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c'mon now, when is the last time the Yankees had a prospect with the skill of Hanley Ramirez? I honestly can't remember - other than Cano and Wang, whom the Yankees kept. This is silly.

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ok, mb I'm being ridiculous, but I'm just thinking about this on a very macro level. Florida didn't have a prospect like Hanley until they got him in a trade. Some other teams could have traded for him. You have to give the Marlins credit for getting the right guy at the right time.

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You have to judge free agent signings against other free agent signings - in which case the Yankees have done a decent enough job, with the notoriously awful exception of Carl Pavano (then again, the Red Sox' Matt Clement debacle is close).

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if you want to judge how good one team is in FA vs how good another team is in FA, then sure. but again I'm just thinking about this on a more macro level - you ultimately want to judge how well an organization gets their team on the field, and FA is just one component of that. drafting and trading count as well, and I think it's wrong to think about each of these skills in a vacuum.

all of that said, I agree with Tiger that MLB baseball is not the NFL, and the idea of "value" for the Yankees is far different than it is for the Red Sox, and what the Red Sox consider "value" is different than any other team. etc etc. The Yankees don't need to get the max production/dollar spent, they just need to get max production. which is why the Arod deal is a fine deal for them, less so for any other team.