Yankees Not Likely To Replace A-Rod Through Trade

Any word if they're going to give some reps to Nady at 3B? I know he did it a few games back in the day.

Nady at 3B & Swisher full time in RF seems better than the plan they have now.

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Yankees replacement third baseman. Get it done.

"It'd be stupid to fill the hole any way other than Nady at 3rd. He's a natural 3B".

If he was a "natural 3B" he wouldn't have only played THREE games there in his MLB career. He will NOT be the 3B on opening day.

Smart decision on Cashman's part. No sense in trading away young talent for seemingly a 1-2 month replacement.

corey koskie might be the answer dont think the cubs will keep him--if corey can prove he still can play

Nady was drafted as a 3B-SS. TWICE. http://www.mymlbdraft.com/1997/round4/

and

http://www.mymlbdraft.com/2000/round2/

It doesn't matter if he was drafted as a 3B/SS. Look at the statistics. He's only played 3 games in his entire professional career at 3B. All came in 2005 with San Diego. He never even played at the position in the minors - only 1B and OF.

Yankees should be fine. Ransom last year in 33 games (which is probably the amount A-Rod will miss, maybe a little more)- .302/.400/.651 in 43 AB with 4 homers

Highly unlikely he will do that again, but those are great numbers. I"m obviously not comparing Ransom to A-Rod, but I'm just saying Ransom is a good fill in assuming A-Rod is out until mid May

Considering the Yankees have never had a "defense-first" philosophy, I'm sure Nady could do fine at 3rd. If you played 3rd in college you can obviously play it decent enough to at least not embarrass yourself out there, which makes you good enough to play there every day in the Yankees' organization. I'm pretty sure they'd rather have Tex, Cano, Jeter, Nady, Swisher, CF (Don't know who'll win the job haven't been paying attention to Yankee camp), and Damon with Matsui DHing out there than Tex, Cano, Jeter, Ransom, Swisher/Nady, CF, and Damon w/ either the other of Swisher/Nady or Matsui DHing. Having one of Swisher, Nady, or Matsui on the bench when Nady can play at least not miserable 3B. I guarantee you he wouldn't be the worst defensive 3B in the league. The Yankees put people in the field because of their bats and in spite of their defense all the time. Why should this change anything? Now all of the sudden they're a defense-first philosophy team? Nady will do fine at 3B.

I'm just hoping that this injury will give the media a time to get off A-Rod's nuts. I just wrote an article yesterday on The New Dynasty called Get Off A-Rod.

I hate seeing every word this guy says getting scrutinized. He strikes out once, media asks why. He makes a light comment about what a great player Jose Reyes is just being friendly, and the medias bangin down Jeter's door asking him how he feels that A-Rod wants him replaced.

To pull a section from my post:
"Why not ask Sabathia why he has made no attempt to drop some weight? Why not ask Jeter about his diminishing offensive and defensive capabilities (though he remains a top 10 SS in my opinion)? Why not ask Pettite why he didn’t accept the Yankees $10MM offer and why he was so greedy after posting over a 5 ERA? Why not ask Burnett how he plans to stay healthy in 2009 and beyond? I just honestly can think of so many more interesting questions to ask and work out then analyzing every word that comes out of a guys mouth who more than half of America can’t stand. The Yankees made so many huge moves this off-season. There is no way that this is the best these lazy reporters can come up with."

" You're not the only one sick of hearing about A-Rod"

How about asking Tim if we could have 1 solid week of -0- topics regarding Ramirez, Martinez, or A-rod. Do you think he would go for it? I'd be happy.

perhaps the cubbies to for their 100 year drought. Mean that in the most respectful way possible. Cubs are probably my second favorite team just because I can sympathize with a great franchise that just can't seem to finish the job in October. Best of luck ending the madness.

Johns-

Then you'd have far less to read on this site, without A-Rod, Manny and Martinez..

And it'd take a long time to read 30 blogs. Baseball Tonight is pretty bad though, I just can't imagine that Steve Phillips is even remotely good enough to get that much air time. He's brutal.

