I’m a convert in that I would like to see Joba stay in the pen and become the eventual successor to Mo.

I think as long as Pettitte is healthy he’s going to stay open the new Yankee Stadium. Pettitte is a veteran presence that the rotation would have plus he’s lefty and still a damn good #3.

I believe that if C.C. Sabathia reaches free agency that they Yankees are going to go after him hard because not only is he one of the better pitchers in thee game but he’s a lefty as well as still being young.

If this scenario pans out it the Yankees rotation would Sabathia, Wang, Pettitte, Hughes and Kennedy. Thats a pretty awesome rotation thats good and young and cheap. Wang for another season would be cheap and Hughes and Kennedy would be even cheaper. Sabathia and Pettitte would be getting the money but Pettitte won’t be around for much longer and when he comes off the books they promote from within and pay Wang.

The point is that if the Yankees can get Sabathia and have that rotation that I mentioned above then IMO the Yankees are better off with Joba and his nasty stuff in the bullpen. I think it’s the ideal scenario with the way the things are set up and all the quality pitching prospects that the Yankees have.

Can you imagine that rotation then to have to deal with the likes of young fireballers out of the pen with the likes of Ohlendorf, Sanchez, Melancon to then to have to face Joba and Mo?

Joba’s special but the Yankees have some other super awesome uber pitching talents as well that are going to be ready here in the near future and with a mostly young staff currently and with plenty of quality prospects blocked by the current rotation as well as the chance to get a young proven lefty in C.C. Sabathia then just isn’t room for everybody. Some of you will say convert some of the others to relievers and some most likely will like Humberto Sanchez but not everyone’s stuff translates to being a reliever. But we know that Joba’s does and that he’s extremely effective. We’ve been spoiled by Mo and I think some have forgotten how hard it is to find someone as dominate as Joba showed he was last season. I just think at this time with the starting pitching prospects that the Yankees have that at least one of them can perform close to the level of what Joba would give the Yankees as a starter rather than finding someone other than Joba thats got the makeup, moxy let alone the raw stuff of Joba to be Mo’s setupman and eventual closer.

“Even Steve Phillips, who regularly rubs me the wrong way on Baseball Tonight, seemed so happy to have baseball back that I couldn’t hold a grudge. Though I did scoff–out loud, just on general principle, even though no one was there to hear it–when he said of Matsuzaka, during his early struggles, “the look in his eyes for his last pitch was the best he’s had yet. He’s competing now, it looks like.” Really? Is that the same “look” you saw in the eyes of Mo Vaugh, Roberto Alomar, and Armando Benitez (twice)? Unfortunately for Mets fans, Scott Kazmir’s eyeballs apparently don’t convey that much competitiveness.”

LMAO.

Okay, guys. We get it. You don’t like Torre. But he can’t hurt you anymore since he’s now been the manager of the Dodgers for six months.

Get over it already and move on.

What a joke.

Hold on people. Isnt the Daily News the same publication that declared the Yankees dead on July 1 2007? So Im going to take their projection seriously?