Posted on 12/30/2004 1:06:11 PM PST by baseballfanjm
The Diamondbacks and Yankees have agreed on a deal that would send Randy Johnson to New York for Javier Vazquez, prospects and cash, major league sources told ESPN.
The paperwork has not yet been submitted to the baseball commissioner's office, but that is the next step for the deal to be finalized.
The Diamondbacks also will get left-handed pitcher Brad Halsey, catching prospect Dioner Navarro and $8 million to $9 million in exchange for the 41-year-old lefty, ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney reports.
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Of course, the Curse of Hillary will strike again. ;-)
The Yank-offs will still fail to win the World Series.
Good. No third team to get cold feet this time.
Randy Johnson - the man with the best nickname in sports.
Do the Yankees have any minor league players left?
Coincidence?
Then how do you explain the Red Sox winning it all with Kerry and Kennedy as Mass senators?
If the Yanks are "cursed" by anything, it's lousy team chemistry.
Too old.
God threw Boston a bone.
The Yanks will enter next season as heavy favorites, as they usually are. Whether or not they are more cohesive a unit than last year remains to be seen, but unless he gets injured, Johnson over Vazquez is a massive improvement no matter how you slice it.
The Yanks making a major offseason acqusition or two is a yearly tradition, one I don't get too worked up over anymore. It's their money, Steinbrenner's business, let him do what he pleases.
Great---now Trot Nixon is sh*tting his pants because he's going to have to face another left-handed pitcher in the Crank's rotation: the game's premiere one, too.
The Yanks still need another quality lefty if they want to overtake the Sox. Randy Johnson alone isn't going to be enough.
That's how I see it too.
The Mets now appear intent on opening their wallets to (near) Steinbrennerian levels, challenging George in his own backyard. It'll be interesting to see if any other teams attempt to play payroll catch-up as well.
Oh, I think Trot will survive somehow.I know he doesen't hit near as well versus lefties,But he still knows how to take walks though.
Next year, I'm looking forward to seeing if Pavano pans out like he was billed to pan out. I kind of like how the Sox's rotation is shaping up, with Schil, Wells, Wake, Clement, and Arroyo. If Wade Miller pans out, too, they'll have a real decent staff.
If he were out there on his own, I would agree totally.
But he isn't. He's part of a league and part of Major League Baseball as a whole. And most teams have no chance, ZERO, of competing with the New Yorks and Bostons of this world.
This is what the fight is over in the NHL right now, and thank God the owners are holding firm.
As for baseball, why don't New York and Boston and Atlanta and L.A. and Chicago and all the other fatcat teams go off and form their own league and give some other teams something to play for every summer?
I watched Johnson pitch this summer. It's amazing how effortless he made it seem. The man is unflappable. Just goes out on the mound and strikes em out.
We WILL be in the running which...ahem...is more than we can say for your traded-for-past-prime gang Mets. Hey -- I hear Harold Baines may be available :-D
So what's the projected best-case scenario this year? .500??
"why don't New York and Boston and Atlanta and L.A. and Chicago and all the other fatcat teams"
Been like that for 80+ years, why change now?
parity stinks...
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