Okay so I can bring myself to admit it now... Yoan Moncada signed with the Boston Red Sox today for approximately $31.5 million. With the penalties for going over the International cap Boston will be on the hook for $63 million. New York was willing to go around $27 million but it wasn't quite enough to land the 19 year old.
This is a damn shame and I am pretty upset about it but I am going to calm down and collect my thoughts before I put them on paper. I don't like using the "F" word on the blog.
I understand why the Yankees were hesitant to spend so much here, but then again, Moncada's really good and prob would've been worth it. Really tough to see him go to Boston, especially since they already have rusney castillo
ReplyDeleteI don't see why they were hesitant. It's just money and it's not a drawn out cost like the luxury tax. It's money just sitting around that they used to spend in the IFA market and in the draft that they aren't allowed to spend now.
DeleteIt's bullshit.
JACK NIEMUTH'S.....words ring true.
ReplyDeleteOne only has to count the Cuban crop that is helping other teams, to realize that the
Yankees missed out big time, on a chance to reload quickly.
By adding just two of the upper level Cubans, they become a contender.
Simple as that.
Hal, Cashman, Levine or whoever decided that 13 Million dollars more to a 3 billion dollar corporation was to much too spend needs to get out of the game. TV contracts have now leveled the playing field and if you can't grow your own talent you need to spend. We have shown that our talent is middle of the road so when a gift is afforded you for just money you pounce on it.
ReplyDeleteIt is evident to me that ownership has no clue what needs to be done to win. Hal is a joke, especially when he says he is trying to win like his father and by the way the so called number cruncher isn't so good at that as well. I would love to see Mark Cuban coming riding in on a white horse and by this team. Love him or hate him he isn't afraid to pay players and wants to win just like George.
Ken, you're right. I believe that this was an ownership decision not to go higher than $27 million for Moncada. But in a round about way, this can be blamed on Cashman. Perhaps if he hadn't lobbied to bring in scrubs like Drew and Capuano to fill in for positions we had covered, they might have relented when Cashman lobbied for Moncada. The $10 million in salary plus the additional $5 million in luxury tax penalties pays for Moncada. Stupid move by both ownership and our GM.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point I guess but I am not exactly sure Drew or Capuano played as much of a factor as you think. Those guys are both on one year deals, Moncada is starting in the minors for AT LEAST a season.
DeleteI get the money aspect of it but I don't think the Yankees would have gone and matched Boston had they not signed Capuano and Drew. After all they signed last year they still went hard after Tanaka.
To me their thought process was very shallow. Paying the penalty was just like the old Japanese posting fee which was the highest posting fee won. You lost the money to the Japanese club. This is the same in respect to just losing the money. Hal needs to get out of this as he is way over his head
DeleteThey are already paying the IFA penalty by more than quadrupling the spending limit... it makes too much sense NOT TO sign him by any means necessary. It's just money.
DeleteJeff, great points on the scrubs and the added cost on the budget. What I don't understand is we act as if we are a third rate market. Obviously Hal didn't learn his lesson from the 2012/2013 seasons when he put a second rate team on the field and people stopped going to games, stopped watching the games and his revenue dropped. It's going to happen again. As you know I am not a Cashman supporter and I have little faith in him being able to restore the farm system. So I think we are in for a long few years ahead of us, especially since he won't spend money. The Dodgers don't have that fear to spend money yet Hal works from the Happy Meal perspective. Very frustrating for me!
ReplyDeleteVery frustrating for all of us I think. I'm not really a fan of Cashman either. I don't place all of the blame on him, and I disagree with you on the state of our farm system. We absolutely have some impact talent on the way, but yes you're right about not being able to develop a surplus of impact talent in the past. They have drafted, signed, or traded for some very good players though. Just not not enough. You can look around the league and see some evidence of this. But we have had very few considering the amount of time he has been at the helm. I think the blame starts at the top and trickles all the way down. From Hal himself, all the way down to the scouts. But most of all, I blame the fans that don't have time to let a player develop. The bulk of Yankee fans are to quick to sit on a player if he struggles. Solarte carried our team for the first 2 months last year. He goes 0 for 23 and gets benched. He got traded and went on to have a better year than Johnson, Roberts, Drew, Ryan, etc., etc. Yet he was a rookie, so Girardi, Cashman, and the fans gave up on him. EVERYBODY needs to take ownership in the state that the Yankees are in.
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