According to
Impacto Deportivo, the Yanks have signed Damaso Marte to a three-year, $12M deal. The link (and translation) comes via
MLB Trade Rumors.
If true, it's a good move for the Yanks this season, but I disagree with the logic long-term. Less than a week ago, the Yanks declined their $6M option on Marte, instead opting to pay $250K to buy him out. While $6M may be a steep price to pay for a lefty specialist, it's a one-year gamble. Now they've committed $4M/year over the next three. It seems like a big risk to take to only save $1.75M this season. They could have excercised the option and been in the same situation next year, only they'd be protected if he regresses or gets injured this season.
I like Marte and I think he can absolutely help this team as a lefty specialist, if our esteemed manager can get through his thick skull that he's a lefty specialist and not a 2-inning guy.
If the report is true, I'm glad they got this done before Marte really hit the open market. There would have been plenty of suitors and I have a feeling they may have gotten a slight discount.
According to Impacto Deportivo, the Yanks have signed Damaso Marte to a three-year, $12M deal. The link (and translation) comes via MLB Trade Rumors.
I like the signing, I don't want the Yankees putting all their eggs in the Phil Coke basket.
I'm glad he's a Yank, just would've preferred they pick up his option instead of making it a three-year deal.
I agree that it would have been a smarter, more conservative move to pick up his option. But the deal is same as J.C. Romero's and if Marte stays healthy, it's a good deal (compared to this time last year with Kyle Farnsworth). It all depends on whether or not Joe Girardi knows how to use him and doesn't blow out his arm. And yes, the Yanks may have gotten a hometown discount because he could have probably gotten more on a one or two year deal from someone else.
(PS... big THANKS to the Yanks for not allowing Marte return to the National League and wreak havoc on the Phillies :-)