Yankees ---how poor might this team be I read an interesting article by Matthews on the ESPN site with regard to the Posada situation on the weekend. He's making 13 Million a year. This is the best of the Yankees bad contracts. He is obviously far overpaid but at least it ends after this year.
The article reviewed AROD. 6 more years at some huge sum of money. The bottom line is unless your name is Jose Bautista I don't know how there can be any value here at this type of numbers and the Jays just extended him in the off season but that looks reasonable compared to the Yankees. Arod does still seems pretty useful but I can't imagine in even 2 yeaars he's that good----if you can't use steriods how are you supposed to be good at 38?
The Jeter situation is somewhat ongoing. I mean the numbers just tell you he's way on the decline.
Perhaps there is hope for Texeira that he won't be that bad a situation. Sabathia probably will develop into a situation. AJ Burnett has almost been a situation since he got there.
It has already effected the team. What is the 5 man rotation? Sabathia, Burnett, Colon, Garcia and Nova if I have it right? No more pricey free agents to fill the obvious needs there. I don't know enough about the bullpen depth to comment if they leave themselves short there.
Even the Yankees have become weary of overspending to fix these hugely lucrative contracts. How much do we as fans play a part? I mean how much money are in these games that people can be guaranteed this type of money? Girardi is millions a year to manage this team? It just all seems ridiculous.
Since I was a kid you'd laugh at bad contracts but so mamy situations now just seem so systemically bad and badly maanaged it is of epic proportions.
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