From George A. King III: [No 'Option' for Marte]
Add Damaso Marte to and as players the Yankees aren’t likely to exercise options on – which will make them free agents.
Giambi has a $22 million option with a $5 million buyout and Pavano has a $15 million option with a $1.95 million buyout.
Declining Marte’s $6 million option isn’t an indication the club doesn’t want the lefty reliever back. It means the Yankees don’t want to pick up the option ($250,000 buyout) that trailed Marte from Pittsburgh when he was acquired with Xavier Nady for Jose Tabata, Ross Ohlendorf, Jeff Karstens and Daniel McCutchen on July 26.
-I would bring back Marte. He added some more firepower to the Yankees bullpen. He had a rough stretch soon after he transfered leagues, but he settled down and pitched well for the Yankees towards the end of the season. He is also a left, and it is very hard to find an effective left-handed pitcher in baseball right now.
His first 9 games with the Yankees looked like this:
7.1IP (W-L) 0-2 9H 9R 9ER 5BB 11K 1HR 11.05ERA
His last 16 games looked like this:
11IP (W-L) 1-1 5H 2R 2ER 5BB 13K 0HR 1.64ERA
from rotoworld.com:
The New York Post believes the Yankees won’t pick up Damaso Marte’s $6 million option.
Marte is a Type A free agent, so if the Yankees are willing to offer him arbitration — and they almost certainly will be — they’d get two draft picks if he signs elsewhere. They will make an attempt to re-sign him, but they probably won’t go that extra mile to match the multiyear offers he’s likely to get.
Check this out. Here are the CAIRO Projections for the 2009 Yankees.
Kevin Rozell
M. B. Rozell
Ray Rothfeldt
Eduardo Perez
I think Marte will be GONE… period