Ellsbury a Yankee

[GrayGhost]

I'm a Yankees fan, but yanks have announced he is coming, sub to physical. crazy contract is like 163 for 7 plus some option. Hey, they don't take 85 wins lightly. Now, need Cano figured out, plus a couple pitchers. Please, A Fraud, get suspended

[TUM301]

As a life long Sox fan, I`m happy for the Yankees. Granted he was an important player in this W Series win but still glad the Sox didn`t see him as anywhere near a 20 million plus player. He`ll definetly help the Yanks but he`s 31 this summer and misses games every year. The right field porch should boost his power #`s ( 14-18 bombs) but this looks like another albatross contract 3 or maybe 4 years from now. On the flip side hope the Sox just pencil in Jackie Bradley on day 1 and let it rip !!!

[bigtrain]

I think he will be a good addition for three or four years then they will be choking on another big, unproductive contract.

[rjackson44]

go Oakland as

[D. Bergin]

If he reverts back to 2011 form, he's worth the money.

Otherwise, the rest of his career taken as a whole. He's a less durable Johnny Damon (better defensively, not as good offensively, taking 2011 out of the equation) and this is a ridiculous signing that will probably cost them Robinson Cano.

Teams make this mistake all the time. Unless you are taking a chance on a really young ballplayer who is still developing, when you sign a promising injury prone veteran, they don't all of a sudden become durable.

They might have one or two healthy years mixed in, but 7 years, C'mon.

If this was the NFL with non-guaranteed contracts, that would be one thing, but the Yanks are going to be strapped to this deal for a long time whether Ellsbury stays healthy or not.

[HRBAKER]

3,9,8,0,32,4,9

Career annual HR production - not hard to tell which year is 2011 is it?

He must have been well rested after having almost all of 2010 off.