Describing whether Austin Jackson is ready to go out of the gate or more of a break glass in case of emergency guy was an interesting way of describing him.

Then again, it could just all be part of the stealth “process” and he’s just oiling the machine.

and i keep my prospects for a better deal/day

his road splits profile him to be a .275/20/hr guy away from Coor’s why would i package 4players for that when there are 20 of those guys avail in the FA/arb route. No Rockies offensive player who left Coor’s went on to put up the same #’s when moving to other organizations.Not one!

even Holliday went from 36hrs to 24hrs and his road slugging % for his CAREER is .450% which is about the same as Jeter. Be very careful of Rockies bats

Romine is a very good athlete and an extremely athletic catcher. He’s kinda like Inge in that he has the speed and athletics to offer versatility to a club and he has a real good bat.If we assumed in 3yrs that Romine and Montero are the catchers on this club then days that Montero catches Romine could play the outfield.

Also with guys like Farnham and Murphy and Sanchez behind him and Montero in 4-5 yrs you could have a Gary Sanchez as your primary catcher with guy like Romine moving to LF if you wanted to keep his bat on your club.So adding the OF position to his game makes sense both now and for the future.

as far as his defensive game Romine is very good defensively much better than Montero i think the high passed balls and errors does in fact include alot of the wildness from catching Brackman and Betances the last few years..

I actually think there’s a better chance of Colorado turning that down than anything else.

Melky and McAllister are really the only two players with any real value in that deal (from the Yankee standpoint) and McAllister is still a couple of years away from being a back of the rotation starter (if he even makes it) and Melky is about to be made obsolete by the progression of Austin Jackson and the eventual arrival of Slade Heathcott.

I get that you don’t like Brad Hawpe because of his glove, but if you think that Alfredo Aceves (a spot starter/long reliever) Melky Cabrera (an average all around player), Zach McAllister (a RH pitching prospect in a system loaded with RH pitching prospects) and either Brian Bruney or Phil Coke is too much for a 29 year old left handed slugger – well then you’re just flat out wrong.

According to Rosenthal – the Rox are said to be looking for a late game relief pitcher and another outfielder – I would go Aceves, Melky, McAllister and their choice of Bruney or Coke.

It’s not much worse (or better) than what they took for Holliday from the A’s.

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Are you sure that NYY shouldn’t add Hughes and Cano plus cash to pay for Cano’s salary, just to even up the trade?