Mike Lupica, Daily News:
This is what happens when the Red Sox win their third World Series in a decade, against one for the Yankees in that time ... So now the Yankees go out and agree to a deal with Jacoby Ellsbury for the kind of insane longterm contract that got them into the kind of fix they are in in the first place.Bill Madden, Daily News:
They do the only thing they can do: Try to buy their way out of this. If you were running the team, you would do it exactly that way. You have no real assets in the farm system. You have money. So you spend it. ...
No farm system, no choice. You spend money. Maybe they will get around to spending it on pitching eventually.
How long until the Yankees are regretting giving Jacoby Ellsbury a 7-year contract? ...
[A]s history has proven, contracts of more than six years for players 30 or older have proven time and again to be disasters ...
I'm just not sure what the Yankees are trying to prove here. Now they've agreed with Ellsbury on a $21.8 million per year deal that will almost certainly be another financial disaster three or four years down the road, while giving them another "legs" player in the outfield when what they really needed there was a power bat. ...
Whatever, this reckless, show-their-financial-might signing by the Yankees makes no sense, other than being another example of the Yankees' intention of buying their way out of a situation in which their player development department has been bankrupt for years.
2 comments:
I cant see them signing Choo. Maybe a trade for Kemp. Or let one of the rookies play.
I've looked and unless prices change there just isn't anyone on the free agent market that makes sense. If they were going to spend big it was probably going to be for Ellsbury, but of course that ship has sailed now. I'd hope for a big trade (Stanton), but there doesn't seem to be anyone who is really worth blowing a hole in the farm system for who is also even remotely available.
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