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thomas
all these coments are very interesting. but lets face reality, and there are those who either love or hate the yankees I for one love them for 46 years now and they will always be in the lead for at least achance at a title next year the yankees will upgrade pitching improve bench get ayoung star (Montero) in line up eat your heart outs yankee haters this is reality!
Michael
There are a lot of people on here with terrible grammar and very little baseball knowledge. First we should probably start with what the Yankees should do. It’s very simple go hard after Prince he is 27 and willing to be a DH, he has no injury history and if you look at what Granderson did with the RF porch just imagine what Prince could do (we could finally wipe Bond’ name off the record books). Then we would trade Montero to Seattle and finally go after Felix like we should have been doing every season. If you look at Felix’ game log he has literally taken away wins from the Yanks by himself the past three years. Doing these two things would make us both younger and better. However neither will happen cause people are just not that smart and we will most likely sign yet another 30 year old disaster. So in reality the only smart thing to do this offseason is to do nothing at all much like last winter. Maybe go after Darvish only because he is a younger Japanese pitcher unlike most others have been. There isn’t room at all to make any moves offensively (which is what this free agent class is full of) so there is really no point. However next offseason is a different story, there are YOUNG players both in pitching and hitting. I think in a lot of ways Cain is alomst as good as lincecum and we’re all about to see that because this is his contract year. Kemp would make an amazing asset in center so if the Dodgers are dumb enough to let him test the market we would be just as foolish to let him go. Granderson isn’t even the best centerfielder on the Yanks so I seriously doubt if he wants to come back he’d have a problem playing right next year.
Well thats my take
BumWino
Ooops! You have to add “slugging pct.” to your OPB, which yields OPS. Then you got it all, except who’s doing the clutch hitting. Toronto’s Jose Bautista led the majors in OPS. Our team must get him. It is an obscenity that Bautista is not in pinstripes.
BumWino
Agreed. Some of Sean’s wished for position players are not even all-stars. And that just won’t do.
With regard to Sean’s apparent lack of grammatical skills, I wouldn’t worry about it. Why? Because in Major League Baseball, money talks and grammar walks. I shouldn’t have to say that to a professional-level baseball commentator, such as yourself.
BumWino
Hi, Chinaman
My guess is that Pacos_Drifter spends a lot more of his time in the Best Little Wh—house in Texas, rather than down at the football game.
BumWino
Agreed. It’s a crying shame because we had a lot going this year.
Often, for instance, top of the inning pitches right down Broadway were called balls. Bottom of the inning, our good Yankees pitchers were given called strikes on pitches that were half a foot off the outer edge of the strike zone.
Unfortunately, the umpiring was scrupulously fair during the postseason. This contrast, of course, penalized our Yankees more than any other team. Selig is to blame, because he is afraid of the umpires’ union.
BumWino
God will get you for that unfortunate comment.
BumWino
Agreed. Only trouble is that Cash can’t buy luck which often comes into play in these short series. However, I don’t blame Cash or the Steinbrenner boys; I blame George, himself.
George was always the visionary. He knew “luck” tended to even out over the long 162-game season. But to reiterate, you can’t buy luck. So what George should have done after he passed–to overcome any possibility of Yankee bad luck–was to sell his soul to Old Nick in order to raise sufficient capital to bribe God.
If you’ve already done this George, it’s not working.
Fuster Cluck
Reyes makes some excellent sense if you’ve got the extra money to spend , but Montero isn’t ready to catch every day and Russell Martin played extremely well for the Yankees.
If you want to add Reyes, you probably have to figure on subtracting someone other than Martin, probably one of the corner outfielders, to keep Montero’s bat.
(and you still need another starter, Banuelos isn’t quite ready and Hughes shouldn’t be counted on to start for the full season.)
nick tarantola
I don’t understand the idea that Montero isn’t ready to catch in the big leagues. I mean he’s been in the organization for five years, the bombers have Girardi, Pena, Jorge, and Martin schooling this kid, yet he can’t catch in the big leagues? I’m not arguing your point that he’s not ready, but if he really isn’t ready then someone in the organization needs to be held accountable. Also, I don’t see the problem with rotating Montero and Martin at catcher in the beginning of the season and also rotating A Rod, Jeter, and Montero at DH as well. God knows, Jeter and A Rod will need their fair share of breaks throughout the season (especially a rod).