Major Yankee fan here, nobody bigger.
Let's look at this with a level head.
All Sabathia does is replace Moose's 20 wins.
(Moose won more games since 2001 than any other major league pitcher not named Oswalt-look it up)
Burnett is insonsistent, and an injury waiting to happen.
He had the good fortunte to have a career year to coincide with his contract year.
Feeling here is AJ will be the second coming of Pavano.
Wang is a steady starter, however, before his injury the rest of the league was starting to solve his sinker.
Hughes has crappy work ethics, and like AJ spends a ton of time of the DL.
Kennedy is a AAAA pitcher, better than AAA, will never quite be an effective big league starter.
Joba? Bullpen? Starter.
Chamberlain's role is still up in the air.
Pettitte is unsigned, and if he does come back, his best days are behing him.
Mo is closer to 40 in age now than 35.
Who's going to replace Abreu's 20-100 .300 20 SB's?
Not Cameron or Nady.
Swisher is not Giambi, even when hitting .240, you could still count on Giambi for a .350 + OBA.
Posada is coming off a major injury, getting older and is a big question mark.
LF is a big question mark.
This team is a major question mark.
Let's look at this with a level head.
All Sabathia does is replace Moose's 20 wins.
(Moose won more games since 2001 than any other major league pitcher not named Oswalt-look it up)
Burnett is insonsistent, and an injury waiting to happen.
He had the good fortunte to have a career year to coincide with his contract year.
Feeling here is AJ will be the second coming of Pavano.
Wang is a steady starter, however, before his injury the rest of the league was starting to solve his sinker.
Hughes has crappy work ethics, and like AJ spends a ton of time of the DL.
Kennedy is a AAAA pitcher, better than AAA, will never quite be an effective big league starter.
Joba? Bullpen? Starter.
Chamberlain's role is still up in the air.
Pettitte is unsigned, and if he does come back, his best days are behing him.
Mo is closer to 40 in age now than 35.
Who's going to replace Abreu's 20-100 .300 20 SB's?
Not Cameron or Nady.
Swisher is not Giambi, even when hitting .240, you could still count on Giambi for a .350 + OBA.
Posada is coming off a major injury, getting older and is a big question mark.
LF is a big question mark.
This team is a major question mark.
Not without steroids and HGH. They used to, now ???
Sabathia should fit in just fine with A-Rod. Good to great during the regular season, then horrible during the post season with the pressure.
Sabathia has won only one playoff game I believe, and has a post season ERA of about 7.92
He will enjoy the $161 million though.
I wonder if the Yankees will get the bond they were seeking a day before spending $161,000,000.00 on Sabathia?
To be honest, it was only really the last year or two where the Yankees DIDN'T start the season as favourites anyway
After signing CC + AJ then I see no reason that the bookies wont put them back in as favs this year - in fact the few books who are currently offering the World Series already have them as favs at around +650...
After signing CC + AJ then I see no reason that the bookies wont put them back in as favs this year - in fact the few books who are currently offering the World Series already have them as favs at around +650...
