Yankees signing Ottavino, 3 Years - $27m

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Robert Murray

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#Yankees closing on free-agent reliever Adam Ottavino, sources tell me and @Ken_Rosenthal. Agreement, if completed, expected to be in the three-year, $25 million range.

 

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The New York Yankees have a deal with reliever Adam Ottavino, league sources tell ESPN.

 

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The #Yankees bullpen is going to outrageous. They have officially agreed to deal for Adam Ottavino, per @JeffPassan

 

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#Yankees have a deal $27m/3 yr with Ottavino.

[502 to Right]

That's insane. The Yankees bullpen is ridiculous.

 

They should just go ahead and buy Kimbrel too.

[KeithStone53151]

Wow, yeah I'll say. Crazy good bullpen. Chapman, Betances, Green, Britton, and now Ottavino in the back end of their bullpen. Starters pretty much need to go 5-6 innings, and those 5 can nail down 3-4 innings just about every day.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

So much for the Yankees being conservative with their spending this offseason. Yes, they haven't bought Machado or Harper ... yet.

[MrTPlush]

Wow, yeah I'll say. Crazy good bullpen. Chapman, Betances, Green, Britton, and now Ottavino in the back end of their bullpen. Starters pretty much need to go 5-6 innings, and those 5 can nail down 3-4 innings just about every day.

 

They must have been busy watching the Brewers when they got eliminated.

[Jaylyn]

Wow, yeah I'll say. Crazy good bullpen. Chapman, Betances, Green, Britton, and now Ottavino in the back end of their bullpen. Starters pretty much need to go 5-6 innings, and those 5 can nail down 3-4 innings just about every day.

 

They must have been busy watching the Brewers when they got eliminated.

Going to see a lot of copies of "BrewerBall" this year. Yankees are going all in with it, saw that the Giants are going to implement it as well.

[KeithStone53151]

Wow, yeah I'll say. Crazy good bullpen. Chapman, Betances, Green, Britton, and now Ottavino in the back end of their bullpen. Starters pretty much need to go 5-6 innings, and those 5 can nail down 3-4 innings just about every day.

 

They must have been busy watching the Brewers when they got eliminated.

 

Hahahaha, supplement our strategy with Judge and a $200 million dollar payroll...your odds of success increase dramatically.

[clancyphile]

Sheesh... they're overpaying.

 

Knebel, Hader, Jeffress, Claudio, Taylor Williams, Barnes, and Guerra will be as good, if not better, and will cost about as much as Ottavino alone.

[3and2Fastball]

Can you imagine David Stearns with a $200 million payroll? Wow... The Yankees can afford to make all kinds of mistakes with personnel decisions and still come up with 100 wins

 

Jeffress is better than Ottavino btw

 

Ottavino 2.74 FIP, 0.99 WHIP, 193 ERA+

Jeffress 2.78 FIP, 0.99 WHIP, 317 ERA+

[xisxisxis]

Can you imagine David Stearns with a $200 million payroll?

Yes, in 2032, when inflation has driven the Brewers Payroll to $200M...

[TURBO]

The Yankees aren't breaking any rules, I get that, but this is sickening.

[Point Beer Is Best]

Wow, yeah I'll say. Crazy good bullpen. Chapman, Betances, Green, Britton, and now Ottavino in the back end of their bullpen. Starters pretty much need to go 5-6 innings, and those 5 can nail down 3-4 innings just about every day.

 

They must have been busy watching the Brewers when they got eliminated.

 

They also saw firsthand what Tampa Bay was doing (even more extreme with their "opener" strategy), and while the Rays failed to make the playoffs, they exceeded predictions by a sizable margin with their bullpen strategy.

[HiAndTight]

Sheesh... they're overpaying.

 

Knebel, Hader, Jeffress, Claudio, Taylor Williams, Barnes, and Guerra will be as good, if not better, and will cost about as much as Ottavino alone.

 

 

I don't think that means they're overpaying.

 

 

I hate the Yankees, but I like this type of thinking. They've got some small holes here or there, but they're making their strongest area even stronger(though Britton was a dumb move unless they can somehow make him miss more bats in the zone).

