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Duh! Perhaps you missed the Pineda trade this year? Or have failed to notice that Betances and Banuelos both suck in Scranton. Figueroa does well, great. He doesn’t no loss, and it’s not as if he could be much worse than Hughes, a young player you left out of your article.
While I thank you for the read and your comments, I think you missed the point of my article. The point is that why should we spend millions on 37 or 38 year olds to be in our rotation only to give us mediocre results at best when we have some high-grade prospects who showed some great stuff this spring wallowing in the minor leagues? Why not give them a shot and see what they can do at the major league level rather than use guys who we’ll either end up throwing away in two months or releasing at the end of the year? Again, thank you for the read, I appreciate it.
Hate to say it, Yanks would be better off with Theo Epstein as GM, his selection of pitchers for the Red Sox organization were some of the best before he left. Cashman has a history of throwing money at any bigtime pitcher like AJ Burnett, Carl Pavano and signing retreads that have “tired” arms by season’s end like Garcia and Colon did last year. What’s with the farm talent? Yankees don’t have anyone qualified to judge college talent or available young talent in minors that can be the next “Pettitte” or “Lousiana Lightning Guidry”? I think Joba’s washed up, his days of starting are over, we’ve seen what happened to Aceves,Sergio Mitres, Buddy Carlyle, Hector Noesi-all gone. While competitors like the Phillies and Rangers, Red Sox were building tough starting rotations, Cashman was filling roster with washouts, retreads and wore out arms that put them out of playoffs in first round last year. NEW talent? How about a NEW GM?
Actually the Yankees have had decent farm talent but have chosen to “plug it up” by bringing in the re-treads to the major league club. The lone “success story” from the minors appears to be Ivan Nova. I think too much tinkering with Hughes and Chamberlain (are they relievers or starters? How many innings are they going to be limited to? etc…) has left them a mess. It seems to me that Cashman was most successful when George was still around having final say on things. Once Cashman got complete control over personnel, he became full of himself and has this weird obsession with pitchers well past their prime…