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Posted By: Dave
Well, it seems that money is being spent at the high end of the league. I bet the NY salary is greater than the sum of the lowest 5 teams. |
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Posted By: Marc S.
That their team's salary is now around $190 million. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
any player they want. |
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Posted By: jay behrens
I was sort of thinking the same thing. This isn't the mid 90s when there was a glut of stellar 2Bs. Even if A-Rod is the best player in the game, I'm not sure I'd give up Soriano either, especially since the Yanks have one of the best SS's in the game. |
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Posted By: Hankron
In the end, the Yankees have to win the World Series and they haven't done it the last two years. |
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Posted By: Mike Williams
I'd rather NOT have ARod...enough is enough IMO. |
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Posted By: John(z28jd)
Soriano is a 2ndbaseman in name only.He wasnt even decent in the field and might not have stayed at 2nd past this season.There was talk last year of moving him to the outfield where he could do less harm ala Chuck Knoblauch. |
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Posted By: Jay Miller
When you consider that the Yankees will lose Boone's salary, Soriano's salary and no longer have Hensen's salary, along with what Texas is picking up and with the $1 million A-Rod salary deferral, the Yankees are increasing their payroll by only $750,000 this season for A-Rod. This is not a great deal---it's a steal! |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
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Posted By: ramram
They get their extended name for a reason. As a Royal's fan, I'm sure as hell glad I'm not stuck in the AL East. Like most, I've despised the Yankees for a long time but, as much as I hate to say it, it's probably good for baseball. Every good story line has a villian. The Yankees make a good one and it helps stir the pot. IMO, they should have a third league and put the Yankees in it all by themselves (ala Notre Dame). They can go ahead and barnstorm around both of the other leagues but not screw up any of the pennant races. Of course you may have to throw Boston, Baltimore, Atlanta and a couple others in there soon and start the long-anticipated "haves" and "have nots" leagues. |
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Posted By: Chris (the illini)
Boy, that luxury tax that Bud implemented is really paying off dividends isnt it? |
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Posted By: JC
Finally my penny stocks are starting to be noticed. I have been collecting A-rod's 93 Best minor league cards for the last 5 years. His true rookie card and they are all limited production runs on the auto's. If anyone does stats, the last decade was probally the best numbers for offense in baseball. TIP: Watch Vladimir over the next 5 years... Try to find his 1996 West Plam Beach cards (2000 production run)... Enough on current minor league... Back to the Obaks, T-4's, Zeenuts, Big Eaters, and Zeenuts. |
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Posted By: Kevin Cummings
The Yankees look very good offensively on paper, but they haven't won anything yet. If they score 10 runs a game, then their pitching staff (which, despite the off-season acquisitions, I feel is not as good as last year's) might not be an issue, but maybe George isn't finished spending yet! |
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Posted By: Julie
Got a rookie Eckersly, well-centered (!) last year, and a perfect rookie Henderson to replace the one my son collected in 1982. Also a '84 Fleer extended Puckett, to go with the Clemens (I guess they're supposed to be fakes--mine look real). Also an '87 Fleer Barry B. to replace the one I sold years ago. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
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Posted By: Chris (the illini)
ugh -- I hate Jeter. If he didnt play for the yankees, no one would talk about him. Has terrible range at shortstop, and his overall fielding is average at best. If the yanks were smart ARod would be their SS with Jeter moving to third. Good performances in the postseason and playing in New York have made him a "superstar". Give me Edgar Renteria anyday -- of course I am a Cards fan! |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Jeter is a lot like Mattingly in that if he played in pretty much anywhere but the Yankees, he would barely register outside of diehard fans. Playing for the Yankees and Dodgers tends to make good players 'great' becuase they get so much press coverage. |
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Posted By: Julie
Every time the Yankees beat the As in the post season, |
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Posted By: Chris (the illini)
Jeter is an average fielder at best. He made a great play in that playoff series -- That play also had no bearing on his overall range as a shortstop; if I remember it correctly he grabbed a wild cutoff throw from in front of the pitchers' mound and flipped it home. If you like, I can dig up all the statistics and articles from the "experts" that back up my argument. Like Jay said, he is a star because he is a New Yorker, plain and simple. |
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Posted By: Kevin Cummings
.....to A Rod for making the gesture that Jeter should have made. |
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Posted By: Chris (the illini)
you would think the Yankee captain would do what is best for the team, not his own image... |
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Posted By: Kevin Cummings
If he really wanted the trade to have the most positive benefit for the team, he'd move over. |
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Posted By: Chris (the illini)
Every time Jeter makes an error or cant get to a ball that other shortstops could have, the Yankee fans and press will be all over him. The Yankees are weak defensively at 3 of the infield positions now, and they are playing a gold-glover out of position at the fourth... |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
Cute as he is... |
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Posted By: Kevin Cummings
But that's all it was - a play. To use one play to prove that Jeter is a great fielder is no different than using one of his errors to prove that he's a crummy fielder. Neither extreme is true. |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
I think David Eckstein said it best over the weekend (Angels leadoff hitter): "Those Yankees, all they care about is winning." Right. That is all they SHOULD care about, winning every GDMF year, which is all the players should care about too. And Eckstein plays for a team whose owner deserves major props for the way he handled the offseason acquisitions. |
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Posted By: Chris (the illini)
Steinbrenner does posess a win-at-all-costs attitude that many baseball owners simply do not have. A lot of owners should take a page from his book instead of sitting on their wallets. George also has access to money from television and endorsement deals that teams in cities like Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Kansas City will never see... |
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Posted By: Mike
As for what was wrong with Jeter's " spectacular" play against the A's, if Giambi slides like he should have we never have this conversation. |
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Posted By: John(z28jd)
The thing about Jeter is if he wasnt withthe Yankees,not only would he not be so highly rated but he wouldnt have a chance for all those post season heroics that make him so much more highly thought of.If he was with the Blue Jays(poke at Elliot) nobody would be claiming him to be a Hall of Famer. |
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Posted By: Julie
I never heard so much bad news about a well known player in such a short period of time! |
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Posted By: Chris (the illini)
I have no interest in Jeter or the Yankees really outside of this discussion, as my favorite team wont play them unless they both reach the World Series. I just think its an interesting subject to talk about on a boring day at work. |
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Posted By: John(z28jd)
Basically Julie,this just proves,dont believe everything you read and dont base a persons career on a couple events,otherwise we would all be mentioning Mark Whiten or Johnny Vandermeer as surefire hall of famers too. |
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Posted By: j.
it's that what you hear partly governs your subsequent perceptions of play. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
He had the 3rd highest BA in the AL in 2003--.324. |
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Posted By: Chris (the illini)
Where did anyone say he was a below average hitter Julie? |
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Posted By: julie
about the play--i guess maybe jeter knew giambi didn't slide much, if at all. multitasking again--talking on the phone with the other hand. ohh, mr. hand... |
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