VDesai wrote:

jusnice wrote:Melky gone to Atlanta for Vazquez - confirmed on SI and Yahoo. I need some time to digest this, but I like it. Maybe Cash thinks Austin Jackson is ready to play LF or we are going after another OF, b/c we do not have an everyday LF on the roster now.

We don't have AUstin Jackson- we traded him for Granderson, who's our everyday LF.

We don't have an everyday CF- but it'll be either Brett Gardner or the guy we took in the rule 5 draft whom we traded Bruney for. He has to stay in the majors for us to keep him and he's got a chance to be as productive as Melky.

i though granderson was our everyday CF and we're looking for a LF.

the objective was to bring in an innings eater to take the 4 slot in the rotation...while putting hughes or chamberlain in the pen. and we got a high quality innings eater.

offseason isn't done so i'm thinking another OF is coming...so they viewed melky or gardner as a luxury at this point. and cash always liked vasquez.

i trust ca$h money...

Joel Sherman of the New York Post has confirmed that the Yankees have acquired Javier Vazquez and LHP Boone Logan from the Braves for outfielder Melky Cabrera, LHP Mike Dunn and RHP Arodys Vizcaino.

TMS wrote:i hate Javy Vazquez & i don't like this trade at all... Melky was 1 of our most clutch hitters last year, how many walkoffs did he have? Javy chokes in big spots & he always throws up meatballs for hitters to crush... if we were gonna give up Melky i woulda been a lot more comfortable w/someone like Ted Lilly who proved himself to rise up to big moments in NY before... we shoulda never traded him for Jeff Weaver to begin with... if Javy was the best we could do i woulda been fine with giving up Brett Gardner, his bat's too weak to be a fulltime OFer anyways... sorry to see Melky go in this trade & the Yanks were supposedly very high on Dunn... we better sign that Cuban kid & Johnny Damon now to fill the holes left behind w/this trade... i'm not pinning my hopes on some rule 5 pickup as my starting OFer next season.

javy vazquez pitched well in the first half the yr he was with the yanks and then apparently toughed out the 2nd half with a hurt shoulder -- and got lit up. ca$hman has always liked him. he's a solid #3/4 pitcher, (versus staff ace like he was when he was here the first time) he'll give us 200 IP and strike guys out. now either joba or hughes is the 5 starter and the other sets up mo. the other guy in the deal from ATL goes to the bullpen as well. i dug melky and his clutchness last yr, but those things vary from year to year and are so situational. matsui and melky are now both gone, somebody else will have to step up.

interesting stuff with the CF/LF situation. granderson, for all intents and purposes, is the next CF. from what cashman said at the press conference when he was introduced to what granderson himself said, i'm led to believe that he'll play CF. i think gardner will be a late inning defensive replacement and speed guy, basically the 4th of. swisher still in RF. who is playing left? will they bring damon back? still moves to be made.

as for Javy, i don't care what he put up in the 1st half of the season as much as what he showed me down the stretch & in the postseason... he imploded in big spots... i hope that was all due to his injury but i've seen Javy implode in big spots while pitching w/the White Sox too... to me he just doesn't have the mentality to make it in a high pressure atmosphere like NY... put him in the NL & his weaknesses are hidden... he woulda been an better addition for the Muts than for us if u ask me.

Granderson should be starting in CF... i was not a huge fan of Melky but he did come up big in big moments... plus he was the only guy that kept runners honest w/his throwing arm... unless the Yankees just weren't happy w/his work ethic or his influence on Robbie, i don't really get this move to be honest... if we were looking for an innings eater we could easily have signed someone like Jon Garland to a 1 year deal & not have to give up anything like i said from the beginning.

right now what's done is done & i'll have to hope for the best, but i don't like this tradeoff at all... hopefully we can now re-sign Johnny Damon & bring in the Cuban lefty to shore up our bullpen... Joba will be starting this season cuz he's no longer on an innings limit & Phil Hughes didn't pitch enough innings last year (i'd rather the roles be reversed cuz i think Joba's got more of a reliever's mentality but can't change what happened last year so gotta roll w/it)