Ellsbury DFA'd

[Brandon]

Our LF when we trade Upton for Price

And the Yankees ate about 26m to dump him.

Where does he stand on the worst free agent signing of all-time scale?

Edited November 21, 2019 by Brandon

[Lou]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-hot-stove-yankees-release-153-million-bust-jacoby-ellsbury-who-has-not-played-since-2017-alcs/amp/

 

[Inside Pitch]

21 minutes ago, Brandon said:

Our LF when we trade Upton for Price

And the Yankees ate about 26m to dump him.

Where does he stand on the worst free agent signing of all-time scale?

Three years of no production.  Hamilton-ish.

[Lou]

what's great is that they "stole" him from Boston 

[ukyah]

4 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

Three years of no production.  Hamilton-ish.

he's a worse signing than hamilton.

[Tank]

7/120 mil. Let’s go, Eppy!

[Inside Pitch]

1 hour ago, ukyah said:

he's a worse signing than hamilton.

More useless years for sure.

[Docwaukee]

2 hours ago, ukyah said:

he's a worse signing than hamilton.

Ellsbury

7yrs/154 mil - 8.1 fWAR.  19m/WAR

Hamilton 5/119 (texas paid 6m).  - 2.4 WAR.  50m/WAR

frankly, it's not even close.  Hamilton was much worse.  

 

[Claude]

21 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

Ellsbury

7yrs/154 mil - 8.1 fWAR.  19m/WAR

Hamilton 5/119 (texas paid 6m).  - 2.4 WAR.  50m/WAR

frankly, it's not even close.  Hamilton was much worse.  

 

They both sucked. 

[ukyah]

26 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

Ellsbury

7yrs/154 mil - 8.1 fWAR.  19m/WAR

Hamilton 5/119 (texas paid 6m).  - 2.4 WAR.  50m/WAR

frankly, it's not even close.  Hamilton was much worse.  

 

 

how much of that WAR was accumulated in his first year of that contract? ellsbury had a good first year with the yanks and then tanked off the chart. i'm not interested in making the case for hamilton's value to the angels, fuck that guy.

also, are fWAR and WAR calculated differently? aren't they from two different sources?

[Brandon]

3 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

Three years of no production.  Hamilton-ish.

Yeah, he sucked more dick than Jenna Jameson

[the dude abides]

So... no monument park plaque I’m guessing.

[eligrba]

10 hours ago, Tank said:

7/120 mil. Let’s go, Eppy!

[Taylor]

Might as well pick up Johnny Damon.

 

[Dick B Back]

Rumor has it that Ryan Howard is available.

[Lou]

8 minutes ago, Dick B Back said:

Rumor has it that Ryan Howard is available.

I'd rather have Ron Howard 

[Mark68]

12 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

Three years of no production.  Hamilton-ish.

[Mark68]

9 hours ago, Brandon said:

Yeah, he sucked more dick than Jenna Jameson

Yeah, but has a sucked the dick of a dick like this person:

[Claude]

1 hour ago, Vladdylonglegs said:

Behind Pujols and Hamilton

Didn’t Cashman and Eppler sign Ellsbury in 2014? Asking for a friend. 

[Troll Daddy]

It seems the Yankees intend not to pay Ellsbury his salary for the coming season, based upon the premise that Ellsbury underwent outside medical treatment without approval to rehab the injuries that have plagued him since 2017. George A. King III and Ken Davidoff of the New York Post reported the brewing battle, with Jon Heyman of MLB Network adding further details (via Twitter).
 

traderumors.com

[Claude]

1 hour ago, Troll Daddy said:

It seems the Yankees intend not to pay Ellsbury his salary for the coming season, based upon the premise that Ellsbury underwent outside medical treatment without approval to rehab the injuries that have plagued him since 2017. George A. King III and Ken Davidoff of the New York Post reported the brewing battle, with Jon Heyman of MLB Network adding further details (via Twitter).
 

traderumors.com

They will have to pay him in full but it’s something that MLB should try to fix for all teams. Teams should be able to pay out contracts early and reset their AAV. It sucked that Arte got very little relief from Hamilton’s contract. It wasn’t fun having Daniel Nava in LF. 

[T.G.]

Per mlbtraderumors.com

If there was any doubt, the MLBPA erased it in a statement making clear that it’s ready to fight on this issue. (Via Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, on Twitter.) The statement provides: “The Players Association will vigorously defend any action taken against Jacoby or his contract and is investigating potential contract violations by his employer.”

 

This is such a good look for the Yankees.

[Second Base]

It's actually brilliant, if not freakin sketchy. The Yankees need to add starting pitching but are already past the luxury tax limit. So by refusing to pay Ellsbury, they have temporarily made room to sign Gerrit Cole, consequence free.

They'll be forced to pay in the end, but not  until after an arbiter looks at the case and that will likely be after a lengthy court battle.

So the Yankees found a way to add 30 million in wiggle room by effectively deferring Ellsbury's salary, by simply refusing to pay him right now.

That's shady AF.

Personally, it I were Manfred I'd tell the Yankees sure, they can refuse to pay Ellsbury, but in the mean time they aren't allowed to make a single roster move until this case is resolved. You bet they'd pay Jacoby really effing fast.

But no, they'll get away with it, because they're the Yankees.

Edited November 22, 2019 by Second Base

[Blarg]

They won't be getting away with anything.

[eligrba]

3 hours ago, Blarg said:

They won't be getting away with anything.

Yes, they will.