The Official 2012-2013 New York Yankees Offseason Thread

[Yankees 1903]

Time to put this up. There will be a flood of offseason related threads coming (already a few up) and many can be combined into this thread.


EDIT: If YC or RY could fix the thread title that would be great.

[joseph aka Jman]

first order of business call the padres about Headley

[jd25213]

first order of business call the padres about Headley

Why, Headley is overrated. He's not worth the price at all.

[Yankees 1903]

Why, Headley is overrated. He's not worth the price at all.

I copied your thread title from last offseasons thread just to keep things the same. Now "Official" is incorrect. You did this just to set me up jd!

[joseph aka Jman]

Why, Headley is overrated. He's not worth the price at all.

The guy has gotten better every year and in his prime, of course its gonna cost a pretty penny

[TRUTH-TELLER]

MY PREDICTIONS like a modern day Nostrodamus

#1 AROD or Girardi one of them is leaving town

#2 Rivera and Andy hang it up for good

#3 Jeter won't be playing SS maybe 3B if the A-cancer gets launched

#4 Swisher gone Suzuki stays to play RF

#5 Yanks resign Cano to a very bad contract out of panic (and he never lives up to it)

#6 Kevin Long fired

#7 Tony Pena leaves to manage his own team finally

#8 The yanks don't chase any big names in FA cause they are all about profits and not winning. (George will be missed more than ever)

[fingerbang]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i1vMK4XaPk

Swisher and Long go. Bring back Ichiro.

[Thumper 88]

Keep ich

[Vintage]

Under the radar names at each position of need offensively

Todd Frazier 3B from the Cincinnati Reds.
Justin Ruggiano OF from the Miami Marlins
Martin Maldonado C from the Milwaukee Brewers

[x McLovin x]

Sign everybody.

[PACISLE]

A-rod ends up staying...
Joe returns...
Option picked up on Grandy and Cano...
Grandy is traded....
Swisher walks....
Itchy walks....
Jeter struggles upon return with ankle issues...puppy steps up...
Kuroda walks....
Andy retires again...
Soriano opts out....
Kevin long fired....
Hughes is traded....
Joba makes a comeback...

[LeoYankee]

I'd let the following walk or trade or cut loose:

Arod
Long
Sourpuss
Grandy
Swisher
Fred
Andy
Jones
Lowe
Chavez
Ibanez
Martin

That's 11 players.

Go fill up those spots with exciting players with something to prove. I don't care if they cost the minimum or 1 billion.

I just don't enjoy the current team.......need new blood.

[Yankee Clipper]

I'd let the following walk or trade or cut loose:

Arod
Long
Sourpuss
Grandy
Swisher
Fred
Andy
Jones
Lowe
Chavez
Ibanez
Martin

That's 11 players.

Go fill up those spots with exciting players with something to prove. I don't care if they cost the minimum or 1 billion.

I just don't enjoy the current team.......need new blood.

I really hope he opts out ray:

He did an amazing job this season, but that money would go to better use elsewhere for this team.

[LeoYankee]

Ok, Leo is going to summarize what really happened here:

The Yankee Brass watched the last 60 or so games of the regular season where we were basically .500 and nearly collapsed with a 10 game lead.

They see the O's , A's and Rays , with a combined payroll of 12 cents all have super years.

Yanks have worst attendance in a decade.

So, they are already fuming behind closed doors.

Then, we miraculously sneak by a completely inferior O's team. Lets be honest, they stink.

They watch their $300 million man completely choke in every single big at bat in the first few playoff games for the 8th year out of 9.

They realize that while the Swishers and Grandys of the world also suck, they are short term problems who can just be released in a few days if they wish. But not Arod. They owe him another $114-140 million over the next five years !

So, what to do? They realize this team has no chance to win it all this year, so lets make a business decision.

They decide to bench Arod, leak the chick story and devise a plan to make him so fkn humiliated that he wants out of here.

Mission accomplished. Genius, actually.

Thanks for 09, Arod......but your time here is now finished. Enjoy Miami!

[Mr Costanza]

My predictions for the offseason:

Oak will become a Frushing Met Fran
1903 will admit Canada is inferior to America
YANKSGUY will add italics to his font
TY will drink a lot
RCS will choke on a penis more than once
Yedb will remain the same which is good because he entertains us
And Leo will become a commie bastard and spend the winter in North Korea

I'll finish this up at a later time.