Yu Darvish has announced that he will be posted today.The star Japanese right-hander will be expensive for the team with the highest bid. If the New York Yankees were that team, they would have to pay his posting fee and his contract. The good news is his posting fee will not count toward a team's payroll or luxury tax.Darvish will probably cost north of $100 million total but he has incredible upside that could make him worth even more. Many people are wary giving Japanese pitchers millions of dollars but ...
I really don't know how this is going to turn out, but it is fascinating. To me, Mickey Mantle was the greatest player I ever saw (yes, I saw Willie Mays), but Carl Yastrzemski had some seasons that rank with Mantle's best. Carl Yastrzemski is baseball's last Triple Crown winner. In 1967, he batted .326, hit 44 home runs and batted in 121 runs. Yaz also led the league with a .418 on base average, in slugging with a .622 mark and in total bases (360). In 1956, Mantle batted .353 ...
Whenever a starting pitcher becomes available, we can expect the New York Yankees to be interested.When it is a 25-year-old starter who is under team control through the 2015 season, you can guarantee the Yankees will be inquiring.That is exactly what happened yesterday when the New York Mets let it be known that Jonathan Niese was available, as Brian Cashman put a call into Mets GM Sandy Alderson.Reportedly, the Mets are looking for a big package in return for Niese, including prospects and a place-holder starting pitcher.Obvious positions the Mets ...
It feels like it's been a lifetime since the New York Yankees were knocked out of the MLB postseason in October. Since then, it's been a quiet trip to December and nothing since entering the Winter Meetings in Dallas. With the big names on the free-agent market beginning to find their places to sign, the Yankees still find themselves with the same old problems in their starting rotation. Enter Yu Darvish. It was estimated the Japanese star wouldn't be posted until January, but instead Darvish is ready now. Let the games ...
UPDATE (10:13 a.m.): According to Tim Brown of Yahoo, the Los Angeles Angels will sign first baseman Albert Pujols to a 10-year deal worth around $250 million to $260 million.Looks like the Angels were the team after all and landed their guy. -------------------------Ah, the "mystery team."A phrase in free agent negotiations that can either spoof an agent or a team into doing wild and very crazy things in regards to a contract.Last year, the Yankees and Rangers dealt with that when they were negotiating with pitcher Cliff Lee and a mystery team ...
Consider this for a minute.Multiple sources have indicated that a third mystery team is involved in the Albert Pujols sweepstakes, in addition to the St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. ESPN's Jayson Stark wrote the following:"The identity of the reported third team remained unknown. But people within the sport suggested it was likely to be a club that has an established, big-name first baseman it would need to trade before it could complete a deal with Pujols."There are a short list of teams who fit this description. One is ...
The Yankees have been conspicuously quiet this week. They won the rights to negotiate with Hiroyuki Nakajima, but since he plays in the middle infield, he likely won't be a factor for awhile. Otherwise, the Yankees have done nothing and have been in very few significant rumors.Of course, this is usually when they come out of nowhere to do something big. Listening to Brian Cashman these days is interesting. He is more serene than he has ever been.It seems he is finally commanding the ship and he is preaching patience. ...
In their most active days since the offseason began, the New York Yankees are busy positioning themselves to get a deal done, and ultimately to prepare themselves for a 2012 World Series run. They successfully posted the highest bid for Japanese shortstop Noriyuki Nakajima, and have recently placed A.J. Burnett on the trading block with a promise to pay at least $8 million of $33 million he is owed over the next two seasons. Both moves surprise me and may be speaking volumes about what the Yankees are preparing to ...
Brian Cashman and the New York Yankees have been dead silent at the Winter Meetings in Dallas, Texas but Cashman has said that they have remained active looking for a possible deal. Cashman has said that he will not be stupid or make a move just for the sake of making moves, which makes sense because the Yankees have very promising prospects they do not wish to trade.Lets look at six ideas to improve their roster this offseason.Begin Slideshow
Going into Wednesday, the New York Yankees winter had been very quiet.At the baseball winter meetings in Dallas, Yankees GM Brian Cashman had not been very active.However, it looks like he's been very stealth in his move-making.According to Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated and WFAN, the Yankees won the bidding rights for Japanese shortstop Hiroyuki Nakajima. The winning bid for the shortstop was roughly around $2 million, and now the Yankees will have 30 days to negotiate a deal for the Japanese infielder.According to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports, Nakajima ...