This Week on the Blog

Rough one for the Yanks, interesting one for the Knicks and Rangers, and just two more weeks till Giants training camp starts.  Let's take a look at what's going on.

Yanks: Another heartbreaking loss last night that really featured unearned runs.  Montgomery was off and inefficient, thanks to the D behind him.  The middle of the pen was fine, and then Betances fell victim to bad D and his own lack of control,  The Cubs have already made a big deal, and the Yanks a a small one.  So trade season in underway.  I hope Brian Cashman has realized that even if he goes out and gets more relievers and a starter, the veteran gaggle of Ellsbury, Gardner and Headley cannot be relied upot to play Playoff Baseball, so they're best hope would be a second WC and one and done, with this particular crew of vets.  In fact, this is yet another season when the Yanks should sell.  I have a feeling that they'll buy, so I'm praying they are smart about it and keep the guys I listed last week.   Btw, Castro is back today and Wade is down.  They don't care about defense.

Giants: Just two more weeks!  And with all the Yankee and Knick issues, I haven't spent a moment thinking about the Giants OL till just now.

Rangers: With the retirement of Kevin Klein, the Rangers gained cap room.  They may or may not still be looking of a C, though they have signed both their first rounders and they are both C's.  I'd  prefer to give JT Miller a chance. When they drafted him Gordie said he had a centerman's game, and he really is a playmaker.  So, save the assets and give him a try.

Knicks: The Knicks had quite a week.  First, they seemed to massively overpay for Ron Baker (the living tribute to John Rudd), and then it looked like they had no plan at all and that the Melo trade was eternally at the 2 yard line.  Then it finally became clear when the Knicks went outside of their MSG pool of whirling execs and hired Scott Perry to be the new GM.  Their first move after that was to "pause" the Carmelo trade talks. Perry and Mills want to try to get Melo to expand his list.  In doing this, either by Melo actually expanding it, or pretending to expand it, Melo's agents will be under pressure to get Houston or Cleveland to step up with something that works.  Ther are also reports that the Knicks are listening to offers for Lee and O'Quinn and searching for veteran PG.

So there you have it.  Yanks should sell but probably won't.  Giants two weeks away.  Rangers could pull off a trade at any moment. And Knicks could pull of three trades starting whenever.  Have a great week!