As a BYB guest writer, I have the luxury to come and go from BYB as I please. After Game 5's loss to the Rays, I've collected my thoughts and have come up with 7 musts for a perfect 2021 season for the Yankees... where in the end, they become World Series champs. Give this a look...
1. We must resign DJ LeMahieu. I'm thinking 4 years, $110 million.
2. It's time to let James Paxton, JA Happ and Masahiro Tanaka go. I love Tanaka, but it's time to move on. It's business.
3. Sign Trevor Bauer. Pay whatever it takes and agree to his demands. We need a reliable #2 to pitch these play-off games and that was clear in this playoff. We just can't win all these series in the American League with only Gerrit Cole.
4. Let Domingo German, Luis Severino, Deivi Garcia and Jordon Montgomery fill out our rotation. It just makes sense.
5. Fortify the bullpen. This is crucial. We have a great bullpen, but the depth has to be there. We need 7 guys that are reliable and should expect that 1 or 2 will be hurt or ineffective by October. I am happy with Green, Britton and Chapman, but we need more. Trade for Hader if you can. Use Gary Sanchez and Miguel Andujar as trade bait if we need to to get good relievers. Oh year, and also trade Loaisiga, Cessa and Holder if they are needed to sweeten a deal for better relievers for us.
6. Let Higgy be the starting catcher. He earned it. Trade Sanchez for the best low cost top reliever you can find. No need to spend on JT Realmuto. Put that money toward Trevor Bauer.
7. The Manager - I would keep Boone, but I need to sit him down (and our analytical nerds too) and explain that playoff games sometimes go extra innings. You cannot manage as if games end after the 9th. Had Chapman not given up that homer to Brosseau, the Yanks still would have lost last night once we put in another pitcher after Chapman. Maybe you could have gotten 1 inning from Green, but once you bring in Loaisiga or Holder... the game would have been over. We can't lose crucial playoff games, (like game 2 2019 ALCS with Correa homer off Happ) based on using up our best relievers too early. Just watch how Kevin Cash manages. He's near perfect. Boone would never have gone a 2nd inning with Fairbanks like Cash did last night.
The Bottom Line? If they do these 7 things, I guarantee you we will win the World Series next year. No question.
--Douglas Solomon
BYB Guest Writer
There are several things to do.
ReplyDelete1.Replace Cashman with Showalter
2.Boone needs to go and replaced with a manager who wants to manage and not be everybody's buddy.
3.DJ needs to be retained no more than 3 years and less than 69 million for the contract.
4.Bring Gardy back and play him 1 game and let him retire as a Yankee.
5.Trade Aaron Hicks who has a team friendly contract for a top reliever.
6.Offer Tanaka 1 year 15 million option of another year or buy out
7.Turn Andujar in to an OF or 1B he is a contact hitter or package him and Wade and Cessa and Holder for a top notch reliever.
8.Sign Trevor Bauer
9.Trade Sanchez for a top notch starter
10.Sign JT Realamuto