Day 92

Fresh Start_92: Punch back to realty
Even with Eovaldi not being to pitch due to Tommy John surgery, designating him for assignment was not the right move by Brain Cashman. In a year that he has been nothing short of gold for Cashman and the Yankees, this is their first wrong turn in a successful rebuilding project. The Yankees are an organization that most stay relevant to make money, just based on the brand that they built throughout the years. While this is a great thing to bank on if you are a fan, it is a curse and a tremendous vison to live up to every year. The Farm will need time to grow no matter how many angry New Yorkers post on their blogs, “how the Yankees don’t care about their opinions” or they “are wasting money.” To all of those impatient millennials, I have to say that you for possibly the first time in your life will need to believe in a concept called delayed gratification.

With Eovaldi being on the shelf and arbitration eligible, Yankees hand was forced to DoA him and free up a roster spot. When he clears he will be able to sign a smaller contract that the Yankees will be able to spin in their favor. While baseball is a business, pulling a move like this, frees up a pitcher, that when healthy is the best on the staff. Two years ago, Eovaldi single handily pitched them into the playoffs. Even before he got hurt last season, the righty was pitching well. I was at the game in Boston where Eovaldi got hurt and the census when he got hurt around the Bronx was, that with a hard playoff push ahead, it was almost impossible without him. As we saw, the Yanks almost pulled off the comeback, and almost snuck into the playoffs without the ace of the staff. Tanaka will get paid like the ace and he did finish 7th in the Cy Young voting, but for the past almost year and a half, Nathan Eovaldi has been the ace of the Yankees staff.

Giving him away to the free market is a risk that I don’t know if the Yankees can recover from in the short term. With the rebuild project in the ground zero level, the Yanks need stop gap players to make the transition less drastic and that is something they didn’t do with this move. A pitcher like Eovaldi will get the well-deserved pay day that he has been working hard for in the Bronx. Eovaldi was a needed piece of the puzzle that the bombers needed to bring yet another championship to the Bronx. The Yankees will now look to Michael Pineda to fill some big shoes as the Yankees number two, and even bigger shoes to Luis Serverino to shake a poor rookie season and pitch well in the rotation in 2017. It will be interesting to see what happens with Eovaldi and if he does in deed leave the Yanks, he will be surly missed.
Sources:(mlbtraderumors.com, newyorkdailynews.com)

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