This is a little late but Wallace Matthews is kind of dumb.
This all could have been avoided if the Yankees had listened to Cashman, who knew that despite Rodriguez’s 54 homers and 156 RBIs in 2007, the Yankees would be better off letting him walk.
Like every other team that has employed A-Rod, the Yankees have yet to win a thing with him, and it is hard to believe they ever will. For everything he adds to a team, he takes away that much more, and despite Rodriguez’s brilliance in 2007, Cashman seemed to know it.
Cashman was going to let him walk because he wanted to stick with his word not because he would have gotten a magical Scott Brosius clone who would loft the team to the World Series with a medicore pitching staff.
Let’s look at the people who the Yankees were looking at to take A-Rod’s spot:
- Joe Crede — Would have been spectacular with that career OBP of about 300 and back that keeps him from playing ever.
- Miguel Tejada — Yes this would have been an excellent way to avoid the TOXIC CLUBHOUSE EFFECTS.
- Wilson Betemit — Welp.
These were the names that were brought up. They weren’t in a position to trade for, say, Miguel Cabrera like the Tigers did without parting with pieces that were untouchable such as Joba Chamberlain or Phil Hughes.
God if only the Yankees had some scrap or heart or grit they would totally have won everything with amazing pitching staffs of the recent past. Think of what Aaron Boone would have done to make
Here’s an extra quote from the same column:
Understand, this is not a media-created frenzy. It is solely an A-Rod Production, starting with his decision in 2001 to puncture his legacy with a syringe right up to his disingenuous and dishonest news conference Tuesday at which he promised to lay this all to rest.
No I am pretty sure it’s a media-created frenzy since apparently it’s all guys like Wallace Matthews are writing about these days. You know what, just read the whole column (or don’t if you know what’s good for you), it’s one giant awful quote.
My quest to find the worst out of it all every day is probably going to give me an anuerysm.
