February 17, 2025

46 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Yankees reach deal to bring back lefty reliever Tim Hill

  1. Zip has Judge 7.7 WAR. Jazz 3.6. Volpe 3.5. Cody 3.0. Wells2.4. Goldy 2.2. Martian 2.0

    Steamer Judge 7.1. Volpe 4.1. Jazz 3.6. Wells 3.5. Cody 2.8. Martian 2.2. Goldy 2.0

    1. Those projections are better than expected. That’s 24.4 or 25.3 in WAR for just their top eight hitters. They might actually be able to match last year’s 30.1 in position player WAR, or at least come within spitting distance of it.

      Then you have to hope that their improved pitching can beat 17.1 bWAR in pitching, and they might really have something.

      Signing Bregman would be the easiest way to solve their issues.

    2. Maybe this is the year that Volpe hits like an average major leaguer?

      I get that his defense is valuable, but I think the available calcs are still rudimentary when it comes to dWAR. Currently his career bWAR is 6.7 and 4.1 of that is defense.

    3. So the systems are all presuming that the Martian will an utter mediocrity and worth 1/2 of Volpe, and that all the acquisitions on offense will be mediocre.
      If they have that much WAR out of the top 8 with those presumptions, might we be underselling the offensive potential of this team?

  2. Zips has Grisham 2.4 based on playing 125 games, Stanton at 1.0 for 108 games, DJ and Waldo at 1.7, 1.6

    Steamer Grisham 0.6 at41 games, Stanton 1.1 for 122 games, DJ and Waldo at 0.7, 1.0

    1. I can’t figure out the bounceback projection either. None of his comps on baseball-reference had distinguished careers after 35. Julio Franco is on there, but he kinda just sucked at an old age but was playable.

      For Zips comps, it is more of the same. The top 3 comps used in his projection are Eric Sogard, Tom Herr, and Mark Loretta. None of them did anything at DJLM’s age.

  3. MLBTR The Yankees have claimed righty Owen White off waivers from the Reds, per a team announcement. It’s their second waiver claim in the past 20 minutes, as New York also claimed infielder Braden Shewmake from the Royals. The Shewmake claim brought their 40-man roster to capacity, so the Yankees have designated righty Allan Winans (another waiver pickup) for assignment in order to open a roster spot for White.

  4. Now of course it is possible that his entire stint with the Yankees was SSS and he’ll be the pitcher he was for the white Sox earlier. In which case they just wasted $3m and probably a few losses in 2025 before they realize…

    And Jasson has to be better than 2.2 or we’ve been waiting for nothing.

  5. Shewmake The former first-round pick has appeared in parts of two big league seasons but has posted a bleak .118/.127/.191 batting line in 71 plate appearances between the Braves and Sox. He hasn’t offered much more offense in the upper minors, where he’s a .240/.299/.395 hitter in 866 Triple-A plate appearances.

  6. Alonso’s to mutts- deal is for two years and $54 million with an opt-out after 2025, per a source. He gets a $10 million signing bonus and a $20 million salary for 2025, with a $24 million player option fro 2026.

    1. The only thing that made sense for him with the Yankees was precisely the thing they COULDN’T do, which was a huge frontloaded one-year deal (or two year deal with an opt out after one).

    1. Don’s talking about the previous offer he turned down a couple of years ago. He CURRENTLY had a 3/$71 offer from the Blue Jays, but no opt out, so this is definitely a better offer than that. It’s essentially a $30 million one-year deal.

    1. I assume that one of them is the Yankees with a 5/120ish that they stretched to 6 years for AAV purposes.

    1. That whole thing stinks. We are to believe that Ohtani is so naive as to be unaware of being looted of millions of dollars, but on the other hand, it was Ohtani brilliance that told the Dodgers how to rig his contract. 🤦‍♂️

  7. Cashman has historically been great about sneaking guys through waivers, and he was able to get Winans through waivers, which is nice, but hilariously, the Yankees just lost Roasny on a DFA sneak…to the Orioles, who had waived him to begin with! So I can certainly understand why Cashman figured he could sneak Roasny through waivers, as why would he think that the team that had just DFAed him would claim him?

    1. It’s far from the biggest issue for the players but these endless waiver claims should be limited in some way. like, the team that waived you can’t claim you back within six months or something

    2. Isn’t the waiver system pro player since it was designed so that players can’t be stuck in the minors or off of the 40 man if there is another team that wants them?

      But I’m sure the constant itinerant nature of being a fringe player is a big negative toward quality of life for those players, which I presume you were referring to.

    3. You’re right, but like anything else it has its exploitable downsides, like guys who are claimed and waived repeatedly. At a certain point they should just become free agents.

    4. I dunno, if you’re good enough to make it, you’d prefer to be put on waivers, no? Since you have a better chance of sticking on an MLB roster.

    5. Would you? Maybe you would. It’s so disruptive but I suppose you have to accept it as part of the game

    6. Or how about this, a 50K bonus every time you get placed on waivers. Means a lot to that level of player, nothing to a team’s bottom line

    7. Minor leaguers joined the MLBPA so I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of these types of things in the new CBA. Lots of quality of life upgrades for minors guys. Hopefully not in exchange for terrible new rules like a hard cap.

    1. And they even ruined the Kitten Bowl renaming it The Great American Rescue Bowl and putting it on a channel I never heard of.

    1. Players really will bend over backwards to play for the Dodgers. I can’t really begrudge them for it, honestly.

      Plus, frankly, I don’t think Kike was really the answer here at third anyways.

  8. The Yankees are in agreement with free agent reliever Tyler Matzek on a minor league deal, reports Chris Cotillo of MassLive. There’s presumably a non-roster invite to MLB camp for the PSI Sports Management client.

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