last year montero hit 290 in AAA with a 870 OPS and 21 HRs. i would be surprised if he made the team outright, hope that he absolutely crushes AAA and they can bring him up at some point to either split time or replace russel martin.

banuelos (5'11 LHP from mexico, will be 20 yo for the 2011 season) only pitched 64 innings last year, and only 15 in AA. he is a year at least away from the bigs.

you figure betances (6'8 RHP from brooklyn, will be 23 for the 2011 season) is in the same boat. 85 innings last year and only 14 in AA.

kind of frustrating, was hoping from more out of cashman other than "we're gonna throw a ton of cash at cliff lee and pray that he signs and hope that pettitte comes back." that's not really an offseason "plan" so to speak.

VDesai wrote:

BigSm00th wrote:yea, it seems like all three of those guys (banuelos, betances, montero) could use more seasoning in AAA.

last year montero hit 290 in AAA with a 870 OPS and 21 HRs. i would be surprised if he made the team outright, hope that he absolutely crushes AAA and they can bring him up at some point to either split time or replace russel martin.

banuelos (5'11 LHP from mexico, will be 20 yo for the 2011 season) only pitched 64 innings last year, and only 15 in AA. he is a year at least away from the bigs.

you figure betances (6'8 RHP from brooklyn, will be 23 for the 2011 season) is in the same boat. 85 innings last year and only 14 in AA.

kind of frustrating, was hoping from more out of cashman other than "we're gonna throw a ton of cash at cliff lee and pray that he signs and hope that pettitte comes back." that's not really an offseason "plan" so to speak.

I can't believe we had no plans at all to improve the bullpen. We let Wood walk for peanuts and only went after Pedro Feliciano? NOt only are we missing 2 starters, we lost our setup man and we dont really have any depth. Hughes is really gonna have to step up, because or staff is basically one starter and one closer right now.

If this was any other team, it would be time to blow it up, build around guys like Cano and Hughes, and hoard prospects

VDesai wrote:Shit Id take Pavano back at this point

TMS wrote:we're looking at Jeremy Bonderman... his #'s were whatever last year, but he's still young & has a good arm... i say go for it... can't go into the season with just CC, Hughes, AJB & 2 rookie starters... & Sergio Mitre is a long reliever at best... maybe a change of scenery will do Bonderman some good.

Never seemed the same after that blood clot issue he had a couple of years ago (before the procedure I remember him at 95 MPH consistently; since then he's been more 89-91)..Truth is he was never really all that effective even when he threw harder but you're right, I can't see going into the season with what we have now..If he's the best left on the board & the price is right, why not I guess..What I wanna know is what the hell was the plan B when Cliff Lee spurned NY?? I mean I can't believe there was none..It's crazy..We did nothing to keep pace with the Red Sox here..

VDesai -- I read in the paper that the Yankees weren't all that interested in Balfour mainly because he's a type A FA which would require us to surrender a draft pick to Tampa -- the Yankees supposedly don't wanna relinquish a pick for him..Same goes for Rafael Soriano -- also a type A - not only do the Yanks not wanna give up a pick for him they also don't wanna pay this guy closer money to set up for Mo..

TMS wrote:

Finestrg wrote:

TMS wrote:we're looking at Jeremy Bonderman... his #'s were whatever last year, but he's still young & has a good arm... i say go for it... can't go into the season with just CC, Hughes, AJB & 2 rookie starters... & Sergio Mitre is a long reliever at best... maybe a change of scenery will do Bonderman some good.

Never seemed the same after that blood clot issue he had a couple of years ago (before the procedure I remember him at 95 MPH consistently; since then he's been more 89-91)..Truth is he was never really all that effective even when he threw harder but you're right, I can't see going into the season with what we have now..If he's the best left on the board & the price is right, why not I guess..What I wanna know is what the hell was the plan B when Cliff Lee spurned NY?? I mean I can't believe there was none..It's crazy..We did nothing to keep pace with the Red Sox here..

VDesai -- I read in the paper that the Yankees weren't all that interested in Balfour mainly because he's a type A FA which would require us to surrender a draft pick to Tampa -- the Yankees supposedly don't wanna relinquish a pick for him..Same goes for Rafael Soriano -- also a type A - not only do the Yanks not wanna give up a pick for him they also don't wanna pay this guy closer money to set up for Mo..

at this point i'm almost tempted to see if Mussina will consider making a comeback for 1 year.

ur right, i can't believe we had no plan B options in place if we missed out on Cliff Lee... that's simply inexcusable... when i see guys like Jon Garland sign for 1 year $5M i can't believe we didn't even try to bring in a guy like that.

I think Manny Delcarmen's still out there -- he'd be a no compensation FA signing -- only 29 years old, quality middle man, throws pretty hard, steal him away from Boston?? No idea what kinda money he's looking for..

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