December 11, 2024

13 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Yankees exercise 2025 club option for Boone

    1. Cashman has a year more to go on his deal than Boone has on his, so who knows what machinations may be going on behind the scenes.

      Will Cashman stick around through 2026, and will he be the guy to hire a new manager, and get his own extension?

  1. Ace Japanese right-hander Roki Sasaki appears headed to the Majors next season.

    Sasaki, the consensus top young pitcher in Japan, was made available by the Chiba Lotte Marines of the NPB, the team announced.

    Sasaki should inspire an all-out pursuit reminiscent of Shohei Ohtani’s initial contract with the Angels, in league-wide interest and financial scope. Ohtani agreed to a $2.315 million signing bonus with the Angels in the winter of 2017-2018. An unfettered market would have yielded a much larger contract, but the CBA classified Ohtani as an international amateur because he was not yet 25 years old. Sasaki, 23, falls into the same category now.

    The Dodgers, whose global brand never has been more powerful, are seen as a top candidate to sign Sasaki when he becomes available.

    https://www.mlb.com/news/roki-sasaki-major-league-posting

    1. If all the Japanese players go to the West Coast, that’s a major market-deforming factor.

    2. Yeah, I 100% do not mind if the Dodgers get every major Japanese star when they’re posted as regular free agents. It’s not like they’re getting them at discounts, ya know? But when they’re also getting the CHEAP ones, then yeah, that’s fucked up, and we really appear headed that direction, with Jeff Passan giving the weakest, “Well, maybe it won’t happen!” I’ve ever seen.

    3. And it didn’t used to be that they all went to the Dodgers.
      Or the West Coast at all.
      Why is that the case now, when it WASN’T the case BEFORE? What’s changed?

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