Living on Borrrowed Prime

It's Christmas Eve, and though I am incredibly grateful for Hope Week, Title 27, and the offseason moves Cashmoney Green has made so far this offseason. In fact, in the last two offseasons Cash has done a lot to make the Yankees younger and more athletic. He let Giambi and Abreu go last year, and this year he's let Matsui, Damon, and Molina go. He replaced Giambi with an in his prime Teixeira. He replaced Abreu with Swisher. He replaced Matsui with OBP Jesus. He's replacing Molina with a pre-prime Cervelli. That brings up to Granderson. Curtis was an upgrade over Melky and Gardy in CF, but he was also the replacement for Johnny Damon the CF we signed 4 years ago, but who had been playing left for much of his deal. The one thing he hasn't done is replace the Damon who played Left. In fact this week he traded his apparent replacement.

So, right now in Left we're looking at something like a Brett Gardner/Reed Johnson platoon. And while that would give us great D, it just doesn't seem to match up with the rest of the plan. I still think we're lying in the weeds for Matt Holliday, hoping his price will meet what we have in mind for him. We'll see if it happens. Go Yanks!