{"id":183,"date":"2013-11-13T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T11:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigabaseball.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2013-11-13T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T11:06:17","slug":"cano-a-hoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bigabaseball.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Cano a Hoe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a written by good friend and Website contributor (Cow Boy)George Clancy. Life Long Yankee Fan and current angry man\/former bleacher season ticket holder.\u00a0<\/strong>Please excuse any format errors bc i am an idiota-Jeff<\/p>\n

Resign Cano????????<\/p>\n

As the Yankees head into the offseason, there are many questions regarding which direction the\u00a0team should take regarding resigning and acquiring players. With the ownership pushing for getting\u00a0under the 189 million budget to avoid paying heavy luxury taxes, there are some important decisions \u00a0coming up in the next couple of months, the most important being Robinson Cano\u2019s upcoming free\u00a0agency.<\/p>\n

In past years, resigning Cano would be a no brainer for the organization. Cano is a home-grown\u00a0talent and has put up all-star numbers at a middle infield position in which power hitting is a rarity. He\u00a0is a slick fielding second baseman with a left-handed swing that is tailor made for the short right field\u00a0porch at Yankee Stadium. In his last three seasons, he has accumulated 20.7 WAR and has\u00a0hit .309\/.371\/.55 while batting in the middle of a lineup filled with aging stars and stop gap replacement\u00a0players. King George would have basically handed Jay-Z a blank check and there would be a press\u00a0conference scheduled in November to make the announcement.\u00a0Yet, with the murky future of the Yankees organization, it doesn\u2019t make sense for the Yankees to\u00a0resign Cano. There is 31 million dollars of cap space that the Yankees are unsure of having, depending\u00a0on what happens with A-Rod\u2019s suspension appeal. That case will drag potentially until late December,\u00a0and I doubt Cano will want to wait the market out that long and risk teams signing other options at\u00a0second base instead. Cano has asked the Yankees for a ten year, 300 million dollar contract, which is\u00a0insane numbers for a contract that would stretch until he is 40. With the Yankees on the hook with big\u00a0contracts for A-Rod, C.C. and Teixeira, I doubt they would want to have another aging star on the books\u00a0limiting their spending flexibility. Many experts see Cano signing a seven or eight year deal worth\u00a0between 160-230 million. The Yankees have about 65 million dollars in their budget for free agents this\u00a0offseason if they are to achieve their goal of staying under the 189 million threshold. Committing 25\u00a0million to Cano would eat up a significant amount of this money and hurt their chances of addressing\u00a0other areas that clearly need to be shored up.<\/p>\n

Aside from the money issue, there is the possibility of Cano declining rapidly while playing in his\u00a0mid-thirties as well. For some reason, there are many all-star second basemen that have seen a rapid\u00a0decline in their numbers as they approached their mid-thirties. Names like Edgardo Alfonso, Carlos\u00a0Baerga, Marcus Giles, Chuck Knoblauch, and even Roberto Alomar are examples of second basemen that\u00a0saw their numbers drop off of a cliff when they hit their mid-thirties. The last thing the Yankees need to\u00a0do is get caught in another long term contract with a player with eroding skills.\u00a0If the Yankees are going to commit to this 189 million dollar payroll figure, resigning Cano\u00a0doesn\u2019t make sense. They would be much better off letting him go as a free agent and getting the two \u00a0compensatory draft picks from whichever team signs him. (There can be a quick turnaround with these\u00a0picks, Mike Trout was drafted by the Angels using the picks they acquired from the Yankees after the\u00a0Teixeira signing in 2009.) They are better off signing a player like Omar Infante and hoping that they can \u00a0develop a minor league player in the future to take over at second base. As much as the Yankees tried to promote Cano, nobody was buying tickets to see Cano play baseball. He was a good to great middle \u00a0infielder for the Yankees, but the inherent risks involved with signing Cano outweigh the rewards of\u00a0keeping him in the Bronx with a long term contract. If the Yankees are going to commit to this fiscal\u00a0responsibility, moves like not resigning Cano will have to be the norm rather than the exception for the\u00a0immediate future.<\/p>\n

Best regards<\/p>\n

George Clancy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”<\/div>\n
-Peter Drucker<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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