And by the way, I'll never get sick of Manny!

Manny's contract screams "I want to be a Yankee next year" to me.

player option shows manny likely wont hang around

no arbitration if he's a type A free agent shows again... he's not gonna hang around. So what team will throw him more than the 2/45 next year after Matsui and Damon are dropped? You guessed right. Manny flippin Ramirez. And I'm dreading the day.
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From the Yanks perspective that would just make too much sense. If the Yanks subtract Damon and Matsui leaving DH and LF open and Posada shows us that he can catch 120 gms this year then the Yanks can go after Manny for a 2 year deal. Then it puts less pressure on them from having to bid for Holliday. In fact they could avoid Holliday all together and maybe focus on other smaller options. They can stick Manny at DH, the winner of Melky/Gardner or Ajax at CF, play Swisher in LF or RF and maybe go after Coco Crisp (if $8 mil option is declined), Baldelli (if healthy), Bay (if available) or resign Nady.

YanksFan, your front office hasn't given a rat's ass about defense for as long as I can remember. Yes, I know it'd be a bad defensive move. However, I think Nady's bat is more than that much bigger than the replacement. And Nady played 3B in college. No, that doesn't mean he can do it well at the MLB level, but it means he does have some experience playing the position. Even if he has pathetic range, which I don't know that he does, he has a decent arm and knows enough about the position to be able to play it just fine for a month. Now, long-term, it'd be a terrible idea for the Yankees. 1 month though, I think Nady at 3rd with Swisher and Damon at the corner OF's and Matsui DHing is probably your best option.

Ryno. When Pujols signs his next contract he'll probably make close to, and not necessarily below, 30 million dollars a year.

Not true, jvg019. Fuentes entered the market this off-season and signed with the Angels.

Nady playing third in college means nothing. It's a tougher position to play in the majors, he hasn't played it in years, and he obviously moved off of the position for a reason. There are guys who played shortstop in college that are in left field now.

Nady's bat isn't much better than league average, so his value at third base would surely be negative. Playing Ransom or even adding Esteban German makes way more sense than trying to force Nady into third base.

Think about a Nady/Jeter left side of the infield.. I just gagged a little too..

And Nady went straight from the draft to the majors. The reason he originally switched from infield to outfield is the Padres already had Phil Nevin as their every-day 3B but needed outfielders. They then decided they liked him better there. Had nothing to do with him being unable to adequately field the 3B position.

Peavy is signed thru 2012 w/ option 2013. Fuentes just signed 2 years + option, and Pujols is sign thru 2010 with option in 2011. My point being is that the money you pay for ARod you can get 2 or 3 solid players.

Yes it is.

Peavy is signed thru 2012 w/ option 2013. Fuentes just signed 2 years + option, and Pujols is sign thru 2010 with option in 2011. My point being is that the money you pay for ARod you can get 2 or 3 solid players.
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Why are you even making this comparison? Ok, you can sign OCabrera, Ohudson, Abreu, and Adam Dunn for what Manny signed for as well? How is that relevant to anything? What the guy meant is that Puols and Peavy have never, ever hit the OPEN market. Both Peavy and Pujols signed their deals while they were still under control by their teams to avoid arbitration. Because there was no open competition bidding for their services the team got a "home team" discount and the player received early security for their careers.

The Royals are trying Teahen at 2B, a position he hasn't played since college.

Results - embarrassing.

I said this before. I'm grateful for all the moves the Yanks made this year. We are great at making the "big splash" moves but I think we made 1 mistake this year. W/o knowing whether or not Nomar had any interest in coming to NY or not, I thought he was an obvious FA for us to pursue. Every year we seem to suffer one inury that keeps someone out for a while. We've always had to go looking for someone at the deadline. Our starting rotation is solid 1-5. Our AAA staff is deep as well (Hughes, IPK, Aceves, Tomko, Igawa, Horne, Sanchez). Our bullpen depth is crazy as between our mlb/AAA staff we have Bruney, Marte, Coke, Ramirez, Albaladejo, Veras, Robertson, Melancon, Giese and others. All power arms for the most part. I think Swisher provides us with great depth by his ability to play (at varying degrees) LF/CF/RF and 1B. Damon (at varying degrees) can play LF or CF. Melky can play all 3 spots. Nady can play LF and RF. Where we were lacking was a proven offensive bat that could cover for us for a length of time on the left side (3B and SS). Nomar was an obvious choice and would've been a GREAT bat off the bench. Back all that up with Ransom as the "glove" utility guy and I think there would've been no need for us to look anywhere for a replacement player, barring some crazy rash of inuries to 3 or 4 guys at the same time.

