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