This guys thinks so. Red Sox stung by Giancarlo Stanton trade to Yankees
Based on these 2 quotes though, he may understand the situation not too well.
This Nats fan is glad to get Stanton out of the division.
I strongly disagree that Martinez has been better than Stanton. Stanton isn’t a defensive liability. Stanton is also younger.
Boy, the winter meetings should be a lot of fun.
I kept hoping he would go to the Giants and not the AL and especially not Boston. I never expected him to become a Yank.
As a Cub fan, I’m damn-near orgasmic that he didn’t end up in St Louis.
I’m a Yankee fan and I don’t like the Stanton signing. Now we’ve got two power hitting right fielders. Either you send one to left, which leaves you with Gardner, Ellsbury, Hicks, and Frazier fighting for playing time. Or you have one be DH in which case you get less Sanchez at DH and thus more passed balls. The trade only makes sense if the Yankees can jettison some of their excess outfield talent. Ellsbury should go and could probably be released. His market value is low. Then you still have three centerfielders and of the three, I think Gardner has the least growth potential. I hate it when they get two many at one position, a couple years ago it was having three great closers. You only need one.
I’m not sorry to see Castro go. He could make a flashy play or he could just as easily muff a play that would make a high school manager pull out his hair.
Judge will have to play some left field and some of the other outfielders will have to be traded. It’s not a huge problem. The Yankees definitely don’t need a full-time DH but should just rotate Judge, Stanton, Sanchez and the fourth outfielder.
This is exactly right. They will try to move Ellsbury, probably fail and then trade Gardner.
The Marlins got Castro and a couple teenagers for Stanton? They didn’t even get Torres or Frazier? I’m sorry, but that’s awful. They didn’t *have *to trade him right now. I can see why conspiracy theorists believe Jeter is working for the Yankees.
They got $295 million off the books, too. That matters if you’re in a small market.
They did get an awful lot of salary relief though. Basically the Yanks were willing to eat more of his contract than any other team. If Jeter was working for the Yanks, Ellsbury would now be a Marlin.
Are they trying to make the market smaller?
Jeter’s long term strategy remains unclear. Certainly he can afford to bring in more second-level FA’s and traded players now if he wants, and put some more wins on the board etc… But he may just be Oaklanding instead.
How much smaller can Miami’s market get?
They had last year: Total Attendance1,583,014
20,295 per game for 15th of 15 NL teams.
5th straight year of last in the NL. Only Tampa has been worse in baseball overall in the last 5 years. *Oakland is in this mix also. *
Loria broke this team, the second team he broke. Thankfully he is gone, give the new ownership a chance to rebuild the team.
After thinking about the Stanton trade, I’ve come to the conclusion that the Commissioner should void the trade ( under the precedent set above) because the trade only benefits the Marlins new ownership while being bad for the franchise and its fans. He should require the Yankees to offer some more in return. It won’t happen but this trade is bad for baseball as it stands.
I don’t think what the Yankees offered was unfair, particularly given the limited competition. Stanton has a dangerous contract, where the best case scenario is you get 3 years of a premium player at a premium price, and the downside is an albatross for a decade. I’m not sure I would take that contract for free. The Marlins were not going to get any premium prospects without taking on significant money.
For the Marlins though it was a disgraceful trade no matter what they got back. Loria set an incredible low bar for ownership, and thus far Jeter and company have managed to fall short of it. You can’t spend 1.2 billion on a team and then claim you can’t afford a decent payroll. If you can’t afford the best player in baseball at a market rate, don’t buy the team. And certainly don’t ever complain about the fans not coming out. This is what the 4th time, the marlins have had their core stripped apart by a greedy owner trying to make a quick buck? It amazes me that marlins fans still exist at all.
Looks like a good money saver, freeing up plenty of room to sign a starter now. Mitchell is basically a spare part running out of options so a good throw in. Jabari is yet another corner outfielder but at league minimum who cares. He is Pre-Arb and will be age 28. I forsee him getting cut or put through waivers.
Though now Yanks need to fill 2b & 3b and I’m pretty sure Miguel Andújar is not ready for third though Gleyber Torres might be ready for either. Maybe Todd Frazier does come back now, but I doubt the Yanks will offer what he could get from another team in terms of years.
The Yanks are making some risky moves:
Taking on another A-Rod like contract.
Hoping that Stanton/Judge can repeat their 2017 performances
Trading away a positive clubhouse presence in Headley. How will this move affect team chemistry?
Do they have to resign Frasier now?
MLBTR reporting that the Orioles are asking for offers on Machado. This might explain the Headley trade.