It’s an NFL day, but there’s time enough for some quick hits in MLB…
- Gio Urshela projects as the Opening Day third baseman after a breakout year in the Bronx. He put up 3.4 rWAR while Miguel Andujar missed the year with injuries, and since Andujar has minor league options remaining, Urshela’s case looks even stronger. Urshela could even expand his portfolio to include backup shortstop duties in 2020, per MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch, though Thairo Estrada and Tyler Wade are the more likely options to take that on should Gleyber Torres need a day off.
- Second-year Orioles’ manager Brandon Hyde will have a veteran voice in his ear this season now that Fredi Gonzalez has joined his staff. Gonzalez is listed as a general Major League Coach, but the veteran manager looks forward to being freed up to contribute in a lot of different areas, per MASN’s Roch Kubatko. Gonzalez will team with Major League Field Coordinator Tim Cossins to fill the duties traditionally assigned to a bench coach – but the important thing for the Orioles is that Hyde has another influence that he trusts as he looks to build on the development of a very young Orioles’ squad. Gonzalez certainly knows the terrain, having spent the last few seasons as the third base coach for the Miami Marlins. When the 2019 season came to a close, Gonzalez didn’t know exactly what would await him, but he decided it was time to move on from Miami and make himself a free agent. Hyde, meanwhile, managed the High-A and Double-A affiliates in Florida during Gonzalez’ managerial tenure from 2007 to 2010, and he didn’t wait long to add Gonzalez to his staff.
- As they say, the ball don’t lie, and that’s good enough for Joel Sherman of the New York Post, who marks the Nationals as the winners of last year’s offseason thanks to their championship in October. Of course, a year makes all the difference, as Sherman names the Red Sox the top loser of last year’s offseason for their ill-fated attempt to keep the good vibes going after their 2018 World Series title. Sherman makes this particularly interesting note about the fates of those giving multi-year offers to relief pitchers: “There were 11 relievers who signed for multiple years last season. Six had zero or negative WAR (Baseball Reference version). Just two improved on their WAR from 2018 to 2019, and just three ([Zack] Britton, [Adam] Ottavino and Justin Wilson) improved their ERA.” For what it’s worth, the Nationals can be counted among the group of team’s handing out multi-year deals to a reliever this offseason.
yeah, i think the Yankees are fine at SS. silly question.
Dark Side: If you believe the Yankees are fine at ss, do you think they will go after Semien, Lindor, or Story when they become available? I initially thought they would because of the money coming off the books the next two years, but I’m not so sure now.
We’re always looking to get better, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see the team chase someone like Semien and put Gleyber back at second base. Heck, after all the team is going to have about $80 million dollars coming off the books this next winter. The Yankees are primed and ready to chase anyone they freaking want to. You saw what happened with the Cole: when the Yankees want someone they rarely lose out.
Yeah and its resulted in one title since you first used that method on Giambi back in ’02.
If you keep doing the same thing expecting different results you are….
Okay hater….the winter of 2008 was the last time they really set their sites on free agents and signed all 3….not since then have they been “all in” on anybody.
Given that the Yankees have a certain appeal to certain free agents…yes their commitment to winning each and every year will appeal to some but in todays age they still will need to be the highest bidder to ultimately attract those same free agents as “its always about the money” with free agents.
Each year stands on its own, but if there were 2 glaring issues with the Yankees in 2019, it was a lack of a real #1 and the injury issues….it seems the Yankee organization has moved on both of them.
Idk,they were pretty much all in on Ellsbury.
Pinstripe… Theu have money coming off but the young guys are reaching arb and they will have to replace Tanaka and Paxton. I’d love to see Lindor on the Yankees but I don’t think it will happen. My guess is Torres at short and extend DJLM.
Rgreen: Valid point about Smellsbury. But Cash & crew also set their sites on rebuilding the farm system and rebuilt it in one offseason, going from 15 or ss o to 2. It was truly amazing, and that landed the Yanks in 3 consecutive postseasons. You’ve got to admit, that was great work.
Stop the nonsense about putting Gleyber back at 2nd. He is a natural SS and DJ is a natural, multi Gold Glover at 2nd. Let’s PLEASE finally stop the utter BS by playing guys out of position. This team can be as great as any team since the 98 Yankees if they LEAVE THINGS ALONE. No more of this garbage of playing a SS at second, a gold glove 2b at first and so on. And what the hell the Yankees obsession with the totally worthless Tyler Wade at ANY big league position is beyond belief. This dude is the Ramiro Pena of this era. A totally worthless slug on both offense and defense but somehow remains in the mix. Unreal.
