Let me be the first to tell you — if DJ LeMahieu is available for a reasonable price tag, he should be re-signed. But as reports surface that he’s asking for J.D. Martinez numbers (five years, $110 million), that he’s frustrated with the Yankees, and that Brian Cashman is working on an extreme budget, I find it far from a guarantee that LeMahieu comes back to the Bronx. So what if he doesn’t?
If we lose out to LeMahieu, it’ll most likely be due to another team offering him a very generous contract, a contract that the Yankees are not willing to match.