The implications will be felt for awhile now that 1b is gone. What happens to Posada? ARod in a few years?
Not really he'd just be JD Drew 2.0 an above-average hitter who is getting too much money. The Yankees are no better than the Braves, 6 division titles and 0 world series titles to show for it since 2000. You can have the lousy division title while I'll take the rings.
I love how Mets fans are ripping on Tex AFTER he signs with the Yankees. Anyone on the Mets would love to have him for 8 years, too.
Except the Yankees have 39 pennants(?) and WS 26 titles. Other than that they are the same as the Braves...lol Oh, and the Braves did win 1. Oh, since 2000. Why do you losers think baseball only started being played in 2000? Is it because you were invisible for most of the 100 years prior?
Not on this list. http://www.sportscity.com/MLB/Type-A-and-Type-B-MLB-Free-Agents/ At least not that I can see. Anyway, is it 3 plus what you lost or 3 including what you lost?
You can't backload. Well, you can, but payrolls are calculated by AAV, not what they actually pay that year.
Don't know where that list came from but straight from ESPN Type A Bobby Abreu (Yankees) Doug Brocail (Astros) A.J. Burnett (Blue Jays) Pat Burrell (Phillies) Orlando Cabrera (White Sox) Juan Cruz (Diamondbacks) Ryan Dempster (Cubs) Adam Dunn (Diamondbacks) Brian Fuentes (Rockies) Brian Giles (Padres) Bob Howry (Cubs) Orlando Hudson (Diamondbacks) Raul Ibanez (Mariners) Jason Isringhausen (Cardinals) Derek Lowe (Dodgers) Damaso Marte (Yankees) Jamie Moyer (Phillies) Mike Mussina (Yankees) Darren Oliver (Angels) Oliver Perez (Mets) Andy Pettitte (Yankees) Manny Ramirez (Dodgers) Edgar Renteria (Tigers) Francisco Rodriguez (Angels) C.C. Sabathia (Brewers) Ben Sheets (Brewers) Russ Springer (Cardinals) Mark Teixeira (Angels) Jason Varitek (Red Sox) Kerry Wood (Cubs) That's 30 Type As, though Giles and Marte may have their options picked up and Mussina may retire. Type B Jeremy Affeldt (Reds) Moises Alou (Mets) Garret Anderson (Angels) Luis Ayala (Mets) Joe Beimel (Dodgers) Casey Blake (Dodgers) Hank Blalock (Rangers) Milton Bradley (Rangers) Paul Byrd (Red Sox) Mike Cameron (Brewers) Alan Embree (Athletics) Eric Gagne (Brewers) Jon Garland (Angels) Luis Gonzalez (Marlins) Ken Griffey Jr. (White Sox) Mark Grudzielanek (Royals) Trevor Hoffman (Padres) Randy Johnson (Diamondbacks) Jeff Kent (Dodgers) Paul Lo Duca (Marlins) Braden Looper (Cardinals) Mark Loretta (Astros) Brandon Lyon (Diamondbacks) Greg Maddux (Dodgers) Trever Miller (Rays) Miguel Olivo (Royals) Brad Penny (Dodgers) Dennys Reyes (Twins) Arthur Rhodes (Marlins) Ivan Rodriguez (Yankees) Rudy Seanez (Phillies) Brian Shouse (Brewers) John Smoltz (Braves) Frank Thomas (Athletics) Salomon Torres (Brewers) Juan Uribe (White Sox) David Weathers (Reds) Randy Wolf (Astros) Gregg Zaun (Blue Jays) That's 36 Type Bs, though Cameron, Embree, Miller, Olivo, Penny, and Torres could have their options picked up and Alou, Griffey, Kent, and Maddux could retire.
Are you kidding me... Only the Yankees can bring a Jets fan down in the dumps to see some positive signs... I'm at work and see it on the bottom line and am STUNNED to see this. Way excited considering I had my hopes for Manny since I thought Tiex was going to Bawston...Now the Yanks get Tiex? Unreal. Thankyou!!
This is so fucking ridiculous. I'm still furious. The Red Sox front office with the exception of their scouting/drafting department need to go. Your biggest rivals go out and sign the top two pitchers and the top hitter and your biggest move is a toss up between signing a Japanese minor leaguer and getting new hats? Go kill yourselves you cheap bastards.
The Red Sox way of doing things has resulted in two championships and a perennial playoff team for the past 8 years. The Yankee way of doing things has led to lots of playoff disappointment and bloated payrolls filled with past their prime players making way more money then they deserve vis a via their production. Yet you're mad the Red Sox don't act like the Yankees. The mind boggles.
This is a great signing for the Yanks, one I am not surprised by. I just had a feeling that the Yanks would end up with him. You have to give Cashman credit, he played this perfectly. He knew Boston was heavily involved so he kept quiet about his interest and then pounced when the market came back to him. Complain all you want about Cashman but he played this to perfection & came away with the second best hitter(best all around player) on the market along with the best pitcher and a boom or bust pitcher. Great offseason for the Yanks.
You are rewriting history there. Yes you won 2 WS in 90 odd years, You MISSED the playoffs in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2006 so define perennial. The Yankees missed the playoffs once in the last 14 years and that was last year. In that period they went to 6 WSs and won 4 of them. The Sox should definitely act more like the Yankees if they care about their fans. You don't let your top priority get away to your hated rival over an average of a million dollars a year (or less), not when you are talking about 170 million to begin with.
Cot's already has Teixiera's contract posted. He will make 20 in each of his first two years and get a 5 million signing bonus. Mark Teixeira 1b 8 years/$180M (2009-16) * 8 years/$180M (2009-16) o signed by NY Yankees as a free agent 12/23/08 o $5M signing bonus o 09:$20M, 10:$20M, 11-16:$22.5M annually o full no-trade clause
Obviously one more reason why it was smart to sign Teixiera. I am sure they will sell now and that will offset his salary by a few million. " NEW YORK (AP) -- Selling suites may not be so sweet a business for the New York Yankees in these tough economic times. Seven luxury boxes down the foul lines priced at $600,000 remain available for the 2009 season, the first at the new Yankee Stadium. The team still had seven available in August, too. "There's no getting away from the fact that the world is different than it was, so traffic slows," chief operating officer Lonn Trost said Tuesday. "So you don't have 10 people banging on the door. You may only have two people." Trost said in August that 44 of 51 suites priced at $600,000 to $850,000 had been committed, and that the $650,000 and $850,000 suites had sold out. " http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=485176 BTW, that seems like a bargain to me. There must be other charges too. That only works out to about $7500 a game and I don't know how many seats each box has but there are plenty of seats behind home plate that go for $2500 per seat per game. As much as I don't like him, at this point I probably wouldn't mind if they made Hughes the 5th starter if Pettitte doesn't hurry up with an answer. The only problem with that would be if someone gets hurt. Then there is nobody other than Kennedy to step in.
In the 00's we have 3 WS apps, 1 WS Chamopionship and 7 AL East Titles. The Sox have 2 WS apps, 2 WS titles and 1 AL East Title. Don't act like the Sox are a dynasty.
The Sox have missed the playoffs 4 times in the last 8 years, the Yanks once. There's no question the Sox have been better in recent years and have done better in october but let's not re-write history. The Yanks have still had a good decade w/ 1 WS title, 3 apps and 7 div titles.