Garciaparra would have come in handy about now, then when he is playing any position other than 1B for extended periods, he is fragile also over the past 5+ years as well.

It's not just about how bad Nady would be at third. If he was an elite bat it would be different.

Nady is essentially a league average offensive player, so with awful defense he would be quite below average as a third baseman. Ransom's superior value defensively far outweighs the differences offensively.

And your logic here is simply obscenely flawed. You have heard any evidence that can't be a third baseman? What the hell is the legitimate evidence that he can? It's not about evidence that he can't be a third baseman. It's about the fact that there's NO evidence that he can be even below average at third. Your only argument is a completely flawed and illegitimate one, as his college position doesn't have much bearing on his ability to play the position at this level.

Nady simply isn't going to third. In that division, the Yankees can't afford to have two awful defenders manning the left side of their infield.

Defense matters A LOT.

This is only a 1-month fix. After A-Rod is back, they go back to Swisher on the bench and Nady in right. For 1 month you can't give away THAT many runs in the field, even at 3B. Also, of all the arguments I've heard, I'm yet to hear ONE piece of empirical evidence that Nady is or ever was a bad 3B.
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Show me one ounce of empirical evidence that Nady would be GOOD at 3B? It's 2009 and since 2000, (when he was in college), he's played exactly 3 gms at 3B. That's including all of his minor league games. Why do you think he would make a decent 3B? It could take him a full month just to readjust to the position. Playing the IF is a lot more than just catching and throwing the ball. It's about instincts, anticipation and knowing where to position yourself. A ball will get to you a lot quicker @ 3B than it does in LF. And there's a lot more responsibilities at 3B than any OF position.

Even though I'm against moving any regular player (Cano, Teixeira or Swisher) to 3B, I'd me more comfortable moving an IF to 3B than I would an OF who hasn't played there in almost 10 years.

Yeah but Lowell did have any surgery until it was too late right?

"Yeah but Lowell did have any surgery until it was too late right?"

Correct, Lowell knew for certain his was getting much worse by June and started missing games every so often as early as the beginning of July from it. The difference here could be waiting for the off season for the surgery, as compared to A-Rod getting his surgery now, as early as possible before the season begins since they have finally found it and Lowell's they did not really find until right at mid season anyway. Playing on it probably did make the surgery take the longer recovery period, but he did appear in his 1st game on Tuesday.

I agree with the Yanks not moving nady, or anyone else to 3rd with a poor glove as a stop gap who is un familiar with the position. having Jeter with his range not what it was would not be good.

I have to beg to differ also on the overall Yankee defense also, other than Tex, it is not very impressive. If Cabrerra is in CF it will be better.

Trust me, I'm not asserting that the team defense is good, just that Cashman's hands are tied somewhat in terms of the roster. 1B was an obvious area where we could improve because of the vacancy. That's why we never hears a FA name like Adam Dunn mentioned as a possibility at 1st. All the other spots were pretty much locked except for 1B and CF. He choose not to go with Cameron because I think he felt that Melky/Gardner could hand the job.

People shouldn't under estimate the signifigane that Tex can have on the overall IF defense. Cano doesn't have to cheat to his left anymore to cover for a poor glove/no range @ 1b and he can afford to cheat to his right to compensate for Jeter. When a healthy Arod and Cano are on the field they can pick up the slack in range for Jeter and maybe not expose his poor range as much.

Hopefully, A-Roid has some HGH saved from 07 so that he can heal faster! LOL!