Sometimes you gotta wonder what writers (and in this case, their unnamed sources) are thinking when they are proposing trades. I know it's easy to point out the knuckleheads who call into talk shows to offer our crap for their gold, but I just can't see this one happening: I'd also avoid Sheets as his elbow/health makes Burnett look like Ole Reliable. Teix would be great to have but I agree, that many years at that much money is just silly.[A high-ranking executive on a 2008 playoff team] would move Xavier Nady from left field to right and, in center, alternate young Brett Gardner—a weak hitter and strong defender—with veteran Matt Kemp, whom he thinks the Yanks could get in a trade for the regressing Melky Cabrera and the unphenomenal phenom Ian Kennedy—he of the 8.17 E.R.A., the zero wins in nine starts, and the embarrassing comments to the press.
Question for all you Sox fans: Would you really be devastated? I can't imagine you would be. You could be angry that he "betrayed" you, like Damon, but I can't see you being devastated.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Sometimes you gotta wonder
Really? Do you really think the Dodgers would take on Melky and Kennedy for a high ceiling and now MLB proven young stud Kemp, who's no more veteran than Kennedy? An executive really thinks the Dodgers would take these two for Kemp? Really?!?! Oh yeah, and he'd then platoon him with Gardner? Yeesh.
If we could get Kemp for those two, plus some other player, do it in a blink. We know Colletti likes older players and Torre trusts "his guys", so why not offer those two and pay half of Matsui's contract to get Kemp? Too far fetched, I know. Spoken like one of those wacky call-in guys....
Lidz (the author) and his nameless source had a few other observations on re-making the Yanks in 2009:
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Devastated? Uh, no. Partly irritated, party amused, mostly apathetic.
Though signing the "perrennial Yankee-killer" is always a good way to get him to stop killing you. And I'm reminded of how excited Wade Boggs was when the Sox signed Matt Young, becuase he couldn't hit Young, which meant he must be awesome. Yaaarrghhh...
That's about what I figured, Mark, though I didn't remember the Boggs/Young scenario.
The less remembered about Matt Young, the better. Though he does share an honor with Andy Hawkins, in that both threw a no-hitter but lost the game.
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