Hey Big Papi was raking into his late 30’s and age 40 season and it wasn’t like he was taking steroids or any performance enh……hahaha….I almost made it through without laughing.
That’s a chance that I would take Dave Winfield being a big guy played into his 40s. Judge injuries have been freak injuries and has recovered from them fairly quickly he’s been available for 162 games the last 2 seasons.
That's a bit of revisionist history. Every pundit I saw/heard speak about it, at the time, felt that the Yankees' offer was legitimate. Judge was a guy that had struggled to stay on the field for an entire season, He played 148 games in 2021 which was his highest total since his rookie season. The Yankees made a fair, market-based offer and Judge declined as he thought his value was higher. In hindsight, he was right and the Yankees wrong, but there was no way of knowing it at the time.
Volpe needs to be playing from day 1 next season along with Peraza.
Yes 100 percent kick IKF to 3rd have him rotate with DJ at least in the early going, have to work DJ in slowly as he’s has had back to back season ending injuries.
The Yankees should be much better next year. They have Judge! And IKF! And Rizzo! Much better! Oh... nevermind.
They were the best team in baseball. Winning a WS is half luck.
Even when the Yankees were playing .800 ball they still weren’t in the Astros league.
Unfortunately those of us that know reality were waiting for that to set in and Lord knows it did.
At the end of the year? When it mattered? No...no they weren't. I would say they were maybe 5-10 in all of baseball. No Yankee fan who was paying attention thought they could compete with Houston. And they didn't.
I like this move...this shows signing Judge doesn't mean they are done spending. Now if they get a LF I will feel Cashman is really tryng to improve the team.
Can you imagine if Montas panned out to become the promising pitcher we hope for?
It’s certainly possible, and what’s nice and somewhat comforting is that he doesn’t have to order for the Yankees to have a pretty good starting lineup.
I want Volpe from Day 1 as noted earlier in the thread.
I believe Montas was banged up his entire tenure with the Yankees. I would think he will bounce back nicely. I also think German did decent as a starter. So...starting pitching should be fine...and should be able to endure the inevitable injuries.
Donaldson doesn't appear to be a good clubhouse guy either. I would love for them to move on.
They could very well go closer by comitee with Holmes, King, Peralta, Lasagna all depends who has the better year. There really aren’t closers anymore. I rather have a deeper rotation then a deeper pen, Yankees pen was already deep.
Starting Volpe Day 1 is totally worth the risk if he's not ready.
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