Yankees haven’t had any talks about sign-and-trade with Nakajima
ByVia Buster Olney, the Yankees have not yet had any conversations about a sign-and-trade scenario with Hiroyuki Nakajima, either with the player or another club interested in acquiring him. Nakajima’s agent apparently mentioned the idea at some point recently, likely because his client would rather play everyday than sit on the bench for the Yankees. The 29-year-old shortstop does want to sign and play in MLB however, and has even indicated a willingness to be a utility guy for New York.
As I mentioned yesterday, it’s tough to see Nakajima having much trade value. Only one team thought he was good enough for a $2.5M bid in the posting process, and the general consensus seems to be that he does profile best as a bench player. The two sides have roughly three weeks to hammer out a contract and a sign-and-trade scenario if they choose.
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So, no Felix? Sigh.
Felix is never coming to NY, ZurdinicSP (Seattle’s GM) has even said something to the fact that the Yankees or any other team could offer 10 prospects and they still wouldn’t trade King Felix
Shit. Is Cliff Lee available?
Did Jack Z really say that?
The Indians signed him to a MiLB deal.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/.....lopez.html
My guess is he goes back, I dont think the Yankees really thought they were going to win the bid. I’m fine with Eddy “wild thing’ Nunez as the UTIL guy
I agree. The Yankees may have won thinking their bid was a low ball, surprise. I don’t believe Cashman had a wild trade with Nunez and others going somewhere and Nakajima staying as super utility guy.
My prospective on the CBA agreement and bolstering the team has the Yankees not giving up Nunez in a trade unless a select pitcher is coming our way then we need a super utility and maybe starter at shortstop down the road especially with middle infielders at a premium.
Yep. Nakajima is Nunez trade protection.
Is there any other stuff the Yankees didn’t do?
i love the cold stove season
Well, they didn’t trade Jesus, Manny or Dellin. So there’s that.
They haven’t signed Colon yet! It’s slow, but I expect it to pick up. If they go into the 2012 season with: Sabathia, Nova, Garcia, Burnett, and Hughes, I won’t watch more than fifteen games.
Then you’ll miss 147 games of good baseball. For shame.
That is when this baloney will change. If interest, attendance and revenue drop, the austerity plan will vanish.
The thing is, they won their division in 2011 with pretty much that very rotation (with a little bit of help from Bartolo).
YCPB
Got to be cautious!!! Remember that their revenue from all sources is only about 800M.
There was some team this offseason that signed 2 or 3 utility infielders to multi year deals. At least one of them hit well under .200 last season and the others don’t hit at all either. Maybe they would want him. Do they have any pitching?