Front-Runner, Here!!!

[PoliticalChic]

Oh, baby!!!

Trade just announced!

The NY Yankees robbed Jeter blind!!

Stanton, who turned 28 last month, hit .281/.376/.631 (165 OPS+) with those MLB leading 59 home runs in 2017, earning him NL MVP honors.

...Castro goes from the Cubs to the Yankees to the Marlins over a span of three offseasons. He had a career season in 2017, batting .300/.338/.454 with 16 HRs and a 106 OPS+. With two years left on his seven-year, $60 million deal and a club option for 2020, he could be a candidate to be traded again before the start of the season if the Marlins go into full rebuild mode.

Of the two prospects reportedly going to the Marlins, Jorge Guzman, 21, is likely the one with the best chance to make an impact. The Yankees' ninth-best prospect per MLB.com prior to the trade, Guzman posted a 2.84 ERA, 1.04 WHIP and 88/18 K/BB ratio in 66 2/3 innings at short-season A-ball in 2017. The Yankees also received Jose Devers, who wasn't ranked among the Yankees' top 30 prospects by MLB.com."
MLB Hot Stove: Yankees and Marlins reportedly agree to Giancarlo Stanton trade



Can you picture that Yankees lineup?????

I think I have the vapors!!!

 

[PoliticalChic]

I was a Derek Jeter fan up to the day he accepted the ball back from this fan....

"For Christian Lopez, the 23-year-old fan who came up with Jeter’s 3,000th hit at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, the ramifications of his gift from above are as American as baseball, hot dogs and taxes.


“There’s different ways the I.R.S. could try to characterize a ball caught by a fan in the stands,” said Andrew D. Appleby, a tax associate at the Sutherland Asbill & Brennan law firm in New York who has written about the tax implications of souvenir baseballs. “But when the Yankees give him all those things, it’s much more clear-cut that he owes taxes on what they give him.”"
Fan May Owe Taxes For Claiming Jeter’s 3,000th Hit


Jeter.....a millionaire, should have signed the ball and given it right back to Lopez.


Now......snatching Stanton.......Karma.

 

[Jarlaxle]

The contract is a millstone. They owe Stanton $30,000,000 a year, until 2027. (He'll be 38.) Figure at least $60,000,000 of dead money on the contract...unless he opts out (he can in 2020), in which case he's either gone, or they will have to pay him MORE money.

Jeter is probably turning cartwheels...he is out from under a horrible contract, with an All-Star second baseman and one of NY's better pitching prospects. He might have simply given Stanton away, had any team agreed to simply pay the entire contract. (As it stands, the Marlins are eating $30,000,000.) There is no way on Earth the Yankees are staying under the 2018 luxury tax threshold as they claimed, especially with Ellsbury's albatross of a contract.

Castro is signed to a reasonable contract (about $10M/year) for 2 seasons, with a team option for 2020.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The contract is a millstone. They owe Stanton $30,000,000 a year, until 2027. (He'll be 38.) Figure at least $60,000,000 of dead money on the contract...unless he opts out (he can in 2020), in which case he's either gone, or they will have to pay him MORE money.

Jeter is probably turning cartwheels...he is out from under a horrible contract, with an All-Star second baseman and one of NY's better pitching prospects. He might have simply given Stanton away, had any team agreed to simply pay the entire contract. (As it stands, the Marlins are eating $30,000,000.) There is no way on Earth the Yankees are staying under the 2018 luxury tax threshold as they claimed, especially with Ellsbury's albatross of a contract.

Castro is signed to a reasonable contract (about $10M/year) for 2 seasons, with a team option for 2020.

EXCEPT.....that Jeter took back 30k of Stanton's salary plus the salary of Castro.

Yanks come out way ahead in this deal by every metric imaginable.

So....Stanton costs $14-15 million/year....

Machado next year??????

 

[Jarlaxle]

The Yankees owe 260M...basically, it is another A-Rod contract, even after Miami pays the 30M.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The Yankees owe 260M...basically, it is another A-Rod contract, even after Miami pays the 30M.

14-15 million/year....


I didn't know you were their accountant.....


See ya' at the parade....

 

[Jarlaxle]

No...this is third grade math! Ten years, 260 million, means they owe him $26,000,000 per season!

 

[PoliticalChic]

No...this is third grade math! Ten years, 260 million, means they owe him $26,000,000 per season!

It's not just your math that needs help....

Jeter took back $30k and Castro is about ten more.



Stanton for $15k/per



How ya' like dat, boyyyyyeeeeeee????

 

[Jarlaxle]

WHACK, WHACK, WHACK! OK, one more time: the Yankees are on the hook for $260,000,000 of the remaining $290,000,000. The contract is for another ten seasons. Therefore, the average salary is (yet again) $26,000,000 per year. This is NOT nuclear physics.

 

[PoliticalChic]

WHACK, WHACK, WHACK! OK, one more time: the Yankees are on the hook for $260,000,000 of the remaining $290,000,000. The contract is for another ten seasons. Therefore, the average salary is (yet again) $26,000,000 per year. This is NOT nuclear physics.

Joel Sherman

✔@Joelsherman1

I believe when this is complete Stanton plus min wage type who starts at 2b will cost #yankees as much toward luxury tax threshold as Holliday and Castro cost last year.

