 Here's the rumor that Ken Rosenthal was reporting that the Mariners have in fact offered Kono to both the Mets and the Yankees Now I don't know if either team would want him. Here's my take. See if you agree with me, Nick Robinson Kono has five more years left in this contract. Next year he's gonna play the age of 36 So the contract was a ridiculous contract in the first place to give to a 32 year old player And he's owed 24 million dollars a year. So this talk about giving Ellsbury to them And then that defray some of the cost but Ellsbury it's only gonna make I think over the next two years 48 million So 48 and then 24 times 5 is 120 So you would take five years and make it essentially an 80 million dollar contract if I'm the Yankees Here's what I would say I'll take them if You take the average annual value of what we pay to 8 million dollars a year You take Ellsbury and take the average annual value down from whatever it is 15 million to 8 I will give him 40 million over the next five years And then if I have to release him over the last two years So yeah, he's still at 303 and if you get him at 8 million dollars a year for the next four years Then you can play him at second Glabor tour is it short you take your chance or then do hard third and you don't have to sign Machado But I still have a haunting feeling they want to sign Machado and the Mets wouldn't do it That's wouldn't do it. Although if you could if you could get him and You bring the average annual he's still a good how do the Mets entice the mariners to do that The Mets have to trade what's an owner's contractor and if get give him Jay Bruce So that's that's 30 million right there. It's not got crazy kinds got two years left on it, right? So that's 30 million that takes it from 120 that he's owed to What 90 and then say take more money Now, how does that any of this benefits Seattle like leave with the Yankees? Well, they whatever salary Right, yeah, every salary relief they get they might get themselves a decent centerfielder of Ellsbury is he's close to home might strong might Yeah, all likely a doubtful, but it's about getting as much salary as possible I don't think anybody's taken Robins can owe at 24 million a year when you consider He's allegedly off PD's what kind of player is he gonna be? I don't know and for the Yankees he can also play first base because he played first base last year because they had D Gordon at second Suspension one more slip up. He's out. He's out for a whole year, right? So that saves you the money right there because then you wouldn't have to pay right Gonna be very it's gonna be interesting I don't think that the Yankees would be interested But I will tell you this Harper and Machado a little different story because their 10-year contract You're gonna have to give them is ending when canoes last five years begins 10-year contracts are lunacy Crazy if you could get Machado at a five-year deal and Joel Sherman actually proposed this a while ago Give him five years 200 million you get his best years 40 million a year It's a lot of money, but you know you get his best years. He becomes a free agent again at 31 But you don't have to deal with them Those are the contracts you don't give 10-year deals out and I think the Yankees will one day regret Having nine more years on Stanton's contract probably they just will players get older they do