Sadly, the moral requirements of journalism forestall me from accepting any contributions, or items as a thanks for my work, so for these of you seeking to Venmo me some beer cash individually within the New York Yankees overpaying Aaron Decide, all I ask is that you simply make a donation to a charity of your selection. In case you missed it, Decide is coping with a gentle hip pressure, and Aaron Boone is biding his time to see whether or not the AL home-run king must go on the injured record.
The outfielder inked a nine-year, $360 million deal over the offseason, and didn’t even make it by means of April unscathed. To be honest, I’m not rooting towards Decide — I’m rooting towards the Pinstripes. Have you learnt how he damage his hip? Sliding making an attempt to steal third base on his thirty first birthday on Wednesday. At the least that’s what the hypothesis is, as a result of the following day he was pulled after placing out twice, and hasn’t seen the diamond since.
“Within the grand scheme of issues and large image, we do really feel like we acquired excellent news on it,” Boone mentioned when requested about Decide’s analysis.
He’s proper. That’s excellent news. It’s not like Decide wants hip-replacement surgical procedure. It’s only a gentle pressure to the a part of the physique that’s most readily referenced when making enjoyable of a participant (or your buddy) for being outdated. By no means thoughts that the slugger is at present slashing under his profession common on a crew that’s two video games over .500, good for fourth within the AL East, 3.5 video games out of second and third place, and eight again from Tampa.
Whereas it’s extraordinarily early — we haven’t even performed 30 video games but — and the Yankees will assuredly go on a run, the Decide contract is lingering within the air like a fart nobody needs to assert. (Don’t fear, Hal Steinbrenner will blame it on Brian Cashman, like he most likely does with all of the odorous fuel that leaks out within the proprietor’s field.)
I’m positive if you happen to ask Yankees followers about Decide, they’ll feed you some bullshit alongside the traces of “If I may do it once more, I wouldn’t change a factor. The reminiscences from that 62-home run season are value each penny of Decide’s $360 million deal.” And you recognize what? They’re proper — which is the entire joke. When you drop Illmatic, the one route from there may be down.
Decide’s 2022 MVP marketing campaign was absurd. He hit the leather-based off the ball. He had one of the best contract season within the historical past of contract seasons throughout any sport. He performed so nicely it made Roger Maris Jr. weep, primarily guaranteeing the Yankees needed to overpay him. The ending to the storybook season was a sweep by the hands of Houston and one other ringless 12 months in New York.
How rapidly Decide’s contract turns into an albatross, I don’t know. It’s actually depending on well being, and that’s been a crapshoot all through Decide’s profession. For proper now, although, this might not be going any higher, as a result of it couldn’t be going any worse for Yankees followers.