OT: Yankees injury thread

[satyr9]

they've patched it together better than it looked like they might.

Really? What the hell were you expecting? They have terrible hitters at 5 of the 9 lineup spots. And terrible really doesn't even begin to describe it, it's a group of cobbled-together rejects.

Well there was a point where I was looking at their lineup potential and it looked a lot worse than this:

Ichiro
Gardner
Cano
Youkilis
Hafner
Wells
Overbay
Cervelli
Nunez

It's still not good, but you take J.Rivera and D.Johnson out of the every day equation and you're getting things in the right direction. Maybe I should've known they'd go for more than those clowns, but they've made 2014 such a priority I figured they were basically getting sub replacement level. Luckily for them they actually got to about replacement level.

[Skin Blues]

they've patched it together better than it looked like they might.

Really? What the hell were you expecting? They have terrible hitters at 5 of the 9 lineup spots. And terrible really doesn't even begin to describe it, it's a group of cobbled-together rejects.

Well there was a point where I was looking at their lineup potential and it looked a lot worse than this:

Ichiro
Gardner
Cano
Youkilis
Hafner
Wells
Overbay
Cervelli
Nunez

It's still not good, but you take J.Rivera and D.Johnson out of the every day equation and you're getting things in the right direction. Maybe I should've known they'd go for more than those clowns, but they've made 2014 such a priority I figured they were basically getting sub replacement level. Luckily for them they actually got to about replacement level.

I'm not convinced Wells and Overbay are better than Dan Johnson and Juan Rivera. The latter two also cost the minimum, I'm pretty sure, compared to $10M+.

Also, Jeter is now officially going to start the season on the DL. This just keeps getting better and better...

[SharoneWright]

Phil Hughes starts season with short stint on DL:

http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/yankeesbl ... z2OmuexVNQ

[satyr9]

I'm not convinced Wells and Overbay are better than Dan Johnson and Juan Rivera. The latter two also cost the minimum, I'm pretty sure, compared to $10M+.

Also, Jeter is now officially going to start the season on the DL. This just keeps getting better and better...

Well I know Vdub sucked bag last year, but I still think he's significantly better than Rivera. Overbay vs. Johnson, I guess I don't really care, but I'll always worry about once better players taking one last kick at the can in pinstripes, it's just worked way too often lately. So in that regard at least Overbay was useful once, the same cannot be said about D.Johnson.

As for the money difference, distracted posted that nydailynews link that shows why Wells was important to the Yankees. His tax hit is 18m per season (the average of his deal). But if you have a player who has portions of his salary covered by another club, then you subtract that from the tax hit. So with the Angels eating 29m or so over 2 years, as long as they are eating more than 18m of his 22m salary for 2014, the Yankees actually get a tax credit for having him on their roster next year. They're paying money now to give them money under the bar next year, and a free player, which if they pull it off will save them truckloads of dough. This is more like spending 12m this year for an extra 3-4m of wiggle room next year, when they really really need it to save 50-80m in the 3-4 years after that. Wells is an accounting chip more than he's a player. That he fills in for Grandy while injured and could DH against LHP is just icing.