Top 5 WORST Yankees Free Agent Signings of All-Time
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00:00 Honorable mention
03:01 Number 5
04:10 Number 4
05:19 Number 3
06:26 Number 2
08:16 Number 1
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Aaron Judge is the best baseball player to ever live. - Sport
FYI: I am the biggest A-Rod fan in the world. He is my favorite baseball player of all-time and almost single handily responsible for my love of baseball.
With that said, I simply felt I should include a segment on him for those who would be wondering why he’s NOT on the list. The A-Rod contract was without any doubts - worth it.
I’m a huge A-Rod fan too! He is hero/idol and I actually loved him as a Yankee. He gave me great memories growing up and during his MVP years and especially in 2009.
A Rod being an honourable mention is mostly because of the embarrassment caused
lmao clearly you are an a rod fan. you spent twice as long talking about a rod then you did anyone else, even though he wasn't even top 5 lmao
Ha, Godzilla went OFF that post season. The yanks would have won the 09 series without arod, but sure as hell not without Matsui. You might want to rewatch some highlights before trying to rewrote history
@@user-ru2yt4hs6g Matsui won World Series MVP but A-Rod carried the Yankees to the World Series and he won the Babe Ruth award.
Alex Rodriquez with the Yankees, 2 MVPs, World Series champ. Put fans in the seats at home and on the road. Anytime someone says he was a bad deal for the Yankees is showing hate for a great ballplayer.
Ngl, I'm not a Yankees fan (Go Cardinals 😆) but I appreciate you jumping right into the countdown without all the hoopla
Maybe this is because of recency bias but I feel Chapman could be a honorable mention. While he did have very good seasons with the Yankees his constant issues off the field especially this past season and constant postseason failures could put him on this list for the 17m he was making a year
well, the Yankees were able to rent him to the Cubs (who won a WS with him on the roster, though not really because of him) and get back Gleyber, so there is that.
Probably doesnt make the list but I hear you
I disagree with that totally. The past couple years, as is the case with any long term deal haven't been good but his overall tenure has been good. You also have to take into account that he was an anomaly in baseball throwing as hard as he did and slowly that no longer became a unique thing so he went and learned 2 different offspeed pitches and learned them well enough to stay effective for the most part. It isn't his fault that every team has guys throwing 102 now.
The guy was one of the best pitchers in the world not too long ago, there was pretty much nothing rarer then a homerun off him in 2017 which is why I’ll never forget his face when Altuve hit that walk off buzzer bomb
Chapman was great for most of his 2 contracts the first one thst he opted out of them got a year topped onto it and technically that first stint was great too we did get torres and signed him that winter again bit he just could not locate that fe the last 1.5 years plus that tattoo ordeal thst just added to the shit show
HOW CAN AROD BE MENTIONED.WE HAVEN’T WON SINCE 2009. AROD CARRIED US TO THE THAT CHIP IN THE PLAYOFFS. 13 YEARS AND COUNTING
Too important to leave out. He did not make the list though
That was one series out off so many where he did nothing in the post season, but he did sell out the stadium after he signed with the Yankees
@@edfallon5356 until the PEDs
the second contract that Hank signed him to helped win in 2009 but it also set the Yankees back financially for the next decade where they had to sign guys like Ellsbury instead of resigning Cano, couldn't add the extra pieces needed to get them over the hump and replace aging veterans like CC, Teixeira, Arod, etc.
@@YankeesAvenue I think if Hank had let him walk, we aren't still stuck on 26 or 27... we may not have won it all in 2009, but that money (and his roster space) could have been used elsewhere for other players who may have made a different impact that could have gotten us championship 27 in 2010 or 2012 and championships 28 and/or 29 by now... you never know - what is certain though is that the extra money they had to pay him AND the money Texas no longer had to kick in AND the extra money for the $5 million performance bonuses for CLEANLY getting 600, catching Mays, catching Ruth, catching Aaron COULD have been better spent elsewhere because the money was not coming back in from extra ticket sales and merchandise because he was tainted
Did you realize that the window of 2004-2005 had a lot of really bad contracts with Pavano, Wright, Contreras and Igawa
Hey Dan thanks for the new video I watched today keep it up 👍
thanks man!
