Patrick – I don’t think I’d say Figgins sucks, but I can appreciate the spirit of what you are saying.

Fans fall in love with other teams’ players; they create legendary abilities for them, and then fixate on us acquiring them.

Figgins is old, he is not a great defensive player, despite his flair for making the dramatic “athletic” play from time to time, and he strikes out an awful lot.

It’s not that players come here and suck, it’s that once they’re ours, we get to see them regularly and realize, like the players we complain about because we see them so often, those deified players also have weaknesses.

Figgins’ age alone disqualifies him. You’re right. We are not signing Chone Figgins, lol.

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My line of thinking here is that the Yankees need Halladay for more than just 2009 considering the performance of Joba + Hughes. If they don’t acquire a starter by the deadline, they’re more likely to buy one on the free agent market for 2010 and beyond. Bedard might be the best available.

The Yankees might even be thinking that they can go with their current staff for 2009, keep all of their prospects and add Bedard + Chapman to the roster next year for money alone.

Would you rather have Bedard + Chapman + Joba/Hughes + Jackson + Romine or Roy Halladay?

Sorry but, to the naked eye, it does not appear that Joba or Hughes will solve himself. They have set no precedent to lead any of us to believe that both can be trusted with a rotation spot in 2009.

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Sorry, but Cashman isn’t structuring his 2010 rotation before they’ve played a game in the second half of 2009.

Worry about next year’s rotation during the offseason. It doesn’t make any sense to do it now because anything can happen over the next three months.

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It’s looking that way, Cash.

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Sorry but, to the naked eye, it does not appear that Joba or Hughes will solve himself. They have set no precedent to lead any of us to believe that both can be trusted with a rotation spot in 2009.

The Yanks were supposed to be unstoppable after acquiring A-Rod and that hasn’t exactly turned out like we expected.”

GF,

You and I can go round and round on this and neither of us is going to change the other’s view on it. So I’m going to be brief with my response and then I’m moving on to other topics.

I think acquiring Halladay improves the Yankees chances to win a WS this year and next. However, I’ve been going to baseball games for 50 years so I know better then to ever use the word “guarantee” because as you say they still have to play the games. At this point, I’ll trade another WS title or two for any of those prospects. Does acquiring Halladay guarantee that result? No, but it moves the needle closer for them to do so.

Anyhow, it doesn’t matter what we think anyway because Cashman isn’t going to overpay for Halladay while the Phillies get an opportunity to acquire him for a lesser package.