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we might not need stadium lights in the new ballpark!

I can't believe the impact our young gunners are having on this team.

I may be jumping the gun, but Cano and Melky are top hitting players at their positions with very good defense. Wang, Hughes, and Chamberlain make up an excellent 1-2-3 (not sure who pitches where). This doesn't include Ian Kennedy, who is lighting it up in AAA. And these guys don't make $3mil a year COMBINED. Add their talent to Jeter and Arod, and Rivera and Posada for as long as they can do it, and that is a wet dream.

In the next 2 years we have some big money coming off the books in the next 2 years:
Clemmens: $18MM in 2007
Abreu - $15MM in 2007, $16MM in 2008 (team option)
Giambi - $21MM in 2008
Pettitte - $16MM in 2008
Mussina - $11MM in 2008
Pavano - $11MM in 2008
Farnesworth - $5.5MM in 2008
Damon - $13MM in 2009

Plus the guys we are still paying:
Wright - $4MM in 2007
Vasquez - $3MM in 2007
Johnson - $2MM in 2007

That is a total of $107.5MM coming off the books after next season, putting us under the luxury tax and in position to go after some serious talent.

Does this count as a 2nd dynasty, or can we leave it as one long dynasty until Jeter retires in 2020?

We need to breed a new catcher to work with Po. Po wont be here forever you know. He is going to start needing his rest and playing half a season.

nykfan wrote:That is a total of $107.5MM coming off the books after next season, putting us under the luxury tax and in position to go after some serious talent.

Johan Santana my friend.

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Johan Santana my friend.

Teixeira, Baldelli, Carl Crawford, Glaus, Vlad, Lackey, Lidge, Peavy, Penny, K-Rod, CC Sabathia, Sheets, and Wheeler are free agents as well.

We can solve every problem we have except catcher with that list. Let other teams pay exorbitant amounts of money for marginal talent and get hamstrung by their owners. Let these guys get signed by the Yankees and added to guys like Tabata, Hughes, Chamberlain, Kennedy, Arod, Jeter, Cano, Melky and Wang. -Jitpal

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Teixeira, Baldelli, Carl Crawford, Glaus, Vlad, Lackey, Lidge, Peavy, Penny, K-Rod, CC Sabathia, Sheets, and Wheeler are free agents as well.

We can solve every problem we have except catcher with that list. Let other teams pay exorbitant amounts of money for marginal talent and get hamstrung by their owners. Let these guys get signed by the Yankees and added to guys like Tabata, Hughes, Chamberlain, Kennedy, Arod, Jeter, Cano, Melky and Wang. -Jitpal

2 Problems here. Some of those guys are going to get extensions. Some of them are injury prone (Baldelli, Glaus, Sheets all seem to have trouble staying healthy), and there are headcases (Lidge), guys who will be old by the time the contract they will sign after '08 is up (Vlad). The only guys on this list that I really want are Peavy, Lackey, Teix, Crawford, and Krod. Baldellis is always hurt. Glaus wouldn't have a position, Vlad is going to be getting old towards the end of any deal he signs in '08. Lidge and Wheeler would scare me in New York almost as much as Worthless, although I like Penny, he has had some history of blow ups and injuries. Sabathia is nothing special IMO...he doesn't have that wow factor that Peavy has. sheets like I said before never seems to stay healthy.

For us, I think Peavy, Teix, Crawford, and KRod make the most sense. Those need to be the 4 we target. will we be able to sign all of them? No.

Please stop saying Tabata will be here at the end of '08...the guy is still in A Ball and has to prove himself on 2 more levels before getting called up and being productive. That could take 3 years

Wow, I didn't realize that we got that much money off the books after 2008. That's a lot of cash. Keep in mind that Cano and Wang will be getting arbitration money and Arod is likely to get a raise from what he is getting now if he stays.

Wow, that's a whole lot of money there. Out of that list, I like Santana, Crawford, KROD, Texeira, and Sabathia.