Recently, the Yankees acquired the services of Greg Allen. The outfielder has been added to the team roster, which is normal.
But the real news is that to make room for him on the 40-man and 26-man roster, Aaron Hicks has been designated for assignment. It was expected by the fans.
For DFA a guy with such a contract means that Brian Cashman has agreed to pay him the rest of his salary to stay at home.
It also means, unsurprisingly, that the organization failed to trade him. With such a contract, the opposite would have been surprising.
Hal Steinbrenner took out his money.
The principal concerned also understands that it is business.
Recall that Hicks is at the heart of a $ 70 million contract over seven years. He has two and 3/4 years left to go, which means that he should receive approximately $27.5 million to stay at home.
The club had to be tanned, didn’t it?
Obviously, a club could sign him on minimum wage. In these conditions, I believe that a team will make room for him shortly.
And this, even if for a year, he has done absolutely nothing to help himself in terms of his attitude, but also his performance.
We can perhaps think that the outfielder was becoming, by force of circumstance, a distraction in the locker room for having agreed to release him in this way. In any case, he was on the ground.
It’s the end of an era, then. It will have been good at first, but it was time to move on.
