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Someone in Toronto has big balls…..
Jul 28th
Apperantly the Toronto Blue Jays have told teams they won’t trade middle reliever Scott Downs unless they are blown away with an offer.
Whoever is GM of this franchise has real balls to seriously ask the Yanks for top prospect Jesus Montero for Downs!
Apparently he thinks Omar Minaya is GM’ing the Yanks. Yeah this makes a lot of sense, Montero was the main piece in a deal to bring Cliff Lee to Bronxtown and now that that deal fell through, why the hell wouldn’t the Yanks agree to trade him for a middle reliever!
Trade the best pitcher in baseball (Doc Halladay) for a crappy set of minor leaguers and ask the world for a crappy middle reliever. I guess GM’ing isnt for everyone.
Isiah Thomas just contacted the Blue Jays brass to give him some tips on how to successfully ruin a franchise this well since he never had the chutzpah to offer Eddie Curry for Pau Gasol.
Yankees might make Joba a reliever and Hughes the starter….
Feb 3rd
Joba will be having this perplexed look the entire 2010 season as well...
http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/article/2010-02-03/joba-hughes-could-switch-roles-for-yankees-2010
This really is going to be comical what the Yankees do now since they didn’t screw up Joba enough. After flipflopping him between Stud reliever to crappy starter back to reliever they have not tormented the youngster enough.
Hughes looked as good as any reliever last year and instead of just keeping him there and leaving Joba as the #5, Girardi has hinted at putting Hughes as the #5 and Joba the middle man.
The truth is it really makes no difference on the 2010 season since they have CC, AJ, Vazquez and Andy Pettitte, pretty sure if they resigned Hideki Irabu for the #5 they will fare well. But the Yankees seem to be doing everything in their power to make sure that both these youngsters appear on Dr.Phil at least 5 times to repair the mental anxiety issues the Yankees are imposing on them.
Just leave Hughes as the setup to one day take over Mariano and let Joba do his 5 inning magic as the #5 starter and if he really goes Ching Ming Wang on them and has a 10+ ERA they will make a trade for Tim Lincecum or any other starter they want by midseason….
King Felix signs extension with Mariners….
Jan 19th
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4837939
Now the Yankees will have to wait two years to get him after the Mariners will be unable to make payroll and sell him in a firesale….
