mweir145 wrote:I really don't see them changing their ways too much, guys, but if you say so. Personally, I wouldn't rely on young pitching when you can just continually spend money on good players with no consequences, and Steinbrenner might see it this way as well.
Burnett has owned the Yankees in his time as a Jay, and if I'm correct in believing that he'll have another good contract year like he did in '05, I think New York will be at the very top of the list to get him.
I thought the Yankees were going to get him when he was a FA the last time. I'm not sure why you wouldn't let the young arms have their chance, especially with the potential that Hughes, Chamberlain and Kennedy have.
mweir145 wrote:Johan will probably be a Yankee in '09...heck they'll probably sign AJ Burnett after he opts out of his contract next year (I'm guessing he'll once again have a fantastic year like he did in '05). I hate baseball's unfair system.
Did you hate the unfair system when Toronto was signing Ryan, Burnett, and Thomas??
mweir145 wrote:Johan will probably be a Yankee in '09...heck they'll probably sign AJ Burnett after he opts out of his contract next year (I'm guessing he'll once again have a fantastic year like he did in '05). I hate baseball's unfair system.
If they lose AJ it is the blue Jays own fault for giving him the option to opt out. Johan will probably be either in Boston or New York in 2009 though.
Santana, Buccholz, Beckett, Matsuzaka, Masterson.
"I do not think baseball of today is any better than it was 30 years ago... I still think Radbourne is the greatest of the pitchers." John Sullivan 1914-Old athletes never change.
mweir145 wrote:Johan will probably be a Yankee in '09...heck they'll probably sign AJ Burnett after he opts out of his contract next year (I'm guessing he'll once again have a fantastic year like he did in '05). I hate baseball's unfair system.
Did you hate the unfair system when Toronto was signing Ryan, Burnett, and Thomas??
You mean the signings that finally got us up to over 1/3 of payroll what the Yankees pay for their team? Those signings?
And dude, how many times do I have to say it? I have no problem whatsoever in the Yankees spending money. The Yankees do what all teams should, IMO. However what they do isn't economically feasible for many teams (it is possible for the Jays, though, they just choose not to). The fairer, and much better way of determining the best team would be to implement a salary cap.
mweir145 wrote:Johan will probably be a Yankee in '09...heck they'll probably sign AJ Burnett after he opts out of his contract next year (I'm guessing he'll once again have a fantastic year like he did in '05). I hate baseball's unfair system.
If they lose AJ it is the blue Jays own fault for giving him the option to opt out. Johan will probably be either in Boston or New York in 2009 though.
Santana, Buccholz, Beckett, Matsuzaka, Masterson.
I have no problem with AJ opting out at all. Nothing he does next year (even if he does what he did this year over 220 IP or something) will prove to me that he's completely reliable out there.
A salary cap isn't going to happen because all of the media thinks that revenue sharing is working for some insane reason.
When players continue to get churned through the farm, the small market team to a big market team the system isn't working. Sure, the Royals can bring in guys like Gil Meche but they have no shot of resigning Alex Gordon if he becomes a superstar. Selig wants those kind of players in major markets and that's whats unfair about the system. The competition might be a little more balanced with revenue sharing but it's the fans who lose out because the guys that people want to pay to see play are only available to a handful of teams.
jfg wrote:A salary cap isn't going to happen because all of the media thinks that revenue sharing is working for some insane reason.
When players continue to get churned through the farm, the small market team to a big market team the system isn't working. Sure, the Royals can bring in guys like Gil Meche but they have no shot of resigning Alex Gordon if he becomes a superstar. Selig wants those kind of players in major markets and that's whats unfair about the system. The competition might be a little more balanced with revenue sharing but it's the fans who lose out because the guys that people want to pay to see play are only available to a handful of teams.
Maybe, but it doesn't appear that the competitive balance is hurting too badly. The Yankees are the only playoff team this year that was in it last year as well. That's 7 new playoff teams this year. And since the Yankees run ended in 2000, we've had a lot of different (and in a lot of cases small market and/or wildcard teams) knock off the big boys and win a ring. It's not an ideal system but I don't see it changing anytime soon, because the big-market teams aren't guaranteed any success in postseason, should they make it there (and you can make the case that the Yankees are the only big-market team that have even been able to get themselves consistent regular season success over the past decade.)
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