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Free-agent outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury has reached agreement on a seven-year contract with the New York Yankees pending a physical exam, a baseball source told ESPN.com.
The source confirmed a CBSSports.com report that Ellsbury's deal exceeds Carl Crawford's seven-year, $142 million contract with the Boston Red Sox in December 2010.
7 years for Ellsbury who has a history of injuries?? So what if he has a great swing for Yankee stadium?? What's that matter when he's injured for 50 games??
And really excited about the Fister trade. Great pickup, was pretty good in Detroit and pitching to the pitcher instead of David Ortiz/Billy Butler/Adam Dunn/other DH's every game will no doubt improve his numbers. And he can't possibly be worse than Dan Haren was last year. The ONLY thing that would've made that trade better is if the Nats could've sent Espinosa & Soriano over instead of Lombo & Krol.
7 years for Ellsbury who has a history of injuries?? So what if he has a great swing for Yankee stadium?? What's that matter when he's injured for 50 games??
His injuries were fluky, much like Granderson's. When he's healthy he puts up 5+ war.
And really excited about the Fister trade. Great pickup, was pretty good in Detroit and pitching to the pitcher instead of David Ortiz/Billy Butler/Adam Dunn/other DH's every game will no doubt improve his numbers. And he can't possibly be worse than Dan Haren was last year. The ONLY thing that would've made that trade better is if the Nats could've sent Espinosa & Soriano over instead of Lombo & Krol.
Rizzo got the drop on everyone with that deal. A steal,IMO. And I'm P.O.'d the Pirates didn't do similar.
Now I don't know about Ellsbury move. I thought he'd be a supporting player to Cano. Ellsbury+Cano on the same team would be a baseball wet dream come true. But just Ellsbury...I don't know how that's gonna work .___.
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