The Week Ahead - Yankees Starting Pitching Edition

You actually want him on the team?

You’ve forced my hand.

That’d be my guess

Personally, I’ve grown tired of constantly discussing C.J. Wilson and Yu Darvish as the only logical options for the Yankees.

I can assure you Wilson will not be among my posts.

Baby steps!

if the Yankees didn’t at least offer Freddy a decent contract.

Not a bad thing, during the offseason.

use proper punctuation and actual words, with caps when called for, instead of numbers. Not to be a rude internet guy, but I couldn’t continue reading this after a few sentences.

I like what you said here. I hear all the talk about; do we trade montero, do we try & get felix or lincecum? Let’s face it, 4 guys making over 20 mil, 2 more going to real soon. so, i’d say, forget about 1 of them. Now, whether to deal Montero or not, i’ll get back to that. but, looking at free agents, i go after 2, maybe a 3rd as a "we could luck out" type.

The 2 i go after are maholm & buerhle. I get tempted with livan though, if for nothing else, i get a feeling about him in postseason. but maholm is still pretty young, could have another 8-10 strong years in him. & i dont know, just say, theres something i like about him. i put him in a category like bulldog, as i do with buerhle. neither is particularly spectacular, neither are big strikeout guys, they just do what they have to to win. & isnt that what its about?

Now, combined, i dont think you’ll hit 20 mil in annual salary, to boot, which would make yankee suits feel good. now, im hearing they want to try & bring garcia back. fine, sounds good. but id love to see them sign 1 or the other, harden or webb. may have to wait til mid season or so for either, but hey, if they make it back, even 75%, & you can get 4, 5 years out of them, pitching for yankees, you’re looking at 2 potential 20 game winners, each year! id say thats worth the risk. & what will it really cost but incentive laden contracts?

Another guy that gets my attention is Harang. Heres another guy, pitching for not very good teams basically his whole career, & he wins. Now, theres another interesting risk out there for the bullpen. again, if he’s 75% of what he was, joel zumaya, then what, he’s throwing mid 90’s? I think he’s worth an incentive laden contract also.

Now, having said all this, granted, he almost saved our season in game 4, but, i think its time to cut our losses & just get rid of burnett.

Hey, maybe cubs will take him, rejoin dempster there, & get rid of sorianos contract to us. now, theres a guy id love to see pinch-hitting in post season. but, i dont want to see him in spring training. you got rid of 1 headcase in farnsworth, now get rid of the other.

Ok, that covers pitching. now, a couple more for offensive side. theres 2 guys who, well, they’ll both play parts in re-shaping yankee of. the 1st, Id love to get sizemore. guys been hurt last 2 years, but i dont think he’s done. besides, he wouldnt be in of every day. what more perfect guy to spell all 3 in of, & occasionally dh?

Besides, i still think, even with busted knee, defensively, you dont lose instinctive ability, & hes always had that. the other is someone who will make the left side of if younger & put a true leadoff guy to hit in front of jeter, who i still say, is 1 of the best #2 hitters of all time. not bad as a leadoff, but just 1 of the great 2 hole players ever. so, get him ready for lf, & go sign jose reyes.

Yes, i know, he’s going to cost around 15 mil a year, but hey, for a guy like him, i think you make an exception. 1 other reason why, i love the yankees track record of picking up ex-mets. i mean, gooden & cone, strawberry, ventura, theres a couple others i cant think of. & besides, you dont think jeter & co wont get his head on straight? if gardner stays, just think about, from 9 through top of gardner, reyes, jeter & either cano, or granderson! so, those are my free agent moves.

