Anthony Rizzo Wants To Return To The Yankees @Simonettisource

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hey everybody what is going on pete

simonetti here for ny news

the question of first base

is gonna be important for the new york

yankees for multiple reasons

one

we don’t know what the infield defense

is gonna look like as of right now and

two

they traded for somebody

who they brought over got great

leadership qualities

great glove at first base left the bat

um does a lot of the the small things

very good also and anthony rizzo and he

got a decision to make on anthony rizzo

he’s a free agent uh there’s some other

good free agents out there freddie

freeman but forget that because i think

freddie freeman is gonna go back to the

atlanta braves

but

um

i’m talking about a tweet today and this

is what this video is gonna be about

that bob klapich who is

you know um saying a lot of things these

days

um but this is a different one he said

according to a family member anthony

rizzo was quite eager to return to the

yankees in 2022. that’s in a per

important first step assuming the new

york yankees want him back have to

assume they do

and i agree with that

in a way and in another way i don’t let

me tell you why

i heard brian cashman directly say he is

not as impressed with rizzo as he

thought he would be basically saying you

know i’m disappointed what that

disappointment or that not impressed

with exactly means

i don’t know but again

i i know

that was said

put it that way i know that was said

on the other hand

what’s your options

and anthony rizzo fits your team good

let’s play a scenario here let’s say

glebe tour is the second base and the

yankees go out there and they get corey

seeger

your mid infield is not great

defensively

not the best in the world not the worst

in the world but not great defensively

you want to have a good defensive first

baseman we’ve seen in his short time

with the yankees

anthony rizzo makes some terrific plays

we’ve seen anthony rizzo with the

yankees be a bit of a highlight reel and

i remember all year a lot of people

saying

rizzo

has been everything we wanted then he

got coven and he kind of slowed down a

little bit after that but just the

defense alone we were saying even if the

bat drops off a little bit more

the defense still gonna be there and

that’s important for this ball club

a defensive first baseman and a

defensive catcher in my opinion is very

very important moving forward let’s not

talk like anthony rizzo

isn’t gonna give you 20 plus homers for

the yankees maybe the average drops a

little bit but he’s still such a

professional hitter he’s still such a

professional at bat and on top of it

he’s a leader

all year long as you guys know right

that’s one of the main qualities and

he’s a proven winner he’s won already

he’s been there and done that yankees

need more of those guys that’s been

there and done that that’s been through

that routine that’s been through the

ringer that has won a world series

anthony rizzo has done that in chicago

so

the leadership part of anthony rizzo i

also think is very very important

because if you remember all year one of

the things i would talk about a lot of

videos and me and francis will say on

the podcast all of us on the round table

is that you never see let the yankees

dug out and a guy like either giving a

lesson or talking to other players or

discussing certain things it’s like

you really didn’t look at somebody and

go oh yeah he’s a leader in that

clubhouse

anthony rizzo did that all the time

we always seen anthony rizzo doing

things like that we saw him with judge a

lot uh we saw him talking to the guys um

we know

that he made somewhat of a difference

for

uh joey gallo and the way he’s batting

being a little more closer to the play

crowd that played a little bit that

means the outside pitcher would get to

it

it’s just a perfect fit for the yankees

and again all it cost is this now here’s

the concern

anthony rizzo turned down don’t hold me

to this if i’m wrong on the amount i

think it was a four-year

75 million deal i think from the cubs

anthony rizzo is projected and this is

just the projections that come out based

off what somebody’s performance was to

what their salary and their value is

around 20 million the yankees are no way

doing that

the yankees are not going to give

anthony rizzo 20 million and

per my understanding they would bring

rizzo back as long as it’s on their

terms what that means i don’t know but i

i could tell you right now

highly doubtful the yankees go anywhere

near 20 million dollars for anthony

rizzo 14 15 16

i could kind of see that

definitely i don’t see anywhere near 20.

and i think the best thing for rizzo

would be to come back to a team like the

yankees right you already know you know

what the clubhouse is like you know the

goods you know the bads and the pros and

cons are there

you know this team

no matter what are still the yankees in

the sense

of they’re gonna have a high profile

club right we don’t know what cashman’s

gonna do we don’t know what the team’s

gonna look like

but anthony rizzo knows there’s

something here that he can work with

he knows there’s something here that’s

competitive

the cubs aren’t that no more and he’s

already familiar with this ball club

so

we’ll see where that goes me for one i’d

raise my hand in favor of anthony rizzo

excuse me

i raised my hand in favor of anthony

rizzo

um i’d be all for him coming back

you guys know i was a big fan of rizzo

the whole time when the ball hits the

sky

like a big pizza pie that’s a rizzo uh

that was my thing i love the italian

stuff going on there of course being

italian it’s always nice but um just

overall they need a defensive first

baseman he’s a lefty he could hit

it’s it’s just a match made in heaven in

my opinion uh for a guy like rizzo um a

lot of it’s to come down to and if you

guys watch the podcast with me and

france if you have not go back and watch

that now because

we actually talk a lot about that we

talk a lot about how much money the

yankees could actually move off their

roster to add these other guys to add a

rizzo to add a seeger francis likes

correa

to add guys like that um

maybe to add a versatility guy

like a chris taylor

there’s a couple of different things the

yankees can do there jack peterson’s

gonna be available um there’s there’s a

lot of different things out there i’m

not advocating right now on this video

specifically for anybody

i’m just putting that news out there and

my opinion on what it would take to

bring rizzo back and if the yankees

should even you know think about that i

think it’s 100 make sense for the club

um i don’t like when the yankees go well

at our terms i kind of hate hearing that

because

you know who the hell knows what that

really is there’s going to be clubs

interested no doubt about it i i mean

with the the h2 international league

you’re not as worried about signing

somebody maybe to a longer term deal

knowing that you can move them over to

that position if you ever need to

but um there’s a lot of teams that will

need a first baseman like anthony rizzo

no doubt about it i mean a lot of teams

would want them especially winning clubs

um that maybe have a decent first

baseman or somebody they can move and

bring a guy like rizzo on boarding

again like i said for the yankees to me

there’s three things really that make

the most sense one is lefty and i think

they do gotta add that balance

two he’s a leader

and three his defense at first base is

is you know

nobody denies that there’s not really a

debate there on that one if there is

uh you’re losing your mind the guy’s a

great defensive first baseman

so with that being said guys let me know

in the comments below what do you think

about anthony rizzo’s return to the

yankees apparently to bob clapp

one of his

friends or whoever um

knows he wants to come back and

you know for that to work both sides

gotta want it i think they do

it all comes down to money it all comes

down to money and years in my opinion um

if rizza really wants to come back

again i don’t see 20 million i see a lot

less than that maybe three maybe

four-year deal

and we’ll see what happens there so guys

let me know in the comment section below

with the anthony rizzo news bob clapp

saying that there’s a family member that

says rizzo

really wants to come back to the new

york yankees in 2022.

let me know what you guys think would

you be in favor

all in favor say yay

is it yeah yay is it yay i think it’s

yeah yay nay whatever the hell it is i

don’t know i don’t i don’t know do these

things say yes

yes yes yes yes say yes um and let me

know in the comments below why you want

anthony rizzo back and maybe you know

some of you guys who like to play around

with um contracts and things like that

let me know

what uh you think um that deal should

look like so guys again this is pete

simonetti for the one the only

nyy news

talk to you guys again very very soon

thank you

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