Sadly, the moral requirements of journalism stop me from accepting any contributions, or presents as a thanks for my work, so for these of you trying to Venmo me some beer cash personally within the New York Yankees overpaying Aaron Decide, all I ask is that you simply make a donation to a charity of your alternative. 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 listing.
The outfielder inked a nine-year, $360 million deal over the offseason, and didn’t even make it by way of April unscathed. To be honest, I’m not rooting in opposition to Decide — I’m rooting in opposition to the Pinstripes. Are you aware how he damage his hip? Sliding attempting to steal third base on his thirty first birthday on Wednesday. At the very least that’s what the hypothesis is, as a result of the subsequent day he was pulled after putting out twice, and hasn’t seen the diamond since.
“Within the grand scheme of issues and massive image, we do really feel like we bought 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a part of the physique that’s most readily referenced when making enjoyable of a participant (or your buddy) for being outdated.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 presently 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 desires to assert. (Don’t fear, Hal Steinbrenner will blame it on Brian Cashman, like he most likely does with all of the odorous gasoline 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 might do it once more, I wouldn’t change a factor. The recollections from that 62-home run season are price each penny of Decide’s $360 million deal.” And you already know what? They’re proper — which is the entire joke. When you drop Illmatic, the one path from there may be down.
Decide’s 2022 MVP marketing campaign was absurd. He hit the leather-based off the ball. He had the most effective contract season within the historical past of contract seasons throughout any sport. He performed so effectively 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 yr 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.
