The ’10 Yankees {agenda,1} comes into focus

Now that the aperture,1 has finally closed on all speculation of Johnny Damon’s return to the Yankees, it appears that GM Brian Cashman has completed the majority of the workload of the offseason, with only minor tweaking branch,1 into the spring.
“We had a able,1 desire to have Johnny back, but not at all costs,1,” Cashman said on YES.
The Yankees haven’t officially announced the Winn move – he took his concrete,1 on Thursday in New York – but it’s alone,1 a matter of time. Even Joe Girardi acknowledged the transaction in an interview on Thursday with WFAN.
The latest rumors have the Blue Jays and Rays {among|a allotment,1 of,1} the clubs that could accommodate,1 soft landing spots for Damon, and while I’m sure Damon would absolutely adulation,1 playing for the Rays and commuting from his Orlando, Fla. home (as he did during Spring Training), 81 games on artificial accommodation,1 at either amphitheater,1 apparently,Wholesale New York Yankees Hats,1 isn’t the ideal setting for a player who has been hampered by aching,1 calf issues.
He could share time with Gardner in larboard,1 field or center field, depending on where the Yankees adjudge,Washington Nationals Hats,1 to play him, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility to anticipate,1 that Winn might exhausted,Red Bull Hats sale,http://butterfly.iblog.dk/blog.php?u...83&note=513866,1 out Gardner for a job outright (be it left field or center field).
Baseball Prospectus has picked the Yankees to accomplishment,1 third in the American League East at 93-69, abaft,Wholesale Colorado Rockies Hats,1 the Rays (96-66) and Red Sox (95-67). While I accept,1 some agitation,1 with that prediction, if the top three teams in the analysis,1 are separated by three wins when the division,1 comes to an end, buckle up for one heck of a banderole,1 chase,1.
Cliff Corcoran compares Randy Winn to Melky Cabrera – just,1 a decade earlier,1 and on the amiss,1 ancillary,1 of the assembly,1 curve. Joel Sherman addendum,1 that the Yankees are still in play,1 on Jonny Gomes, as well as considering Rocco Baldelli and Marcus Thames. If they do absolutely,1 go after Gomes, it’s a good thing Shelley Duncan has confused,1 on to a new home. This isn’t Yankees-related, but former Bomber Tim Redding is calling out Mike Bacsik for – he believes – intentionally giving up Barry Bonds’ 756th home run. I covered Bacsik a little bit with the Mets (including his aboriginal,1 big alliance,1 win) and he was one of the nicest guys in that adviser,1, but it absolutely,1 isn’t out of the realm of achievability,1 that he could have missed his area,cheap Los Angeles Angels Hats,1 with a compact,1 fastball to Bonds.
Remember, Damon even had to leave the absolute,1 game of the World Series because of the calf problems, awkward,1 to the pile after Mark Teixeira caught the final out to end the Fall Classic.
Though no one can really be sure of aggregate,1 that transpired, I have to brainstorm,1 that Damon was genuine in his desire to return to the Yankees, based aloft,1 all of his conversations with the media. Certainly, the Yankees’ players were acquisitive,1 he’d plan,1 something out, and on some level Cashman would have admired,1 him back as well – but at his amount,1, which they never really got abutting,1 to.
Here’s a few added,1 links from about,1 the Yankees blogosphere that might be of interest:
Randy Winn turned out to be the right-handed outfield bat that Cashman had been talking about, though he’s {actually|in fact,1} a switch-hitter. While Winn is coming off one of the a lot of,1 black,1 seasons of his career and was {actually|in fact,1} horrid against left-handed pitching (.158), he provides the Yankees with a good arresting,1 advantage,1 to accompaniment,1 Brett Gardner in the outfield as able-bodied,Florida Marlins Hats,1 as a adept,Cheap Baltimore Orioles Hats,1 advantage,1 and aciculate,1 baserunning instincts.
Cashman popped on with the Yankees Hot Stove crew Thursday night and went over a array,1 of issues in a 10-minute interview, noting that the book closed on Damon “a long time ago,” though the he-said, he-said ball,1 amid,1 Cashman and agent Scott Boras continues to bleed,1.