There was a time in the low season that seemed that Willy Adames could end up playing full time at the Bronx.
The Yankees had a need in the painting and Adames was close, or perhaps at the top of their list.
The mutual interest of the player and the team led to a zoom call that the Campocorto, who finally signed with the giants, called “incredible.”
“I knew it was a possibility for me to play here,” Adames told the post after the victory of the giants “over the Yankees in the first game of the series on Friday night at the stadium.” We had a conversation and it was incredible. “
Adames, who grew a big fan of Derek Jeter and uses no. 2 In his honor, he was impressed by the sale argument of the Yankees.
“It was really good and interesting,” Adames said about the meeting. “It was very different from everyone else. It was more than the person than my statistics. I really liked that.”
Aaron Boone was in that call and was impressed in a similar way with Adames.
“We are a great admirer of that player and we can talk to him,” Boone said on Saturday before Yankees 8-4 victory. “” It is definitely a guy we were very interested and we really liked. “
The problem, he thought, was that Adames, who left 2 by 5 on Saturday, intended to make his free agent before Christmas and at the time of his meeting, the Yankees were still involved in Juan’s support to end up updated.
They are in a hurry to pay Adames with the possibility of signing again to Soto.
“We were going to go through Soto’s things and keep him capable of committing to him, one way or another,” said Boone. “He left the board quite fast there.”
The 29 -year -old agreed a seven -year treatment and $ 182 million with the giants on December 7, a few days before Soto obtained his 15 -year contract and $ 765 million of the METS.
“The timeline did not work to bring New York,” said Adames.
When asked why he was so insisting on finding a new home early in free agency, Adames said: “I wanted to do it before Christmas and not wait until January, without knowing where I was going to go who my teammates were going to be. My thought and to kill and to kill and to kill and point out and point and point and signs and singing and saring and seting and preparing chemistry with my teams and my classmates and I am happy.”
Even so, before singing with San Francisco after four years with Tampa Bay and another four with Milwaukee, Adames said it was a great attraction to go to the Yankees.
“Who does not” not “play for the same team for which he played his idol?” Adames said. “The same city, the same position. It would have been great. But I am very happy with the place where I am now.”
After Adames signed with the giants and Soto with the Mets, the Yankees turned to launch, signing Max Fried to a seven -year agreement and $ 218 million, the largest contract ever granted to a left -handed holder.
Fried became one of the main pieces of the new Look Yankees, who sought to compensate at least part of Sotos’s offensive by exchanging for Cody Bellinger and bringing the free agent First Baseman Paul Goldschmidt.
Fried has been the only positive of a rotation that has fought without the Ace Gerrit Cole and, while Goldschmidt has had a good start after a disappointing end for his time in St. Louis last year, Bellinger has been in the first two weeks of the weeks of the weeks of the weeks of the weeks of the weeks of the season.
And they didn’t add another picture player, leaving Oswaldo Cabrera and Oswald Peraza to divide time into third place, with DJ Lemahieu ready to start a rehabilitation assignment shortly after training at the beginning of spring with a tense calf.