GatorGossage – we do the same with clothes, books, toys, etc. But, no one had the need, or they just didn’t want, the crib, etc.

baileywalk – Believe it or not, I don’t blame Cashman for this. He signed him for a one-year deal at reasonable money. This contract should be eat-able. Now, if he keeps him, because of the contract, and blocks a kid…that’s a different story…and he would deserve blame for that.

If he is blocking kids with better stuff then you just DFA him. There’s no market for bad middle relievers. The Sox got no takers on Tavarez who supposedly could provide a team a long man with experience. Hawkins is worse and no one wants to take on that money for a useless reliever.

We ended up giving a lot of our unneeded baby stuff to a friend. It ends up buying a lot of goodwill.

Just hang onto him? Why? They signed him with the idea that it would be painless to DFA him. You can’t let him have a negative impact on the team by coming in and being a POS. By keeping him, you deny a spot for a worthy prospect, David Robertson, who can have an immediate and long-term positive influence on the team. They should never have signed Hawkins and they should have made this move, to DFA him, a long time ago.

Steve, if you want a reason to bash Cashman, Hawkins is an easy place to go. Bash away — because he deserves it on this one.

Nothing wrong with trying to trade him. But if no one bites then just hang on and get a 3rd round supplemental pick for him when he leaves at the end of the year.

I would be quite surprised if Cashman were able to trade Hawkins, Unless it’s for something like “cash considerations.” As a GM, I would see the glut of middle relievers the Yanks have (Cox, Robertson, Patterson, Veras, Britton, Dorf, etc, etc, etc), and figure that it’s only a matter of time before someone (Hawkins?) would be DFA’d/released. So, I’d bide my time.