the yankees should be taken to the woodshed for batting edwin encarnacion cleanup in this post season. and for that matter brett gardner 3rd. but back to the inept encarnacion. started the minn. series with a credible 4-9. since then he is a woeful 1-16 and looking worse than that at the plate. not surprising to me as i have consistently admonished this fraud of a major league hitter. sure, he connects for a homer now and then and has been fairly consistent in this homer happy era but is as one dimensional as you can get. this is his last hurrah as the yankees won't resign him after this and no other team needs that type of DH any longer. home run hitters are a dime a dozen and every other one is a better player than this stiff.
Agree. The 5 million buyout to be rid of EE is a no-brainer. Now, if we could just get rid of worthless POS Ellsbury and Stanton.
Cashman/the front office amaze me. They strike gold with the smaller moves (Voit/Urshella/German/Hicks/Didi/Lemaiheu) and absolutely butcher the big ones (Ellsbury/Texeira/CC/A-rod/Stanton). I guess some of that is true of any organization, but it seems very pronounced with the Yanks.
Cashman/the front office amaze me. They strike gold with the smaller moves (Voit/Urshella/German/Hicks/Didi/Lemaiheu) and absolutely butcher the big ones (Ellsbury/Texeira/CC/A-rod/Stanton). I guess some of that is true of any organization, but it seems very pronounced with the Yanks.
EE was not needed, same for taking on Stanton for a forever contract. Stanton is just Judge 5 years from now, but not as good defensively.
It's paying for past performance.
The guy they should look to give a 10-12 year extension to is s 2Bman/ SS Gaybar Torres at like 22 yo, extend him, he's making minimum wage and needs the security
Start at like 10 years/ 100 M
He's your best player, potentially a HOF type, I'm not enshrining him just yet and building a statue, but I'd like to buy up his prime years for cheap, if possible.
It's paying for past performance.
The guy they should look to give a 10-12 year extension to is s 2Bman/ SS Gaybar Torres at like 22 yo, extend him, he's making minimum wage and needs the security
Start at like 10 years/ 100 M
He's your best player, potentially a HOF type, I'm not enshrining him just yet and building a statue, but I'd like to buy up his prime years for cheap, if possible.
believe he is under team control for 6 years and it would be foolish of the club to let him off the hook and pay him before they have to. if he decides to enter free agency after the 6 years then you could make him an offer he couldn't refuse if he wanted to stay but why would they want to sign him early to a long term deal. he would never take 10 years at 100m now anyway. way too low.
He just might take it, nobody needs more than 100 M in life, he's guaranteed nothing now, has a few years of dues to pay at minimum wage, then arbritration, etc.
10/ 100 could be a starting point, a player never knows what might happen a few years down the road, he's most likely from a poor background and a Dominican Republican or similar, some kind of front end signing bonus of 5-10 M , might do the trick ?
If his career continues like it started, playing a premium position, in 5 or so years his value would be Trout-like !
He's definitely a guy any team would want, somewhat like a young Cano or A-ROD type
10/ 100 could be a starting point, a player never knows what might happen a few years down the road, he's most likely from a poor background and a Dominican Republican or similar, some kind of front end signing bonus of 5-10 M , might do the trick ?
If his career continues like it started, playing a premium position, in 5 or so years his value would be Trout-like !
He's definitely a guy any team would want, somewhat like a young Cano or A-ROD type
well, maybe if he never talks to another player about their future contract plans or listens to a veteran. that must be all they talk about most of the time on plane rides, restaurants, in between innings. other players should say "what are you nuts to be considering a 10/100 deal now. you're too good, just wait, you'll get double that guaranteed and probably triple".
enjoyed edwin encarncion's .056 batting average in the houston series. especially those 3 swinging strikeouts in game 6. won't be able to bash him anymore since that will be the last game he ever plays. steve pearce has a better chance at being a world series mvp again than this guy even getting an invite to spring training. go home edwin with your parrot. maybe the parrot can teach you to speak english. an absolutely horrible and miserable excuse for a major league baseball player.
