Yankees To Acquire James Paxton

[Spanky99]

Yeeesh - I guess we just hang onto Stro and/or Sanchez. The trade market has absolutely plummeted - nobody will give up prospects anymore.

 

Sanchez? His value's an all time low, he f***ing sucks.

[Key22]

As an aside. The Yankees seem to have a very well run front office and player development on top of money. They usually have low draft pucks but come up with guys like Aaron Judge while we come up with guys who are decent but usually say ... wow we should have drafted X.

 

They make these trades for Didi or Paxton and the guys going the other way seem to be meh players. Plus, they can outspend and get guys like Stanton. I miss George Steinbrenner. The Donald Trump of baseball. Then we had a chance.

[Carlos Danger]

As an aside. The Yankees seem to have a very well run front office and player development on top of money. They usually have low draft pucks but come up with guys like Aaron Judge while we come up with guys who are decent but usually say ... wow we should have drafted X.

 

They make these trades for Didi or Paxton and the guys going the other way seem to be meh players. Plus, they can outspend and get guys like Stanton. I miss George Steinbrenner. The Donald Trump of baseball. Then we had a chance.

 

Some of you guys make it your mission to bash Trump regardless of facts.

 

If you judge Trump by the econonomy, unemployment and wages and he was the team owner, the Yankees would have won the World Series the past two years instead of not even being participants.

[TheHurl]

two things to say here. 1. The return is super light 2. James Paxton will never have a 2.5 win season with the Yankees.

[G-Snarls]

Damn man I hate the Yankees but I admire how good a GM Brian Cashman.

 

Even during down years they're competitive under his tenure

[G-Snarls]

Added a mid + rotation starter for modest trade bait and he's only projected to get 9M in arbitration. They still have money to spend. Scary.

[Key22]

Some of you guys make it your mission to bash Trump regardless of facts.

 

If you judge Trump by the econonomy, unemployment and wages and he was the team owner, the Yankees would have won the World Series the past two years instead of not even being participants.

 

Why would anyone judge Trump based on the economy, unemployment and wages - things that the sitting president (any of them including democrats) has little to do with - at least in the short term. The first year of Obama was Bush's budget and the first year of Trump is the last year of Obama's budget. Under Obama for his entire term the stock market was setting a new record high per month - and that continued under Trump. The Obama administration (which includes Republican congress) enacted actual POLICY to raise wages for minorities - and unemployment dropped in a downward trend and wages increased. The Trump administration simply didn't overturn that policy. So yes it is improving because the Trump administration has not reversed the prior policy.

 

I am sick of both sides of government taking credit for things prior governments did.

 

I am referring to when Steinbrenner hired and fired liked half a dozen managers in a year and made stupid trades and a personality of a tantrum throwing 5 year old. Trump, even if you are the biggest Trump fan on earth should not have to go and take a basic logic 101 course at a university to see that Trump said that he "knows all the BEST people" and he will "hire" all the best people. And then hires someone only to fire them within the month. Logic = if you hire the BEST that means there is NO BETTER Human capable of doing X job. So if you then fire and hire and fire and hire and fire and hire over and over and over and you are setting an all time record for these hires going to jail and being indicted (by Republicans no less) then you are in fact NOT hiring the BEST people.

 

Basic logic.

 

And just for fun Why not look at criminal activity as an arbiter?

 

Criminal Indictments, Criminal Convictions, Prison Sentences.

8 years of Obama: 0, 0, 0

1.8 years of Trump: 89, 24, 2

 

And this with a Republican Held Congress AND Senate AND Supreme Court -LOL just wow.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/18/1796668/-UPDATED-Comparing-Presidential-Administrations-by-felony-arrests-and-convictions-as-of-9-17-2018

Edited November 22, 2018 by Key22

[BTS]

Guys, for the love of god please no politics in the main. There's a thread with 19k shitposts in the OT section.

[Brownie19]

Guys, for the love of god please no politics in the main. There's a thread with 19k shitposts in the OT section.

