Welp at this point what can they do lmaoooo smfh. Othani and the dodgers not going anywhere for the foreseeable future if we make it back to the series somehow which we probably won’t and if Soto leaves team is screwed. fukked up the best chance.
They have to spend whatever number it takes to keep Soto both from a business and baseball standpoint. I don’t care if it’s 15 years for $800 million, they have to agree to whatever number he asks for. From a baseball standpoint if they lose him they’re the 2014-15 heat after LeBron left. An aging core with a shytload of holes in the boat that they won’t be able to patch up to cover a bad offense and they’ll hover a little over .500 best case scenario until Judge, Cole, and Stanton age out and then they have to rebuild the whole thing which if you know how the last decade has gone for the Heat, would be that much harder if they never truly hit rock bottom.There are too many thoughts in my mind to form a detailed write-up of what should and what will happen this winter.
Broadly speaking, what I think should happen is the Yankees should clean house. I'm talking about firing Boone, firing Cashman, and not bringing back a single free agent (that means moving on from Torres, Kahnle, Holmes, Verdugo, Loaisiga, Trevino, and Hill -- Soto, would go elsewhere because he knows this team is weak). Stanton earned a ton of respect this postseason but that doesn't change the fact that he's wildly overpaid. Unfortunately he's not really movable unless they eat most or all of his remaining money. Rizzo gets bought out. LeMahieu is released? I'm not even sure if that's possible.
From a floor perspective, the pitching is fairly solid. Cole, Rodon, Schmidt and Gil are good enough.
This won't happen though because baseball is a business and the Yankees cannot afford a fan exodus in 2025. They will need those season ticket sales to hold up.
So I expect them to make a strong run at Soto and maybe a Japanese player or two.
Then Brian Cashman will do Brian Cashman things -- which is to say he will try to outsmart himself and bring in a couple of mediocre players that could "exceed value". After all, this is the guy who in the past year traded for Jon Berti, Jazz Chisholm and JD Davis. Real difference makers.
It's to be noted that this free agent class, Soto aside, is weak.
Who wants to throw big money to Willy Adames, Alex Bregman, Christian Walker, or Tyler O'Neill? I'm not even interested in Pete Alonso or Teoscar Hernandez. Not at their ages.
I think you guys have to open yourselves to the likelihood that this team is going to be treading water for a while...if they're lucky.
And if the Yankees DO remain division-winning contenders, it's going to require a ton of money, and a ton of reliance on veteran players past their prime.
The dodgers weren’t world beaters though. They won 98 games this year. Great team, but hardly an untouchable juggernaut. The series should’ve gone the other way or be 3-2 Yankees right now, but the Yankees just can’t hit with men on base (1-10 with runners in scoring position last night) and they can’t make routine fielding plays. Any fundamentally sound team does those and with the players this team has, they win if they do those. We said all year the only team that could beat the Yankees was the Yankees. Look at Holmes and his 13 blown saves. 5 of them were due to bad fielding. Take those out and they have home field vs LA just for one example.Welp at this point what can they do lmaoooo smfh. Othani and the dodgers not going anywhere for the foreseeable future if we make it back to the series somehow which we probably won’t and if Soto leaves team is screwed. fukked up the best chance.
I think if Soto bounces, this is an 83-85 win team max. The offseason class is really weak and not worth investing in, so we're just gonna reply on young guys and the Yankees' ability to develop them.Welp at this point what can they do lmaoooo smfh. Othani and the dodgers not going anywhere for the foreseeable future if we make it back to the series somehow which we probably won’t and if Soto leaves team is screwed. fukked up the best chance.
Without Soto this is basically the same roster as the 2023 Yankees but 2 years older and with Chisholm so yeah healthy that’s an 85 win ceiling. Still no left fielder, no first baseman, a big question mark in centerfield, and major questions at shortstop to go with an unreliable rotation outside of the now 34 year old ace. That’s a grim future when the owner of the team only cares about cutting costs and the GM has developed 1 guy into a star in his 27 years on the job while most of his picks don’t even reach the major league level.I think if Soto bounces, this is an 83-85 win team max. The offseason class is really weak and not worth investing in, so we're just gonna reply on young guys and the Yankees' ability to develop them.
that's why if Soto walks, I don't want the Yankees to pivot and blow a ton of money on declining players like Bregman, Alonso, etc. Might as well save money, regroup, go back to developing a new core of guys and then try again in 26.Without Soto this is basically the same roster as the 2023 Yankees but 2 years older and with Chisholm so yeah healthy that’s an 85 win ceiling. Still no left fielder, no first baseman, a big question mark in centerfield, and major questions at shortstop to go with an unreliable rotation outside of the now 34 year old ace. That’s a grim future when the owner of the team only cares about cutting costs and the GM has developed 1 guy into a star in his 27 years on the job while most of his picks don’t even reach the major league level.
This can’t be understated, Bob Watson was the developer. Cashman bought shiny stuff.Without Soto this is basically the same roster as the 2023 Yankees but 2 years older and with Chisholm so yeah healthy that’s an 85 win ceiling. Still no left fielder, no first baseman, a big question mark in centerfield, and major questions at shortstop to go with an unreliable rotation outside of the now 34 year old ace. That’s a grim future when the owner of the team only cares about cutting costs and the GM has developed 1 guy into a star in his 27 years on the job while most of his picks don’t even reach the major league level.