Why Randy Levine Should Never Talk

Via ESPN NY:

"Robinson Cano is a great player. We will sit down and talk to him.  Hopefully he's a Yankee. Nobody is a re-sign at all costs, but we want him back and we feel good about negotiating something with him. But nobody is a re-sign at any cost."

"Yeah, nobody.  Except for A-Rod in '07, Jeter when his last contract came up, Rafael Soriano, CC when we gave him an extension.  After all those guys, nobody is a re-sign at any cost.  Hell, look at Russell Martin.  Sometimes players aren't even a re-sign at a reasonable cost.  We've got luxury tax money to save and Ichiro t-shirts to sell here, people."


Randy, it's not that what I think you're saying is wrong.  It's that I think you're the absolute last person who should be saying it given you history of involvement in many of the signings that have gone against that way of thinking.  That you've finally figured out that re-signing guys for huge years and huge money does not give you the right to talk about it as if it's your idea and you're leading the charge towards fiscal responsibility and wise payroll management.  Leave the intelligent talk to the guys in the front office who understand how business and baseball work and take this friendly bit of advice.