Some rival executives believe that the Dodgers could offer a two-year, $30 million deal to Ramirez...

Some rival executives believe that the Dodgers could offer a two-year, $30 million deal to Ramirez and still have the highest bid on the table...

At that price, the Yankees should make a run at Manny, even if it goes up to $40 million.

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Matsui would have to go

if we started talking about Manny.

Crowds are won and lost and won again, but our hearts beat for the diehards.

by Edwantsacracker on Feb 1, 2009 9:09 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

no problem there

At least Manny can play an average LF. Matsui can’t even do that nowadays due to injuries.

by Travis G on Feb 1, 2009 3:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

No

Not even if he’s free

If I's known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself. Casey

by Cbeck3 on Feb 1, 2009 9:55 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

thats a little too far...

Crowds are won and lost and won again, but our hearts beat for the diehards.

by Edwantsacracker on Feb 1, 2009 12:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

If you gave away

Matsui just to unload his contract, at $15M per year Manny costs an extra $2M.
You have to kick the tires on that.

"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

by jscape2000 on Feb 1, 2009 12:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

i have been been a "No Manny" guy all along...

but even I would have to admit that you be hard to pass on…

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by NumberSeven on Feb 1, 2009 2:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It will never happen

Manny at $15M would still cost them roughly $25M for 2009 because they’d not only have to trade Matsui – but they’d be forced to eat most of his $13M salary on top of it.

Matsui at his age, his salary, his health issues, and his no trade clause makes him damn near impossible to trade. So in order to trade him, the Yanks would have to really make it worthwhile for someone. That means eating most of that $13M contract.

I don’t think there’s any chance in hell the Yanks get into any Manny sweepstakes.

Frankly, I don’t want him on this team anyways. The Yanks can win without him because they’ve finally assembled the best stable of horses in that rotation they’ve had since the dynasty years.

by anaconda on Feb 1, 2009 4:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

If Many could be had for 15 mil

I would say go for it.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby

by sdhman11 on Feb 1, 2009 5:14 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Manny for free

is too expensive. No thanks.

by BrianByron on Feb 1, 2009 8:51 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

NO MANNY EVER

Its never gonna happen people. really. no REALLY. We can all drop it. Manny Ramirez will not be a Yankee.
Lets move on.

Munson15

by Munson15 on Feb 2, 2009 3:51 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

No Manny ...

Let’s not upset the tea-cart by adding Manny. We don’t need him, his attitude, or the baggage. Let him stay in LA, or let the Mets take a flier on him. We need to stay away from Manny.

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

by Ronster22 on Feb 2, 2009 9:06 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

1 year deal or nothing

Or we will get a year of lazy manny and a year of I wanna make some money manny.

by ryanwk628 on Feb 2, 2009 3:27 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yanks should bring on Manny

They should take him because he’s a clutch power hitting monster. That’s all the reason they need.

Forget about that he was on the redsox. Players move so much these days….how can any team really ban any player due to where he came from? The Yanks already had Boggs, Clemens and Damon…….so why not Manny? Baggage?

Reggie Jackson had baggage…..Clemens had baggage…..lots of great players had baggage…..so what.

The guy hits. Sign him at 12-15 million for 2 years and call it a day.

by Ragnar808 on Feb 2, 2009 4:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

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You forgot the part about how much it would cost to get him and the roster moves they’d have to make (Matsui) simply to make room for the guy. They already have too many outfielders as it is and the trade market sucks right now.

It would be a much less complicated scenario if they needed a DH and hadn’t already spent $430M + this offseason.

You may think the Yanks have an unlimited budget but they don’t. Too many Yankee fans just don’t understand that.

by anaconda on Feb 2, 2009 5:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

What about moving Nady and/or Swisher for Manny? Trade them for more bullpen or something. I’m not saying they HAVE to do this….but I find it surprising that they haven’t tried——At least there’s no news of offers to speak off.

Matsui seems to get the injury bug, and Damon and those legs! Who knows if/when they go down.

I know they don’t have a bottomless pit of money…..otherwise they could fund their own stadium ;)

Again….just throwing it out there that with what Manny could bring, they could get creative, make some moves, restructure salaries or whatever and make it happen.

Maybe manny is too much drama for all that, but I’m just thinking that bat would certainly help out :)

by Ragnar808 on Feb 2, 2009 9:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

they haven't tried trading Nady or Swisher??

ummm, yes they have..

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by NumberSeven on Feb 2, 2009 10:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The market for corner outfielders sucks right now as evidenced by so many of them on the FA market without a team.

Why would a team want to trade for Nady or Swisher when they can simply sign a FA like Dunn or Abreu on the cheap and not have to give up anyone in exchange?

Matsui is even tougher to trade because of his age, health, inability to play the field, and his no trade clause.

It’s not that easy to move players now – especially corner outfielders.

Sabathia made sense. A second starter like Burnett made sense. Pettitte made sense. Teixeira made sense.

Manny does not make sense given the logjam they already have in the outfield and the money it would cost to make that happen.

by anaconda on Feb 2, 2009 10:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

a trade could happen

bc there are teams that would rather trade players than sign them. a big reason Dunn and Abreu are still available is bc they’re Type A FAs. i personally would rather trade for a Nady/Swisher/Matsui-type (and have the Yanks pay for some of their contract) than buy one of those RFers AND give up a 1st rd pick.

the reason a trade hasn’t happened is merely that Cash doesnt feel the need to do it. our OF is excellent. a glut of good players is a good thing. IF we got Manny, then i’m positive a trade would happen.

Manny is the 2nd best (non-PED) hitter over the past 10 years, and one of the best RH hitters of all time. those guys are extremely few and far between.

and for all intents and purposes, the Yankees do not have a budget. we’ve seen that time and again. they’ll make financial room for the right player(s). and the payroll is about equal to last year’s, so it’s not like they’re destroying 2008’s payroll.

by Travis G on Feb 3, 2009 4:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Signing Abreu or Dunn wouldn’t cost anyone a draft pick because neither were offered arbitration by their respective 2008 teams (Yanks and D-Backs).

Here’s the list of FAs that were offered arbitration this offseason and those who weren’t.

The Yanks do indeed have a budget. Some Yankee fans just don’t want to believe it. They seem pretty intent on having a lower payroll than last season.

I don’t see any chance in hell Manny becomes a Yankee. They aren’t going to make major roster changes to accommodate a clubhouse cancer who would cost them a boatload more money than it would cost anyone else (including how much it would cost them to eat Matsui’s contract and dump Nady).

by anaconda on Feb 3, 2009 5:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

damn

forget that they werent offered arb.

please stop with the ‘Manny is a clubhouse cancer’ schtick. he led Boston to two titles and brought a near-dead Dodgers team within 2 wins of the Series.

by Travis G on Feb 4, 2009 5:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You may not like it

but the truth of the matter is that Manny did quit on the the Red Sox to force his way out of Boston. You can sugar coat it all you like – but that’s what happened.

He faked a knee injury and Theo called him on it – forcing him to get an MRI on both knees because he forgot which knee was "hurting."

The way that situation played out is why the Dodgers are the only team that has shown any real interest in signing him. No other team has made him an offer. GMs from around the league know full well what he did in Boston and they don’t trust him enough to give him a multi-year deal.

If that’s not the reputation of a clubhouse cancer, I don’t know what is. Let him go somewhere else.

by anaconda on Feb 5, 2009 12:19 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs