Olney's Latest: Yankees, Cashman, Giambi

No way in the world Giambi signs for that little. I've said it for months, I can see Giambi in a Jays uniform.

Me along with other a's fans would love to see cust gone. The a's have to be feed up with his all or nothing hitting. Also all his homers are meaningless homers. Giambi would be a great leader to lead the young group and a's fans still like him. They know he wanted to come back to the a's but beane would not give him a no trade clause. The only knock on a Giambi signing is that he is another left handed bat. With all the lefties I see the a's wanting to acquire a righthander.

Its funny to see how time has healed the wounds. I was at the game when a fan threw a beer at Giambi shortly after the whole Balco incident. I tell you that I've never heard the Oakland crowd give it to anyone like they did whenever Giambi came to bat.

I say Giambi doesn't come back to Oakland, no matter how nostalgic or fitting it would be. The man has the money, he wants a ring. He goes to a contender and I'm not so sure its with the Yankees either.

As for the payroll, how the hell do the Yankees figure to cut the payroll? Granted, a ton of money is coming off the books but opening up a new stadium fresh of missing the playoffs? No way, they have to pay up.

thegoods24,

I'm with you I believe the A's should deal Smith/Braden/Eveland/Gallagher. Not as much Gallagher, but the rest of them are stop gaps until Cahill, Anderson, Simmons, and Inoa get up here. Yes I realize Inoa will be aways away. But deal some of them this winter then the rest of them at the trade deadline. And we should get fair compensation for them. Young quality starting pitching is a rare commoatidy.

Analysis wise the single biggest incident that killed the Yankees this year was Jorge Posada's injury. there's no real helping that except crossing your fingers.

there's a ton of deadweight on the Yankee payroll and luckily some of it is comming off (namely, Carl Pavano) . it's hard to say how the Yankees will do going foward as there's some serious questions that need to be addressed.

the entire 1b /of situation needs to be looked at as awhole. I think the Yankees need to assume that Damon needs to play CF at least most of the time for them to remain effective offensively, letting Abreu walk is probably a good idea and signing one of Manny or Dunn is needed.

Pitching wise there is obviously risk going foward no matter what they do.

Cust and Giambi and practically identical players at this point. Both hit home runs with a small amount of doubles. Both walk and strikeout. Neither runs well. Their primary difference is that Cust is the better defender, in the sense that hospital food is better than soup kitchen food.

Fortunately Beane has never been a nostalgia guy, and doesn't sign players in order to please the fan base, so hopefully this isn't in his plans.

Besides, dude left to play for those winners in New York, and even though I take pleasure in the fact that he didn't win with them, I can't let it go.