They need to look for at least one more starter because after Cole and Sevy, the rest of this rotation in an absolute dumpster fire. And who exactly did Domingo German murder to warrant such a suspension? What a joke that whole situation is.
Keena – pretty sure they are talking about after this year when DJ is a free agent and the rest are falling into free agency.
Keena – to go a little deeper – Paxton and Tanaka are far from a dumpster dive, not sure what stats you are looking at. Regarding German – it is domestic abuse, so yeah, the suspension is more than warranted.
Since when is beating women not ok? Smh
Frankly, it wouldn’t bother me to have season-long suspensions whenever domestic abuse claims are proven. I get people make terrible choices and regret them, but things like domestic abuse, rape, murder, etc… you should be done. In don’t care he’s a Yankee – this is above sports.
Shawn: I get your sarcasm, so it’s not directed at your comment.
Team will have close to $80 million coming off the books this winter. That’s enough to get at least one shiny new toy and extend some of our core
@Keena
Not sure but you might need to adjust your meds.
a) How are the Yanks obsessed with Tyler Wade? They see him for what he is..a utlity player who will bounce back and forth from AAA. He is a glove first guy with some speed. Relax. That’s why he spent all of 108 PA last year.
B) After Cole and Severino the Yanks have Paxton as a #3, Tanaka as a #4 and Happ, German and Montgomery to fill the #5. I bet you that’s likely one of the best rotations 1 thru 5. Yanks might need to acquire another top SP after 2020 because Tanaka and Paxton can walk but I certain;y don’t think the Yanks need to get another top starter for 2020.
C) Considering the rash of injuries they suffered, having Torres capable of playing SS/2B, DJ able to play 1B, 2B and SS and Urshealla able to play 3B and SS is a great luxury we should be happy to have. Didi was a better SS by the way.
I get that to get Cole we had to let Didi and Bets walk but I think keeping DJ at 2B for a 150 games is a poor use of his talent,
b)
Long, ridiculous post by rocky citing 2008… they spent $450m in 2014, way more than this year.
“Yeah and its resulted in one title since you first used that method on Giambi back in ’02.”
Yeah, because it’s not like George Steinbrenner was doing that back in the 70’s with Hunter and Jackson, then Winfield, and throughout his tenure until he was suspended. But by all means, keep making stuff up and using ‘02 because it fits your false narrative.
Miss when this site still had trash talk, but it wasn’t so blatantly ignorant.
Keep trolling, troll.
You don’t deserve 4 strikes with such shallow perspective.
Gleb is not a good second baseman. Weakening a position for another makes no sense
if im honest, id say no. i get you could shuffle things arround for a slight update, but few teams are trading for guys like Lindor if they are simply a slight upgrade. (which, as good as Lindor is, he isnt a very big upgrade for the Yankees) teams simply value prospects too much to simply trade a whole bunch for a partial upgrade, unless its a guy like Andujar in the trade, which i feel like just isnt happening.
@The Mick7 I don’t think the Yankees are going to shuffle Torres back and forth at SS going forward unless his defense collapses. Their younger guys are entering their arb years so money will spent. I think Cashman will continue to spend on starting pitching and a super-bullpen. The team offensively is fine and they don’t need to be the best with balanced pitching.
Yeah, I agree. Thanks for your input guys.
Really it’s a NFL Day?? Who cares I want MLB news as the site I logged in to is MLBTR not Wait for the NFL, but thanks for taking time out to inform us how important American Football is allowing us some of your important football time
You are welcome.
haha! the perfect response.
football is scripted. Everything is played out like a movie. Winners are picked in advance. So football is trash. just like basketball
How much of your budget is allocated towards aluminum foil?
@ddinmonty awesome response, I shall have to incorporate that dig into my repertoire
i dont think any storyline was served by the Titans beating the Pats after all these years, that’s for sure.
I thought Canadians were supposed to be nice?
Most of us are…. but exceptions to every rule.
Jays fans are the worst. Whiners.
Canada beat Russian 4-3. Hockey USA program no where to be found ! Yeeeeehaawwww!!!
Why aren’t they the Maple Leaves?
Why are there no Kansas City Chieves?
Seriously. The NFL is boring.
Agreed – the NFL sucks, baseball is a trillion times better.
