Still waiting on the Cameron deal. Pete Abraham says:
This could be the lineup:
Damon LF
Jeter SS
Nady RF
Rodriguez 3B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cameron CF
Cano 2B
Swisher 1BOr something like that.
Me? Ok top six. I’d move Cano to 7 and put Cameron 9. I want to bunch the speed 9-1-2 of Cameron, Damon and Jeter. I’d like the speed on the bases to resemble a top notch track team…that or a high-speed carousel. VERY high speed.
Meanwhile, Bryan Hoch at Bombers Beat says this:
The rumored trade for Mike Cameron appears to have hit a financial snag, and it’s not difficult to understand why. While the Yankees were willing to give up Melky Cabrera, they asked the Brewers for some help with the $10 million that Cameron is owed for 2009.
The entire baseball world heard the thud when Cashman dropped $161 million on CC Sabathia’s doorstep in Vallejo, so you can just imagine their reaction when the Yankees rattled the tin cup.
Let me get this straight. Now I’m a diehard Yankee fan (hence this blog), but the Yanks want the Brewers to help? After the Yanks just took CC away from them with that whopping offer? Would anyone be surprised if the Brewers said “drop dead” in response? I mean, come on.
I mentioned in a previous post today that Andy better act. Abraham reports that
Brian Cashman, according to the Post, flew to Texas to meet with Andy Pettitte in Houston. The well-traveled GM is probably arriving with an ultimatum.
In essence: take it or leave it.
Just like I wrote earlier today.
Abraham, Joel Sherman and I are in agreement. Andy has to realize he owes the Yanks one here. He doesn’t have much sympathy on that. After the Yanks stood up for him at the HGH press conference, the testimony to Congress, etc., that…and the fact that struggling people will give him NO SYMPATHY over a pay cut from $16 to $10 M. With so many people out of work, players should realize how good they have it. I know many are upset at the amount of $$$$$ Sabathia is going to get and how much A-Rod is getting. These people will shed crocodile tears over Andy’s pay cut. People struggling to find a job, make house and car payments, feed their families… and players making so much and who have it made (not to mention having it made for a couple of their future generations) not wanting a paycut? As many people I know would say, “Give me a break…”
Forget Nick Punto. He went back to the Twins. Kyle Farnsworth(less) winds up in KC on a two-year deal.
Yankee minor leaguers claimed by other teams in the Rule 5 draft were:
Ivan Nova by SD, 8-13, 4.36 in High A. Age 21, 22 in January, RHP
Reegie Corona by Seattle. .274-3-39 at AA. 2B/SS. 24 SB. 22, switch-hitter.
Jason Jones by the Twins. 26, RHP. 13-7, 3.33 at AA, 0-1, 2.38 AAA (2 g.)
Zach Kroenke by Florida. 6-0, 3.09 AA, 1-0, 1.80 AAA. 24. LHP
BULLETIN BOARD MATERIAL: Espn has a report that Phils ace Cole Hamels, in an interview with WFAN 660 AM New York (the Mets flagship station), responded in the affirmative when asked if the Mets were “choke artists.” Wow. Someone should remind Hamels that he pitches in the NATIONAL League…where pitchers come to bat. I can’t wait until he faces the Mets for the first time and someone like John Maine dusts Hamels. This could get (as the Arte Johnson character on Laugh-In used to say) Very Interesting.
Arte can’t wait for the first Mets-Phils game
with Cole Hamels in 2009.
The Peavy to Cubs deal is dead for now. If Peavy really wants to leave SD, he best be advised to revise his no-trade list….and to include some AL teams.
5 responses so far ↓
1 mike f // Dec 12, 2008 at 12:01 am
i listened to that interview mike- and those nitwits evan and joe basically baited him into trashing the mets and the asshat jose reyes–and rightfully so- they are ridiculous showboaters and i loved every minute of that interview. cole hamels sounds like a great guy and he IS an ace pitcher. he can say whatever he likes about the mets or any other team he has defeated. that wimp isn’t gonna have the never to hit him–i guess that criminal pedro would tho, but he should be in a rest home by 2009
2 mike f // Dec 12, 2008 at 12:02 am
the nerve…not the never…
3 Mike Sommer // Dec 12, 2008 at 9:18 am
Yeah, Pedro surely would, if it was the Pedro of old and not the Pedro wondering who will take a chance on him.
It’s something Hamels can surely think but probably something he shouldn’t have said.
But it’ll be interesting next year when the two teams meet (or even in spring training). Reyes act is old, K-Rod’s act will be old soon, Rollins may say something again, and now the Hamels comments. I’m sure something boils over in 2009.
4 yankeemza781 // Dec 12, 2008 at 9:51 am
I for one like Pettite, but am kind of hoping that he doesn’t accept the cut. So much more interesting would be if the Yankees could bring in Sheets. Rumor that I heard is two years 30 million. I’d rather have him than Pettite at 16. And at two years it gives Hughes and Kennedy some more time to refine their game in the minors.
5 mike f // Dec 12, 2008 at 11:48 am
i liked his refreshing honesty mike. if there is payback, then so be it, the phils can always take out santana. isn’t that “the gibson way” ?
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