This organization just refuses to make hard decisions. Why give Jeter a raise, why? If he was to walk, at 39 who cares really. Doesn't he need the Yankees in 2014 more than we need him? What do you all feel should have been done? What other decisions have they messed up?
People will disagree with me but Jeter is the franchise "Mr. Yankee," I am hoping that he will come back and have a great finally. With all the contributions he has made to the franchise he at least deserves some considerations from ownership. Yanks gave Mickey 100 K to suit up but when Mick knew it was over he retired, Jeter would do likewise I'm sure.
I understand that with Jeter but my point is knowing when to sell high and buy low. We had Joba and Hughes, and apparently nobody in the organization saw the train wrecks they have become and we get nothing. Same can be said with other decisions. I feel that Cano had produced 2 years ago that maybe we shouldn't have gotten to this point of FA. Sure he had Boras as an agent, but we couldn't even trade him last year if we wanted to and receive a package that is equal to Cano's value.
Yankees never know when to make keep/cut loose, sell high decisions. Hughes, Joba, Nunez, the Killer B's - all kept far longer than they should have, despite opportunities to move them. If the organization can not objectively assess the talent and ceiling of players - they are relying solely on hope that the player develops into the talent they want him to be (not the talent he is becoming). Yankees went 0-6 with these guys, and some were kept out of deals (Nunez/Cliff Lee), (Joba-Hughes/Roy Halladay) that might have cost them a chance at another title.
^^^^I agree with you Vette. As I said in another post a while back, the Core 4 era covered up a lot of mistakes.