The MLB offseason is more interesting than NFL playoffs. Period.
It’s ok to like other sports, Tc was probably saying he’s gonna relax and watch football, he’s allowed a life
Why make this about his personal life? Who cares? Talk baseball!!!
Are you one of those kneel for your country I hate football now types? He wrote one thing chill out.
sadly mlb offseason is more interesting that mlb regular season
I was just about to say the same thing
Anyone else find it humorous that the complaint was longer than the actual NFL reference in the original story?..
Seriously. Guy was triggered after three words.
It was the first thing written.
Oh no!!!
What are you mumbling about?
@jaysfansince1977
A Jays fan since 77 and a complete Richard from birth?
Why are you so offended by the NFL reference? Relax a bit,.
If Hyde is listening to Fredi, I hope he’s renting in Baltimore, and didn’t buy. He’d be better off setting up a text poll, and letting fans vote on his next managerial move. It’d at least be engaging for the audience.
The NY hype machine never stops…
Yes, there are soooo many Yankees’ snippets. Not.
With this juggernaut team, why should it?
lmao this team is barely a contender, calm down
You’re tied with another commenter on this site for biggest, most distorted Yankee hater on this site.
I think he’s been eating shrooms for the holidays
“tHis tEaM iS bArElY a cOnTeNdEr”
HAHAHAHAHAHA
@strikefour…..very apt name if I must say so…..If your obvious jealousy of the Yankees is bothering you so much, then exit the site and take up knitting or some other worth while hobby other than offering up idiocy every time you post.
What’s the NFL
Norwegian Foosball League
Northumbrian Fossil Looters
Nigerian Frito Lickers
Not For Long
that is so true. good one !
now that’s 3rd degree
Andujar can play 2 days at third, and DH 3 days. This team is loaded for bear!
He can also play at AAA because like many before him, his rookie season might have been a fluke.
They aren’t that loaded either lol they will miss the playoffs if Judge, Cole and Torres miss significant time.
Judge missed a lot of time last year. Cole wasn’t on the team. They won 103 games. But because you don’t like the Yankees, they aren’t loaded.
Nope, they aren’t loaded because they simply are not loaded.
They won 103 games in a division with 4 terrible teams, taking advantage (as usual) of a scam MLB pulls where the Yankees seem to always get the softest schedule imaginable.
They aren’t loaded because the NY media overrates every single player in the org (although some are pretty good, no ones arguing that), nor do they have a lot of depth and they are relying on small samples on guys like Tauchman and Ford.
Its fine, your phony-good team will exit the playoffs early again. Have fun watching injuries pile up once more….
Joe: You think the Yankees will try to get Semien, Lindor, or Story when they become available? If not, what do you see as their long term options at short?
Strike Four, with post after post you demonstrate your ignorance more and more. The only explanations I can think of are you either don’t know your baseball or you simply are attention starved at home and want it here
Mick.. I think Lindor and maybe Story too will get a huge contract. Until the next CBA sorts these things out, the Yankees won’t be players for those guys. I like Torres at short. Just watching him play, he looks more focused at short than second.
Good deal, that was my inclination too. Thanks, Joe.
their schedule was soft af.
@ Strike Four
Was it a long day at the clown academy or too much time in a clown car or did you put your clown shoes on the wrong feet or did your clown nose bonk you when you put it on this morning?
You don’t think they get more out of Stanton then they got last year? Hicks? Judge missed a lot of time. Severino barely played. Nothing from Jordan Montgomery or Andujar. Even Luke Voit didn’t give them anything after August. I would like to see a left handed bat and you could make a case that Torres and DJ will regress, but this is a pretty solid team.
You telling us they will be injured already. Smh. That comment could be true for every teams’s top two position players and best pitcher. I guess you fice zero stock in the Yankees ability to compete with injuries like last year. And Adujar’s bat is legit. Highly doubt it’s fluke. He will be on MLB roster to start the season.
Yankees almost went to the WS last year and arguably, if the Astros didn’t cheat they would have. That’s with injuries to every starter and backups. I believe their total was 32 injuries, many significant, and included all their top producers with the exception of DJ.
Urshela earned his position and even if he can produce close to the offense of last year he’s worth it, particularly with his defense.
Yes, I am obviously a lifelong Yanks fan, but I’m basing my statements on well-known facts. Your hypothetical statement is completely counterintuitive and contradictory to the actual performance last year.
