Yanks extend Hicks.
It's interesting that they're not choosing to wait until the season starts to make these extensions official and therefore adding to their 2019 payroll for tax purposes.
Yanks extend Hicks.
It's interesting that they're not choosing to wait until the season starts to make these extensions official and therefore adding to their 2019 payroll for tax purposes.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Hicks was set to make $6 mil, so the damage isn’t huge here. I think the Yanks plan on going up to the final threshold this year with the hopes that these extensions lower the AAV for future seasons. They added $9 mil to this year’s lux tax with Sevy and Hicks, but they have the room under the final threshold
Pollock got 5 yrs $60 mil. Hicks essentially got a 6 yr $64 mil extension on a 1 yr $6 mil contract. The AAV savings of $2 mil is a big enticer here long term
I agree with that point regarding the Hicks extension.Originally Posted by Bellhorn04
The Sevy deal was to avoid arbitration, they basically had no choice on the timing.
I think we got a pretty good deal on Hicks. I thought he’d get about what he got on a 5 year deal after the season. To get it spread out over the extra year helps drive the AAV down.
I understand why they’re doing it. They’re not going to get to that top bracket this year, hence driving up the AAV a bit this year doesn’t matter. By doing these extensions now, it drives down the total AAV of the contract and gives them more room when they’re really going to need it, a la when Judge and Sanchez start getting paid
I think we are going to see a very different Gary Sanchez this season. He had a left shoulder injury plus a groin and other injuries last season. The groin et al have subsided and the left shoulder injury was fixed with surgery. Last year, his GB% rose slightly, his LD% cratered and his Infield Fly Ball rate jumped. His HR/FB rate dropped precipitously as well. Interestingly, his soft and medium contact were about the same with a slight (1.4%) drop in hard contact. Add in a BABIP of under .200 and you have a guy who got pretty unlucky but also couldn't drive the ball as well. Interestingly, his pull percentage was the same, but he went to RF 3% more last year and went to center 3% less. Watching Sanchez, his power is to CF, so it makes sense that he couldn't drive the ball to CF as much as he was a touch late due to his top arm being weak. The only really good thing I see in the peripherals is his walk rate jumped from 7-12%. Now, defensive woes are still a problem, but offensively (if healthy), he predicts to be a force with the bat. And if his walk rate continues from last year while his hitting improves, he could be a .900+OPS hitter. The predictors also favor bounceback years from him. The 5 projection tools on fangraphs have him with a BA between .245-.260, OBP between .322-.352, and a SLG between .483-.498. For the catchers position, an OPS over .800 is awesome, so that would be a huge plus if he reached the predictions. That being said, his last healthy season he put up a .278/.345/.531 with 33HR. If his patient approach from last year can be added to his now presumably healthy hitting ability, he could be an all star in 2019
Hal sucks
Something will have gone terribly wrong if he does not make the ASG. Barring someone having a breakout season, the only other good catcher in the AL is Sal Perez, and he's coming off of a .713 OPS season.
Mike Zunino has only been worth 0.7 fWAR less than Sanchez over the last 2 seasons and is escaping Safeco...
Sanchez is a far bigger offensive force than Zunino. Sanchez has his career worst season last year. He’s going to far outperform Zunino in 2019
His career worst season!
He's only played in 266 regular season games.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
And a year where is BABIP is under .200 is not going to be a career worst year?
Hal sucks
You don't usually talk about career worst seasons for a guy who has played basically the equivalent of 2 seasons.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
He’s shown more than a ridiculously unlucky and injury plagued yea. You’ll see. He’ll drop 30 bombs on the season this year and be the best offensive catcher in baseball.
And be the worst catcher at the same time.
the 2019 NYY are a .500 team at best. talent should have them win 88 games but the manager will cost them 8 or 9 wins.
he may be fired by Aug 1st and cash and baby Brenner will feel heat for not getting Manny.....
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