http://www.nj.com/yankees/inde.....brenn.html

Casey Blake for 1B, role player, good glove, fundamentally sound.

Hughes for Kemp to be our CF. Jackson slides into left when Damon leaves. We have the most explosive young OF in baseball.

Rebuilding is complete.

HELL NO!

it’s a little hard to ignore 18-2 or whatever it is.

the point isn’t that the yanks should have sighed matsuzaka. the point is they they should have been signing someone besides just latroy hawkins last winter. and also the year before.

going in to default mode is what let the rays and red sox take over.

Ok, Melky took a huge step back, but seriously….he was never considered that good of player and he was never going to be the CF of the future. Cano had a terrible year, but he’s still a terrific talent. If you dangled him out there right now (but we agree that at this point, the Yankees are going to try and fix him), almost every team in baseball would be eager to grab him. Hughes was very bad in his few starts, but I think we agree he’s going to be very good. I think they rushed him last year, but really – his problems are health and mechanical issues. He’s going to be fine. Kennedy was definitely rushed- he zoomed through the minors so fast that he didn’t really learn about the art of pitching and three starts last September were not enough reason to give him a spot in the rotation (given that he has pretty ordinary stuff). I will grant you that I have no idea how good he is going to because he seems to have completely lost his command and his stuff has declined (or so it appears).

I guess my point is that just because the organization had a bad year, that is no reason to gut the franchise or completely change the way things are done. I definitely agree they have to put together a more well-balanced team (it helps that Giambi is gone and probably Abreu), although it’s going to be hard to truly change the makeup of the team as we still have vets like A-Rod, Jeter, Matsui and Posada. I think Jeter will bounce back and A-Rod will be fine, but Matsui – eh – and I’m worried about Posada. Rome wasn’t built in a day and the Yanks can not reconstruct their entire lineup in one off-season.

the red sox also developed young talent at the same time . they just didn’t bet the business on it. the yankees should of course invest heavily in the farm system too. also in minor league coaching because yankee position players come out of the minor league system and can’t play. players like gardner have to learn how to bunt at three in the afternoon in special bunting practice before night games.

that’s so bad it’s beyond belief.