Yankee Thoughts

Great move today trading Kyle Farnsworth-less straight up for Pudge Rodriguez. they are trading a guy at his absolute peak value to fill a glaring hole in the line up. I can't believe they fooled Detroit into taking back Farnsworth-less for a 2nd stint. Even with as good as he has been over the past month he proved the other nite that he can't be trusted in high pressure situations and was prob at best the 4th but more likely the 5th or 6th best arm in the bullpen. The recent acquisition of Marte made him even more expendable then he was a week ago.This is a brilliant vintage Cashman move. I liken it to the 2000 season when the Yankees were rumored to be trying to acquire Sammy Sosa but instead traded for David Justice who propelled them to World Series Championship and winning the team MVP award despite only playing half a season with them. Before him there was Denny Neagle, who in half a season had they same type of t
impact. This is a great move for so many reasons. If Pudge dislocates his grundle boarding his NY bound plane and never plays one inning for the Yankees it would still be addition by subtraction. There is only 1 other scenario that could have happened to Farnsworth-less that i would have like better then the trade for Pudge. Do you remember, also in 2000, when the Yankees signed Jose Canseco just so Boston wouldn't? How great would it be if we convinced Boston to take Farnsworth-less from us for absolutely nothing at all, just so the Yankees could hit off him in high pressure situations, basically guaranteeing them the pennant. That would have been great.

Here is a trade i want to see happen, this is my own thought, not regurgitated from elsewhere. The Yankees should trade for Maddux. If we are resigned to using a soft throwing righty as our 5th starter we might as well have the best one of all time with oodles of playoff experience. I'm watching Sportscenter as i type this up and Buster Olney was just saying that he is likely to be traded to the Dodgers. That's an interdivision trade, the Yankees should swoop in and steal him away. SD would have to be grateful to clear his salary and would be willing to give him away and would rather not keep him in the same division