Gothamist: Yankees Shake Things Up

Peter

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 18:52:42 -0500

Tim the 3.16 ERA was in 2004, it is 7.07 this year, just a bit higher than Keith Foulke's.

Tim

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:08:41 -0500

Stanton pitched a grand total of what, 14 innings? How could signing a guy like that qualify as a BIG mistake, and choosing Gary Sheffield over Vlad Guerrero is only a run-of-the-mill mistake by comparison? Stanton's K/9 rate was 7.71, up a full K from last year, and he has a better K-to-BB ration than last year, too. His ERA was 3.16. Stanton hasn't been bad -- he's been horrifically unlucky (thanks to the heinous Yankee defense). He's going to get picked up by another contender after he clears waivers, and in October everyone is going to be moaning about how great he's pitching for Boston/Oakland/Baltimore/ ChiSox. No worries, though, I guess Wayne Franklin will be a lot better by pitching and playing defense ALL AT THE SAME TIME! All in all, another pathetic move by the Yankees.

SP

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:19:52 -0500

giambi for tino turned out to be a big bust, but at the time, it seemed like a good idea. giambi was the mvp. hindsight is always 20/20. cant really blame them for trading nick johnson, they got vasquez for him and he was young and supposed to be great, instead he turned out to be bunk. i think getting randy johnson instead of carlos beltran was a mistake, sheffield instead of guerrero was a mistake. not getting david ortiz was a mistake. re-signing stanton was a BIG mistake. i'm glad they are keeping the rookies and are calling up more. ive had enough of the high priced marquee diva "veterans"

King Hippo

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:41:14 -0500

Nah... I think dumping tino for giambi was worse, the kicker was dumping Nick Johnson and believing that Giambi was the Yankees 1B of the future.

Ace

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:59:51 -0500

The worse thing they did was trading Soriano for Arod.