 

I was kinda hoping that the Brewers would end up with him on a cheap deal. I knew it was irrational so I never even mentioned it....but I was holding out hope for either him or Miller. The latter got more than I'd have been comfortable giving him and the prior was likely always going to be able to get this type of deal.

 

 

Still, when you look at what he did, I do think this qualifies as a bit of a bargain relative to free agency and what he did in Coors last year.

[HiAndTight]

Wow, yeah I'll say. Crazy good bullpen. Chapman, Betances, Green, Britton, and now Ottavino in the back end of their bullpen. Starters pretty much need to go 5-6 innings, and those 5 can nail down 3-4 innings just about every day.

 

They must have been busy watching the Brewers when they got eliminated.

 

They also saw firsthand what Tampa Bay was doing (even more extreme with their "opener" strategy), and while the Rays failed to make the playoffs, they exceeded predictions by a sizable margin with their bullpen strategy.

 

 

I remember when Ramos first started being the first "out getter, and it was pretty universally mocked on the sports talk shows. Yet I THINK they had the best record in baseball the rest of the way. Of course Snell being a beast and several other things played a bigger role, but the point was that it didn't backfire like most of the "experts" said. And I'm talking about like Woody Paige and Skip Bayless. So there isn't a bright enough shade of blue for the word "expert" there.

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

I think what Yankees are doing is brilliant. It’s Brewers strategy through Free Agency. They’ve got the payroll to execute. While everyone has been focused on Machado & Harper...these guys just built one of the best bullpens in baseball. I’m glad they scooped them up so LA & the Cubs didn’t. If I was one of those teams, adding a pen arm would have been top of the list.

 

Man, if the Brewers could even get the payroll to to $150mm, imagine our team with another pen arm like Ottavino and a couple other pieces.

[Thurston Fluff]

Wow, yeah I'll say. Crazy good bullpen. Chapman, Betances, Green, Britton, and now Ottavino in the back end of their bullpen. Starters pretty much need to go 5-6 innings, and those 5 can nail down 3-4 innings just about every day.

 

They must have been busy watching the Brewers when they got eliminated.

Going to see a lot of copies of "BrewerBall" this year. Yankees are going all in with it, saw that the Giants are going to implement it as well.

 

It is the fate of successful small market teams to invent new ways to compete only to have big market teams copy the strategy and add a billion dollars to it. The one thing they can't buy is team options. Judging how Stearns has worked to get more players with options this off season it appears to me going the Brewers route includes expanding the working roster to 30 players. Free agents don't allow that.

[SRB]

Meh, wouldn't mind having him, but there's reasonable odds that Bobby Wahl ends up having a better 2019 season than Ottavino.

[OnTheBlack]

Meh, wouldn't mind having him, but there's reasonable odds that Bobby Wahl ends up having a better 2019 season than Ottavino.

 

 

I didn't realize Ottavino was going to be 33 years old this year. Not that he can't be a great reliever, just doesn't seem like it's THAT long since I watched him pitching in the WBC for Italy.

 

Anyway, there's a decent chance Wahl is a stud for us this year. He certainly has the stuff to be. I'd feel better if we'd been able to retain Johnson, but hopefully Hook can keep the staff humming and the young guys figure things out. But you can't have too many power arms in the pen, especially since we likely won't have Burnes, Woodruff and Peralta all working out of the pen this year.

[Ennder]

Can you imagine David Stearns with a $200 million payroll? Wow... The Yankees can afford to make all kinds of mistakes with personnel decisions and still come up with 100 wins

 

Jeffress is better than Ottavino btw

 

Ottavino 2.74 FIP, 0.99 WHIP, 193 ERA+

Jeffress 2.78 FIP, 0.99 WHIP, 317 ERA+

 

This is not true at all. Ottavino is roughly a 2.50 bbFIP player in 2 of the previous 3 years and he was hurt in the one bad year. Jeffress is a mid 3 ERA guy. Ottavino is an elite RP, Jeffress is just a guy who happened to get lucky a couple of times in a role that is hugely luck based. I would take Ottavino 9 times out of 10 over Jeffress.