Yanks Have Interest In Tejada

Dude, there is NO WAY the Yankees trade Cano for Miguel Tejada. That is an absolutley ridiculous trade proposal. May God have mercy on your soul.

"Cano is the best 2b in MLB"

Try again.

why the hell do alot of teams want to convert players with an established to another alien position, that doesnt make that good of sense. They tried this with A-Rod and it carried alot of problems, very silly ones at time. Why dont they just trade for a good third baseman, why convert, its silly. Sign a pitcher and have him play third, why not, its just as stupid.

Tejada for Melky seems more reasonable...upgrade for the Yanks and salary relief and a decent young player who can contribute now for the Orioles. Cano will NOT be included on any deal here...and certainly not within the division.

I don't get you Yankee fans. You aren't willing to give up Hughes, Joba, Kennedy, or Cano but you expect your team to improve. Melky is no where near enough for any big improvements and after Tabata you are pretty weak. Bill James recently ranked you guys 27th in overall young talent. If you don't want to give up your 3 quality pitchers than you are gonna have Betemit playing 3rd. It is really that simple.

There is no way the Yankees are ranked 27th in the MLB in young talent. I can assume that Bill James ranked Boston somewhere like 2-3 because he works for them. The Yankees have the deepest pitching in the minors and that is said by many people. Also our draft and international signing really helped our MILB hitters.Cabrera is not enough for Tejada I agree, but he will be a good player, like most of you don't expect. Also if you had a rotation of Hughes, Chamberlain, Kennedy for years to come would you trade them?

"Bill James recently ranked you guys 27th in overall young talent"

Like Yankman said, James works for the Sox. Its in his best interest to try to keep up the "Yankees young players are overhyped" rhetoric for as long as possible. If you're objective, saying that only three teams have less young talent is just silly? San Fran, Washington, Houston, St. Louis. An argument cannot be made for any of those four teams and I didn't even have to leave the NL. James is turning into a Gammons-level lapdog (although atleast he's drawing a paycheck for it).

Ah, I just read the James article. Completely useless; its not based on anything more than 2007 stats with various weights (age, team, speed). It has nothing to do with who has better young talent or who has the best system going forward, its just who played their young players in 2007 the most. Runs Created, the driver for the entire system, is a counting stat. As PAs/IPs increase, so do runs created. Basically, the younger the team you fielded was, the higher your James ranking would be. Nothing more. No accounting for the Buchholz/J. Upton/Chamberlain/Bruce/Kershaw et all aside from their time in the majors, if any. Joe Mauer didn't make the top 50 because of a down year. So I take it back, this wasn't done out of bias, it was just a useless exercise in which sub-29 year olds performed best in 2007. Anyone attempting to use this as a "system ranking" or whatever either missed the point or was deceived. I learned nothing.

(Correlation between current roster age and James ranking: 0.48. I bet that would go even higher if I took the time to determine average age per PA and IP. Perhaps later.)

"Yankees need to go get carlos pena and scott kazmir."

As a Yankees fan, it hurts me to see such comments! I remember looking over our Columbus roster just last year and seeing the more than acceptable numbers Pena was putting up in our minor league system (.260/.370/.454) with 19 HR's and 66 RBI's in just 380 AB's. How I envisioned his sweet left handed swing and our short porch replacing the Mr. Potato Head that is Giambi... except we never let him touch the field.

GG Yanks.