Fans must admit, even if they hate the Yankees, that they are the clear favorites to win the WS.
Here comes #28 baby!!!!
One title in 20 years, no one cares anymore, Boston owns you this millennium, FACT.
You’re the most insufferable commenter here, you know that right?
Strike Four: The new core is here and the dominant run is imminent. The operative word in your sentence should be {owned}, past tense, because it was for the last two decades. They will have passed #30 within the next two decades.
But I respect your opinion and agree Bos has dominated so far.
2 in 20, strike four. Get your facts straight. I’ll take one in ten for the rest of my life and be happy. And Boston has won 4 in a hundred plus years… FACT I’m not saying Boston’s run this century has not been impressive,though I think SF has had the only dynasty this century, but just putting your comment in wider perspective. I’ve enjoyed 8 WS titles in my lifetime. I’m good with that. How about you and those A’s?
You had one core four, you will never have another. Please stop trying to shoehorn whoever is currently on the team into this.
Yes Torres is amazing, Judge is too but he’s too big and injury prone. Cole also dominated the last 2 years.
Literally every other player has massive flaws that could easily result in a bad year as much as it could a good one.
Yankees have a pretty competitive team, no question, but of course the braindead homers think they are going to win 130 games in 2020, its those types who Im speaking facts and reason to.
Strike Four: I understand what you’re saying and I don’t presume that Yankees will ever be as good as their 98 team again in my lifetime. However, it doesn’t have to be a core four, just a core.
And, you have to admit, 2017 they were picked to be about .500 and they contended; ‘18, they contended; ‘19 they contended; and 20 they will be better yet. They are the clear favorites to win it all and at least be dominant for the next 5 years or so.
Strike Four: You realize that 95% of the baseball-loving populace would disagree with you?
Mo: Please see my question to Joe. I’d like your opinion as well.
Strike four… you care a great deal. otherwise you wouldn’t be whining on every Yankees article. Boston is still the red headed stepchild. They can never win enough that you won’t have an inferiority complex.
You said that there are 4 terrible teams in the AL East, but the Rays made the playoffs last season and said that Boston owns the Yankees this century but are still terrible how?
And my point is they only contend because they constantly have 2+ teams tanking in their div, that’s why they don’t make the WS anymore, its a phony record that only happened because Selig decided to unbalance the schedule, and they routinely get shown up as not being the “best” in the playoffs.
They are absolutely not the “Clear favorites” and there is nothing to show that they will dominate for 5 years LOL – the Jays are going to push them this season and will start dominating them in 2021-on.
I think Oakland should be the clear favorite to win the AL (you dont get to say “win it all” when you have 1 title in 20 years btw, the WS is too small a sample to predict), but that’s for another time.
Joe Says….
I make comments on MANY articles! But the typical Yankees fan refuses to believe any other teams exist….smh
yougTank15
Zing!
And like those Rangers, Angels and Mariners have been soooo competitive…
SF… Yep and it bothers you that the Yankees mean so much to you but your team means nothing to us.
Strike Four
“the typical Yankees fan refuses to believe any other teams exist”
Total lie. We come here and read and comment on everything. The Yankee articles/snippets are a small fraction. YOU are the one driving us to talk about the Yankees in this thread. YOU.
Oakland is the clear favorite to win the AL because the Yankees have only won 1 title in the last 20 years!!!!
Oakland hasn’t won 1 since 1989! Before you were even born! But that doesn’t matter!
Can you hear that sound? Can ya? It’s the sound of a Blowhard running his mouth. Congrats Strike Four on passing the most mouth flatulence on the site.
I hate the Yankees as much as anybody, but I have to admit they very well have the best team in mlb next year. Their offense and bullpen were among the best in the game, if not the very best. Their only weakness was their rotation. Now they have Cole to be their ACE. If Severino comes back as good as he was before, that’s two of the best starters in baseball. With Paxton as their #3, their playoff rotation will be as good as anybody’s.
To Taz….Cashman was the MVP last yr he kept the players coming n they were all good enuff to win the division. I’m an Evil Empire rival, but I admire brilliance in Cashman.
@Strike Four
“You had one core four, you will never have another”.
Jeter-Torres
Posada-Sanchez
Pettite-Severino
Mo- never really had a “Mo” unless you counted Betances.
Judge, Andujar, Voit……. Hush your mouth boy. Eat a snickers. Starvation makes you stupid. , .
