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Cowherd proclaimed this as a pure business move as the local soccer team allegedly outdraws the Mariners. Sheesh. Will Cano have any kind of supporting cast?
No doubt that this will hurt us in the short run. We're losing a 6+ WAR player. It's pretty much impossible to replace his 28 Homeruns, 103 RBI, and .314 Batting Average that he has put up over the past five years. Over the last five years, he is 5th in WAR, 6th in Batting Average, 11th in Slugging, 5th in RBI, and 9th in Homeruns. This is not like losing your average second baseman, this is like losing the fifth best baseball player in baseball, as well as the best 2B in franchise history
No doubt that this will hurt us in the short run. We're losing a 6+ WAR player. It's pretty much impossible to replace his 28 Homeruns, 103 RBI, and .314 Batting Average that he has put up over the past five years. Over the last five years, he is 5th in WAR, 6th in Batting Average, 11th in Slugging, 5th in RBI, and 9th in Homeruns. This is not like losing your average second baseman, this is like losing the fifth best baseball player in baseball, as well as the best 2B in franchise history
You are basing your calculations on what he has done rather than on what he will be doing. The Yankees are actually losing Cano's ages 31-41 seasons. The next three or four seasons are likely to be good, but less productive than his previous output. From age 35 on the Mariners will probably have a costly liability on their hands.
Handing out ten year contracts to guys over the age of 30, especially when the highest portions of the salary will be paid in the later years, is a foolishness which baseball owners do not seem to be able to overcome.
I'm glad we didn't try to go over 10/240, as this is the smart option in the long run, but you have to admit, the next three to four years are going to suck. Once it's 2019 or 2020, and Seattle is paying 24 million to an aging DH, then we can all have a good laugh. But in 2014 and 2015, it's gonna be painful, no doubt about it. Cardinals could afford to lose Pujols because they have best farm in baseball. Yankees don't have that luxury, so I expect that instead of playing like post-Pujols Cardinals, we're gonna be playing like post-Fielder Brewers. In the long run though this is definitely right choice
No doubt that this will hurt us in the short run. We're losing a 6+ WAR player. It's pretty much impossible to replace his 28 Homeruns, 103 RBI, and .314 Batting Average that he has put up over the past five years. Over the last five years, he is 5th in WAR, 6th in Batting Average, 11th in Slugging, 5th in RBI, and 9th in Homeruns. This is not like losing your average second baseman, this is like losing the fifth best baseball player in baseball, as well as the best 2B in franchise history
What...Horace Clarke? Bobby Richardson? Jerry Coleman? Joe Gordon? Poosh-em-up Tony Lazzeri? How quickly they forget!
What is this world coming to?? The New York Yankees lose an all star caliber player to the Mariners??? LOLOL I have to admit, Cano may have gotten the better deal financially, but he just made himself irrelevant in the baseball world with this move.
Yankees have been doing unto others for years. About time people started doing unto them. Do you think the Yanks will have the first overall draft pick in 2015?
Yah. Soccer is crazy up there, I have no doubt it outdraws baseball. IF Stern/Adam Silver ever put an NBA team back in Seattle that would be a higher draw than the Mariners as well. The Mariners have a lot more problems then 1 Robinson Cano.
I'm glad we didn't try to go over 10/240, as this is the smart option in the long run, but you have to admit, the next three to four years are going to suck. Once it's 2019 or 2020, and Seattle is paying 24 million to an aging DH, then we can all have a good laugh. But in 2014 and 2015, it's gonna be painful, no doubt about it. Cardinals could afford to lose Pujols because they have best farm in baseball. Yankees don't have that luxury, so I expect that instead of playing like post-Pujols Cardinals, we're gonna be playing like post-Fielder Brewers. In the long run though this is definitely right choice
Maybe not. The Yankees now have the money that they would have been paying Cano, available to spend on someone else. In addition, having gone through the formalities of a qualifying offer, New York will also get a compensation draft pick (from a special selection which takes place between the first and second rounds of the draft, making it a defacto second round pick.)
New York has more problems though than just Cano, they have little flexibility with so much money committed to a cast of aging and increasingly less effective players. If you are paying some guy 20 million bucks and he sucks, you continue playing him because you are paying so much.
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