Morning Yankees Rumors

Tim.... sorry to see your site has evolved into an extension of River Ave.... Jumped the Shark?

I see the Yankees trading Hughes, Cabrera and Jackson for Santana.

Santana >> Hughes
Cabrera league average CF'er at best (but not a 4th OF'er as some say)
Jackson won't be in the big leagues for about 2 years.

The Yankees are far better next season with this trade. And not really crippled in the future.

I can only see the Twins accepting this if the Santana trade market is actually as weak as everyone seems to be suggesting. I think someone will top this offer.

Forget Cabrera, Kazmir and Santana

The D-Rays owner hates the Yankees and he'll ask for half of the minor league system for Kazimir. The Twins will NEVER trade their ace, and one of the best pitchers in baseball to the Yankees if they can get some other good talent (which they can), from any other team. You may want to recall to the circumstances when Boston got Pedro, I believe from the Expos. The Expos wanted a ton of young talent- including Posada and a couple of others who have become good major league players-- and when they Yankees refused they promptly sent him to Boston with CARL PAVANO being one of centerpieces of the trade. How about the Scilling trade--- similiar senario with Arizona (another Yankee hating organization) sending him to Boston for glorified garbage. The price you pay for having a 200 million $ team.

- very few teams will even deal with the Yankees no less give them big players
- the few that will are going to demand much, much more in return than other teams

It's time to forget big trades.

Like Redsox traded for Schilling- Are you guys saying Dbacks traded for Garbage players from Redsox?

Nov 28, 2003: Arizona Diamondbacks traded Curt Schilling to the Boston Red Sox for Casey Fossum, Brandon Lyon, Jorge De La Rosa and Michael Goss.

What happen to these players that Redsox traded..

Tabata is number #1 top outfield prospect for Yankees. Alan Horne has good stuff.

Let's rewind shall we ? Before Redsox got Schilling

Brandon Lyon stinks, no command... Casey Fossum is a finesse pitcher.. Get Real here, There's no way Dbacks would accept this trade without trading Hanley Ramirez to Dbacks..

Salary Cap in Baseball.
As a Yankees Fan, I want Salary Cap in Baseball Once a for All just to shutup Yankees haters and Media. Every Media and The Yankees haters criticizing yankees for buying pennants and championships thru free agency. Yankees needs to prove doubters and Yankees haters wrong that They can win thru building thru farm system and salary cap in place.. Is it me that Media loves the Redsox more than Yankees because of "Underdog" role and lovable losers mentality until they won a championship in 2004? And Fact The Yankees are Evil and Redsox are good since Mr Larry Lucchinno aka Lucifer shouted "The Yankees are Evil Empire" around the World.... The Yankees haters can't stand NY and what Ny represent for because They're Jealous . City like Ny has everything to offer unlike other cities in Usa. How would Larry aka Lucifer feel a team like Jets and Knicks haven't won championship for fourty years while Celtics won 16 championships and Patriots won 3 ? Every Boston sports Fan still moaning and crying because They haven't won championship for years.

Please Mr.Selig, I want a Salary Cap in Baseball once a for all . I had enough of media critizing Yankees more than Redsox... "Everyone loves Redsox because they do it in right way. Like spending on Matsuzaka, Jd.Drew, Lugo. Eric Gagne... I bet Manny and Ortiz came thru Redsox farm system. Jason Varitek doesn't deserved The Captain since He never came up thru Boston Organization. He was traded from Mariners Organization along with Derek Lowe on Heathcliffe Slocumb trade.

Of course, even when the Red Sox and the Yankees do it "the right way," they do it by spending more money. So many of the current Red Sox and Yankee prospects were drafted in the 20's because they were too expensive for the teams drafting in the 0's and 10's.

The Yankees should pass on Santana. The price is too high both in terms of players and money.

Smack, as a fan why should I or better yet why do you give a crap what a team spends? I don't care how profitable the Cards are for the Dewitt's. I want to see my team win as much as possible. And so if that means buying players like the Yanks do, good for them. I wish the Steinbrenner family was in charge of the Cards.

ozzie, I've learned that it's best to let people just get their aggression out when they're on internet forums. Better than having them do something bad in real life.

Well, I was talking more about the comment:

"I'm going to assume you are from St. Louis.

That would your pointless posts. You live in a pointless city."

I am a Yankee fan so I see how it's like. Winning is nice, but honestly I don't even go to many regular season games anymore because they just don't see to mean much. This year was the exception of course, and it was really fun.

It's also great seeing the young players come up and produce the way they have. I still think the Yankees have changed a little - only throwing the money at players when it makes sense.

I think there's a fine linke- I remember back, maybe 10 years ago, the Reds ownership (Schott, I think) vetoed a trade over $200K or something. That's embarrasing. Carl Pohlad's tight purse strings are as well.

But I do think winning is more gratifying when the players are homegrown (or when you acquired them before they were stars).

I would always want my team to be able to spend money, but if given the choice, like you mentioned, I would prefer the money is spent on keeping their own players, not going out and buying everyone.

I mean, if they just went out and signed every FA available, then no, I wouldn't be happy. One key signing a year is great.

again, these people complaining would all absolutely love to have their teams ran the way the Yankees are run. Every fan wishes their team had a chance to win year in and year out. If you are a fan of a team like the Rays, Twins, Royals,Reds, Pirates, Brewers, and so on you have to be completely frustrated at your team's either A) leack of a desire to be a world champion quality team or B) retain the quality players that have played for your team.

Same with Redsox.. I think Redsox and their players are also Gay.. Have you watch Manny Ramirez touching Julian Tavarez in the dugout? How about Mike Timlin giving a David Ortiz right in a cheek when they won the World Series?

Remember kids, only the coolest of the cool get as proud of themselves as DunkinDonuts surely is because he made a super funny joke!

Anyway, the more I think about it, the less I want Santana. I'd rather take my chances with Hughes developing into a #1C pitcher with Wang as #1A and, if last year is any indication, Joba as #1B.