Your welcome bro
It’s a shame about A Rod in pinstripes. If he had Derek Jeter’s personality, he would be thought of in the same breath as Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle & all the Yankee goats. He was that good.
I think I understand but I would settle for him emulating Nick Swisher or AJ Burnett with their loosey goosey attitudes.
The way Arod hit in the 04 ALCS, I’m sure that if they had not traded for him and Alfonso Soriano was still on the team the collapse of 04 wouldn’t have happened.
He was alotbetterplay then jeter ever was if he went to Boston like he should’ve before the ny cheaters tampered he would’ve won a lot more with big poppy and manny Ramirez then that pedafile jeter
@@gabrielvazquez1691 Yeah because they would never have a 3-0 lead to begin with.
I used to say that "Kei Igawa" was Japanese for "sunk cost".
Dave Collins deserves a spot on this list too - not because of the 3 year $2.1 million deal which sounds like a drop in the bucket today, but because he was signed the same offseason they let Reggie Jackson leave as a free agent. the Yankees double-downed on the Dave Collins mistake less than a year later when overrated GM Gene 'Stick' Michael made one of the WORST trades in MLB history when he traded for Dale Murray and gave up Dave Collins with HOFer Fred McGriff and his 52.6 WAR along with Mike Morgan (who ended up with a 26.2 career WAR) who might have been even MORE valuable to the pitching poor 1980's and early 1990's Yankees than McGriff... but just think of all the prospects the Yankees traded away and all the bad free agent signings the Yankees made in those years chasing DH after DH and washed up SP after washed up SP when they could have had McGriff as their DH and Mike Morgan in their rotation, and used the money they wasted on those other players signing a real closer (or keeping Goose Gossage) which would have let them keep Dave 'Rags' Righetti in the starting rotation where he belonged (yes, he had a few great years as a closer but I'd rather have 200 innings of him as a starter than 100 inning of him in the bullpen)
That was one of the biggest mistakes of the 1980s. McGriff on a team with Mattingly, Winfield, and Henderson would have been nice. Yankees were not the same after Gossage left and the starting rotation needed Righetti.
@@slredzone5535 if they had McGriff they might not have traded for Rickey Henderson and kept Jose Rijo
@@billymuellerTikTok Not sure if keeping Rijo would have guarantee anything. Remember the A's barely did anything with the guy before trading him to the Reds where he finally got to develop.
Jaret Wright was also the reason Pedro Martinez didn't join Cleveland. For context, in 1997, the Indians and Expos were discussing a deal to send Wight and Bartolo Colon to Montreal for Pedro, but Cleveland got cold feet about moving Wright after he had a very good 97 postseason.
This hurts to hears as an Indians fan
Didnt know that!
Then Cleveland is the reason, not Jared Wright.
Makes you wonder how much of a difference he could have made for them in 1998 and 1999.
The Jarret Wright deal scares me now with the Rodon deal... same thing, a guy with injuries and ineffectiveness for years suddenly has a great year and a half - 11 games 2.00 ERA with Atlanta in 2003 and 32 games 3.28 in Atlanta in 2004 - it looked like he was finally healthy and Leo Mazzone (who was the best pitching coach in the game) worked his magic on him
Wright never had the years rodon has. Bad comparison.
@@BB-rm3xi Yeah while the concern with Rodon is legit but Wright was never that good to begin with despite his potential with 2004 being the closest he got.
I can remember a horrible FA contract from the old days. After the 1989 season the Yanks signed Pascal Perez to a 3-year deal worth $5.7 million. That was big contract then, especially for a 32-year old pitcher coming off a 9-13 season with the Expos. In two seasons with the Yankees he was 3-6 and pitched less than 100 innings.
