CC, AJ, Teix. Now out, watching and waiting. Not to mention salivating over the deals they will receive.
Joel Sherman has the positives and negatives of Teixeira. Would I love to have him? Of course. But there is more to it than meets the eye. Baltimore will push for him. The Angels probably want him back. The salary, the years, the fact that aging players may need 1b/dh for themselves. Check out Sherman’s article.
In another article, Kevin Kernan mentions Dice-K “still doesn’t like to challenge hitters and makes every start a tortuous, constant full-count affair.” Well, yeah. He also went 15-12, 4.40 ERA+ 108 last year and followed it with an 18-3, 2.90 ERA+ 158 this year. Think anyone in Red Sox Nation is complaining?
How come the Yanks get the Dr. Jekyll good Angels in the postseason but the Red Sox, even when banged up, get Mr. Hyde?
King, George A. III confirms the expectation I and others have—that CC wants to go to CA. Meaning the Yanks decide on AJ. King states that the Orioles will go after CC and AJ hard. King also states that the Yanks could finalize their coaching situation by the end of the week. I and many other Yankee fans would like Meacham’s head, that’s for sure.
Mo gets his surgery today.
12 responses so far ↓
1 yankeemza781 // Oct 7, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I read the article and it says that Tex is the ultimate Boras client. So that means he goes where the money is. 8-10 year contract, and you have your great firstbasemen for the next 6 to seven years. If Cashman really wants to rebuild though, please don’t sign Pettite or Mussina. Also crazy as it sounds if your going to rebuild field offers for Rivera. Only has about two years left and with this team is transistion trade him to a contender(Dodgers) and get some more young players.
2 yankeemza781 // Oct 7, 2008 at 1:20 pm
As a Boston Bruin fan I hated to see Ray Bourque go. But they gave him a chance to win a championship. I know Rivera has rings, but give him a chance somewhere else. The hard truth is this team if Cashman stays the course is three years off of contention. Boston is a team to emulate, Great defense, Gold glove first/third baseman. Best secondbasemen in the league, great center fielder, best closer in the league. Oh yeah and the fact they have THREE ACES IN THEIR STAFF. Not even counting Bucholtz, Bowden, and Masterson.
3 Mike Sommer // Oct 7, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Can’t see them ever getting rid of Mo. Yes, emulate Boston, and you get back with pitching, pitching and more pitching.
4 yankeemza781 // Oct 7, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Trade Rivera for young pitching and make Joba the closer. Younger and cheaper, right. fiften million off the payroll. If you truly want to rebuild they need to stop being sentimental and move on. Rivera now and Jeter in two years.
5 Mike Sommer // Oct 7, 2008 at 5:21 pm
You know as well as I do that it’s not happening.
6 Mike Sommer // Oct 7, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I should add something:
From NoMaas.org:
10.01.2008 Overprotective no more
From Newsday’s Kat O’Brien:
As some of you noted, Brian Cashman said on WFAN that they plan for Joba Chamberlain to be a starter all next season. He confirmed that to me in an email. (Source)
7 yankeemza781 // Oct 7, 2008 at 6:19 pm
So all that gets changed is starting pitching. But probably no C.C. You have only two position players on the roster with any upside (Gardner and Cano). Pitching, pitching and more pitching which we don’t have. How about defense, defense, defense. Bring back the slow, overrated, Giambi. and you have the worst infield in your division. and with an outfield of Nady, Gardner, Damon or Matsui OF not looking good either
8 Nick.K // Oct 7, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Its not about being sentimental Mo is the closer because he is still one of the best at what he does. If Mo struggled to get any saves or had a poor era you would have a point but hes been great. You cant just trade all your old players for young ones and be done with it. I would rather quality then youth.
As for Boston they finishing third like us this year 3 years ago and started to re build then thats what we need to do it takes time. Next year Cano hopefully is back to his old self, Hughes could come through, Joba will be a star and maybe even Austin Jackson might be in the team.
9 Jason // Oct 7, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I’m wary of the price Teixeira will command too, Mike. At least he’s a two-way first baseman, unlike Giambi, but it would take a big name such as Teixeira to replace Giambi’s power productivity. I still doubt that the Angels will let him go, especially with so many others they might let go (such as Anderson) and what they gave up for him. Then again, after the win-now move failed, the Angels might not feel Teixeira’s so central to their plans. No doubt, Mike, why the hell couldn’t the Yankees get the weak-in-the-playoffs Angels, just for one year? Damn. Good point about Matsuzaka too, Mike. He walks a lot of guys and pitched himself into lots of trouble, but pitched himself out of it a lot as well. His 2008 is nothing to complain about, that’s for sure.
Mariano was 6-5 with a 1.40 ERA, 77 K/6 BB ratio, .665 WHIP, blew all of one save opportunity out of 40 in 2008, pitching all year with a calcified knot protruding in his shoulder. Getting rid of Mariano, the greatest closer of all time, the greatest relief pitcher and one of the greatest pitchers I’ve ever seen, for any reason, is to me akin to trying to remedy a hairline fracture of the cheek with several sledgehammer blows. Mariano goes nowhere. There’s no one in baseball who would improve upon him. Period.
I’ll raise a pint glass to your hopes for next year, Nick.
Here’s a good memory to hold on to for a while, people: July 25, 2008, Joba out-duels Beckett 1-0, 7 IP, 3 H, 0 runs, 1 BB, 9 K. Joba as a starter is just fine with me.
10 Jason // Oct 7, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Oh yeah, I forgot to congratulate you on your Steelers, Mike. It’s pretty impressive to see them pull out a win on the road against a physical Jacksonville team, both riddled with injuries. I told Frank the Sage after Brady went down that the Steelers were the team to beat in the AFC, and might have been anyway. Considering their injuries to RB (including Illinois product Mendenhall), NT, and elsewhere including a banged-up Roethlisberger, that the Steelers are playing as well as they are is very impressive. Wait until they get healthy.
What impresses me most, and in the era of the West-Coast Offense fetish doesn’t get discussed enough, is the philosophy the Steelers proffer–balance on offense, physical with speed on defense. They’ve built around that quite successfully for years, and it’s fair to say that the Steelers have offensive and defensive systems not unlike the prolonged success the 49ers’ own systems had in the 1980s–and I meant the plural for them, too. The 49ers’ defense often gets overlooked during those great years. Enjoy it, Mike.
11 yankeemza781 // Oct 7, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Great game. Joba is the Yankees version of Beckett. The reason I said trade Rivera is because he was great last year. If he sucked last year you wouldn’t be able to trade him. Hypothetical, but if you sent him Cano and lower level prospects to the Dodgers for Matt Kemp and Broxton. Then sign Orlando Hudson. Is the team really worse off? a trade like that sheds payroll and makes you younger isn’t that the Cashman mission statement? Always sell high, can’t trade what nobody wants.
12 yankeemza781 // Oct 7, 2008 at 8:05 pm
On the Steelers if the O-line can keep Roethlisberger alive. The Pitt line is rough shape, and watching the Philly game you have to be concerned for Ben, with a bad shoulder already
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