The New York Yankees had a pretty crazy offseason. They got rid of several players and added a big part to the puzzle to aid their chase of championship number 28. These are my personal opinions of the best and worst moves that the Yankee front office made – and didn’t make – this offseason.
Best
Obviously, signing Gerrit Cole to a nine-year, $324 million dollar deal was the best move by the New York Yankees this offseason. It’s no question that this was a big piece to the Yankees puzzle and their chances at another ring are significantly higher now. With Luis Severino and James Paxton also in the rotation, the Yankees just fixed one of their big problems from last year.
The second best move by the Yankees was hiring Matt Blake as the new pitching coach to replace Larry Rothschild. Blake is going to offer the Yankee staff a deeper understanding of analytics, something that Rothschild lacked knowledge in. He also said that even though Cole is the best pitcher in baseball, there’s still room for improvement and Blake believes he can achieve that with Cole.
Worst
One of the worst decisions the Yankee front office made this offseason was not resigning Dellin Betances and letting him walk to the cross-town rivals New York Mets for only a one year deal. If that was all it took to get him back, the Yankees should have resigned him.
Another big loss by the Yankees was letting Didi Gregorius walk to the Phillies. I understand that we’re moving into the Torres shortstop era, but Gregorius had so much value and meant so much to the team that no matter how you look at it, it’ll affect the team.