Source: johnsterling.blogspot.com --- Sunday, December 31, 2017
With the understanding that you cannot predict Baseball, and that - by saying terrible things aloud, it might keep them from happening - I offer here the sum of all our fears. These things CANNOT happen, because I am predicting them, and my predictions never come to pass. Understand? Here goes. Between now and March 30, the Yankees will... 1. Trade Jacoby Ellsbury and his contract to some generic West Coast team for a bag of chicken wings and a 26-year-old Single A Venezuelan. We will grease this deal by adding a top-tier prospect, whom the Gammonites will quickly claim had no future with the team. To salve the simmering fan backlash, the front office will assure us that the Yankee farm system remains in the Top 10 of MLB, and the days of this franchise lavishing $100 million, seven-year deals on free agents are over, done, KAPUT. The franchise will stay within the 2019 luxury cap threshold... period! 2. Trade Clint "Red Thunder" Frazier for a thirtysomething corner infielder, who will serve as a stopgap lug nut at 3B. The writers will note that, despite the Ellsbury deal, Frazier remained blocked in the Yankee OF and was, thus, expendable. Though this deal now blocks budding prospect Miguel Andujar at 3B, the front office will insist it has no plan to trade Andujar, and it notes that the farm system is still rated in the Top 15 of MLB. 4. Trade Andujar for a veteran middle infielder, who will serve as a stopgap measure at ...
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