Overpaying for good players is a strategy that sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. In this particular case, a cascade of bad free agent signings kept a reasonably good one from paying off. Also, bad luck. Wallace Mathews is a journalist!

I’ll bet if the Yanks had moved all of their starters to the bullpen, they’d have won 20 championships since signing Giambi!

It’s easy listening day here at ShysterBall.

All those teams had Mo! And Posada! And only one of them had Scott Brosius!

Sportswriters are morons. Did JC Bradbury or someone else do any math on whether Giambi was worth his contract? I’d be interested to see. I suspect he was overpaid, perhaps significantly. But of course as we all know the Yankees don’t exist in a vacuum…

you know what? I’m tired of it. Just tired of all the same arguments. Ugh.

From looking at Fangraphs WAR data, Giambi was underpaid for the first couple Yankee years and overpaid thereafter. It always makes sense to overpay for star-level production (keep that value in one roster spot), so I think it was a smart signing. Even with the injuries. Even in retrospect.

What’s his point indeed. Do NY fans really believe that if money is spent to give Yankee fans an exciting, star-studded team each season, that participates in the pennant race and gives them a game to watch and talk and argue about every day, it’s wasted? A season that doesn’t end in a World Series win is wasted? Really? Gee, its amazing the fans in other cities follow baseball at all!

I’m a Red Sox fan, and the summers of ‘67, ‘75, ‘77, ‘88, ‘90, ‘95, ‘99, ‘03, and, yes, ‘78,and ‘86 were among the best times of my life. So they didn’t end the way I liked. So what. My life probably won’t either, and I won’t consider that a “waste.”