Now, im tired of our lack of post season succes over last 10 years. yeah, we shouldve won the luis gonzales pop fly to ss in 2001, & we won in 2009. but, WERE THE YANKEES! to think, boston & st louis have 2 during this span, ozzies white sox, the marlins, theyve won as many as we have. so yes, i miss the late 90’s, when teams feared us! off the bench, bats like straw & fielder, brossius, even our skipper girardi. our bullpen was 2nd to none! our starters were good. not great, but they went out & got the job done. we had a lieup, from top to bottom, that scared the daylights out of opposing pitchers, & their managers! i want to get back there. soriano, id love to get him. sizemore would be a 4th of on this team, so, can you get better than him from bench? or pinch runner? now, lets say we sign both mahom & buerhle. we’d have cc, hughes, maholm & buerhle. we have nova around too. then theres the other 2, webb & harden.

 but still, just in case, how about a deal of something like; greg golson, boone logan & cory wade for john danks & chris sale from white sox? of course, only worry there is, they may want us to take dunn of their hands. but both these guys are under 30, i dont know if sale’s 25 yet. then, theres another interesting guy to try & get. & just think, if he gets himself straight. how about sending noesi & cito culver, our supposed ss of future, for edinson volquez from reds? theres a guy, picture him, (without all that hair though) in a yankee uniform, possibly the next yankee to throw a no hitter! i definitely like our chances there.

You know what makes being a yankee so great? to think of who you have to call on for help: whitey, guidry, yogi, reggie, maybe rickey & winfield. then, theres pettitte & bernie, o’neill, hell, im sure you call roger, he’ll be there. so, is there any reason to think these guys cant come in & learn from guys you HAVE to listen too? its why i call them 2 headcases, burnett & farnsworth.

Now, theres 1 more possible trade option that actually comes with 2 scenarios. id make same offer of same 4 guys for the other 2. 1 involves lincecums team, the giants. not lincecum, but cain, along with huff who they’ll want to get rid of his contract. see if theyll go for gardner, pena & 2 of our best farm arms, betances & warren. now, at same time, off fer the same 4 to arizona. im infatuated as hell with what justin upton can do for yankees. & give us a guy to not just bolster our relief staff, but make it simply the best. upton & jj putz for same 4. & see who wants it more. yes, i understand, were going to lose 2 solid starters, that MAY make it in bigs. but, if you can get either cain or upton for them, i say you have to go for it. now, if its a guy like either of them, i may think of putting montero in deal. but i look at it in 2 ways. 1, were reasonably set at catcher for next couple years with martin. 1 thing i wouldnt want to see, because nyers & its media can be real rough is, in a playoff game, he makes some dumb mistake that costs us a game, or more. it could destroy him. but, at same time, hes too good a bat to keep on the bench.

The 2nd is, i personally happen to like gary sanchez just a little more. heres a guy, from what i see, will be an excellent offensive, & defensive catcher. so, would i trade montero? if deal is right, ( ive actually heard kershaw & hamels names, along with felix & lincecum) yes, id trade him. but, not for a starter, unless it is for 1 of those top 1`s.i would put him in upton deal, if i must, or someone along those lines. so, yes, this is a dream, but, if you look at it, how doable are doing these things? very! i wish there was another paul o’neill out there, but there isnt. i like swisher, but to me, rf is a position of pride on yankees. i want not just a good, solid guy, whos "improving defensively", but a guy we can put on that wall to go with the ruths, henrich’s, winfields & reggies, & of course, o’neill. i believe upton can fit there nicely. hey, of of jeter/sizemore, granderson & upton looks real good, doesnt it! now, put if of tex, cano, reyes & arod with that. relievers: mo, robertson, zumaya, putz, sale & noesi. starters: cc, maholm, volquez, hughes & buerhle (unless cain deal goes through). & sitting in reserve, webb & harden, with still a couple strong starters in aaa, backups like soriano, sizemore, nunez, curtis.

I wouldve loved to have signed thome, but phils beat us to it. id love to get beltran too, but, realistically, for his contract size, not reasonable. but, all these other moves i talked about here, yes, its a stretch, its a dream. but, its also very doable, isnt it! & as i said, i want to return to those glory days when, wherever we went, everyone dreaded us. i still remember 98 series, how in awe that whole padre team looked. they were beaten before the anthem was played! i want jeter to get to 9 rings. not 10, yogi still deserves to have the most. but i want another run like we had, when nobody all year long, even in winter, got talked about all the time! so, heres hoping brians reading this.

Couldn’t fix it all, but this is the best I could do.

You’re still going to get blasted.

Longest comment ever?

I honestly tried, and could not keep reading. If you want to reformat that with proper sentence structure, paragraphs, and punctuation, and make it into a FanPost, I’m sure you’ll get a lot more response.