New York Yankees sign A.J. Burnett  | | | | The New York Yankees have signed pitcher A.J. Burnett to a 5 year deal worth $82.5 million dollars. They are spending a lot of money to get all the pitchers they want. A.J. is coming off his best season of his career and is a #1 or #2 starter. The Yankees will have a great rotation in #1 CC Sabathia, #2 Chien-Ming Wang, #3 A.J. Burnett, #4 Joba Chamberlain, #5 Phil Hughes? It looks like the Yankees are the team to beat, and they want a championship sooner rather than later. Does this signing make the Yankees the favorites to win it all? | | | | | | | | | | View mlb Files (Popular) Unable to View .mlb Files? Download the #1 Free .mlb Utility of 2012! OpenAnyFormat.com/Developer/MLB
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| 1. DrMario (1363)
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4 years ago
| | The Yankees consistantly spend the most on payroll and seem to have trouble landing in the playoffs. Will they top 200 million this year in payroll? Its sad to me in these hard times that teams like the Yankees spend such incredible amounts on talent. The cost is passed on to the fans and the people of New York. THEY are paying the price for the assinine idea that NY seems to have every year that if they spend the most, they'll make the playoffs and challenge for the WS title. Just another reason to dislike the Yankees. Nice to meet you jake. | | | | | | | YoreTiller (126)
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4 years ago
| | One has to consider that most if not every sports fan in New York didn't really like the development that they tried with Hughes, and Kennedy. They didn't turn out quite nicely, right? New York fans are impatient, from what I could make of them. They wouldn't take a year or two of rebuilding from scratch and constant losing for developing players. | | | | DrMario (1363)
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4 years ago
| | Excellent point Yore. I am a Twins fan and see them competitive most every year with one of the lowest payrolls in MLB. Their farm system is incredible. It HAS to be, because once the players have some success, they bolt to a large market team and the big bucks. I guess that if the NY fans are so impatient for a winner, they'll pay the price. I'll bet they have been pretty disappointed as of late. Thank God for the Mets huh? | | | | stinge (465)
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4 years ago
| | The yankees do spend a ton of money. They have the best team money can buy. But you can't really blame or hate the yankees for offering money that they can afford to pay these guys. It's the players that make that decision to sign with them. I don't think that most players really want to play for the yankees, they are just goin for the money. That's exactly what Sabathia did. That's why he has a opt out clause after 3 yrs. It's not so much the yankees, I put the blame on the athletes. I started a discussion on how athletes are all money and no heart. Meaning that there isn't anyone out there that signs with the team that they trully want to play for. Like you said, with the struggles in the economy, and people out here loosing their jobs and their homes, I think it's really stupid and pathetic to hear these athletes complain about how much money they want. Seeing these guys turn down a multi million dollar contract from one team because they don't feel it's enough. All of these guys are financialy secure for life. Sabathia took $161 million, even though he wanted to play for a team close to his home state of California. None of the west coast teams made an offer higher than the yanks so he signed with them. He was still going to get at least $100 million from somewhere. So what is the difference between $100 million and $161 million? Nothing!! It's MILLIONS!!! As far as New Yorkers go, I am one. And I'm a red sox fan. And I love pissing people off as a drive around with my Boston hats in my back windshield. But it is true that new yorkers have very little patientce when it comes to winning. We are very hostile people. We demand perfection, especialy when a team spends $400 million on three free agents. Sabathia, Burnett and now Mark Teixeira. Last year they went with their young pitchers, and it didn't work. so now they went out and went back to the original plan. Which is trying to buy a world series. It didn't work before. And they will look very stupid if they don't win it this year with the amount of money they've spent. At some point in time they are going to have to re-build from scratch with minor league talent. | | | | | | | View mlb Files (Popular) Unable to View .mlb Files? Download the #1 Free .mlb Utility of 2012! OpenAnyFormat.com/Developer/MLB | add comment | | | |
| 2. YoreTiller (126)
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4 years ago
| | Well, the Yankees surely are trying to get their money's worth with all these free agent signings. The only concern I have with Burnett is that he has been historically known to be injury prone. Last year seemed to be more of an exception than a rule in terms of being healthy during the course of the whole season. I could be wrong, and that's the beauty of it. It's a gamble for the Yankees and they are willing to shoulder that gamble if it means having a better chance of getting back to the postseason and go deeper next season. | | | | | | | | | | Baseball Team Uniforms On Time Delivery, Free Catalog, High School & Youth Teams Specialists www.uesports.com | add comment | | | |
| 3. stinge (465)
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4 years ago
| | The thing about Burnett is that he hasn't pitched a full season his whole career. And as a red sox fan I hope his arm falls off LOL! I don't like it when these athletes have one great season during their contract year. It failed with carl Pavano. Remember Adrian Beltre in his final year with the Dodgers? He lead the major league with 50 home runs. His most ever during his career. He goes on to sign a big contract with the Seatle Mariners and he goes right back to playing like sh#t! I don't think Burnett will pitch like crap, it's just a question of can he stay healthy. As far as Joba Chamberlain, I think he would be better coming out of the bullpen. But I guess we'll have to see how long his arm is going to hold up, and if he can succeed as a starter. Every ine talks about how much they would like him as a starter because he throws 95mph. As a starting pitcher, you can't throw 95mph fastballs all game. Your arm will not last. I don't know what his pitch types are, but a blazng fastball for 9 innings straight will have him back on the injured list real quick. | | | | | | | | | | Youth Baseball 51 Killer Youth Baseball Drills. Simple, Fun & Effective. Youth 6-12 www.Baseball-Practice-Plans.com | add comment | | | |
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