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Yanks Mull Sign-and-trade With Sheffield

Adam brought up this very idea last week and according to this NY Post article, the Yanks might be looking to exercise Gary Sheffield's $13-million option for 2007 and then trade him:

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YANKS MULL SIGN-AND-TRADE WITH SHEFFIELD

By JOEL SHERMAN

August 6, 2006 -- DOWN THE LINE

Once the Yanks obtained Bobby Abreu, the natural inclination was to assume they would not pick up Gary Sheffield's $13-million option for 2007. But they are seriously contemplating doing just that. Not for him to play first base or DH. But to trade him.

The free-agent market is going to be thin again with the main outfield sluggers likely to be Jermaine Dye, Carlos Lee and Alfonso Soriano. There will be more than three teams who need an outfield bat and there will be more than three teams who simply cannot afford to get into the five-year, $75-million range it is likely to take to land Lee or Soriano. Sheffield (who even has $4.5 million deferred next year) can be an alluring alternative on a one-year deal. If they simply do not pick up the option, the Yanks would lose Sheffield for nothing. Here, even if they accepted, a second-tier prospect or two, it would be more than they would get otherwise and help deepen their hurting system.

But one AL executive cautioned, "My guess is that is a dangerous game to play, especially since they have Abreu's salary on books. If Sheffield goes off in the last two weeks of September or the postseason, then I might do it. But if they get stuck with that salary or paying a big chunk to trade him, that would be a bad move, and you are talking about a player who is in his late 30s, who is coming off a major injury and has had his power production decline in recent years." However, another AL executive said, "I believe someone would take him for a year, but the deal would have to be worked out ahead of time" and cited the Angels, White Sox and Giants as possible landing places.
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I'd agree that signing Lee to a long-term contract would be a huge mistake.  I'd be much more excited about making a deal with the Yanks for second-tir prospects and getting a couple of 1st round draft picks for Lee.

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13 million is almost all we would be able to use the whole offseason with the outfield...  How about getting three outfielders for 15 million total..
Not all is Wells...

by miles on Aug 9, 2006 4:10 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

FWIW
Sheffield has a list of eight teams to which he's willing to be traded. The Rangers are on that list.

by RCCook on Aug 9, 2006 7:49 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Pass.
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by ghtd36 on Aug 9, 2006 11:13 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I too
am leery of spending that much money on someone that old who has had some injuries in recent past

by t ball on Aug 9, 2006 12:36 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Well...
It is just a one year deal.

That's why I'd rather see the Rangers take Sheffield at $13 million than pay, say, Carlos Lee $11-12 million per year for 4-5 years.

by Adam J. Morris on Aug 9, 2006 12:44 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I agree........
can't see signing Lee for $50M+........

by tklawless on Aug 9, 2006 12:46 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Chef
On a one year deal, go for it.  I think the man can still hit.  Plus we'd at least get some interesting stories in the paper.

by Dustin on Aug 11, 2006 7:16 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

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