According to Jon "the man" Heyman, the Yankees are offering AJ Burnett $64 million over 4 years. That accomplishes 2 things, first, it is above the braves $60 mil offer and it is the best offer Burnett has without forcing the Yankees into a fifth year.
2 notes:
1) If I were Burnett, I would leave the $4 mil on the table and go pitch in the NL. As CC showed last year, it is much easier to get outs there and $4 mil is not that much money. The only caveat to that argument is that Burnett has historically pitched much better against the AL East than the NL East. He is 26-8 against the AL East and 19-25 against the NL East.
2) This deal makes it apparent that the Yankees have either told Pettitte goodbye, told Hughes he is #6 or are very nervous about CC. This is clearly not the prime deal they want to make, but may get stuck with Burnett (not a true ace) as their number 1 guy. In fact, he may only be their #3 guy behind Wang and Joba. The scary thing is that none of them have pitched well in the playoffs.
Yaros
History has shown that the NYY have money to burn, so if it doesnt work out with Burnett after they sign him they wont use him and then go out and sign someone else. no one, not even the RSox, can match that. so the NYY have little baseball risk in signing players that have a better than even chance of not producing.
ReplyDeleteI thought the Yankees didnt offer Andy arbitration....doesn't that mean they cant resign him until may 1???
ReplyDeletetom, i like that- BURNett
ReplyDeletebut i think it could b a good signing.
AJ Burnout has been injury prone all but 2 years in his carrer and those were his 2 walk years. He wont come to the yankees and all the sudden be healthy because hes a Yankee, whomever gets him might be getting a pavano or wright
ReplyDeleteI think they allowed the May 1st rule to lapse.
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