Definitely could’ve been an honorable mention
I'll see your Pascual Perez and raise you Andy Hawkins.
@@NJGuy1973 Hawkins was a piece of work, but how about Dave LaPointe?
That's a lot more than what they got from carl Pavano.
The only good part about signing him is that he was influential in the Yanks, acquiring his brother Melido, who was a very good pitcher for them
Fun video brotha💯💯💯
appreciate it bro
all of them were in response to Sox getting a ring lmao
Frank Costanza: HOW COULD YOU GIVE 12 MILLION DOLLARS TO HIDEKI IRABU?!!!!
Exactly friend
Hideki "I Rob U"
moral of video. cashmans ability to evaluate pitching talent is horrific. lol and omg i remember the elsbury. i haaaated that signing. it made less sense than cashman trading for stanton.
The debacle, Brian Cashman, oversaw involving Joba chamberlain should have been more than enough to get him fired
Can not wait until 10 years when you redo this video and judge is on the list
Great list....awesome job.
Stunned there is even actual game footage of Pavano! Similar to Jake Peavy for White Sox!
re-signing 44 year old Roger Clemens for $4.5 million a month hurt the Yankees a lot more than Igawa making $4 million a year
Re signing Mr. May Judge where would you put that huge mistake on the list Cranker?
@@vietnamvet4533 Judge is the face of not only the Yankees but all of MLB. they HAD to re-sign him. they're barely a .500 team without him. he brings fans in the seats and the Yankees to the postseason. speaking of postseason, he's nowhere close to being as bad as "Mr. May", he's got 13 HR in 44 games- which is as many as Arod got in 76 games. letting him walk (after NOT trading him the previous offseason for prospects) would have been the worst move in Yankees history. if they lost him, they'd have been better off not signing Rodon and doing a rebuild.
@@billymuellerTikTok OK so let's keep doing the same thing and hope things will get better. Can only imagine the team the Yankees could have built with all the money they are spending on Judge. So the Yankees will win a ton of games in 2023 will pack the park and loss in the first or second round of the playoffs and you and I will be even more cranky.
@@vietnamvet4533 I'm sure deep down, Hal is quite OK with that as he has been the last 13 years. what he doesn't want is them returning to late 1980's / early 1990's form when George couldn't pay people to go to the games and he was threatening moving to New Jersey. but how is signing Rodon doing the same thing? regardless, if Judge had NOT resigned with the Yankees, Rodon would not have signed here either because the money they spent on Judge and Rodon COULD have been spend on other players but WOULD have been pocketed by Hal and they'd spend another year under the 233 million luxury tax and not even make the playoffs this year on a rebuild.
Bro, I know you like arod but appreciate you put him in video
Haven't watched but Carl Pavano is probably on the list
Arod was such an icon. I’m not even a fan but putting him on this list just completely mind boggles me
I have some vague recollections that Wright had a bad shoulder when he came to the Yanks. I definitely remember he was the sort of starter than it you got 5 innings out of a start, he had a good day.
The story goes the Yankees signed Carl Pavano to a 4 year, $39.95 million and Pavano was so pissed because he thought he was getting a nice round $40 million that he fired his agent, even after the agent offered to give him the $50,000 out of his own personal cut.
How quick we forget about Ed Witson and Steve Kemp. These were big dollar contracts in the 80's and their performances makes Aaron Hicks look like an allstar
How many of these trades or acquisitions did little bryan steinbrenner make?
That Brian Cashman really knows pitching. 🙄🙄
A-Rod does not deserve to be on this list, but they are right to honorably mention him as his PED association did sully the value of his contract in as much as they partly paid him to be the clean new HR king.
appreciate it
How times change. In today’s game, 3yrs/$21M, 4yrs/$32M, 4yrs/$39M & 5yrs/$46M for pitchers is really cheap or the norm.
