5/3/05
-Yankees new overhaul includes moving chop suey to CF, Bernie sitting and platooning at DH, and Womack to left. Bringing up Cano to start at 2nd. Your now looking at the Yankees inept and inefficient philosophy finally coming back haunt them.
NY has so much money but they spend it on old veteran all stars who will never outperform their enourmous contracts, and also have higher chance of injury which leads to dead money. During their dynastic run in the late 90's they had a homegrown talent laden core, but now in order to land whatever expensive player they wanted over the past few years they fully depleted the farm system. The money is there but the ammo for trades is now gone. If NY does not adapt to a new system they will become the new Mets in the coming years. The mystique is gone.
They are paying almost 26 million for a platoon DH of Bernie and Giambi. (like Nick said in his post, compare that to our DH #34 making 5.25 million) I'm just glad they didn't land and lockup a young stud in Beltran this offseason. Instead of a Matsui/Beltran/Sheff outfield, its Womack/Suey/Sheff. On top of this, RJ is sitting his next start with a sore groin, a 41 year old groin at that which could become chronic and add more stress to his bad knees. Another note is that RJ is on pace to double his HR allowed total from last year. The team will score runs but Cashman should be embarassed. They have so many wasted resources, and an old tired defense/bullpen. Average age for the Yankees active roster is 34 years old, and thats including 22 year old Robinson Cano who they called up today, and 25 year old pitcher Chien Wang. (As I'm writing this I just saw highlights of Tampa rocking Kevin Brown for a 6 run first inning.)
-The team we need to start worrying about is Baltimore. Mainly for the reason that if the old Yankees get it together the O's can steal enough games in the division to push the wildcard out of the east.
-Solid fill in starts for Gonzalez and Halama. Gonzo gave us a chance to win and left the game when it was tied, but that game would have been a steal against Their ace Bonderman anyway. Halama had nothing overpowering, but he walked noone and Belli's grand slam gave us the run support to win.
-Renteria is struggling. Hopefully he settles down at the plate and at short soon. ER is a guy at SS that is known to mostly be very consistent, we are paying him more than we are getting so far. For 8 mill I want fat OBP and Cabrera-like defense. Speaking of struggling Foulke really needs to get hurry up and get in a groove, 4 HR's in last 4 games. Whole pen has been awful, worst in the majors. One guy I'm banking on is Mantei. He can K any batter in the league, that fastball just explodes out of his hand, but he needs to locate it. Also, when Mantei can locate his fastball he has an effective curve, love to have a power setup guy like that. Embree, and Neal on the other hand have shown me nothing. I'm sure Theo is working out something.
-Update on Wade Miller. Pitched his last rehab start tues night and looked solid again, supposedly hit 96 a couple times on the gun. Per Gammons on baseball tonight "Miller will start sunday vs Seattle" and calls his new fastball delivery as "a work in progress".
-Saw Pedro get his ring today, still gotta root for him. Hope he gets the Cy this year. Even if hes lights out we still could not guarantee him four years, still miss having him though. If you have mixed feelings on him read the Thank You, Pedro Martinez thread on SOSH and then tell me what you think.
-I read an article on ESPN about the Astros dealing the rocket at the deadline. It was saying it will be tough for NY cause they dont have the prospects to put together a deal, and the Sox and Braves might not have the capital. Clemens is making 18 million this year and he gets a 3 million dollar bonus if he is traded. which would mean to acquire it him it would cost us about 12 million for half a season, highly unlikely and inefficient, but that would be fun to see.
NY has so much money but they spend it on old veteran all stars who will never outperform their enourmous contracts, and also have higher chance of injury which leads to dead money. During their dynastic run in the late 90's they had a homegrown talent laden core, but now in order to land whatever expensive player they wanted over the past few years they fully depleted the farm system. The money is there but the ammo for trades is now gone. If NY does not adapt to a new system they will become the new Mets in the coming years. The mystique is gone.
They are paying almost 26 million for a platoon DH of Bernie and Giambi. (like Nick said in his post, compare that to our DH #34 making 5.25 million) I'm just glad they didn't land and lockup a young stud in Beltran this offseason. Instead of a Matsui/Beltran/Sheff outfield, its Womack/Suey/Sheff. On top of this, RJ is sitting his next start with a sore groin, a 41 year old groin at that which could become chronic and add more stress to his bad knees. Another note is that RJ is on pace to double his HR allowed total from last year. The team will score runs but Cashman should be embarassed. They have so many wasted resources, and an old tired defense/bullpen. Average age for the Yankees active roster is 34 years old, and thats including 22 year old Robinson Cano who they called up today, and 25 year old pitcher Chien Wang. (As I'm writing this I just saw highlights of Tampa rocking Kevin Brown for a 6 run first inning.)
-The team we need to start worrying about is Baltimore. Mainly for the reason that if the old Yankees get it together the O's can steal enough games in the division to push the wildcard out of the east.
-Solid fill in starts for Gonzalez and Halama. Gonzo gave us a chance to win and left the game when it was tied, but that game would have been a steal against Their ace Bonderman anyway. Halama had nothing overpowering, but he walked noone and Belli's grand slam gave us the run support to win.
-Renteria is struggling. Hopefully he settles down at the plate and at short soon. ER is a guy at SS that is known to mostly be very consistent, we are paying him more than we are getting so far. For 8 mill I want fat OBP and Cabrera-like defense. Speaking of struggling Foulke really needs to get hurry up and get in a groove, 4 HR's in last 4 games. Whole pen has been awful, worst in the majors. One guy I'm banking on is Mantei. He can K any batter in the league, that fastball just explodes out of his hand, but he needs to locate it. Also, when Mantei can locate his fastball he has an effective curve, love to have a power setup guy like that. Embree, and Neal on the other hand have shown me nothing. I'm sure Theo is working out something.
-Update on Wade Miller. Pitched his last rehab start tues night and looked solid again, supposedly hit 96 a couple times on the gun. Per Gammons on baseball tonight "Miller will start sunday vs Seattle" and calls his new fastball delivery as "a work in progress".
-Saw Pedro get his ring today, still gotta root for him. Hope he gets the Cy this year. Even if hes lights out we still could not guarantee him four years, still miss having him though. If you have mixed feelings on him read the Thank You, Pedro Martinez thread on SOSH and then tell me what you think.
-I read an article on ESPN about the Astros dealing the rocket at the deadline. It was saying it will be tough for NY cause they dont have the prospects to put together a deal, and the Sox and Braves might not have the capital. Clemens is making 18 million this year and he gets a 3 million dollar bonus if he is traded. which would mean to acquire it him it would cost us about 12 million for half a season, highly unlikely and inefficient, but that would be fun to see.
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