 you take a look at some of the top free agents Charlie Morton will be one great season with the Astros this year Patrick Corman with the Diamondbacks and the Machado and Harper and they're always connected with the Yankees and I just think and you mentioned and do hard he's close he needs work on his defense are you willing to trade off 30 million dollars a year or more for Machado for what you're gonna pay and do hard the production you got in his rookie year I'm not ready you know this guy offensively is a machine he had more home runs than I thought he would and somebody's got to take him this offseason give him some time away rest regroup a little bit get a little bit stronger get in the weight room and then get down to Tampa Florida and work on your defensive game and I think more of the throwing it right the throwing got to be a little bit more consistent Fran do hard but he did so much this year and was such a pleasant surprise in the running for the rookie of the year but there's room for improvement I think he will I'm in agreement with you and although I know the Yankees will be attached to a lot of these big-name free agents I look at Manny Machado and the potential for a 35 million dollar a year payday and then you look at and do hard will make less than a million next year and it's incumbent upon the Yankees to help make him a better defensive player the defensive run save statistic worked against him this year he was a below average third baseman we saw what happened tonight he did not play principally because of his defense they thought CC base hip shot ground balls be headed towards the left side but I still think that he's their future third baseman and as far as Harper goes another very sexy name you go back to last year Stanton kind of cancels out Harper they've got Hicks they've got judge they've got Stan we don't know the future of Gardner and McCutcheon it'd be hard to squeeze Harper in there unless you're making Stanton a full-time DH and even though they got under the luxury tax I'm not sure that means that they want to surge over the luxury tax by X amount of million again we'll see how the offseason unfolds we know the Yankees will be attached to some of those players yeah it's almost a conversation with Harper and he's a great player there's no doubt about it but at that price tag 35 million a year let's say does he make you that much better than what you already have because you also by the way if he's healthy you have Clint Frazier in the minor leagues as well Clint Frazier at a tough year with the concussions there were so many opportunities that he missed he's still somebody that they're very high on in the organization and I'm with Jack I just don't think the Yankees are ready just to say we're gonna open up the vault and hand all this money out and that's gonna get us over the hump there's such a good nucleus of young players right here they they're ready to kind of take that next step I don't know if Harper and Machado fit in from a makeup of this club standpoint and Brian Cashman and the members of this front office are so proud of the young players who have come up and as I said there are more of those players that are coming how Steinbrenner is on the record is saying multiple times that he doesn't think that a team has to have a 200 million dollar payroll to win a championship and less he suddenly changes his tune on that that's why I think the Yankees are going to continue to be smart and continue to say as we're saying right here do you want to end do hard for less than a million or you want manning Machado for 35 manning Machado is a wonderful player he is a marquee franchise type player but and do our showed you this year what type of player he could be and I'm glad you referenced the injuries because Yankees won 100 games this year I wrote down some of the guys who have judged Sanchez Gregorias Hicks Glaber Tadaka Sisi they weathered a lot of injuries still 100 games still won the wild card game and still gave the Red Sox a 108 win team a tough series the Red Sox proved to be the better team I think Brian Cashman Aaron Boone would say the same thing