7/22/2023 0 Comments Yankees edwin encarnacionIf that happens, Encarnacion’s future becomes pretty cloudy. The option comes with a $5 million buyout that’s a sunk cost, but New York, facing big arbitration raises for its young stars and a general philosophy antithetical to spending on older players, could just pass on Encarnacion all together. The guaranteed portion of that contract is up this year, and the Yankees will be faced with what’s essentially a $15 team option. His agent famously misread the market and took less guaranteed money from Cleveland, while the Yankees would flail around looking for a full-time first baseman until the Luke Voit trade 18 months later. I started writing for this site in the spring of 2017, meaning I missed the chance to “Corbin” Encarnacion, or to be given the platform to write the case for signing him as a free agent. In so many ways, Encarnacion is the archetype of a modern hitter, and he’s just too much fun. A third baseman so bad he was given the E5 nickname, a player that couldn’t hit in one of the best hitters’ parks in baseball in Cincinati became a star in Toronto because he stopped playing third, started walking and hitting the ball in the air to the pull side. The late Roy Halladay was one example, and of course the dynamic trio of Josh Donaldson, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion was another.Įdwin, especially, was a guy that demanded your attention. The Yankees have always been my favorite team, but proximity dictates that certain Blue Jays were always going to draw my attention. Even though I no longer live near Toronto, my formative baseball years were spent at Rogers Centre far more than Yankee Stadium.
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