 

Have you guys seen Operation Infecktion? It's pretty interesting - and scary.

[Key22]

Even during down years they're competitive under his tenure

 

I get frustrated reading boards always talking up prospects because yes we have some good prospects but it seems the Yankees and Boston with lower picks have more studs coming up and actually helping the team in a major way. So they seem to draft and develop better than we do AND they outspend us in free agency. So they get much better players on the open market AND they draft and develop better than we do. You can't win this way. If we had the entire Tampa staff for the last 20 years with our $150 million payroll we'd probably have carved Boston and NY up.

 

I alluded to Machado and Harper before - the reason they are attractive free agents is because of their age and that in theory they would be here in our contending years. I get that Atkins doesn't want to make those commitments because he wants to be SURE Vlad and Bo etc live up to the hype. Then add to these guys later. Fair enough. But I am sure many others are growing impatient. 1992/1993. I have the tapes. LOL. Tulo, Martin, Morales, Pillar, Travis, Sanchez, Stroman, Hernandez. Groan. It's going to be a loooong season.

[Key22]

Have you guys seen Operation Infecktion? It's pretty interesting - and scary.

 

Problem is a certain segment will call the video itself fake news LOL

[Boxcar]

I think I've changed my mind about this deal tbh. I don't really think it's that bad at all. Didn't realize Paxton is already 30 and has never even logged 180 innings in a season.

 

Sheffield and Swanson are solid prospects who are just about big league ready.

[polar bear]

Some of you guys make it your mission to bash Trump regardless of facts.

 

If you judge Trump by the econonomy, unemployment and wages and he was the team owner, the Yankees would have won the World Series the past two years instead of not even being participants.

 

Exactly.

[polar bear]

Why would anyone judge Trump based on the economy, unemployment and wages - things that the sitting president (any of them including democrats) has little to do with - at least in the short term. The first year of Obama was Bush's budget and the first year of Trump is the last year of Obama's budget. Under Obama for his entire term the stock market was setting a new record high per month - and that continued under Trump. The Obama administration (which includes Republican congress) enacted actual POLICY to raise wages for minorities - and unemployment dropped in a downward trend and wages increased. The Trump administration simply didn't overturn that policy. So yes it is improving

because the Trump administration has not reversed the prior policy.

 

I am sick of both sides of government taking credit for things prior governments did.

 

I am referring to when Steinbrenner hired and fired liked half a dozen managers in a year and made stupid trades and a personality of a tantrum throwing 5 year old. Trump, even if you are the biggest Trump fan on earth should not have to go and take a basic logic 101 course at a university to see that Trump said that he "knows all the BEST people" and he will "hire" all the best people. And then hires someone only to fire them within the month. Logic = if you hire the BEST that means there is NO BETTER Human capable of doing X job. So if you then fire and hire and fire and hire and fire and hire over and over and over and you are setting an all time record for these hires going to jail and being indicted (by Republicans no less) then you are in fact NOT hiring the BEST people.

 

Basic logic.

 

And just for fun Why not look at criminal activity as an arbiter?

 

Criminal Indictments, Criminal Convictions, Prison Sentences.

8 years of Obama: 0, 0, 0

1.8 years of Trump: 89, 24, 2

 

And this with a Republican Held Congress AND Senate AND Supreme Court -LOL just wow.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/18/1796668/-UPDATED-Comparing-Presidential-Administrations-by-felony-arrests-and-convictions-as-of-9-17-2018

 

Rubbish!

[wilko]

I think I've changed my mind about this deal tbh. I don't really think it's that bad at all. Didn't realize Paxton is already 30 and has never even logged 180 innings in a season.

 

Sheffield and Swanson are solid prospects who are just about big league ready.

 

Michael Pineda 2.0 ?

[DigitalRock]

Have you guys seen Operation Infecktion? It's pretty interesting - and scary.

 

Sounds like some STD Spanky got from his cat.

[Boxcar]

Michael Pineda 2.0 ?

 

Possibly. That trade worked out pretty hilariously.