New York Yankees News: 11/8/2011

by Lord Duggan on Nov 8, 2011 6:00 AM EST in New York Yankees News

Mood Music - The Punk and The Godfather by The Who

To break up the flow of whatever debauchery you people get up to during the offseason, I spent upwards of seven minutes scouring the internet for New York Yankees related stories to keep you entertained. I found three:

MLB All Stars Sweep Taiwan Series
The winning battery was Jeremy Guthrie and Jeff Mathis, so the All Star label was clearly conceived by the marketing department in the hopes that Americans would be too distracted by football and that awful music you kids like. Robinson Cano hit a home run though, so there's that.

Scouting the Trade Market: Gio Gonzalez
Mike Axisa of River Ave Blues breaks down the pros and cons of trying to make a deal for Oakland A's starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez. It's tough to do too much speculation without a better idea of the cost of acquiring him and how inclined the A's are to move him, but I'm sure that Brian Cashman is kicking the tires on what starting pitching may be available.

Mark Teixeira Loves Patch
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We should have traded swisher

for sanchez and either went the sizemore or beltran route for a year.

by SLAUGHTERHOUSE on Nov 8, 2011 6:39 AM EST reply actions

No

Jesus!

by Xavier10 on Nov 8, 2011 6:54 AM EST up reply actions

hahahaha

Beltran for a year? yeah that will happen. Who takes over after that?

by jetanumba2 on Nov 8, 2011 9:01 AM EST up reply actions

the cuban guy

everyone acts like im saying trade a star. swisher hasnt been great when it matters. So i really dont get whats so funny.

by SLAUGHTERHOUSE on Nov 8, 2011 2:31 PM EST up reply actions

What's funny is, based on one article here, you're ready to swap in this unknown guy for Swisher

Has Swisher been that terrible, that this unknown prospect is automatically an upgrade?

It’s one thing when people say we need Darvish for our pitching situation. We all know we need pitching. Why do we need to get rid of Swisher for a possibly worse player?

by waw on Nov 8, 2011 2:35 PM EST up reply actions

because he's from Cuba and everyone needs a Cuban

by jetanumba2 on Nov 8, 2011 2:37 PM EST up reply actions

He was just a name i threw out there

obviously this isnt going to happen since he has been traded however if something similar pops up it wouldnt be hard to fill swishers shoes. We could get a willigham, beltran, or sizemore to play RF while we see if this guy developes and if he doesn’t we could easily find someone similar to a swisher in 2013.

Im not completely sold on this guy either.

by SLAUGHTERHOUSE on Nov 8, 2011 3:57 PM EST up reply actions

you can't make a decision based on such a small sample size

by your logic we should have a team full of Cody Ross and David Eckstein. that way they can suck all year long, people will complain about them not being able to handle new york and then, if we’re still lucky to even get into the playoffs, he can get his one big hit and it will somehow be worth it. We need to get to the playoffs before we can worry about who does and doesn’t hit there. Everyone just assumes we’re going to make the playoffs automatically just because we’re the Yankees, well be need good players to get there first. Swisher is a good player, Beltran is a MULTIYEAR DL waiting to happen. Also Sanchez sucks! He’s decent in the NL West, he’d get destroyed in the AL East

by jetanumba2 on Nov 8, 2011 2:36 PM EST up reply actions

That is not at all what i said

actually that wasnt even close to my point. I dont even get how you compare eckstein or ross to beltran who in a pitchers ballpark in SF hit over 300 with 7 HR in 40 games or sizemore who a few years back many considered the best CF in the game. Unlike in the NL he could be a DH 2 times a week which will save his legs and RF in our ballpark is nothing like CIti Field or RF in San Fran. The same applies to Sizemore because if he is taken out of CF and Playes Rf in the stadium it will also save his legs. When healthy, both of these players are better than swisher.

As for sanchez sucks, i dont buy that either he started the second game of the season for SF over Cain which tells you what they thought of hm. Yes he had a mediocre season but Larry got bartolo and garcia pitching well, he could do wonders with someone like sanchez who has very good stuff.

by SLAUGHTERHOUSE on Nov 8, 2011 4:05 PM EST up reply actions