Right around the same time it cost about $20-$30 for a decent seat to watch the game
1. Jacoby Ellsbury
2. Carl Pavano
3. Ed Whitson
4. Jaret Wright
5. Kei Igawa
That's my top five.
What’s funny is you say that that “the offensive production was just not there as he slashed a mere .264/.336/.386 with a .722 OPS” but can you imagine how happy we would have been last season if Aaron Hicks or Joey Gallo had put up those exact numbers instead of what we got?
That doesn't say much.
@@iamhungey12345 it’s saying that a .722 OPS is ridiculously better than a .630 OPS.
@@Alan-rw3ez Just saying it's a low bar though Ellsbury wouldn't have been too bad if he haven't been constantly injured. Stanton too as well.
Lol @ “he had never used While wearing pinstripes.” Dude never stopped. How he ever think no one thought he wasn’t using
Honorable Mentions: Donaldson and Hicks
Donaldson doesn't count
Donaldson was a "we're forcing you to take him as part of the trade so we can dump an overpaid salary" piece.
I get why you didn't put A-Rod on the list, but did ANYBODY think the 10 year deal (taking him into his 42 year old season) was a good one? It's a very rare baseball player who stays healthy to 40 or beyond. If they'd paid less per year, then maybe it would have been okay, because they could eat it when he was totally ineffective in his "old" age, and eaten his full year suspension. But PR damage was even worse.
But you're right. Without him, it's very likely we'd still be 26-time champions. People point at Matsui and say "he's why you won", but I point at A-Rod and say "he's why we were there."
More vids like this plzzzz
Because of the shortened 2020 season, all active player salaries were prorated for the 60 games played. As I recall, this prorated salary didn't apply to released or medically retired players. Because of this, Jacoby Ellsbury was the highest paid player on the 2020 Yankees.
Idk if you are like this but I can’t belive judge is still on the Yankees
lol I never knew about that Jarret Wright contract wtf man that’s insane
Failure on Elsbury then failed again on signing Hicks to a long term deal.
Arod was a huge part of '09 but if we used Arod's money on 2 or 3 other good players it would have made up the difference and been better in more years than just '09.
I’m going to my grave saying that if A)Driveway legend Aaron Boone isn’t injured during the 2003 off-season he gets moved B)the Yankees should have pursued Beltre who was far superior to Boone and C) they NEVER should have signed ARoids
@@eburonson I never wanted the Arod deal from the beginning. I saw him on the Rangers put up ridiculous numbers in garbage time. Give '09 ring to Kate Hudson who put his head on straight for the time they were together. When Arod opted out I was so thrilled we got rid of him only to find out Cashman would give him more money.
I am still waiting for some position player movement, other than the pitcher they signed still have not improved the lineup. Cannot count on Judge to hit 60 or Rizzo to hit 30, need contact hitters with a little pop.
Def agree they need another bat, and you obviously can’t count on 60 HR from anyone, but you can def count on Rizzo for 30 so long as he’s healthy and with the shift being banned I would expect his overall numbers to be much better
@@boppityboopy114 agreed, I think Rizzo will benefit the most of any player in the majors from the ban on the shift. I can't come up with anybody who grounded out to the short right fielder more times than he did.
Seriously the line up need a lead off guy to set the table for them, the last time they had someone like that who was also healthy enough was Damon. Even Ellsbury's first season ended with an injury and that was his best season with us.
The signing of Ellsbury was the most desperate rebound move ever. It was like the Yankees got dumped by their long-time lover (Cano) and immediately proposed to the best option sitting at the bar.
Ellsbury was a nice little leadoff hitter in Boston, but really only had one standout season in 2011. The Yanks knew what they were getting with him, but still floated a fortune his way as a consolation prize after a miserable - by their standards - 2013 season where they missed the playoffs for only the second time since 1993. It was a franchise in disarray. Jeter was retiring. A-Rod had been suspended again for another PED violation. They had no identity and were surely banking on Cano being the face of the franchise moving forward. Once he left though, they hit the panic button with Ellsbury.
