New Yankees GM Excited for New Year, With An Announcement

New Yankees GM Excited for New Year, With An Announcement

            Going into the offseason the Yankees were a disappointment. After 15 trades, a GM switch, 3 free agent signings and 4 re-signings, the Yankees are leading the race for the wild card.  Under 40 year old general manager Jay Piazza the former Braves GM, now Yankees GM the team is set to compete for a world series.  

           Piazza had this to say, “The Yankees were a mess, no pitching except Shuman and Mark, no hitting except Murillo and Hernandez, now we have one of the best rotations in baseball, tied for 4^th lowest in the American League in runs allowed and 3^rd in runs scored. The Yankees led by a 4 new starters, 4 new hitters and 4 new relievers this team has the talent to win the World Series. With that said this is about the new Assistant GM of the Yankees, Mr. P.S. The former World Series lead champion Diamondbacks GM who we the Yankees organization believes will help our team to the same success… We will have an interview setup in 2 weeks for all questions for our great Assistant GM.”

            Piazza clearly believes highly in this team and it’s new Assistant GM. As we believe in our GMs, and team change is bound to happen. From 56 players and 45.9 million dollars and 8 draft picks a lot of bodies have money have been moved from the Yankees organization deals. Money has been spent on big names such as Jim Cote (trade), Brian Colley(signing), Jose Hernandez (extension), Max Shuman (extension), Vaughn Greensite (both trade and extension), Julio Ramos (extension), Dave Putnam (trade), and Dennis Clapsaddle (FA signing, extention). For a grand total of 112.35 million per year and 443.4 million total contracts that’s more than 440x the amount people make per year.

          I’ll see you guys in 2 weeks (baring something major happens) as this is your journalist for the State of The Yankees God Bills, we hope you will read all your Yankees news here thanks.

Yankees sign ex-Pirates Draftee

Dann Schafer, who looks a lot like Garrett Anderson, during ST for the Pirates in 2011.

Jordan, the current acting Yankees GM, has been the GM for just this past season, after replacing ezpkns34 and the intern GMs the followed him in 2018.  One of Jordan's first moves this off season, was to sign a player who he once drafted when he served as the GM of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 2010-2017.  Dann Schafer who was the Pirates second round pick of the 2010 draft.  The 29 year old Schafer went on to win the 2012 AL rookie of the year award, along with the 2016 AL MVP award, along with making the all-star game three times.  On the 2010 draft, Jordan said:  "I remember that draft, we had just picked first baseman Jamie Valdez in the first round, so we did not really want to draft another first baseman, but we realized that Schafer had just about more talent than anyone else left in the draft, that we couldn't pass up on him."  

Schafer is expected to be a backup that will contend during spring training for a roster spot and will likely be used as a starter in the event of an injury to one of the starters.

The Yankees have also signed former Pirate Jordan Parraz to play for their AAA team.

New GM in the Bronx

The storied franchise which leads all of baseball with 28 world series titles have announced the signing of a new GM today, ex-Pittsburgh Pirates GM Jordan set to take over the team. The Yankees old successful GM Nick retired a couple seasons ago, and since then the Yankees have experienced a number of intern GMs. Jordan is expected to bring some stability with the club, who had some success with Pittsburgh. He was able to bring Pittsburgh to three consecutive winning seasons, the first time since the early 1990s.
"I'm excited to get a chance to run the Yankees, they have always been my favorite team growing up so its cool to get a chance to run them."Jordan will have to deal with different managerial obstacles in New York, as he will be going from dealing with the team with one of the smallest budgets in Pittsburgh, to having a team with the Largest budget. However, the Yankees do have to pay a ton of cash in revenue sharing each season, and due to not having a stable GM the last couple of seasons, the Yankees are currently sixteen million dollars in the red. They are going to have to get close to 75M during the remainder of the season to stay in the black do to revenue sharing.

Moving and Shaking

It's already been a pretty active off-season for the Yankees, adding Johan Santana, Derek Lee, Michael Saunders and more, while shipping off all-star Mark Teixeira and some of their youngsters. Rumors are swirling of a potential acquisition to replace Teixeira's void in the lineup. Whether this trade will come to fruition before or after spring training is uncertain, but reports are that the deal will be completed shortly, potentially domino-ing into another offseason trade...

NYC Home to the stars

Derek Jeter
Alex Rodriguez
Mariano Rivera
CC Sabathia
Jorge Posada
Up & Comer Brett Gardner

Evidently, the Yankees thought they still needed a little more star-power. Enter Johan Santana. Santana will join Sabathia to give the Yankees a scary top of their rotation, with a trio of youngsters to round out the rotation. When asked about the Yankees newest acquisition being teamed up with AL Cy Young winner CC Sabathia, bosux 1B Kevin Youkilis simply cried. However, rumors abound that another star could actually be on the way out as Santana makes the short move from Queens to the Bronx. Mark Teixeira has been at the crux of trade rumors of late. The Yankee GM has been mum on which teams have made formal offers for the slugger, but rumor has it that they're looking to bring another pitcher into the fold if they deal him.

Evil Empire no more?

With the first free agents finally signing, the big spenders this offseason aren't the usual suspects. The big spenders appear to be the Astros, Royals, Cardinals, & Tigers. The team putting out the most offers? Not the AL East team you'd think, the Blue jays. Will this offseason signify a changing of the guard with the new spenders, or will these contracts be the hanging of the guard, hurting future budgets for these spenders? Only time will tell on that front


Elsewhere in the Bronx, the Yanks have shredded payroll by trading away Nick Swisher and they are looking to shed more in extensions with potential extensions for Cano, Posada, Jeter, & Rivera. Are they simply making room for another big name, big salary player? Are they actually attempting financial conservatism? Do they even have a plan at all? All of those questions, and more, will be answered in the next installment of....
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