1. Vidal Nuno has bee superb in every start he has made against major league competition. His problem is his age--no 26-year-old can possibly escape the Yankee FO stigma that attaches to under-thirties. So he's stranded behind the impending geriatric disasters of Kuroda and Sabathia in the Yankee rotation--even behind Phelps and Warren. By the time reality sinks in, the course correction will be too little, too late.
2. What's with Kelly Johnson? He SUCKS. He has sucked for a couple of years now. There is no doubt to any rational observer that Euardo Nunez is a more capable third base candidate on every level, on both sides of the bat, than Johnson. Yet Cashman feels obliged to stifle the bloom of young talent in favor of another faded and soon-to-be-rotten castoff/mediocrity who was an OK player for someone else five years ago.
THIS IS INSANE. There is a disconnect from reality among the Yankee brass that qualifies as collective insanity.
The only rational explanation is that Cashman believes that if he fails with "name" washouts, he will get less grief from the dumbass daily sportswriters than if he risks failing with youth, because the morons of the sports pages think just as Cashman does--their idiocy is mutually reinforcing--a "confederacy of dunces."
In many other cities baseball GMs have liberated themselves from the stupidities conventional seat-of-the-pants strategies. Not at the Steakhouse in the Bronx.
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Two snippets of Yankee front-office insanity:
ReplyDelete1. Vidal Nuno has bee superb in every start he has made against major league competition. His problem is his age--no 26-year-old can possibly escape the Yankee FO stigma that attaches to under-thirties. So he's stranded behind the impending geriatric disasters of Kuroda and Sabathia in the Yankee rotation--even behind Phelps and Warren. By the time reality sinks in, the course correction will be too little, too late.
2. What's with Kelly Johnson? He SUCKS. He has sucked for a couple of years now. There is no doubt to any rational observer that Euardo Nunez is a more capable third base candidate on every level, on both sides of the bat, than Johnson. Yet Cashman feels obliged to stifle the bloom of young talent in favor of another faded and soon-to-be-rotten castoff/mediocrity who was an OK player for someone else five years ago.
THIS IS INSANE. There is a disconnect from reality among the Yankee brass that qualifies as collective insanity.
The only rational explanation is that Cashman believes that if he fails with "name" washouts, he will get less grief from the dumbass daily sportswriters than if he risks failing with youth, because the morons of the sports pages think just as Cashman does--their idiocy is mutually reinforcing--a "confederacy of dunces."
In many other cities baseball GMs have liberated themselves from the stupidities conventional seat-of-the-pants strategies. Not at the Steakhouse in the Bronx.
point 2 correction on Nunez--"both sides of the ball," not "both sides of the bat."
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