Yankees: The One Move They Absolutely Need To Make

The Yankees have done due diligence, and they made the moves they made in deciding which players go where for the start of the 2017 season. But, there is one move left to make, and the fact that they haven’t as of yet is disturbing.

The Yankees, in the last few days, have sent a good portion of their 2018 team to their minor league camp for reassignment. All well and good. Brian Cashman knows best and despite the roar for Gleyber Torres, Billy McKinney, and Dustin Fowler, et.al. to be a part of the team this year, he stuck to his guns, and we have the team that we have.

But there is one player left who is still with the team and he has no place being there. And that’s the 3.5 Million Dollar Man, Chris Carter.

Brian Cashman cannot give a logical baseball reason for this man’s presence on the team. And the reason he can’t is that one doesn’t exist. And as a matter fact, the twenty-nine other major league teams said the same thing before the Yankees plucked him off the depths of the free agent pool.

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At the time, the signing of Carter was not as offensive as it is now. I get that. He was an insurance policy against all the unknowns surrounding Greg Bird, and it came on the heels of a rather illustrious showing by Bird in the Arizona Fall League.

But, hello Brian. Doesn’t seven home runs and a .341 batting average by Bird this spring answer all of your questions? Even Joe Girardi put his stamp of approval on Bird yesterday when he appointed the job to Bird as the winner of a contest that never got off the ground at first base.

All that should remain now is for the Yankees to bite the bullet they loaded in the gun themselves. And make no mistake, this is all about $$.

$3.5 million to be exact. This for a team that was purchased in 1973 by the Boss (Steinbrenner)  for a mere $10 million, and is now worth, according to Forbes, $3,400,000,000 (that’s billion dollars).

And they’re going sit there and quibble about less than one-tenth of one percent of that to keep a player who is, get a load of this, hitting .136 with 22 strikeouts in 50 plate appearances and has one home run and three RBI and a .240 on-base percentage to his credit this spring.

It’s an embarrassment and a punch in the face to all Yankees fans who, so far, have taken the jabs thrown at them by the demotion of Gleyber Torres, and others too, with the belief that Brian knows best when it comes to baseball decisions.

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This one defies logic, though, and the Yankees need to rectify it like now! Are we clear on that?