@Strike Four
Nailed it again man. The AL East sucks. Wait, hold on, I just remembered the Rays are in the AL East. You remember the Rays don’t you (yunno, that pesky AL East team that spanked the A’s out of the playoffs)? Let’s just say those same Rays are giving you a nice, sunny, Forest Gump-like wave right now. I can also see them mouthing something, I’m not a lip-reader but so far I can make out “c” “l” “o” “w” “n” oh wait, I got it… CLOWN!
@strikefour…..at least you have 2 others that agree with your idiocy!
Sorry, you only get 3 strikes. Winter is the season of ifs.
The Yankees are loaded and a lot of that talent is younger players. They are certainly in an enviable position. They will probably make the playoffs at the very least. However, there have been “super teams” who haven’t made the playoffs before. Anything can happen.
If they were “loaded” they would have legit All-Stars on the bench and 65 grade prospects up and down the farm, which they do not. They have a few superstars and a lot of guys who “came from nowhere” who are doomed to regress. They lack depth on the farm and have massive injury questions already.
Sure they will beat the Orioles 20+ times for soft wins to get them to 100, but there’s nothing scary about this Yankees team like, at all.
Judge, Torres, Stanton, Sanchez, Cole, Severino, Chapman are all legit All-Star contenders. Paxton could easily be, too. If he’s healthy Voit could be too. He was leading the league with 17 HR’s before he went down to injury. That’s plenty to form a juggernaut, whether they all hit as All-Stars in one season or not. You’re just setting the bar for juggernaut so high no team could match it so you can make a wild, unhinged imaginary point. Again.
Ooops. And I forgot LeMahieu, another solid All-Star contender. That’s 8-10 contenders.
Mo.. Those Yankees haters are so funny. The more they make fools of themselves, the more I love being a Yankees fan.
Like Reggie said “They don’t boo nobodies.”
@Mo4ever….hey man, don’t even offer up any fact or actual proof to dissuade that hater @strikefour……stupid is as stupid does….and he does it well.
Just ask Minnesota.
@Strike Four I can imagine you saying that out loud while you’re sticking pins and needles into a voodoo doll resembling a Yankees Babe Ruth.
Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?
never could I have imagined there could ever be a MLB player ( Gio Urshela ) who bears a strong resemblance to Ricky Ricardo
Babaloooooooooooo!
Gio ushela was a fluke
We’ll see. That’s why they play the games. He did get injured last year and came back and did just fine. If he does just fine this year will you publicly eat crow or is this just another meaningless proclamation thrown out there as a backhanded dig at the Yankees?
Is eating crow worse than eating their hat?
dynamite: good question. Should I give them the option from now on?
Mo: I don’t think it s should be their option; it should be an informal poll on the thread and let the traders choose!
Urshela had a .349 BABIP, no way he puts up numbers like that again. Pure small sample luck. He is however, a decent-gloved 3B, much better than Andujar, so he will be the everyday guy, but yeah, .349 BABIPs are not sustainable, his 2019 was pure small sample luck due to having no plate discipline and swinging and hitting them to bad-fielding OF etc.
Will you eat crow or your hat if he does fine?
and Tauchman, and Ford, and Voit, and DJLM (26 homers lol), and Frazier and and and….
But shhhh these Yankee fans are having trouble even remembering what a title-winning team even looks like, we can’t rub it in their faces that they are still irrelevant no matter how hard they run the unbalanced schedule.
NYY would be an 84 win team in the AL West, believe it.
Because your A’s have been a real juggernaut. I’ll take one tile every ten years if that’s what I get from here on out. I’ve had eight in my lifetime. I’m good. How about y0u, Strike Four? A’s had enough titles for you? As for the AL West, yeah, the Angels, Rangers, and Mariners have been soooo threatening.
You are a one-man community killer. Look how you’ve shat across this thread, sowing nothing but discord, as usual, with your wild, vicious accusations and proclamations.. MLBTR should ban you.
Didn’t know he was an As fan. I should just leave him alone. He’s suffered enough. HAHAHAHA!!!!
Ah, you’re an A’s fan. That explains a lot, a franchise that spends very little money and always loses to better teams. I’d still rather see Oakland in the playoffs than the cheating Asstros though
He never hit over .300 even in A ball. To think at 28 he magically is an above avg hitter now is nonsense
Fake ball made half the yankee scrub players into all stars. Real ball and they revert to the .220 hitters they all are. Fake ball? Real ball? What’s it going to be MLB?
