Hot Stove League (2 Viewers)

[jazzeum]

I hadn't heard about PSLs for baseball, just football. Assuming it's football we're talking about, everybody has to pay the psl. I think for the Giants, it's $20,000 per ticket. Obscene.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Well, the Yankees got their man: CC Sabathia agreed to a 7 year deal at just under 23 million a year. Petitte also looks to re-sign with the Yanks as the 5th starter.

The Yankees are making offers to A.J. Burnett and Ben Sheets to complete their starting rotation, and are supposedly after Ankeil to play centerfield. If they land one of these two starting pitchers and the centerfielder, they will, as I projected, be overwhelming favorites in the AL East.

Their starting rotation will be:

Sabathia
Chamberlain
Wang
Burnett or Sheets
Petitte

They will have the following starting position players:

C Posada
1B Swisher
2B Cano
3B A-Rod
SS Jeter
RF Nady
CF Ankeil
LF Damon
DH Matsui

If they get both Burnett & Sheets, as well as Petitte, we might see Chamberlain back in the bullpen, where he is most effective.

 

[sammy719]

Well, the Yankees got their man: CC Sabathia agreed to a 7 year deal at just under 23 million a year. Petitte also looks to re-sign with the Yanks as the 5th starter.

The Yankees are making offers to A.J. Burnett and Ben Sheets to complete their starting rotation, and are supposedly after Ankeil to play centerfield. If they land one of these two starting pitchers and the centerfielder, they will, as I projected, be overwhelming favorites in the AL East.

Their starting rotation will be:

Sabathia
Chamberlain
Wang
Burnett or Sheets
Petitte

They will have the following starting position players:

C Posada
1B Swisher
2B Cano
3B A-Rod
SS Jeter
RF Nady
CF Ankeil
LF Damon
DH Matsui

If they get both Burnett & Sheets, as well as Petitte, we might see Chamberlain back in the bullpen, where he is most effective.

Don't want to rain on your parade there Louis, but the Yankees seem to be picked to win the a.l. east every year, but all that buying and spending hasn't bought them one championship in sometime, which of course is fine with me,as I said in another thread, maybe one day we will have a real baseball salary cap in place to make it fair like the N.F.L. has, make it fair for the entire league,not just the New Yorks and Bostons, hhmmm imagine that, sorry to sound so disgruntled, but that's the way the majority of people feel to wards baseball these days esp. me...Sammy

 

[Warrior]

Yep, the Yankees got their man alright. A month ago, they offered him a 7 year, 140 million dollar contract.

Then they heard nothing.

Now they up their offer to 23 mill a year, 161 million overall, plus a no trade, plus he can opt out after 3 years; what next, are they going to name the new stadium after him?

Wow.

This to a guy who is 0-3 with a 7.50 ERA in the playoffs the past two years. Another guy like Arod, or "Mr April" as my friend the Yankee fan calls him.

The last memory I have of CC is game 6 2006 ALCS when all he had to do was win and the Indians go back to the World Series, which they would have won for the first time since 1946 and he soiled himself and got shelled and the Red Sox went on to win their second World Series this decade, two more than the Yankees have.

Sorry about the way you feel regarding baseball Sammy; fact is the fans in Boston and New York bang out the ballpark every game, every night and as a result, the owners have plenty of revenue to spend to have a competitive team on the field.

Not our fault your ownership in Baltimore are a bunch of buffoons who do things on the cheap and when they do spend, spend on the wrong players and as a result, noone shows up at the park unless the birds are playing either the Red Sox or the Yankees; in that case, the place sells out, full of Red Sox and Yankee fans.

 

[jazzeum]

Latest is that Yankees have inside track on Lowe, 50/50 chance on Burnett, which, if that comes to pass, is a nice rotation.

Even with the rotation, the starting lineup doesn't blow me away, sorry, but with good pitching might be enough.

I agree with Sammy and said this before that there must be some type of revenue sharing a la NFL where a team like Green Bay has a shot. In baseball, that would be out of the question.

