https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/426002244216307713Tanaka contract with #Yankees is fifth-highest for a pitcher. Kershaw, Verlander, Felix, CC, Tanaka.
Even if he doesn't, Yankees will have to lose him/extend him in 4 years.Rudy Pemberton said:Well, no shit. Anyone who thought any other outcome was possible is delusional.
Hope he sucks.
Laser Show said:Even if he doesn't, Yankees will have to lose him/extend him in 4 years.
You think they'd learn with the opt-outs.
Laser Show said:You think they'd learn with the opt-outs.
glennhoffmania said:He still wouldn't have 6 years of service time.
Exactly. It's amazing how little this bothers meFoulkey Reese said:I was mad for a minute but then I remember that we won the WS last season and the Yankees suck.
Bob Montgomery's Helmet Hat said:Exactly. It's amazing how little this bothers me
glennhoffmania said:Essentially $25m per year for a guy who has never thrown an MLB pitch. I'd be nervous.
Which they wouldn't have to do if they hadn't of included the opt outs.jon abbey said:
For the umpteenth time, the optouts have not hurt them one bit, it's the re-signing guys once they opt out that is the problem.
SouthernBoSox said:Which they wouldn't have to do if they hadn't of included the opt outs.
glennhoffmania said:By my math they've spent about half a billion dollars this winter. Fiscal restraint.
jon abbey said:
They didn't have to do it anyway, they could just let guys go. This worked out nicely for them with Soriano, and would have worked out amazingly well with A-Rod and CC if they'd just had the balls to let them go once they opted out.
glennhoffmania said:
Jon, we've gone through this a million times. Giving a player the option is a benefit to him, not the team. Just because it may once in a while work out that it helps the team doesn't change the math.
mabrowndog said:Any word on what sort of chair Theo threw across the room?
Indeed. Follow up is whether the fact that this puts them over $189m will trigger a spending spree. Boras/Drew may be very happy about this. As will Garza and others.jon abbey said:Joel Sherman on MLBN right now rightly mocking NY for all of the decisions they made to try to get under $189M the last two years, a plan they dumped at the last minute.
mabrowndog said:Any word on what sort of chair Theo threw across the room?
jon abbey said:In mostly unrelated news, how does Harold Reynolds still have a national job? He is woefully uninformed on everything.
Rudy Pemberton said:
It's easy to let Soriano opt out when you have Rivera, though. That was a weird situation. Hard to rationalize letting A-Rod and CC go with no viable replacements. That being said, giving both those guys even bigger deals despite no apparent competition was the real issue.
Brianish said:
Why this time?
cromulence said:I hope the opt out burns the hell out of the Yankees. That means he kicked ass for four years.
Yaz4Ever said:Does Ellsbury now feel underpaid?
I'm assuming they'll now sign Drew as well, considering they're just throwing money around.
mt8thsw9th said:I think this is a little bigger than Edgardo Alfonzo.
jon abbey said:
I'm watching MLBN, I hadn't seen him for months before this. He is just so relentlessly worthless and wrong and dumb, he makes John Kruk look insightful by comparison.
And handed out 29 guaranteed years worth of contracts.glennhoffmania said:By my math they've spent about half a billion dollars this winter. Fiscal restraint.
jtn46 said:And handed out 29 guaranteed years worth of contracts.
I'm assuming he will also be able to void the 6 year service time rule like the Matsui and Cespedes contracts have in the past. They wouldn't negotiate an apt out just to go to arbitration and get less money.glennhoffmania said:
He still wouldn't have 6 years of service time.
yes, he still may get the fox job….. :-/jon abbey said:
I'm watching MLBN, I hadn't seen him for months before this. He is just so relentlessly worthless and wrong and dumb, he makes John Kruk look insightful by comparison.
He threw the chair, allegedly, when they lost out on Jose Contreras.mt8thsw9th said:
I think this is a little bigger than Edgardo Alfonzo.
opes said:[SIZE=11pt]So much for trying to stay under the tax. Im sure they really don’t give a shit anyway. Now the average age is only 33yrs. If you think about it, they are still going to suck balls since they lost cano, and the blackhole that is arod. 1 step forward still 2 steps back.[/SIZE]