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2024-25 Yankees Off Season / Spring Training

OrangeXtreme said:
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The Red Sox owners/mgmt. are morons.
They could have locked up Mookie Betts but instead they traded him away for circus peanuts and now they’re pretending that they’re all-in for Soto.

Sorry, resume Yankee talk.
 
kirbivore said:
With Soto being an average at best defender and declining fast in that area, that small LF in Fenway would be perfect for him.
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Soto is 26. Why is he "declining fast" on defense?
 
IthacaMatt said:
Soto is 26. Why is he "declining fast" on defense?
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Yeah, this might have been his best defensive year, which is not saying a lot. I would love to see him try 1B. Of course he is not going to sign with the team who asks him to learn 1B.
 
orangeinohio said:
The Red Sox owners/mgmt. are morons.
They could have locked up Mookie Betts but instead they traded him away for circus peanuts and now they’re pretending that they’re all-in for Soto.

Sorry, resume Yankee talk.
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true this Soto dance seems to have this energy from Red Sox ownership

 
IthacaMatt said:
Soto is 26. Why is he "declining fast" on defense?
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He has a strong arm but his range has always been below-average. For those reasons he was a great fit for NY's short porch and the Yankees can hide him there for a few more years if they end up signing him. The Red Sox could do the same in LF. Him in Fenway's RF would be an adventure, though.
 
M2MPrinciples said:
He has a strong arm but his range has always been below-average. For those reasons he was a great fit for NY's short porch and the Yankees can hide him there for a few more years if they end up signing him. The Red Sox could do the same in LF. Him in Fenway's RF would be an adventure, though.
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OK, I understand what you're saying. I think he's better than that personally.
 
M2MPrinciples said:
He has a strong arm but his range has always been below-average. For those reasons he was a great fit for NY's short porch and the Yankees can hide him there for a few more years if they end up signing him. The Red Sox could do the same in LF. Him in Fenway's RF would be an adventure, though.
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yeah, the problem is then Judge has to play CF or LF, which is fine, but not ideal.
 
donniesyracuse said:
Yeah, this might have been his best defensive year, which is not saying a lot. I would love to see him try 1B. Of course he is not going to sign with the team who asks him to learn 1B.
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I don’t think you can just pigeon hole him into 1st base, he just doesn’t seem the type to be able to handle a position that is a lot more important than most think it is.With the shift being banned it makes it even more valuable to have at least an average 1st baseman stationed over there.I could be wrong, but he just doesn’t look to me to have the type of agility and skill to be competent enough to play there.
 
JustPherU said:
I don’t think you can just pigeon hole him into 1st base, he just doesn’t seem the type to be able to handle a position that is a lot more important than most think it is.With the shift being banned it makes it even more valuable to have at least an average 1st baseman stationed over there.I could be wrong, but he just doesn’t look to me to have the type of agility and skill to be competent enough to play there.
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I read recently that 1B is still by far the least significant defensive position (i.e., it has the least impact on BABIP and ultimately win probability). I will try to find that article. I recognize that Soto might not be great at 1B, but I would love to see him try, because he can do much less damage there than in the outfield.
 
Berti is an injury guy. Yankees have too many already.
 
www.mlb.com

Yanks agree to terms with Grisham, Brubaker; two non-tendered

The Yankees non-tendered infielder Jon Berti and left-hander Tim Mayza ahead of Friday’s 8 p.m. ET deadline, the club announced, making them both free agents. New York did agree to terms on new one-year contracts with right-hander JT Brubaker and outfielder Trent Grisham. Grisham will earn $5...
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The Yankees non-tendered infielder Jon Berti and left-hander Tim Mayza ahead of Friday’s 8 p.m. ET deadline, the club announced, making them both free agents.

New York did agree to terms on new one-year contracts with right-hander JT Brubaker and outfielder Trent Grisham. Grisham will earn $5 million with up to $250,000 in incentives, according to MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. Grisham earned $5.5 million this past season.

The Yankees have offered contracts to infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr., left-hander Nestor Cortes, right-hander Scott Effross, right-hander Mark Leiter Jr., right-hander Clarke Schmidt and catcher Jose Trevino.

Teams and players have until Jan. 9 to agree, at which time salary arbitration figures would be exchanged.
 
I felt gross when my team signed Chapman a couple years ago and that was only for $3.75M. It worked out with them flipping him for a guy who very quickly became one of the best SP's in the league, but that's probably not happening in Boston.
 
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