...Andujar may get a shot to man 3B but here's a thought...if the Yanx are even considering bringing back Todd Frazier who'd likely want a 3 year deal, why not just bring back Eduardo Nunez instead?
...unless he's willing to play for free, or will take a ONE year deal, just say no. We already have enough "all or nothing" hitters already. ...Frazier, Judge, Stanton, Sanchez, and Bird average striking out 1 out of every 3-4 ABs.
Totus, Hes's been good for a few years now. He revamped the way they drafted, made some good international signings and got great returns for his relief pitching dumping of miller and chapman who he got back and also beltran. The farm is loaded now and thats no accident. Now he can use some of them to bring back some young starting pitching and the farm will still be loaded.
...from what I've read, nearly everyone has asked about Machado...though he'd essentially be only a one year rental the O's would still be asking a ton for him. ...plus, I'd doubt if they'd trade him to another AL East team.
I see yanks trading for one of those young starting pitchers. They don't need machado right now and besides boras is not signing an extension and always takes his player to free agency. If yanks really want him then they could sign him as a free agent next year. If by some miracle trade ever happened you'd probably be talking a package of frazier and sheffield imo
...I can understand why the Yanx might want Machado but I don't understand why they'd want him for only one year while also paying a heavy price for what it would take to acquire him.
Well aware of his track record, you are missing my point. He's the same Cashman he's always been. Smart but not sharo and never ever Shrewd. He was never as bad when he got flamed and he doesn't rate a love fest now. He will always be mediocre, but the size of his wallet and check book give him opportunity to shine. These also provide opportunity for extreme folly. I mean lest we forget those that should not be named....ahole, brown, etc etc. Same Cashman. Why he seems better is that the young talent and their performance have limited things Cashman can do if he wants to keep working in baseball. It's hard to congratulate a man for breathing because he wants to live, lol! What I'm impressed by is the fact that Jeter did the sound business move where one could expect the temptation to serve some cold revenge. However he's always been a class act and we can expect that to continue in Miami. Dumbfounded that Miami trolls think this was a 2003 revenge move.
When derek was with the yankees he always said the right things and had the right optics and eventually he probably will as well with the marlins. His problems thus far there were with some of the people he clumsily let go, the letting go of a scout while being treated for cancer and the botching of the stanton deal (by that I mean how it was handled) not talking to stanton when he became owner and especially not sitting down with him beforehand to discus with him where he would accept going since he had a no trade clause. Instead his inexperience as a management person led him to waste time and make trades with the cardinals and giants which were fruitless cause stanton had no intention of going to either place. In the end he got 4 teams stanton would agree to go to and had to make a deal with the team he least wanted to make a deal with the yankees as the prospects offered were negligible the yanks paid the most on stanton contracts which I think was the major goal. Derek has always been someone seen and not heard which allowed him to have the great reputation he always had with the yanks. I think as he's learning in his new role he'll figure it out sooner than later and also eventually have the same kind of success with the marlins he had with the yanks.
...I will add that much of the reason why Cashman was able to acquire all those prospects last year was out of necessity because the team was floundering due in very large part to the bad moves/trades/acquisitions he had made in the past...I'm happy that most of his more recent moves seem to have panned out but I cannot give him a pass for all those years of past failure and mediocrity.
