Blue Jays dugout is on the 3B side

-At Yankee stadium the away team is down the 3rd base line so that’d be my best guess.

Well, I am getting ansy I guess. I know the conclusion is going to happen very soon and I am hoping we get him. Yes, I too do not want Phil to be traded, but I won’t lose sleep if he is replaced by Santana.

Rebecca:

I assume you mean “the big three” when you say “you talent”. There is a real need to trade in baseball, and it yes it is a gamble. But holding on to all young talent and no making any trades for proven players is about as bad if not worse than trading away all your young talent for proven starts. Balance is key here.

Let me reiterate, I believe we NEED Santana. We may not need him as bad as we did at the beginning of last year, but we still NEED him pretty bad. Considering innings of the youngsters and a less-than-proven bullpen. It just might take this year of not having Santana for those on this blog to realize that we REALLY did NEED him. Let’s not forget the Tigers, adding Miggy and D-Train gives them very good odds to with the division and if not the Wild Card.

I’m just saying, I am still hoping Johan will be in our rotation, if not it will still be a fun and exciting season and I won’t count us out, but I won’t be as optimistic without him.

I noticed your post was an edited version from your blog, not sure of the relevance here about Santana bashing. The opinion that Rebecca mentioned has been echoed here for a long time now.

I have no opposition to Santana being on the team.

I have an opposition to trading away the young talent to get him.

Cashman took a few jabs at Bernie Williams, the popular Yankee whose exit from the team was not on friendly terms. Cashman said that Williams was terrible in 2005, but that he brought Williams back as a farewell in 2006. After Williams had a solid year, he wanted to return for 2007. But Cashman did not sign Williams. Cashman said that Williams’s music career “took away from his play.” Interestingly, Cashman said that Joe Torre, who was then the manager, looked for ways to play Williams in 2006 “ahead of guys who could help us win,” so Cashman did not want that to happen in 2007.
Cashman got rid of Bernie rather than telling Joe how to manage his squad. That strikes me as the right thing to do as a GM. The manager is supposed to control the action on the field. If he’s doing the wrong thing, either fire the manager or take away the player. (I think you saw the same thing with Miguel Cairo last season.) As Torre goes to the Dodgers, I wonder how much playing Bernie was loyalty to Williams or a desire to play veterans. Los Angeles fans should hope it’s the former.