Evan says Ryan McMahon’s salary is likely also holding the Yankees back from spending:
I remember last year when they traded for Ryan McMahon. Our reaction to it was he’s a lot better than what they were playing at third base, Oswwell PZA. He’s really good defensively, even though not a great hitter, a better hitter. The Yankees are a better team. The one negative I had about McMahon, I don’t know if you guys remember it. Do you remember Sean specifically my negative about Ryan McMahon? Did we share the negative in that he was guaranteed 16 mil this year? That was the problem. Now all of a sudden you’re tying up $16 million to a third baseman who while he’s an upgrade over PZA is probably not worth $16 million. That’s money best spent elsewhere especially if he ends up not being the everyday guy which you know you hope kind of has to be he does because look at the Yankee roster and look what Jack Curry told you. Jose Cabayro is the short stop. Oswald Oswaldo Cabrera is back which is great healthy. He’ll be in the picture and then Anthony Vulpi comes back on his white horse to save the day at shortstop. Maybe that’s what they’re figuring. So I think what the Yankees or at least what Jack Curry has told you on Yankee Hot Stove, as Sean points out, every Yankee fan waits for as like the pulp signal, the bat signal on what the offseason’s going to be, is they just told you the off seasonason ain’t going to be much. It’s going to be not even running it back because they’ve already lost pieces. Yeah, that’s depressing. That’s what I think we’re looking at. That’s rough. and and it’s rough and it’s not exciting for Yankee fans and Yankee fans have every right to call up and scream
Did the Yankees take on too much salary from middling players that will prevent ownership from taking big offseason swings?
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If yankees just run it back cashman should be fired
McMahon rocked 1.1 war in 54 games as a Yankee. Each war is worth around $9M on the open market valuation basically. If he repeats what he did over 162 that’s 3.3 WAR. He’s got some improving to do offensively but he provides a value clearly.