Yesterday we said WITH NO LEMAHIEU, YANKS HAVE NO SHOT AT A WORLD SERIES TITLE IN 2021. Both sides are $25 million dollars apart and DJ wants an additional year. If the Yankees don't get a deal done with DJ that's a big price to pay.
I know DJ is just one player, and we need more strong guys around him and that should also include pitching. Right now I am pretty nervous. I knew the Yankees were going to rely heavily on their younger starters, but now it sounds like he is even more willing to gamble on the Yankees rotation than I originally thought, read more HERE.
I'm not excited by the the free agent starting pitchers market at all, I'm not even completely sold on Trevor Bauer. All I know is right now the Yankees spent $324 million dollars on Gerrit Cole with great hope that he will be a difference maker to bring a World Series championship back to the Bronx and behind him we have a giant question mark.
Cashman has been quiet for a couple months now, and his first interview told me everything I needed to know without him actually SAYING a whole lot. The Yankees will gamble with their young, cost controlled starters. The pressure is on them to be front of the rotation starters, even without the experience.
Yup, read it again.....Cashman just called both Luis Severino and Domingo German are Number 2 starters "at worst" and they haven't pitched for us since 2019. Pandemic shortened season or not, that is a lot of delusional confidence in two guys that haven't pitched for us in a long time. We won't even see Severino until June or July sine he's still recovering from Tommy John surgery!
How are they Number two starters but Masahiro Tanaka isn't even on their radar right now? Free agency started last month, and the Yankees have not been in contact with him at all. He went from our most reliable postseason pitcher to a guy that hasn't been contacted yet and has been passed over by both Severino and German as a number two starter.
It's hard for me to feel confident in where the Yankees are going right now. I want to get back to the top of the AL East and win a World Series ring but when do teams improve if they lose their best player AND don't invest in their pitching?
The answer....teams don't improve in this scenario. I hope this is just a good poker face or he's been drinking too much eggnog because this would be a terrible gamble.
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