Yeah, with Gardner, who I love, already there, I saw no reason to get Ellsbury. I would have rather gotten a low-mid level guy for left field, or just kept a rotation of what we have instead. It seems they just wanted to make some noise after this last season, and forced the move for Ellsbury and Beltran. Both were overpriced and risky, in my opinion. Soriano proved he has quite a bit left when he came back here, so I'm excited to see what he does. Or he could be another Ichiro (performs well over a half-season with NYY, gets extension, reverts to previous form).
McCann was definitely a good signing, though. We were anemic at catcher last year, starting Chris Steward (!!!) and Austin Romine, a formerly hyped prospect who I was never high on. My only concern would be blocking the couple really good catching prospects they have, Sanchez and the other whose name I don't remember. Then again, our catching prospects never seem to reach expectations since Posada (Romine, Montero, Cervelli etc).
It'll be an interesting season in NY to say the least.