The Yanks are a bit pudgier than they were a day ago, addressing their hole behind the dish by acquiring Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for erratic reliever Kyle Farnsworth. It will be Kyle's second tour of duty with the Tigers, for whom he pitched in 2005. Presumably, this means Brandon Inge will be seeing a ton of time at catcher for the revamped Tigers.
While the Yankees are thrilled with the job that Jose Molina has done behind the plate this season in the absence of Jorge Posada, Molina is not accustomed to playing every day, thus the need to add another catcher.
The addition of Rodriguez is another steal for the Yanks, who acquired Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte for toenail clippings a few days ago, and today add a starting catcher in exchange for a guy many would consider addition by subtraction.
Pudge is batting .295 this season with five home runs and 32 RBIs in 82 games.
Farnsworth is 1-2 with a 3.65 ERA, and of late had finally been pitching well enough to move along to the next sucker. Enter David Dombrowski.
Finally, for all the Yankee fans out there who insisted that this was the "new" Yankees, and winning now at all costs was no longer the No. 1 priority, you can all pipe down. The Yankees are a business - one of the biggest business in the Tri-State area - and they will never sacrifice postseason revenue without a fight - ever! Kudos to Brian Cashman, who, for the time being, appears to have miraculously balanced the best of both worlds.
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PLAYERS: Kyle Farnsworth, Ivan Rodriguez, Brandon Inge, Jose Molina, Jorge Posada, Xavier Nady, Damaso Marte
PLAYERS: Kyle Farnsworth, Ivan Rodriguez, Brandon Inge, Jose Molina, Jorge Posada, Xavier Nady, Damaso Marte
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PHILLYMISFIT5 said July 30, 2008
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PHILLYMISFIT5 replied July 30, 2008
JackBam replied July 31, 2008
jalba23 said July 30, 2008
I believe the Yanks are still a pitcher short if they are really going to go far in October so I wonder if Mr. Cashman has something else going.
ayJbay7 said July 30, 2008
We not only get Pudge, we can get 2 top picks out of this.
Cash is a genius or the others GM's are just plain dumb!
nbhatia33 said July 30, 2008
PonderMan said July 31, 2008
me31blog replied August 02, 2008