Bartolo Colon gets the ball against the Oakland A’s tonight. See Larry’s series preview for more in case you missed it this morning.
The A’s will throw Twitter favorite Brandon McCarthy against this Yankee lineup, courtesy of Ian Begley:
1. Derek Jeter, SS
2. Curtis Granderson, CF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Robinson Cano, 2B
6. Nick Swisher, RF
7. Jorge Posada, DH
8. Russell Martin, C
9. Brett Gardner, LF
Go Bartolo and go Yanks!
ETA, 5:35pm: A-Rod’s apparently been scratched with a jammed thumb, and will see the team physician and also undergo a cautionary x-ray. Fingers crossed it’s nothing too serious seeing as how he’s only been back for one game.
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The Yanks should offer half of A-Rod’s contract remaining per annum to Seattle with one caveat: Seattle pays the $30M for his homerun milestones.
What the Yanks would pay / What Seattle would pay:
2012: $14.5M
2013: $14.0M
2014: $12.5M
2015: $10.5M
2016: $10.0M
2017: $10.0M
The Yanks lose $71.5M, but they clear $101.5M ($71.5M + $30M homerun milestone money.)
Seattle would basically get him for six years and $101.5M ($16,916,666 a year.)
The Yanks face A-Rod up to 54 regular season games (9 a season for 6 seasons) 2012-17. Figure Seattle won’t make the postseason next year or 2013, so A-Rod would have only four years to face the Yanks in a postseason series and even if he did, so what? He could reach a postseason the same year the Yanks do but not face the Yanks (the Ms don’t draw them in the ALDS, the Ms and/or Yanks are eliminated in the ALDS.)
Start Nunez at 3B or move Jeter to 3B and start Nunez at SS his natural position.
Stop. Seriously. Just stop. None of that is going to happen.
Ah shaddap.
The Yanks will get rid of him if he sucks badly enough or keeps getting into more off the field trouble.
In fact, if they didn’t want him anymore, he would be off the Yanks, so put that in yer pipe and smoke it.
Really? Please support that claim, because I highly doubt that.
Look up the word “if”.
Let’s say the Yanks had enough of A-Rod after next year between his shadow of himself hitting, injuries, off the field shenanigans, and overall drama surrounding him. They would do one of two things: attempt to buy him out or trade him. If they did the latter, they’d have to eat at least half his remaining salary. I think it’d be worth it.
If he had a career-ending injury tomorrow, you’d sigh with relief from the money the Yanks would collect on insurance. We all would.
Bottom line is the guy is a shadow of his former greatness and is gonna suck as early as next year or 2013. The earlier they get rid of him the better. Make him a Seattle sideshow the Yanks have to deal with 9 games a year.
Let him break the all-time homerun record with Seattle.
They aren’t buying him out. They aren’t just handing him 120 million bucks. And to make a trade, you need a taker, which I doubt you’d find, and to eat salary, which the Yankees rarely do. Why pay 60M + to have a guy who is still among the best at his position play for someone else?
A-Rod the best at his position? He’s a 3B cuz he can’t play anywhere else. He’s too old for the OF and SS like Jeter. Teixiera is at 1B, Cano 2B. He can’t catch. All he can do is be an ok defensive 3B or full-time DH which he is one bad injury away from being.
I think Seattle would take him for these reasons:
1. He began his career and made his name there. That’s big when he’s pursuing a huge baseball record.
2. He’d cost them a little less than $17M per year if they paid half his remaining salary and the homerun money.
3. He’d be the biggest gate draw after Felix Hernandez and in games Hernandez doesn’t start.
4. Ichiro will be long gone if/when A-Rod breaks the homerun record, King Felix could be.
5. Seattle can’t hit a lick.
6. He’s still a star with star draw.
7. He could thrive in a pressure-free environment, pressure-free because he won a World Series with the Yanks and Seattle isn’t expected to contend any time soon.
8. Ticket sales will skyrocket the year he is in position to break the homerun record.
9. What $17M or more a year hitter would want to sign with them? With A-Rod, all that has to happen is he agrees to come back to them.
10. A-Rod finishing his career and breaking the homerun record with the team he started with would be great for baseball and yeah, Seattle cares about that as they should.
11. ‘Say Seattle wins a World Series before A-Rod breaks the record with A-Rod. That’s even more fannies and $$$$$ in the seats.
12. A-Rod brings them credibility cuz they’re the biggest joke after the Royals and Os, maybe even the biggest since the Royals have no money and the Os have sucked for years.
Btw do you work in the Yankees front office? No, so you have no idea if the Yanks will or won’t buy out or trade A-Rod.
If they’re sick of him, they’ll attempt to buy him out or trade him.
Among the best? More like just another guy among the pack of non-star 3B.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/position/3b/sort/OPS
I’d take any of those ten 3B and David Wright over A-Rod cuz (A-Rod) costs too much money.
Duh’s primary stance you conveniently ignore cuz you have it in for him like so many others do is trade A-Rod to the team he started with.
Like most of the crap you spew isn’t happening.
None of us have a crystal ball with the future of the Yanks in it.
Did any of us ever dream Jeter would be a shadow of his 1996-2009 immediately after his stellar 2009? I’m not sold on his resurgence yet.
Some of the money the Yanks have pissed away since A-Rod became a Yankee.
