Although I was only able to catch the first 3 innings of last nights allstar game because I was catching a flight from DFW to EWR, I had a few epiphanies while sitting in the airport sportsbar that I feel must be shared:
1. Great pitching really does shut down great hitting
2. The Yankees must sign Sheets and/or Sabathia, whichever one the Brewers can not afford to sign.
3. Top priority number 2 of the off-season should be signing Texeira (behind signing the fallen Brewers).
Evident by last night's all-star game, there is no greater asset to a team then great pitching; after all great pitching wins championships right? In 30 total innings pitched, the all-star pitchers held the hitters to 6 earned runs, and 1 of those six runs were given up by billy wagner who is awful in situations that are actually important! By following point #2 in the off-season, the yankees would have a rotation that would sport: Wang and his strike-out badass self, Ben Sheets who made AL hitters look stupid last night, Joba the ace in training, Pettite the reliable vet and TRUE YANKEE, and Philip J. Hughes the prospect who inexplicably has lost favour in the eyes of many yankee fans dispite being just 21 and being ranked THE TOP PITCHING PROSPECT IN ALL OF BASEBALL (I didn't count matsuzaka as a prospect that year) when he was just 20 years of age and the last year he was eligible to be considered a prospect. To all of you downers on Phil Hughes I say go hump a tree this guy is the real deal just give him a little time! That rotation has the ability to win 85 games just between the starters!!! Having Phillip J. Hughes as your 5th starter??? not normal.
Second objective of the utmost priority in the off-season is to sign Mark Texeira. That gives the Yanks another masher from the right side, an all-star studded infield, and a class act that is a switch hitter. This platoon garbage @ 1B has gone on long enough (almost every year Giambi has been with the team) and must come to an end. This will let Matsui be the everyday DH and we can have some stability in the lineup for a welcomed change. I must add again how important it is to having him able to bat righty so its not just A-rod, Posada, and Jeter playing when opponents throw out a LHP.
After signing one or both of Milwaukee's aces, we won't really need most of the plethora of SP prospect that we have just dwelling in the minors. Take a bunch of decent-above avg arms (Listed in order of who I would like to jettison: Kennedy, Marquez, Horne, McCutchen, McAllister, Brackman, Betances) and trade it in for an above avg outfield prospect THAT CAN ACTUALLY HIT A BASEBALL. We already have 5 amazing starters in our hypothetical rotation so we can afford to give up a few arms for the cause to add QUALITY youth to the lineup. Who to trade for? Honestly, I don't know other teams prospects but I know its much harder to come by quality pitchers then hitters so it shouldn't be so hard to make a deal. To give a little more of a picture, I am thinking like a Garza for Delmon Young type of deal that went down last summer, except we would probably have to give up more then one pitcher.
THE BULLPEN IS AMAZING AND ONLY STANDS TO GET BETTER. Within the next year the yanks should be adding Melancon, Cox, Sanchez, and Bruney to an already stacked bullpen. Life is good when you have a lead after 6 innings again...
Stop the Melky mistake and let Abreu go. With damon in LF, our newly aquired OF talent through a trade, and Gardner/Christian holding down fort until Ajax is ready for a ML call up (which Keith Law believes could be as soon as the middle of '09) we now have an above avg. outfield!
The beauty of this plan is not only does it make the yanks younger and better, but they are feasable goals and don't require to much work to get done. If you disagree with any of the ideas above you can comment in the comment box or just throw your opinions in the garbage, whichever is easiest for you.
P.S. --> Yes I did say we should trade some prospects because the sign of a good organization is its ability to use their farm system to improve the big league club. Sometimes this means using the prospect to fill the holes in the majors and sometimes it means pawning off those prospects that are deemed "expendable" to fill a larger hole on the big league team.
-The Ghost of SAMIAM
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Great post once again the ghost of samIamNOT.......I would like to throw out one more thing....all these people crying that this is the last year in Yankee stadium and we shouldn't tear it down because of the memories of the stadium and its importance and what it means to everyone umm I think it is a stadium not a person jeez I have a better idea lets win some championships in our newer better stadium and then guess what we will have memories here but now in a nicer place....... we live in America where everyone wants the better car the bigger house, why should our stadium be any different, a newer more comfortable stadium with a PARKING LOT screams upgrade
WOW!! WISHFUL THINKING? i never read a comment more full of garbage and wishful thinking in my life
before you know it the blog name will be the ghost of sam sports blog. Another great blog man. i digested everything you wrote and it was well thought out. There are 3 problems.
Between cashman probably being the worst GM in baseball, the yankees clearly being money conscios ( that is one of the reasons johan is cross town) and george Stienbrener looking terrible. if you saw him by the all star game he looked really bad. i dont think he can say over the yankee line up. Believe me if he was half of his regular self johan would be a yankee and all yankee fans wouldnt be cursing kennedy and melky. they would be laghing at the twins for taking them off the yankees hands.
i have a lot more to say but i will chime in again a bit later.
Last thing ghost man we missed you tuesday nights game. Sabon was really pissed you werent there.
The ghost says business first to sabon...
In regards to all your comments, I humbly don't believe that Hal can hold off Hank in regards to free agency, thus making some of this post possible... I can imagine Hal having being able to coerce Hank into not dealing the kids because then he would be paying double for every player (in prospects and in cash) and Hank def saw the ramifications of his fathers long list of prospects traded for old washed up merchandise. BUT if Hank only has to pay cash money, I believe he has learnt from THE GREATEST OWNER OF ALL TIME that money should not get in the way of championships.
Time will tell if my assumptions are correct but I hope my stance is a little clearer to all of you now...
O, and to Mr. Anonymous...the only problem I have with closing this stadium is Jeter may not be able to break the record for most hits in the stadium before the seasons end and that is the only travesty (in my opinion).
They say the new stadium is gonna be more original than the current one so I've gotten over the move at this point
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