12:20 PM - Dec 9, 2017

 

[Jarlaxle]

Was that intended to make some sort of point?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Was that intended to make some sort of point?

Yup!

It's a bargain price for the National League MVP

 

[Jarlaxle]

Maybe for the first couple years. After that, it will be a millstone, just like A-rod. And Sabathia, and Jeter, and... (Jeter was really bad his last 4 seasons...despite making about $60,000,000. Sabathia made $23 million to put up a losing record and an ERA over 5.) Stanton is already injury-prone..he is not likely to get healthier in his 30's. And, of course, in three years, they get to figure out how to pay Stanton, and hang on to Sanchez, and Judge...who will be free agents at the same time!

Mega contracts never work out. I'm not the only one who sees this for the albatross it is. Bill Madden of the Daily News agrees with me.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Maybe for the first couple years. After that, it will be a millstone, just like A-rod. And Sabathia, and Jeter, and... (Jeter was really bad his last 4 seasons...despite making about $60,000,000. Sabathia made $23 million to put up a losing record and an ERA over 5.) Stanton is already injury-prone..he is not likely to get healthier in his 30's. And, of course, in three years, they get to figure out how to pay Stanton, and hang on to Sanchez, and Judge...who will be free agents at the same time!

Mega contracts never work out. I'm not the only one who sees this for the albatross it is. Bill Madden of the Daily News agrees with me.

Are you a Yankee fan?

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Stanton’s charge against the payroll will be $22 million — the average per-year cost of his contract ($25 million) minus the $3 million per year offset from the $30 million the Marlins have agreed to pay the Yankees if Stanton does not opt out of his contract after the 2020 season. But the Yankees also saved $8.5 million by sending second baseman Starlin Castro to the Marlins."
Giancarlo Stanton Deal Will Test the Yankees’ Newfound Fiscal Discipline


You wuz sayin'??????

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Yankees could add 2 starting pitchers, source says
They include Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka, Sonny Gray and Jordan Montgomery. If the Yankees added a couple arms, they could attempt some sort of six-man rotation, giving Sabathia as much extra time off as they can, ..."
Yankees could add 2 starting pitchers, source says

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Stanton’s charge against the payroll will be $22 million — the average per-year cost of his contract ($25 million) minus the $3 million per year offset from the $30 million the Marlins have agreed to pay the Yankees if Stanton does not opt out of his contract after the 2020 season. But the Yankees also saved $8.5 million by sending second baseman Starlin Castro to the Marlins."
Giancarlo Stanton Deal Will Test the Yankees’ Newfound Fiscal Discipline


You wuz sayin'??????

 

[Jarlaxle]

"Stanton’s charge against the payroll will be $22 million — the average per-year cost of his contract ($25 million) minus the $3 million per year offset from the $30 million the Marlins have agreed to pay the Yankees if Stanton does not opt out of his contract after the 2020 season. But the Yankees also saved $8.5 million by sending second baseman Starlin Castro to the Marlins."
Giancarlo Stanton Deal Will Test the Yankees’ Newfound Fiscal Discipline


You wuz sayin'??????

No matter how many times you regurgitate it, this is STILL wrong. This is third-grade level math!

The average salary the Yankees pay Stanton will be $26,000,000. Castro's contract is up after 2020, Stanton's albatross contract is up after 2027.

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Stanton’s charge against the payroll will be $22 million — the average per-year cost of his contract ($25 million) minus the $3 million per year offset from the $30 million the Marlins have agreed to pay the Yankees if Stanton does not opt out of his contract after the 2020 season. But the Yankees also saved $8.5 million by sending second baseman Starlin Castro to the Marlins."
Giancarlo Stanton Deal Will Test the Yankees’ Newfound Fiscal Discipline


You wuz sayin'??????

No matter how many times you regurgitate it, this is STILL wrong. This is third-grade level math!

The average salary the Yankees pay Stanton will be $26,000,000. Castro's contract is up after 2020, Stanton's albatross contract is up after 2027.

1. I didn't say it....the NYTimes wrote it:
"Acquiring Stanton, who is three years into a record-setting 13-year, $325 million contract from the Miami Marlins that is heavily backloaded may not jeopardize the Yankees’ ability to duck below the luxury tax threshold. But it will test their newfound fiscal discipline.

Stanton’s charge against the payroll will be $22 million — the average per-year cost of his contract ($25 million) minus the $3 million per year offset from the $30 million the Marlins have agreed to pay the Yankees if Stanton does not opt out of his contract after the 2020 season. But the Yankees also saved $8.5 million by sending second baseman Starlin Castro to the Marlins."
Giancarlo Stanton Deal Will Test the Yankees’ Newfound Fiscal Discipline



2. "Judge, Stanton, Sanchez is the Yankees' latest Murderers Row"
Judge, Stanton, Sanchez is the Yankees' latest Murderers Row



How ya' like dat, booooyyyyyyeeeeee????

 

[Jarlaxle]

Then someone at the NYT flunked grade-school math. Yes, it is that simple! No matter how many times they regurgitate it, the numbers are clear: they are on the hook for ten years and $290,000,000. The Marlins are paying $30,000,000 of the deal. Therefore, the Yankees owe Stanton, on average, $26,000,000 per season! This is grade-school math!

The Yankees will regret this deal unless Sanchez opts out in 2 years.