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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
He is worth the money for the next 4 or 5 years and is a far superior defensive player to all of those players. Not to mention that he is a switch hitter who will have Arod hitting behind him (assuming the bat him third and Arod 4th which is the logical scenario) meaning he will see pitches and score lots of runs. The deal is most likely a bad one in when he is 37 but that is a long ways off. He is a much better deal at the numbers suggested than Sabathia's deal.
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At a 6 year deal he's worth $20 million a year, those extra two years though make it a very risky deal, not that the Yankees seem to care about those even though they keep getting burnt on them. I just read the part about the Yankees now having the four highest paid players in baseball, that is nuts. Especially when you factor in that they also have the highest paid catcher, highest paid closer, and highest paid #2 starter in baseball to go with it. And past their primes Matsui and Damon making $13 million each. Yet the taxpayers of NYC are supposed to give them $450 million to finance the stadium? What leverage do they have? Not like they are going to move out of town if they don't get that money. That would be franchise suicide.