Yanks To Scout Rusney Castillo Tomorrow
As we've talked about before, the reason the Yanks are so screwed on offense and in the field lately is that they did not sign many of the Cubans who have been available lately. From Chapman to Abreu the Yanks sat on the sidelines, saying the Yanks didn't see anything. That either says they have bad scouts, which I don't believe at all, or that the scouts were being blamed for an organizational decision.
In any event, it's left a gap in our offense. They did sign Adonys Garcia and he's just looked serviceable at AAA. They also signed LHP Omar Luis who had missed two years of baseball development over his defection, and pitches like it.
So should the Yanks go for Castillo? Why not? If he's as fast as they say, that would really be a sick OF with Gardy and Ellsbury. And if he can help out at second and third, that even more value.
In any event, the Yanks just have to get the Cuban market back as one of their international options that don't cost draft picks. Sure, they have their problems with Cuban players, but that's also where they got El Duque, and he was straight money.
UPDATE: Leroux has been DFA'd. Next!
posted by Kalel9 @ 9:35 AM
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I think not signing Cespedes, Chapman, Puig can be laid at Hal's feet, but Abreu signed when Hal was spending, and I think it is very reasonable to believe that his baseball people preferred the guys they signed during the last offseason.
I think the bias was probably for the credentialed players, knowing they were going to make a huge bet on the uncredentialed Tanaka.
So I think fear of Hal was Abreu.
I think the circumstantial "evidence" is that Hal doesn't get that deep in the weeds of baseball decisions. He seems to set budgets and then lets Cashman spend $200m while still leaving holes all over the field without much accountability (so that is on Hal).
For example, Cashman used the same time-limited offer approach with Choo that he used with Stanton and Chris Hammond years ago, well before Hal was involved. He did the same thing with Infante this year. Cashman likes to make offers and then reaches an agreement with whatever players accept first.
I also don't think Hal cares whether they are pitching-centric or hitting-centric. That is a yet another Cashman mistake.
He just wants to contend while maximizing profits for him and his siblings.
That's why I think that he really wants the farm system to produce. He just trusts Cashman too much.
I think Hal only cares about making the playoffs. And I think that's why our agendas seem mixed right now, because George cared more about winning it all.
I actually left out the key piece: Randy "Cash is doing a great job" Levine. Any value Levine added to this franchise has long since passed.
True, if you told me in 1990 that I would miss George, I would probably have had trouble catching my breath from laughing so hard.
But after he started to lose a little (neurotic) energy as he approached old age, he actually struck close to the right balance between an insistence on winning and showing a little patience.
You can see what's wrong with this franchise in the rumored deadline deals. While names like Tulo and CarGo are mentioned for the Mets (who may soon become a threat in terms of on the field quality), the Yankees are linked with Byrd...
The negative influence of the Hal/Levine thing was first seen years ago when they talked George out of signing Beltran when he was a perfect fit.
I so agree Levine turns my stomach.
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