBY ABREU LEAVING THIS GUY IS A YANKEE ICON IN THE MAKING HE IS AGREAT HITTER AWESOM FIELDER AND CLEAN CUT HE WILL BE AS BELOVED AS TINO AND MATTINGLY GIVEN THE OPPURTUNITY AND LENTHLY CONTRACT TO PERFORM IN NEW STADIUM WE NEED A NEW FIRST BASEMAN TO LEAD THE YANKEES TO SOME NEW CHAMPIONSHIPS

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It's too obvious a move

for Cashman to see. This is a mediocre offensive team right now just like last season. Who is supposed to protect A-Rod in this lineup not only this season but for years to come. The moron GM doesn’t know how to think outside the box.

by RealityCheck09 on Dec 13, 2008 7:09 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Not sure how such an "obvious move" can be

considered “thinking outside the box,” but signing Texiera for the next—at least—9 years is ridiculous. The idea is that Cano will play better and Matsui and Posada will just play. If those things don’t happen then adding one bat in the middle of the lineup probably won’t make too much difference anyway.

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener. --Billy Martin

by garp on Dec 14, 2008 12:47 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Adding a top five hitter in the game

won’t make a difference. You’ve got to be kidding me. And subtracting Abreu and Giambi and adding aging players off major injuries doesn’t make a significant improvement in this lineup.

by RealityCheck09 on Dec 14, 2008 11:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You sound like Texiera's agent...anyway, no, adding a "top five" hitter won't

make much difference if Posada and Matsui don’t produce and Cano continues to regress and Jeter has another down year. He was on a better team than the Yankees last year and I don’t remember seeing him celebrating much at the end of the year.

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener. --Billy Martin

by garp on Dec 15, 2008 11:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It was his fault they didn't go further in the playoffs.

What an ignorant statement. And regardless of what Matusi and Posada do this year Tex would be a great addition for this lineup for many years but like the moron Cashman your vision only goes as far as 2009.

by RealityCheck09 on Dec 15, 2008 9:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You apparently have sub par reading skills so maybe you should

read slower, I did not say that it was his fault that the Angels did not go further in the playoffs just that it made no difference having him. The same would go for the Yankees if the rest of the team tanks. Oh and in the future try not to be such a douche.

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener. --Billy Martin

by garp on Dec 15, 2008 11:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

How is Cashman short-sighted?

We’re not going after Tex because we don’t want his bat or defense. It’s the money both long- and short-term. And it’s the fact he’ll be another huge long-term contract that will prohibit our flexibility in the future. Part of that flexibility may mean leaving 1B open for one of our aging players now at another position.

"If you lived in my grandfather's house...and you wanted to eat, you had to be a Yankees fan." --Joe Biden

by SenorSwanky on Dec 16, 2008 12:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

What people don't get is

that Posada at 39 is very unlikely to be a productive corner infield bat and Jeter should come nowhere near first base. It would be one thing if Jeter was a power hitter like Nomar going to first but Jeter’s bat in 2-3 years at first will be a detriment to the club.

by RealityCheck09 on Dec 16, 2008 2:01 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

So...

…you’re saying we shouldn’t re-sign Jeter after the ’10 season?

"If you lived in my grandfather's house...and you wanted to eat, you had to be a Yankees fan." --Joe Biden

by SenorSwanky on Dec 16, 2008 2:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

And who is this

quality SS that’s supposed to force Jeter to a position that he shouldn’t be playing?

by RealityCheck09 on Dec 16, 2008 6:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Generally...

Shortstops lose their range by their mid-30s, and people are already complaining about Jeter’s defense. Cal Ripken moved to 3B at the end of his career. Nomar is 35 and already hasn’t been a regular SS for 2 or 3 years. Carlos Guillen started playing games at both 1B and 3B a few seasons ago and permanently gave up short last season at age 32. I’m sure there are other examples I’m not thinking of.

We don’t have a replacement in our system. Our infield prospects are weak right now. If Jeter moves, which he doesn’t want to now, and which we can’t have him do, at least in 2009, we’d have to get a free agent, at least short-term. Hopefully we’ll develop a shortstop for the future soon.

"If you lived in my grandfather's house...and you wanted to eat, you had to be a Yankees fan." --Joe Biden

by SenorSwanky on Dec 16, 2008 11:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

that would

actually be a very reasonable move. unless he shows in the next two season that his improved defense this year
(accordnig to UZR and PMR) was not a fluke

by RollingWave on Dec 18, 2008 5:05 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Is this a cable?

Dude, what’s with the caps and lack of any punctuation (or sense) at all?