His first few seasons in pinstripes he actually put up similar production to what he had been doing in Boston so it is not even like there was this huge regression. They simply overpaid for a decent leadoff hitter who played good defense. The backend of that deal is where it fell completely off the rails with injuries and his inability to even get on the field which immediately promoted him to Carl Pavano status in the eyes of the fanbase.
An absolutely ridiculous contract where all the blame falls on the Yankees management. However, after the last few years of Aaron Hicks and Joey Gallo in the outfield, that 2014 Ellsbury season suddenly looks pretty damn impressive.
It was Ellsbury getting hurt while rehabbing for me.
While the ARod deal was not great, calling it a free agency signing is a bit of a reach. They acquired him via trade from Texas and when he opted for FA, he knew he was going to stay in New York. Heck, he opted out at the end of October and they had outline the new deal like two weeks later. I don't think there was any real thought from the Yankees or Rodriguez himself that he was actually going to test the free agent market.
Thing is teams like the yankees can have a couple bad deals and not blink, they can have 100 million in payroll sit on the DL and they can be fine. Which is why they can take more risks then most other teams, which is also why they are in the playoffs more times then not. Not to mention they are in the number 1 TV and Radio market which pays for all the bad deals, before they even sell one ticket.
I will go down, but hopefully will go up with the Yankees. I'm diehard.
I still think Ellsbury is dead and buried under second base at the Yankees spring training field
Ellsbury signing is one of those I knew would be bad.
Hey where is Mr. May A. Judge on this list? Should be number 1! A Rod won a WS in 2009 if I remember correctly and Mr. May well he did hit a ton of homers last year against some of the toughest Triple A clubs in the American League.
Igawa was so so clearly a panic/response move to the Sox winning the Dice-K contract. Everyone knew it. And what people forget about Ellsbury is that they tried to give Choo a similar contract which (thank god) he turned down. Cashman is so overrated it’s ridiculous.
Worst is keeping Cashman as GM
Absolutely
For real
Fact!!
The game has passed him up.
My favorite part of the video was whenever Dan says something sarcastic.
hahaha
1. ellsbury
2. pavano
3. sabathia extension
4. igawa
5. contreras
HM: hicks (barring turnaround), brian mccann, kyle farnsworth, hideki irabu, rondell white
Proctor too.
I see everybody has long since forgotten a picture who was a thorn in the side of then manager buck Showalter…. Domingo Jean……. most folks forget the players, who were a thorn in the side of Billy Martin, Rafael, Santana, and. Cecilio Guante.
As a Red Sox fan, I remember thinking that they did the right thing by letting the Yankees sign him for that absorbent amount of money. He clearly wasn’t worth it at the time.
Do draft picks next
doesnt really play well with baseball
No patience here.
Start with Joba Chamberlain, Brien Taylor doesn’t count
@@yell0wberry Joba's career was ruined by Yankees by putting him in the rotation.
Dude, you forgot to add that Contreras won the WS with the White Sox....
How many RBI, Homers, scored runs, doubles, and singles, he got under his tenure as a Yankees. Which other players had similar or better than ARod? Nobody. So, how bad was his contract with the Yankees?
Ellsbury wasn’t even used correctly in the lineup like why have him in the number 3 spot when he had speed to be a leadoff hitter or number 2 behind Gardner who was also was peaking at the right time. But they put jeter in the 2 spot mister king of double plays , always hit into one and defeat the purpose of use of him. Nowadays the Yankees are still struggling of how to use “speed and contact” in their lineup after just making power hitter who barely runs or strikes out a ton.
I was like WTF are they thinking with both Wright and Ellsbury
We win a ws idgaf what the deal looks like at the end.
