make up most of this contract, OR is CC just getting this 23 million/year guaranteed??

CC is way overweight to last long much longer. If this 7 year deal is a guarantee, the Yanks may well have flushed a giant part of their future potential down the drain, as even they don’t have unlimited funds. This is a dumb way of doing business, and it show desperation. Desperation never leads to good results! Count of it, and may the non-desperate Red Sox NOT follow suit!

in 5 years. I’m not against (well sort of) giving a guy $23 mil a season, but nobody deserves that for a huge bulk of their career. If he puts up CY Young like numbers for the next 7, then they made a great move. I don’t see that happening.

…In the Fanshots, but I won’t hold it against you. Facing CC in years 1-3 of this contract will be tough, no doubt about it. But I agree with the general sentiment that his health will be a concern after that point. He’s pitched like 500 innings in the past two years combined. His weight may cause knee problems, in addition to the strain on his arm.

Let them sign CC and Burnett. In my mind, their aging offense can’t get them to the playoffs.

The Sox really knocked Sabathia around in the 07 ALCS. I didn’t want him to go to the Yankees because he’s better than their current pitching but it’s not that big of a deal.

$140M lol

CC has an opt out clause after three years ($69 million). This contract may end up costing the MFY a lot more.

they won’t go after Tex (not that they really seemed to be in on him). I think Cashman probably realizes that he needs to keep 1B open long-term for Damon, Posada, Jeter and/or A-Rod.

Wow. Big news to wake up to…

Good? Maybe the Sox drove up the price tag with their meetings with CC. If so, great. Now I really doubt they spend that much money for Tex…

32 IP, 7.88 ERA

This is 2009, not 1989. Why insist on building your team like it is 1989?

It’s a good thing there’s no such thing as 7th place in the AL East any longer. ;) If the Sox aren’t all injured like in 2008 and the Rays continue being an excellent team, do the Yankees really have much of a chance?

The yankees could lose cc and the 2 draft picks they have to give up for him!
Cashman has no idea about building a farm system. We bring up to 2 solid players a year.
And thats in a slow year.

Pitchers
11 Dwight Gooden
17 Kenny Rogers
22 Jimmy Key
27 Graeme Lloyd
27 Bob Wickman
28 Scott Kamieniecki
29 Ricky Bones
35 John Wetteland
36 David Cone
39 Paul Gibson
41 Brian Boehringer
42 Mariano Rivera
43 Jeff Nelson
47 Dave Pavlas
52 Mark Hutton
17 David Weathers
54 Jim Mecir
55 Wally Whitehurst
56 Dale Polley
57 Steve Howe
57 Ramiro Mendoza
59 Billy Brewer
Catchers
13 Jim Leyritz
25, 45 Joe Girardi
60 Tim McIntosh

 2 Derek Jeter
12 Wade Boggs
13 Charlie Hayes
Outfielders Gerald Williams
CF Bernie Williams
RF Paul O’Neil
DH Rubén Sierra
Manager
6 Joe Torre
Why would you keep bringing in primadonads when you had won so many titles with
hustlers.
History repeats itself. Can that be the yanks slogan

If a player declines, he is free to sign with any team. If a Type A player signs with a new team, his former team is compensated based on his new team’s record in the previous season. If the player’s new team was in the top half of Major League Baseball’s 30 clubs, the former team receives the new team’s first-round Draft pick plus a “sandwich” pick between the first and second rounds. If the new team finished in the bottom half of the standings, the former team receives the sandwich pick plus the new team’s second-round selection.

i was wrong only sox fans can admit they wrong.
cc type A ,Manny type A ,D lowe type A ,A.J. Burnett type A ,Ben Sheets type a
can the yanks really keep up with their wall street greed mentality somethings got to give
but on the other hand them being strapped with aging vets and no farm system that how you build a team.

Money/length issues aside, Sabathia and a healthy Wang are a HUGE upgrade over last year’s rotation (Wang was out after May, IIRC). Sabathia, Wang, ????, Joba, Hughes/etc. has the potential to be pretty frickin good. Even with their offense/age issue, Sabathia will help the Yanks make the East a three-way dogfight.

The Sox have got to do something soon. I didn’t want them to not get one of Lowe or Burnett. It’s looking like the MFY are going to sign Burnett now. The reports of the 9 and 10 year deals being offered to Tex by Wash. and Balt. have me concerned we won’t get him either. We need another solid SP and a power bat, stating the obvious.

I can’t see him getting more money in three years. He’s coming off two career seasons. And I don’t see anyone driving up the market enough that he’ll get more than $23 million per when he’s 31. I guess maybe he’d get a five year deal that would be worth more than the $92m he’d still be owed, but it’s not like someone is going to commit to pay him $20m+ when he’s 37-38.

Unless he’s genuinely concerned about the quality of life in New York, or the future of the Yankees, I don’t get it.

bad for the Yankees and great for the AL East. He is not worth the biggest contract ever for a pitcher. He isn’t a game changer. He isn’t dominate and has never shown any ability to pitch in the post season. Beckett is 10 times more deserving of this contract then C.C is. That said Beckett isn’t even close to worth this kind of cash. Pedro in his prime would be worth 3/4 of this. No pitcher in the history of the game is worth this kind of money. Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson in their primes would be close but not quite.

This guy is a time bomb ready to explode on the Yankees payroll.

Poor cash-strapped MFY. The tax payers in NY should be pissed.

A Melky Cabrera for Mike Cameron trade is in the works. The one downside, is that they loose yet another one of their few young, cost-controlled guys.
However, it does a lot for the MFY. It keeps CC happy, as the two are good friends. It also gives them better defense in CF, something they desperately need.
If I were Girrardi, and the Yankees traded for Cameron, this would be my lineup.
1. Damon (LF) 2. Jeter (SS) 3. X.Nady (RF) 4. A-Rod (3B) 5. Posada © 6. Swisher (1B) 7. Cameron (CF) 8. Matsui (DH) 9. Cano (2B).

It doesn’t scare me that much. They could try to get an Adam Dunn or somebody like that to play OF, put Damon at DH, and juggle everybody around.