When I heard that last night, I thought that Sheets value will be diminshed gretaly in the free agent market. He was not gonna get money like CC and AJ, but now he could probably be gotten for a song.

Ben Sheets got hurt last night. Big shocker. Let’s put this topic to bed now.

Strike out Pitcher
Poor enough of a history to come a little cheaper
Strong 2 years in a row – and improvement
Stuff compared to Randy Johnson
Lights out against good teams
Minimal injury risk
Young (27 years old – will be 28 next August)
Lefty

Sounds like the Yankees need to sign Oliver Perez

If you can’t beat him … buy him!

That gave me my laughs for the week. Who’s that? cashman???
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I suppose we’ll see then won’t we?

“I wouldn’t sign Sheets, CC OR burnett. I would sign Lowe, and I would give Andy another year.”

That gave me my laughs for the week. Who’s that? cashman???

They need to sign 2 out of 3 of those guys.

You would keep andy but let moose go? Awesome thinking. Haven’t you seen the giant fork sticking out of Andy’s back lately?
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Moose will return to Earth next year if he’s on this team, you can quote me on that. Andy, when healthy is a horse, and a clubhouse leader. And besides that, even right now, if the yanks were in the playoffs, do you put Moose or Andy on the mound? I know I’ve seen Moose blow too many playoff games to give him the nod…

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His average fastball is 92MPH, which is league average. (That’s via The Hardball Times).

And I’m not sure how him having a 12-6 curve helps support the idea he’s a power pitcher.
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hmm fastball in low 90s, power 12-6 curve…I think Steve wants us to trade for Phil Hughes!

Once Was, I like the Clemens move AND the Hughes move. Those are steps in the right direction! After tonight, Hughesy might not even be worth one roisin bag let alone a box. Giambi could be a better fit for Toronto or another team looking for power to come off the bench. The first move that I would make as Boston GM is/was to trade Manny( done). Look at how well that trade worked, that was a great surprise for the La Dodgers of Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles County California and the Red Pox. Trade Tek with Pauley, Masterson, Pedroia, AND Youk back to Seattle for Bedard, Silva, Betancourt and a bag of balls. Them I would fire Lucchino, tell Henry to shut up, yell at Tito for being a dope( don’t you get the feeling that they actually win in spite of him sometimes) and hire Cashman as my super scout on pitching and JP Ricciardi as my “Gene Michael” on hitting. Butch’s version of the Red Sox…..done for the rest of the century! No more Tankees and the Yankees come back.

Oh more more thing, I need to get Friedman out of Tampa and back on Wall Street to save Lehman Bros and Merrill Lynch. I would lobby Bud to make him change the name back to the Devil Rays, that name just sounds cooler.

I don’t know Butchie, my first acts as GM would probably be:

5 years/100 million for Giambi
Clemens as pitching coach
Trade Hughes to the Cubs for a box of rosin bags

Once was and dgreen nice calls on Burnett. Burnett can pitch in the AL East and that is very important ,ironically that is one reason why Ricciardi wants him back and supposedly Burnett likes it there. In addition, Burnett is better cast to the Jays than the Yanks. They have a ton of pitching in their system where they can bring up a Cecil, Richmond or a stretched reliever like Tallet and Accardo and take that blow, but not the Yanks.Ricciardi has done a bad job with the position players the last few years but he is a pitching savant. Cashman on the other hand has 110 mill more to play with payroll wise, god knows how much bonus wise for drafting and look at the results. Right now they are tied!

Sheets? Burnett is a better choice for several different reasons. He pitches well against Boston, we know that he can pitch in pressure situations(big games), and when he actually had an incentive (his contract year) he has been injuryless so to speak. After that, Sheets is simply an unknown in the AL. IF Burnett is a more reliable Pavano THEN Sheets will be the second coming of Pavano. Of those two pitchers, Burnett is the better call BUT Lowe and Garland are better bets in terms of durability. Once I was has a good vision for the Yankee pitching staff, maybe you could come back into the fold and become Yankee GM? Look JP Ricciardi is a diehard Red Sox fan , worked for Oakland AND has been Toronto GM for 7 years. Stranger things have happened……

If the Yanks can’t get CC then they will go after Sheets or Burnett and will be treated to one unknown quantity in the AL(Sheets) and one who pitches like Halladay Jr(AJ) but is injury prone. Supposedly CC doesn’t want to come to the Yanks, let’s wait and see about that one. Frank McCourt can’t even afford to pay Manny, so how is he gonna afford CC out in LA. I really don’t think any other team will pay him the 22 mill a year he wants. That is if St Louis goes for the gold and spends the money.

Corey, you are only as good as your last movie. Yeah Mussina had an off year last year, but they made the playoffs last year. Things are more desperate this year.Between Andy and Moose , Moose has to come back. He made the adjustments and has pitched so well this year that he is the Yankee MVP this year.