Comments on The Yankees: Minors to Majors: This Year's Free Agents: What Could They Reel In?

Who cares about getting compensation. The fact tha...

2008-04-14T01:26:00.000-04:00

Who cares about getting compensation. The fact that over $75 million coming off the books after this season is a blessing. The only 2 players I see the yanks even considering bringing back would be Abreu/Petitte @ 2/1 yrs respectively.

I'm pretty sure if Andy does come back next year, ...

2008-04-13T16:56:00.000-04:00

I'm pretty sure if Andy does come back next year, it will be with the Yankees. He's already expressed interest in playing in the new stadium, as long as his family approves and his elbow holds up.

What the other two posters said. Pettitte might l...

2008-04-11T15:18:00.000-04:00

What the other two posters said. Pettitte might land you some compensation, and *maybe* Abreu as well. It's doubtful the Yankees would get anything for the others.

Giambi could hit .300-.450-.550 with 35 HR and 120...

2008-04-11T15:17:00.000-04:00

Giambi could hit .300-.450-.550 with 35 HR and 120 RBI this year and it wouldn't matter, there's ZERO chance the Yanks offer him arbitration after the year because he very well might accept (they'd only be able to cut his salary 20% courtesy of the CBA, so he'd be guaranteed at least $16M in 2009).

No arbitration offer means no FA compensation.

The only problem with that is in order to get comp...

2008-04-11T15:16:00.000-04:00

The only problem with that is in order to get compensation, you have to offer arbitration. Since salaries can't go down by more than 20%, we'd have to offer Giambi at least a one year 17 million dollar contract. I think he'd accept that. Same goes with Moose.