Comments on: The Yankees are listening to offers for Granderson, Hughes and Nova

By: maritime85

maritime85 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:12:47 +0000

hughes stinks but hed be great on another team. better then ian kennedy

By: purnellmeagrejr

purnellmeagrejr — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:56:23 +0000

great line “like a dog chasing a frisbee in CF. Just think if you did color on a network broadcast and said that, You’d have to publicly apologize. Funny phrase. I always enjoy the wit of people commmenting on sports more than I do that of politicoes.

By: purnellmeagrejr

purnellmeagrejr — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:53:07 +0000

celine is the Bible.

By: theskinsman

theskinsman — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:23:51 +0000

Carl Pavano is available. And I imagine he won’t be overpriced.

By: theskinsman

theskinsman — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:00:37 +0000

Win the World Series yearly??? You really have to start watching live games and get off the YES network where the team never loses. Thanks for the laugh!

By: bozosforall

bozosforall — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:47:50 +0000

Don’t you mean 2 in the last 13 years, puppylapper? Funny how it is so easy to frame things to make them look worse than they really are. Not many teams can claim 2 titles in this century, the Yankees being one team that can.

By: anxovies

anxovies — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:43:32 +0000

OK? Nova exploded after the 4th inning. Hughes looked like he got better so he probably stays. Maybe somebody will take Nova as a project and give us a utility player.

By: anxovies

anxovies — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:38:23 +0000

I doubt that the Steinbrenners are selling the Yankees. However, it is my understanding the holding company for the team, Yankee Global Enterprises, LLC, has several members who are not involved in the operation of the team, including George’s 2 daughters. Hal and/or Hank might be interested in buying out the daughters and other non-family members, but I don’t think that they want to sell to outsiders. Further, this would be a bad time to sell with the big extended contracts to aged veterans. My understanding is that the salary cap tax goes up every year you are over and the Yankees have been over since at least 1999. If they can keep under the salary cap for one year that purges the increased penalties and the penalties for going over are less for succeeding years.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:23:35 +0000

May I recommend Celine’s Death on the Installment Plan?

By: brandedthefirst

brandedthefirst — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:11:32 +0000

willclarkgameface
Dec 6, 2012, 12:00 PM EST
I love watching the New York Yankees in a pickle. Makes me giggle.

Not much to giggle about cause I don’t see any pickle , jam, or any other kind of food stuffs?

By: jayscarpa

jayscarpa — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:37:13 +0000

He’s a lousy fielder. He looks like a dog chasing a frisbee in CF. If he stays he moves to a corner and Gardner plays CF.

By: jonconn

jonconn — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:28:33 +0000

Too many strikeouts. Good fielder but we need a more consistent hitter ! Trade him.

By: jayscarpa

jayscarpa — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:59:52 +0000

Nova won’t get them anything after last year’s meltdown.

Hughes, on the other hand, is arbitration eligible 2013 and a FA 2014. If he does well this year his arbitration money is going to be a lot, exactly when the Yankees can’t spend a lot. Also his trade value goes down as his salary goes up. I can see them moving him.

By: sportsnut101

sportsnut101 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:45:49 +0000

wow key is pitching n they wanna trade thier pitching who have been ok

grandy man im ok with moving yes he hits homeruns when no1 is onbase

but his average is awful

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:05:32 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed their performance in the 2012 post-season.

By: deathmonkey41

deathmonkey41 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:44:15 +0000

Just trying to help a fellow Yankees fan out, homeslice.

By: electstat

electstat — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:30:52 +0000

Because spelling Hughes correctly changes the argument.

By: number42is1

number42is1 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:25:15 +0000

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By: deathmonkey41

deathmonkey41 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:13:36 +0000

Or spell Hughes correctly at least once.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:58:27 +0000

Or you could read the post instead of just headline.

By: djpostl

djpostl — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:52:30 +0000

You assume they’re willing to trade them ALL. It could simply be once a deal is worked out for one, the others are off the block.

I also don’t need to have it explained to me that a deal for Nova or Hughes would have to have arms in it or would be a companion deal with signing Jackson, Sanchez or Dempster.

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:47:52 +0000

paperlions: only?

By: slartibartfast4242

slartibartfast4242 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:40:44 +0000

Unless there is a new edict from Hank Steinbrenner forbidding Cashman to have any pitchers in the rotation under the age of 30, this does not make much sense. It’s not like they have pitching prospects ready to step in from the upper levels of minors.

Then of course a deal would make sense depending upon what they can finagle out of another team.

With all these rumors and signings as well as non-signings, It looks like the Yankees are suddenly stuck in the Bizarro World.

By: ironcity6pak

ironcity6pak — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:38:50 +0000

Going to the pirates….

By: ezthinking

ezthinking — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:17:26 +0000

Houston true – Padres false. Padres payroll ’10 – $37.8; ’11 – $45.9; sale in mid-summer 2012 $55.6 in payroll.

By: fanofevilempire

fanofevilempire — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:10:18 +0000

I don’t know where some of you are getting all this crap from……………………
Yankees for sale……………………….
Trading Hughs AND Nova- which is 20% of last years starting salary, seems crazy…………….
even saw something about the Yankees and pickles……………”

blah, blah, blad………………………

Mike Francesa is saying the same things as I type this……………..

some of you guys better tune in and forget Craig.

By: fanofevilempire

fanofevilempire — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:01:14 +0000

I don’t see why Craig ” can see dealing Nova” and keeping Hughs…………..

Nova is a better pitcher than Hughs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

By: chadjones27

chadjones27 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:54:34 +0000

I’m assuming that if the Yankees are listening to offers for Ivan or Hughes it means that one might get traded but not both. Can’t see them trading two pitchers.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:53:23 +0000

Yeah, just look at all 1 of the WS the Yankees have won the last 12 years. They’ve only been in it twice the last decade…and they really aren’t getting any better. It really looks like they’ve spent too much time relying on $$ and have fallen behind other teams in other areas of development/assessment.

By: chadjones27

chadjones27 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:51:21 +0000

It’s easier to find new ownership when your club is under the salary/ luxury tax. This way new ownership doesn’t have to fork out a bajillion dollars for the team, then pay a gazillion dollars extra to the luxury tax.
BTW, those are actually amounts.