One winner not discussed in the Yankees blockbuster deal that imported Michael Pineda is A.J. Burnett.
We all know that Burnett is paid like a top-of-the-rotation starter, but his performance resembles a typical fifth starter. He’s an inconsistent innings eater that struggles to produce an overall league average performance. With the acquisition of Pineda, Burnett becomes the most overpaid fifth starter in all of baseball and that is a good thing.
Burnett was given way too much attention this past summer. This was mainly due to the fact the Yankees didn’t have much controversy after the Jorge Posada-Joe Girardi blowout in May. The saturation of media coverage in New York necessitates daily opinion columns that sometimes run dry in the dog days of the season. Burnett’s struggles were the one dark cloud in what was a relatively stress-free Yankees season.
With a rotation that features Sabathia, Kuroda, Nova, and Pineda in the first four spots wouldn’t a potential Burnett 2012 record o...
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