Abreu’s contract = Damon’s baseline
November 22, 2009, 8:30 pm by iYankees · 3 Comments
Ken Rosenthal (FOX Sports) speculates that super agent Scott Boras will ultimately use Bobby Abreu’s 2-year, $19M contract with the Angels as the baseline for Johnny Damon’s deal. Mike over at RAB considered this market influence a few weeks ago. In case you’re wondering, Damon was worth 3 WAR in 2009, while Abreu was worth 2.5 WAR.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Yankees gave Damon a 2-year deal worth $20M. I would be against it, though. The Yankees parted ways with Bobby Abreu after 2008 because they feared an offensive decline and knew that his defense was already a tremendous liability (which it was). I don’t see how Damon is any different, really.
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Damon is worse than Abreu because Abreu played RF and had a hell of an arm still, Damon plays the harder position in Yankee stadium with a much weaker arm making any throw to the plate or 2nd a useless point because he can’t get it there without it rolling to the bag.
Abreu is also still a .300 hitter with tremendous patients, I would rather have Abreu in left field hitting 2nd than I would Damon and that’s fact!
I wouldn’t want either of them but that is the point I am making.
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Totally agree. If we end up letting Johnny walk, the media will be in a state of shock and the fans will probably have another parade. For some reason, media types love him. Evidently they didn’t watch much YES last year.
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A lot of fans love him too, I mean he is a good guy and has a pretty decent story, plus the fact that he has to fight a stutter when talking to the media makes him fan friendly as well, he’s not a superman playing baseball he comes off as a regular guy. That alone however doesn’t mean you are worth keeping around, cut him go a year to soon if you have to in order to avoid keeping him a year to long.
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