Agreed
Ur the best
They don’t win in 09 if not for Matsui, so think again. BTW Johnny Damon is the runner up followed by ARod. As far as failures Ellsbury wears the crown followed by Pavano.
They still had to set to the WS and A-Rod played a huge part in getting there.
Speaking of Pavano, beating the guy in Game 3 of the ALDS was fitting.
What about Don Gullet??
That name Ellsbury just makes me extremely upset 😤.
80’s had some terrible signings. Winfield, Tartabull, Barfield, Hawkins, LaPoint…took a whole decade to get rid of all those stiffs.
I never understood the Ellsbury deal.
Why isn't Kevin Brown on any worst list?
He was a trade acquisition
@@yell0wberry NGL I'd still defend the trade being that Weaver isn't cut out for NYC. What annoys me is that fans can be fickle and how they acted as if Weaver suddenly became awesome just because he pitched better for the Dodgers and won a game against the Yankees in an interleague game that some narratives of "Yankees mistake" cropped up. Few years later the next time they met, he wound up doing an impression of a Christmas tree combusting.
“All Time”?
Ed Whitson
Danny Tartabull
Steve Kemp
Dave Collins
Ahhh..and whay you think about Jhonny Dammon?
Boston is dying for another prospect like Ells.
To have a leadoff hitter like that similar to a lead Ace. Produces a trickle down effect.
The Sox know this.
Curious how Ellsbury staying in Boston for 2014 and beyond goes down in an alternate universe.
Any former Marlins pitcher the Yankees signed should be on this list.
Igawa was not that bad a signing either, international free agents are all a gamble. the posting fee was the only bad part but he only made 4 million a year and they were able to find a loophole to banish him to the minors so it did not effect the luxury tax
Wright and Pavano drove me nuts and I’m a Mets fan. Those guys were never good!
There is a level between Double A and Japanese baseball.
Do you even remember Kevin Youkilis? Would you want to? I guess 1 year at 12 million doesn't rank up there with this fab five as putrid signings go. But if you want to talk about a signing who did absolutely, positively NOTHING then he's your guy. At least Ellsbury had one decent year.
Of course I remember him. Bad deal no doubt but was just a 1-year contract
I would have put his acquisition on the same level as the Yanks signing Armando Benitez
I am going to disagree with AROD... he wasn't injury prone, but just a troublemaker. At least he put great numbers while he was with the Yanks despite his shit numbers in the post season, but at least he gave us that 1 world series ring. Personally I think Jason Giambi's contract was worse than AROD. As soon Giambi got caught using roids, his numbers started to decline and it was nothing like when he was in Oakland.
Imagine A rods career stats if he didn’t get tht suspension
The jeter contract after 2009 was garbage. He had one good offensive season 2012 and was dreadful defensively at SS.
Why am I not surprised that a Yankees fan is practically praising A-Rod
You are leaving out Arod's last 2 years on the team. He and Tex had combined for like 3 hrs and both were under a .200 BA. Tex retired letting the Yankees off the $$ hook. Arod wouldn't do that. He became a baseball "consultant" and collected the rest of his contract. Even though his play was dog sh_t he wanted to get paid. That is why he will NEVER go down as a beloved Yankee.
I would have Danny Tartabull on this list, although in hindsight with current metrics (WAR, OPS) his first two years of the deal were not as bad as fans thought at the time... he went from .316 30 HR 100 RBI in KC in 1991 to .266 25 HR 85 RBI in NY in 1992 but his OPS was still a great .898 and his WAR only dropped from 4.4 to 4.1 partly because he had less ground to cover at Yankee Stadium in RF than in KC and his dWAR improved from -2.1 to -1.4... still, he was a horrible fielder on a team with an aging Don Mattingly and a still promising Kevin Maas already entrenched at 1B and DH at the time of the signing - the 4 year deal at $5.2 million set the team back more financially than a $36 million a year deal would set us back now in today's market as he was second only to Bobby Bonilla $6 million in the game. the money could have been used elsewhere the next offseason to be able to get Greg Maddux
In the 1992 expansion draft, the Yankees left Tartabull unprotected in the hopes that the Marlins or Rockies would pick up him and his contact.