 

[sammy719]

Yep, the Yankees got their man alright. A month ago, they offered him a 7 year, 140 million dollar contract.

Then they heard nothing.

Now they up their offer to 23 mill a year, 161 million overall, plus a no trade, plus he can opt out after 3 years; what next, are they going to name the new stadium after him?

Wow.

This to a guy who is 0-3 with a 7.50 ERA in the playoffs the past two years. Another guy like Arod, or "Mr April" as my friend the Yankee fan calls him.

The last memory I have of CC is game 6 2006 ALCS when all he had to do was win and the Indians go back to the World Series, which they would have won for the first time since 1946 and he soiled himself and got shelled and the Red Sox went on to win their second World Series this decade, two more than the Yankees have.

Sorry about the way you feel regarding baseball Sammy; fact is the fans in Boston and New York bang out the ballpark every game, every night and as a result, the owners have plenty of revenue to spend to have a competitive team on the field.

Not our fault your ownership in Baltimore are a bunch of buffoons who do things on the cheap and when they do spend, spend on the wrong players and as a result, noone shows up at the park unless the birds are playing either the Red Sox or the Yankees; in that case, the place sells out, full of Red Sox and Yankee fans.

Warrior, why don't think before you type once in awhile, I could care less if Boston sold out every game and made a trillion dollars, that's not the issue or how bad the Orioles have been, it's a salary cap issue, when you have three or four teams having a monopoly it gets a little old, one day maybe M.L.B. will wake up and try to become America's game again, and not just Bostons and New Yorks, my hope is another bottom dweller knocks off your boys (redsox) again this year, and the next and the next, well you get my picture, ....Sammy

 

[Warrior]

"Warrior, why don't think before you type once in awhile, I could care less if Boston sold out every game and made a trillion dollars, that's not the issue or how bad the Orioles have been, it's a salary cap issue, when you have three or four teams having a monopoly it gets a little old, one day maybe M.L.B. will wake up and try to become America's game again, and not just Bostons and New Yorks, my hope is another bottom dweller knocks off your boys (redsox) again this year, and the next and the next, well you get my picture, ....Sammy"

Any team that spends over the limit MLB has imposed has to give that excess back to the other owners, and what are they doing with the money, spending it on their team, nope, putting it in their pocket.

My point about the Red Sox and Yankees selling out every game is that gives them more money to play with.

As far as the Red Sox and Yankees having a monopoly as you claim they do, let's look at the facts and go back to the 2001 World Series and look at the teams who've made it.

We've got Arizona, New York (twice), Florida, St Louis (twice), Colorado, San Francisco, LA Angels, Boston (twice), Detroit, Chicago White Sox, Houston Astros, Philadelphia and Tampa Bay. During that time, Oakland, Cleveland, Minnesota, LA Dodgers, NY Mets, Atlanta, Milwaukee and the Chicago Cubs have all made the playoffs.

So over the past eight years, 22 different teams have made the playoffs and the ones you claim have a monopoly (NY and Boston) have won a grand total of two World Series.

The remaining teams; Royals, Rangers, Mariners, Pirates, Reds, Padres Nationals, Blue Jays and the Orioles don't spend five cents.

Telling me to think before I post and wishing bad luck on the Red Sox is uncalled for too by the way, what's with the personal attack?

 

[Louis Badolato]

I would much rather see the Yankees land those three pitchers than spend the money on Texiera. However, with 90 million dollars of salary freed up by the Yankees cutting loose Giambi, Pettitte, Mussina, Pavano and Abreu, the Yanks probably can sign all three pitchers and still make the biggest offer to Texiera.

The only big free agent that the Yanks don't seem prepared to make a run at is K-Rod.

Looks like the Yankees landed the top two available free agent pitchers (Sabathia and Burnett) and Texiera. If they re-sign Petitte for a year, I think they, like the '97 Marlins, may succeed in buying a championship.