Comments on: Yanks could aim Lowe in 2009

By: Glen L

Glen L — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:58:33 +0000

I do not want Burnett at all … if we’re going to sign a guy that can’t stay healthy, I’d rather have Ben Sheets

By: Glen L

Glen L — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:57:18 +0000

Oliver will require a big, long deal - Boras client and i believe he’s only 27

great stuff, but i live with 2 mets fans (and have Ollie on my NL-only fantasy team) so i see him pitch all the time

last night excluded, most nights Ollie can trot no-hit stuff out there … of course on those nights he can also walk 8 guys

for what will probably be a difference of 5mm/year i’ll take CC

By: Glen L

Glen L — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:53:00 +0000

These are the same people who would have pegged Santana as a career middle reliever in 2000 (his age 21 season)

By: Glen L

Glen L — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:49:53 +0000

That is a ridiculous statement … talent evaluators are going to judge each talent on that individual’s merits .. Hughes’ success or failure has nothing to do with assessing the rest of the members of the farm system

By: Rob_in_CT

Rob_in_CT — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:44:44 +0000

I’m down with going hard after CC. Burnett cannot stay healthy. He’s really good, but he’s always hurt. If CC’s unavailable for whatever reason, ok.

I don’t know if Pettitte will retire. He’s said things to indicate he wants to pitch in the new stadium. If he sucks this year, I could see him hanging them up, but if he’s solid again, I think he will be back. Moose will ride of into the sunset.

No to an old Derek Lowe. He was decent in the AL East a long time ago, and has since been pitching in the NL West… that has disaster written all over it. When he struggles he acts a lot like Jeff Weaver on the mound. It was a problem in Boston. It would be a bigger problem in NY.

By: Adrian-Retire21

Adrian-Retire21 — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:25:25 +0000

The Yankees are gonna be in the same place as next year with the rotation.Pettitte might retire and now that Hughes is hurt he and Joba aren’t gonna pitch more then 160 innings next year.

Pettitte gonna retire and we should trade Kennedy.THen get CC and A.J. Burnett (when he opts out).That will let us have Hughes and Joba take there time to pitch better then become aces.That will keep us from hurting the season with young pitchers.

By: A.D.

A.D. — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:56:01 +0000

There is no reason to sign derek lowe period, he’s not that great in the NL, he will immedialty become worse in the AL then multiply that by the NY factor, it will be a train wreck, he’d have an era in the high 4’s at best, Rasner has far better upside (and a much smaller paycheck than Lowe)

Right now the free agent pitching market is spiraling out of control, you can only over pay, and with the history of busts (or relative busts) in bringing in new pitching they might as well save the cash and sign under the radar free agents, or stay within.

IF the yankees sign a big free agent this winter it should be Mark Texiera, he fulfills an unmet need, and outside of a few sleepers, or position changes, we have essentially no 1B prostpects (and they could always DH).

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:09:14 +0000

Just what we need, another 35 year old whose best days are behind him that we can give a huge contract to and not be able to get rid of.

Masserotti is a good writer, but there’s a fundamental flaw in his theory. IF the Yanks want him so bad, why didn’t they sign him 4 years ago? You know George LOVED to stick it to the BoSox, now he’s 4 years removed and the sting is removed.

I think this is just a typical Boston sportswriter seeing Yankee pinstripes under every rock. Get help, people. “Paranoia may destroy ya” as the old song goes.

By: Double-J

Double-J — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:16:50 +0000

I want Sabathia, but I wouldn’t mind Lowe either. He was one of the few guys on the Sox the past few years who I genuinely liked and I think he’d be a good addition to the team.

If we’re staring down a team next year sans Pettitte and Mussina, with the three kids in the rotation, I’d like to go to battle with at least one of the two (Sabathia or Lowe) so that Wang won’t have to do it alone as the sole vet. But Sabathia would be my big target this offseason, yes, go after him like white on rice.

By: JT

JT — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:39:47 +0000

man some of these comments are utterly ridiculous… you can’t regard hughes as a #5 pitcher after a slow april. If some people had their way, instead of being patient we whould’ve traded melky, a “5th outfielder at best”, for gagne…

And maybe when Cashman leaves at the end of the year, we should go after Steve pretty boy philips.