As I noted in my “Non-tendered Players—New Free Agents—and My 2009 Yankees” post, if we sign Teixeira as well as Mike Cameron and Andy Pettitte, our 2009 payroll will be upwards of $220 million—far exceeding our own MLB record. That just makes no sense. We would love to have Teixeira, sure, but he’d just be icing on the cake; we can get by without him, and I don’t think he’ll be a superstar in the 6th, 7th, and 8th years of the contract we’d have to give him, at least not one worth $20 million a year. Plus, we have to have a place in a few years for Jeter or Posada, and then, hopefully a few years after that, Jesus Montero (who could also take Posada’s starting catcher role, but he’s rather tall and bulky for a catcher and is believed likely to switch to a 1B, like the Giants’ Pablo Sandoval and possibly Jarrod Saltalamacchia).

"If you lived in my grandfather's house...and you wanted to eat, you had to be a Yankees fan." --Joe Biden

by SenorSwanky on Dec 14, 2008 1:40 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Tex cost too much

we already spent enough on the right thing, pitching. Our offense will be fine, swisher will be average at first and we’re above average at 3b, C, OF. This team is shaping up well on paper. Until we get to camp we just won’t know how this team will gel. Tex is just another money-grubbing Boras guy who cares nothing about winning and everything about the right thing for him and Boras.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ~Rogers Hornsby

by kdog on Dec 14, 2008 6:44 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

This post is a textbook example of stereotypical Yankee fan rants.

All caps, no punctuation, comparisons of modern mercenaries to halcyon legends, and an overly optimistic view of the probabilities for playoff success. All that’s missing is the irrational bile towards A-Rod and the lionization of Derek Jeter.

"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.

by 0157H7 on Dec 14, 2008 11:22 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Wow.

That was kind of douchey. Then again, perhaps it’s not so surprising to find a Yankee fan rant on a New York Yankees blog.

Break Out The Oreos: not exactly a baseball blog.

by dzawaki on Dec 15, 2008 11:12 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

We don't need Tex ...

Instead, lets go get Prince Fielder. We’ve obviously scrapped our “build-from-within” philosophy, and have taken a more historical approach which is to raid other team’s stars. However, we have some great young arms in A, AA, AAA that are now likely blocked with CC, Burnett, Joba, Wang, most, if not all of these arms aren’t going to see the light of day in NYC. So package them up for a young stud bat—like Prince Fielder.

The Brewers need pitlching … We are loaded with prospects. In my opinion this would be a better move than landing Tex for $175m.

"Baseball is the background music of my life." -George Will

by Ronster22 on Dec 15, 2008 12:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

We have not abandoned our development philosophy

Sabathia will likely be gone after 3 years, Pettitte (if he signs) after 1, and Burnett after 5. Hughes or Kennedy or Aceves could already take one rotation spot if we don’t sign Pettitte, and they can take it next year if we do. In 2012, another pitcher (Hughes, Kennedy, Aceves, Coke, Brackman, who knows?) will have an opening. If you’re 22 now, you’ll be 25 then; that’s still young.

Next year, we’re going to have a whole new outfield. Plenty of room for Gardner, Jackson, et al. We’ll probably have to sign at least one if not two short-term free agents there because Gardner and Jackson may not be ready, but they will be soon.

Jose Molina is a free agent. We will probably re-sign him, but if we do for two years, maybe by 2012, Jesus Montero or Austin Romine or both will be ready.

"If you lived in my grandfather's house...and you wanted to eat, you had to be a Yankees fan." --Joe Biden

by SenorSwanky on Dec 15, 2008 2:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't see much development, lately ...

With a plethora of strong young arms, we go and drop $200 XL on two pitchers. That’s not development that’s free enterprise at work. If we weren’t the Yankees, if we didn’t have to win every year, we wouldn’t have signed either of these guys and we would have attempted to build a strong rotation from within. We aren’t going to do that. After last season’s fiasco, it simply isn’t going to happen again. Sure, we might see Hughes fill out the 5th spot, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we knock down one more starter with a fat billfold.

As for our offense, I don’t see Gardner being a starter. At best I see a 4th or 5th OF. I’ve heard mixed reviews on Jackson (plus how much of his hype is Yankee hype). As for Montero or Romine, I think you are being generous on their timetable—especially when in May the Yankees realize that Posada can’t throw anyone out.

The biggest mistake that we are making right now is not going hard after a young catcher like Salty, or even Teagarden. Even if we have to part with some talent. We need someone who can catch nearly everyday. I don’t think Posada will make it from day one, and then it’s too late. Not landing a catcer who is MLB ready is going to hurt us bigtime in 2009.

"Baseball is the background music of my life." -George Will

by Ronster22 on Dec 15, 2008 8:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs