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By: Fan Confidence Poll: December 21st, 2009 | River Avenue Blues

Fan Confidence Poll: December 21st, 2009 | River Avenue Blues — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:32:09 +0000

[...] overplay his hand. Damon did try to come back at the last minute, and right now the Yanks have a bit of a hole in left. Even though they checked in on Jason Bay, they aren’t interested in signing [...]

By: Stan Van Jeremy

Stan Van Jeremy — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:49:30 +0000

All I said is that 6/120 is where I would max out at.

Of course there’s no market at that price. No need to bid that high yet.

By: NCpinstripes

NCpinstripes — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:59:09 +0000

I just don’t understand some that think unless we are paying a guy 15 mil.+ at every position that we are in a doom and gloom situation. I’ve seen some that were appalled that Cash didn’t sign Lackey. They can’t sign every big money FA on the market, nor should they. I’m surprised there aren’t some calling for the Yanks to give Jose Valverde a 3yr.-25 million dollar deal to set up Mo.

Remember folks, once upon a time we won WS titles with people like Scott Brosius manning 3rd, and Chad Curtis and Karim Garcia playing in the OF. How spoiled some have become expecting an AS at every position. Melky and Gardner were good enough to get us a WS title this year, why all of the sudden are they not good enough now?

By: NCpinstripes

NCpinstripes — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:51:27 +0000

I agree with you 100%. Holliday would be nice, but I would rather have Crawford long-term than I would Holliday. I am not a big fan of Jason Bay, and apparently the only team that feels he’s worth the money he’s loooking for is the Mets. I think CC is the guy Cashman is looking at in the 2011 class to fill our LF spot. I think he will come cheaper than what Holliday will.

If he wasn’t going to take a run at CC next year, he wouldn’t have signed NJ for one year, and would’ve given Damon his two years @ 13 million per. I think CC is on top of Cashman’s 2011 shopping list. I think we make a serious run at Cliff Lee as well.

By: Camilo Gerardo

Camilo Gerardo — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:02:56 +0000

hellz yea!

You could probably get holliday for a better value than Crawford for all of you penny-pinchers which may include $man

By: toad

toad — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:03:57 +0000

But you don’t have to pay it that way if you’re worried about the cash.

Take your example, and assume even that interest rates are zero (which they won’t be in five years, by the way).

First yr pay the guy $10 mil and put $4 mil aside. Then in yr 2 pay $11 mil and set $2 mil aside. In yr 3 just pay the $12 mil. Yr 4 pay $11 plus $2 of what you’ve saved, and yr 5 pay $10 plus the $ you have left.

So the contract is now “front-loaded” from the team’s point of view, even though it looks “back-loaded.”

mf is correct that front-loading is better than back-loading, unless the interestrate iz=s zero, and then there’s no difference.

By: Camilo Gerardo

Camilo Gerardo — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:35:35 +0000

ISOD?

By: Camilo Gerardo

Camilo Gerardo — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:09:37 +0000

amen, the only thing gardner has over the melk is speed

By: mf

mf — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:56:10 +0000

Yeah that sounds right. But of course, eating part of the salary to make a trade wouldn’t be so bad if they had made up the difference by wisely investing the money they otherwise would have been spending at the beginning of the contract.

And the problem with paying so much in future years could similarly be averted with decent planning – that is, you would invest with the idea that it would allow you to add payroll later. But they may have good PR reasons not to want to do that, not to mention the fact that a new CBA could upset that plan.

By: sciorsci

sciorsci — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:29:07 +0000

‘Nuff said, absolutely. Let’s save the money that could be spent on the superior player now so that we can spend it on the inferior player that will probably age more dramatically, later.

Seems like a solid plan. I like it.

/sarcasm