Edes: Yanks scouting Pedro
ByPedro Martinez, after a strong showing for the Dominican team in the WBC, remains a free agent this year. He’s no longer the Pedro of the late 1990s, but to me, he seemed to be throwing free and easy against the international competition. Meanwhile, as the spring has stretched onto summer, Pedro is holding auditions in the DR. According to Gordon Edes, Yankee scouts will watch Pedro throw on Friday.
This is definitely interesting and intriguing news. As Edes notes, the Yankees are concerned with their pitching depth in light of an ineffective Chien-Ming Wang, and Pedro would help them shore up that hole. With Brian Bruney back and Phil Hughes providing some solid pen work for now, the team’s bullpen presents fewer concerns than it did a few weeks ago. So Pedro would be something of a luxury. While I pondered Pedro in January, I can’t see the team really finding a place for him. He won’t be guaranteed a role, and it’s doubtful whether he could still succeed in the AL East. It never hurts to kick the tires though.
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Ugh. No.
he can’t be worse than Tomko. Give him a bullpen role
Agreed
Maybe he can be our Brad Penny and we can trade him for prospects if he pitches well and we do not need in the playoff race to a team that needs a starter for the stretch. (this is IF we sign him)
Yeah let’s trade him for a Justin Smoak like player
Wish we had Smoltz pitching in AA right now. Where’d he go again?
Why would he sign with us given he would’ve had a small chance for pitching for us in the beginning?
He was being sarcastic. ESPN slobbed Boston’s knob for the signing and smoltz hasn’t done sheet since signing.
Was he really? Doesn’t seem like it. Damn…Sarcasm Meter EPIC FAIL
Hahah at least I hope so, you never know. I guess thats a big ol fail on my part for thinking he was being sarcastic. Lets just pretend this never happened.
No deal. Im going to use this fail (if it was) against you for the rest of your life and make you have nightmares about it by bringing it up everytime you posy.
Just kidding…I agree.
*post not posy
Maybe sir reginald will come regale us with his true intent.
It never hurts to kick the tires though.
+45
I don’t think Pedro represents a significant downgrade from anyone.
Yikes, we should be scouting international prospects, not a washed up 37 year old. Pedro does not fit at all, and he probably wouldn’t accept a bullpen role, plus our bullpen is getting much better anyway.
Just because the Yankees are scouting Pedro doesn’t mean they’re not scouting IFAs.
Don’t you remember anything from this past winter??
The Yankees could only talk to one free agent at a time, clearly the same principle applies to scouting1
i know, i’m just saying
Boggs coming over was fine. Clemens becoming a Yankee I could live with. Pedro wearing the pinstripes? I don’t think so…the memories of that prick wearing the Boston red is too recent and painful to remember!
He wants to come home to his daddy.
+A lot
IETC
Too recent? He hasn’t been on Boston since the Year That Shall Not Be Named. That was half a decade ago.
Don Zimmer says hello promises to be available for his first game if he signs!
+1
Eh, its washed over with that clownish blue/orange in my mind.
so the game is not happenin at all, right?
They still say it might. I’m highly skeptical.
I hope it does. I dont want it to be a burden in the playoff race, taking yet another off-day from us.
tarp will come off in ten minutes. That’s my guess.
i was off by 15 minutes.
Why did the Yanks keep Hughes for instead of getting Santana? Start the kid already and stop sniffing around old has-beens.
lol, Pedro Martinez would have NO effect on Phil Hughes starting.
How so? If Pedro is in the rotation, Hughes is still in the pen/Scranton Wilkes-Barre.
I don’t think they’re looking at Pedro for bullpen help and I believe Pedro wants to start.
We don’t need a starter. They are going to watch him pitch. nothing has happened. Nothing probably will happen. Pedro Martinez will not start over phil.
Me thinks the Yanks are in D.R. to see how much that Sano kid is gonna cost em.
I vaguely remember something in the Torre/Verducci book that many Yankees were outspokenly against signing Pedro the last time he was a free agent. I would assume those Yankees were namely Posada, and probably Jeter too. I wonder how this Yankee team would respond to adding Pedro. I have a feeling Jorge and Pedro might still have some issues, to put it lightly.
Cervelli will definitely catch Pedro IF we sign him.
Uh Why? Casey Fossum is a younger pitcher in AAA who is light years better than a washed up Pedro…hell Wang is better than a washed up pedro. This team NEEDS BATS NOT ARMS see the game last night if you need any more proof!
lol, this is one of the dumber things I’ve read in a while. How exactly does the team “NEED BATS”?
The needing bats thing will go away when A-rod starts hitting.
I can’t see it happening, but I would get a little joy from seeing Pedro in pinstripes, even once.
Pedro Martinez was my most HATED red Sox. More than Manny , Poppi ….
I hated poppi and manny cuz they just always seamed to beet us . But Pedro actually threw at us and almost broke jeters hands on his high and tight pitch about a dozen times…I HATED PEDRO .
If the yanx kick the tires on this one I will throw up in my mouth …..
if he signs id say for sure posada wouldnt be his catcher….let the posada to DH debate continue
It makes business sense to sign Pedro Martinez…ALL the Dominicans who adore him will pack the stadium and he will sell lots of Jerseys…Hard to predict how much that sum will amount to versus a contract, but the investment/profit ratio would not be bad.
Plus, if anything…he’s rested.
Pedro is better than Wang.
I’m sorry… I am always all for trying to make a team better, but in this case, based on my strong hatred of Pedro Martinez, I don’t ever want to see him stain a Yankee uniform. I just can’t stand the guy. If he ever was signed by the Yankees, I would turn the TV off every time he came out to pitch. All I can think about is all the stuff that went on between the Red Sox and Yankees during the times he pitched.
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