Yankees Sign LaTroy Hawkins

If Hawkins thinks that Cubs fans are unfair, wait till he gets to New York. I smell Farnsworth Part II, but at least NYY isn't stupidly giving Hawkins a 4-year deal.

I thought the rule was you could only sign three Type A free agents not originally on your team. So any players the Yankees were to resign wouldn't count towards that total. Is there another rule relating to Type B free agents, or relating to people who start with your team?

This is going to end up a bad deal. At least we know our relievers are going to pitch in 70 games a year with dumbass Toree.

Wow...didn't Hawkins learn by his experience in Chicago? If he thought Cubs fans were relentless and brutal...
Now he's moving to horrifying division for pitchers. I don't see an even remotely happy marriage in the Bronx.

Good news here for the rest of the AL East.

and btw: CUT GIAMBI!!!! or least trade him for a warm body. to TB for Navarro?

this is a good signing, he will pitch the 6th inning, makes sure we don't bring back vizcaino who is terrible and wanted linebrink's deal, and a 1 year deal enables us to have the spot open next year for more kids like melecon and sanchez. plus if he is aweful, we can trade him or cut him, its only 3.75 mil. Now only if we could trade mussina

@MaximumPotential:

You forgot Ohlendorf on your list. I'm guessing that he will have a big role in the bullpen. And there's always the impending Matsui trade.

"I as a Red Sox fan pray for the day that they take up a MLB roster spot for the MFY."

Just like Yankee fans love the fact that Jon Lester, Jed Lowrie, and Coco Crisp will most likely be in the Red Sox system in 2008.

"Just like Yankee fans love the fact that Jon Lester, Jed Lowrie, and Coco Crisp will most likely be in the Red Sox system in 2008."

Cheering to face Lester makes sense, because he is the perfect pitcher for the Yankees to annihilate. A guy with disgusting stuff, who just has a complete disregard for the strike zone. I've been praying for the tubby blowhard to sit him down for a while now and smack him until he says "THROW STRIKES" over and over and over again.

Once again I will point out that anyone who knows a god damn thing about baseball, and talent evaluation will know that Coco Crisp is ridiculously talented and should be traded for right now. Cost controlled and far more valuable to a baseball team than Torri Hunter.

"lowrie"

The only way he would be playing for the Red Sox is if Lugo got traded. SO basically your "yankee fans" pray for him to play for Boston comment makes any sense is if we lose the dead weight of Lugo and start Robinson Cano at SS for 300k. You are loving that that might happen?

"by next year i mean 2009, and yes im quite comfortable having young kids in the bullpen"

Bullpens should be built with Humberto Sanchez, or Manny Delcarmen's, someone way smarter than me really needs to make a benefit to cost breakdown cause outside of shut down relievers no bullpen pitcher should ever be paid over league minimum. Until someone can definitely show that a non bullpen ace deserves any salary I'm holding to my position.

What the f*ck.

Linebrink was a Type A, but as you pointed out, the White Sox were protected so it made little difference - the second round pick isn't worth nearly as much. And yes, his contract was ridiculous.

"but it will prove useful when the Yankees need some leadership and composure out of the bullpen."

I don't think you understand...did you see him with the Cubs?? Hawkins and "composure" have NOTHING to do with eachother...

Yeah, I said in the Red Sox system, not roster. He and Brandon Moss are the types of players who would start and have a slight chance of becoming more than mediocre players on a team like the Pirates, but have no place other than possibly the bench on teams like the Red Sox.

Everyone loooves Jed Lowrie, but everyone loved Brandon Moss in July, saying he'd be a staple in the outfield for six years. You, I think, said that. Right. Comparing Lowrie to Cano is moronic at best. Cano is one of the top young players in BASEBALL. Lowrie is nothing more than a defensively-mediocre infielder who had a solid thirty games at AAA. He's not much right now. If he continues putting up good numbers at AAA, then yes, he is a guy who could be a solid player in the majors if given the chance. Even then, it's a probably-not.

Anyway, it was a response to an idiotic comment by a moronic Sox fan who probably thinks Craig Hansen is once again the second coming since his sleep apnea has been treated.

Bronx, why would the Yankees sign a mediocre player just to keep him away from the Rockies? The Rockies are in the only division the Yankees don't go near next year (interleague pits them against the Central, plus they play the Mets from the East).

I somehow doubt the Yankees were sitting there saying "Damn, I hope the Rockies don't make it back to the World Series next year. Let's sign one of their old, mediocre relievers! That'll stop them!"

The only time the Yankees interest in someone is dependent on another team's interest is interested is if it's the Red Sox. Or if you catch George on the right day, maybe the Mets.

By your logic every good player would be on the Yankees or Red Sox, yet there are more good players not on those teams than there are on those teams.

Remember when this guy was almost lights out in the setup role for the Twins? What happened? He went to the Cubs...

Since he left Minnesota he hasn't stayed on one team more than a season and a half. Looking at his stats since 2003 shows him as someone you can expect a 3.10 or so ERA from. But as a Cubs fan we all know how deceptive his 2004(2.63ERA) and 2005(3.32ERA) numbers were. Sure they averaged out to look pretty decent on paper, but if there was a stat category for Clutch Ability...LaTroy Hawkins would be rated around -300,250.

Still responsible for one of the biggest on field blowups at an umpire this side of Milton Bradley.