$46M Kei Igawa ($26M posting fee + $20M Igawa salary)
$13.1M 2011 Posada (as he is absolutely nowhere close to being worth that)
$4M 2011 Pedro Feliciano (who won’t pitch for the 2011 Yanks)
$3.75M 2011 Damaso Marte ($4M – $250K buyout for 2012 – he won’t pitch for the 2011 Yanks)
$66.85M pissed away on those four players alone, so I don’t see $71.5M lost across six years getting rid of A-Rod being a big loss/deal relative to the money pissed away on Igawa and 2011 Posada, Feliciano, and Marte.
Colon is slipping. The Yanks really need to get a starting pitcher off the waiver wire as you can’t assume Nova and Hughes will pitch as well as they have been pitching together the rest of the way and who knows what Garcia will be like when he returns? Colon sucking along with Burnett would be a disaster and either Nova or Hughes sucking too could be a potential epic no postseason-collapse Cashman and Girardi are fired over.
Way to go Yankees. Swisher gets a pass for making the final out because he’s the reason the Yanks were still in this game.
Teixiera and Cano came up small big time. A weak popup and a walk from who are supposed to be the run producers with A-Rod out is crap. Cano got lucky with his deer in the headlights look on that full count strike called a ball. That ball went across his front knee.
Teixiera is such an empty suit. The emptiest 34 HR 95 RBI I’ve ever seen.248/.249 BA is garbage – 2004 on Jason Giambi shit. He’s starting to look more like 2004 on Jason Giambi than through 2009 Teixiera.
Long-term the Yanks need to get rid of him, A-Rod, and maybe even Cano. Cano is a very good player but he is not a star on the level of prime Jeter or A-Rod, or worth the minimum Teixiera contract (8 years at $20M per) he will want come free agency time. He doesn’t post high enough OBP or hit enough HR, so if he stops hitting for average he is worthless.
Disgusting loss which really makes you wonder if this team has the heart to come back in a postseason game. How many comeback wins this year, two? Three?
You just made my night. Thank you.
It’s Steve from Was Watching.
Wrong.
Let’s say A-Rod’s career was over after this year.
The Yanks would probably move Jeter to 3B and either make Nunez the new SS or sign Jose Reyes for SS and the Yanks wouldn’t miss a beat.
2012 Yanks without A-Rod and if they signed Jose Reyes for SS and Carlos Beltran for DH and moved Jeter to 3B and the #9 slot:
Gardner LF L
Reyes SS S
Granderson CF L in his walk year
Teixiera 1B S
Cano 2B L
Carlos Beltran DH S in his walk year if he was signed for 2012 only
Swisher RF S in his walk year
Martin C R in his walk year (not sure)
Jeter/Nunez 3B R
Hey genius, tell me what A-Rod, Teixiera, and Cano will do in 2015? Probably be paid alot to suck or be mediocre, and either would be crap when they’d be paid more than some teams’ payrolls.
Giving Teixiera eight years after giving Giambi that was sheer stupidity.
Giving A-Rod a decade was sheer insanity.
Is Cano REALLY worth 8 years at $20M per he will probably want? He has yet to have a 1999 Jeter or 2004 A-Rod like year.
Hahahahahahahahahaha, stay classy!
Oh yeah, garbage start by Colon. Yeah he personally didn’t give up the fourth and fifth runs, but he put those men on and in position to score.
The Yanks need to get a starting pitcher off waivers and move Colon to the pen for Sabathia/Nova/Waiver wire pickup/Hughes/Burnett (the WWP and Hughes can switch places in depth.)
I wouldn’t mind any bat off waivers for DH as long as he was a remainder of this year only proposition – no through next year or beyond guy.
Hey, Duh, Innings or X, or whatever you want to be called: Pick a handle and stick to it.
We’re not the same people, sorry.
Btw be civil to him and me for a change.
So I guess leaving the same e-mail address in the comment and having the same IP address is just one big coincidence?
Um, I’m a friend of Duh’s, dummy. There, happy?
Think I’m him, whatever.
Why are you such an uncivil prick to him and now me?
Btw I’ve posted on here only a few times in the past, and never in response to Duh. Look up my posts if you can.
Something about glass houses and stones….
Anyway, you’ll understand why I won’t just take your word for that.
I could care less if you take my word for it or don’t.
I swear this isn’t directed at you but, my word, is there an idiom that is more misused than this one? “Couldn’t care less,” people. “Couldn’t.”
Oh please. Meaning > words on a comments board.
From the IP address that your posts are registering, there have been comments from at least four users: X, DI, T, and Mike. That’s an awfully big coincidence.
And that’s just going back to the beginning of this month. Please, pick a handle.
Ok well first off my name is Mike, X is the first letter of my middle name, last name starts with a T. So I’ll call myself MXT for now on. Happy? Saves everyone the confusion and spares the comments section of budding CSI detectives like you.
Duh posted as DI once I guess. Maybe he was trying something new?
We’re still two people. Deal with it.
Okay. Sure. Whatever you want.
Ok sure whatever you want.
Btw it’s “O.K., sure, whatever you want me to believe.” Mr.English Teacher.
“You don’t put a comma between “Ok” and “sure”.
Again, why are you so uncivil?
Can’t you guys block the IP address, do us all a favor? Pretty please?