Didn’t that ball make everyone better? How could it only make the NYY better? When the Yankees revert with a regular ball, though, so will everyone else. Let’s be intellectually honest about this. I see you’re back to shat in another thread with whatever unhinged nonsense you can muster..
Yup, yanks and the twins made the roster adjustments for the “juice ball”. 100 win teams. They bombed away.
To say that everyone benefits the same from the fake ball is the absolute pinnacle of ignorance.
Did you grow up under power lines?
If everyone is hitting against the juiced ball, then how would just the Yankees and only the Yankees regress to mediocrity if everyone returned to an un-juiced ball? Please explain this logic.
@whyhayzee
So the “juiced balls” were just issued to the teams the Yanks faced and no one else, huh? That’s what you’re running on? Stupidity at it’s highest.
I hate the yanks as much as anyone else but comments like this are just an embarrassment
Pretty cool the Yankees got to use different balls than everyone else.
or maybe they just have bigger balls too ?
There is no contest between Urshela and Andujar at 3B. While he may not maintain his great 2019 offensive production, Urshela is an outstanding 3rd baseman. Andujar is a great hitter, but a disaster at 3B. He catches the ball, but has slow transfer and a poor sidearm throw that was bad before his shoulder surgery. The ball will find him and the NYY cannot afford to have him at 3B.
Could be a tough situation if Urshela fields and Angujar hits… We’ll just have to see.
DH
Teams pay big for good offensive players, regardless of their defense.
good bat+bad glove > bad bat+good glove
Just look at Castellanos, JDM, 2016-2018’s Khris Davis if you dont believe me. If Urshela hits like he has his whole career besides the 2019 campaign and Andujar hits similarly or better in comparison to his 2018 campaign they’ll trot Andujar out to 3B for the majority of the season. Defense is important but everyone here seems to drastically overrate it. If defense was as important as people make it out to be, Brendan Ryan wouldve gotten a $200MM contract and David Ortiz wouldve retired in 2009. Its so silly to imagine that Urshela would start at 3B over Andujar even if he reverts back to his .589 OPS self from 2015-2018. The only way Urshela keeps his job is if he can maintain his 2019 offensive numbers. The Yankees can definitely afford to have a terrible thrower but great hitter at 3B if its indeed the case that Urshela’s 2019 was a fluke.
.225,.224,.235,.314
.222,.084,.277
.246,.182,.280
Three guys who couldn’t hit A LICK suddenly become super major league hitters? Give me a break, it’s the fake ball. If everyone benefitted equally guys who actually can hit would be hitting .400.
Stop. Get some help.
seek help please
There there now child, get all those tears out now. We’re here for you.
@whyhayzee
Wow…you doubled down on the moronic thought huh?
Would the Yankees look at Brandon Crawford? He does have a full NTC but going to a contender and being with Cole could persuade him, his bat has dropped off but he’s an elite (or was) defender at SS and a lefty swinger.
I don’t see the reason they need a another utility guy with Estrada and Wade in the fold. DJ can also roam around.
No please don’t let Tyler Wade near New York
Damn those Vikings, I really had the Saints winning that game
I’m just here to comment about the orioles nothing in particular just because all but one of these comments are about the Yankees GO Os lol
Baltimore Orioles NUMBER ONE
No baseball talk today no articles in like 7 hours
Maybe you could read The Iliad
Andujar and Torres together on the left side would not be recommended. Andujar was awful even before the shoulder injury and scouting reports suggest Torres does not have the range for SS. Urshela is error prone and will likely return to his minor league hitting projections, but he’s a better option with a glove than Andujar obviously.
Yankees need to watch out for the White Sox.
No it’s very much the reverse Catherine. ChiSox get Keuchel and Grandal and suddenly they’re challenging for the pennant? Nope
The white sox? insane really, But hey everyone is entitled to an opinion.
Mine is- i would be delighted to see that Yanks and White sox in the ALCS.
please people. i cant believe Im at the point where i have to defend the Yankees, who ive so long disliked. but really though, dislike them for valid reasons. no they arent all juiced, yes they have at least a top 3 WS shot at this point, if they aren’t the favorites. suck it up and admit it – your team is, at best, only slightly better than the Yankees.
I think the Yankees addressed their biggest need this offseason in the biggest way possible. Wouldn’t expect a Lindor type deal but with the Yanks you never know what all in means to them.