Tartabull was very good for the Yankees except for his last year in 05.
Bottom line, he did absolutely nothing to make the Yanks much better, and the Yanks were able to find someone to take him for Ruben Sierra
@@yell0wberry that's stupid to say he did nothing to make them better. One player isn't going to make a team. The angels had trout and Ohtani when they were arguably the two best players in baseball at one point and they were still shit.
Wow Ruben Sierra? You mean the same guy who said "all they care about is winning?" Luckily they dealt Sierra for Cecil who actually made an impact.
Tartabull missed almost 40 games in 1992 and still hit 25 hrs. Then his 1993 was as productive as his 91 season. But leave that part out.
This going back many years how about Don Gullet. I don’t think he pitched a half a season for the Yankees.
He and Andy Messersmith combined to give them half a starter in 1978.
Also another former Red Rawly Eastwick was a bust around that time.
Yes the Yankees signed him with Goose Gossage
Don't forget Dave Collins another former Reds player.
Yankees don't win in 1977 without Don Gulllet - led league in winning percentage and started off great in 1978 too before blowing his arm out and having to retire. if he played now, they'd be able to fix it.
That was bad luck. Gullett was a good pitcher. Sometimes things just happen.
Bruh, could you imagine goin into 2020 with Elisbury LMFAOOOO
And red Sox with Matt clement, Chris sale and another pitcher they got from Tampa.
@@abeninan4017 I get the feeling Chris may have had a Sale with Satan for that ring hence why he became a mess since then.
Everyboy and their mothers knew the #1.
Geez, I actually remember Jacoby being worse.
Kevin Brown... need i say more ? lol
Trade, not a free agent.
@@NYYRecaps Oh haha sorry. Ill never get over how bad a "trade" that was.
You probably wanted to say Randy Johnson
Hidek Irabu was worse to me
Anyone that says A-Rod is a Clown. A-Rod is one of the best players in MLB History.
Contreras wasn't a bad signing, we kept him away from Boston, he had a great first year in 2003 and a bad half season in 2004 before he was traded but rebounded to have a very good year in 2005 getting MVP votes and an all star season in 2006... we weren't patient enough with him, same as Sonny Gray, Nate Eovaldi and all the other pitchers who come here, get booed and traded and become stars again elsewhere. . we as Yankees fans need to stop doing this. gonna happen with Montas now too, mark my words. he'll be out of pinstripes and will return to all star form
Depends, the thing is some players just aren't cut out for NYC. Eovaldi's case has more to do with injuries though, the guy was actually decent in 2015.
I wouldn’t put a rod on this. It’s not like arod couldn’t perform without roids. A rod was a fan favorite
Texas paid most of Alex Contract.
Arod was an icon stop the cap even with the controversies one of the best players in history. - not a Yankees fan.
anyone forget eddie whitson steve kemp melidio perez
I hope Judge can hold up starting his contract at 30 years old love the guy on the team but man what a big deal
Judge also hits .213 in the postseason and hasn’t had a decent playoff series since the 2019 ALDS vs Minnesota.
@@alwillk Lets hope the guy ends his postseason slump but when it comes to the line up, the Yankees has more work to be done. I still rather that they got Judge back when they did than letting him go.
Kevin Brown?
Did A-Rod help Yankees win a World Series?
Irabu?
Is the big guy getting his 10% of all MLB revenue??
Na dude.... A-ROD saved the yankees in 09. Remember us being 0-8 thru the first half of season vs the Boston? I do. That monster HR in xtra innings? Then the post season. So no get him off that list
he's not on the list!