Monday, November 3, 2008

GM meetings under way.









The GM meetings are underway out in sunny California. The GM meetings are NOT the winter meetings so basically it will be a bunch of executives posturing about their players and shmoozing with other GM's. According to Pete Abraham the hot topic is as usual the Yankees and the possible earth shattering moves they plan to make this off-season. Many believe the Yankees will simply take the money coming off the cap this year and give it to top free agents CC Sabathia, Mark Teixiera, and AJ Burnett. Although that move would sure up a ton of the Yankees issues, it isn't very fiscally responsible especially given Burnett's injury history. As a fan I would love to see this happen because after all its not my money being spent and those 3 additions would make us the best team in the division in my opinion. The Rays are very young and extremely talented, however they are just that very young for some reason I don't see them being that much better than the rest of the best division in baseball. The Red Sox are the Red Sox we all know they will be a good team, it is up to the Yankees to be the better team.

A rotation of CC Sabathia, Chien Ming Wang, AJ Burnett, Andy Pettitte and Joba Chamberlain looks great on paper and to rival the Rays young guns and Boston's Lester/Beckett/Dice-K three headed monster those moves just might be necessary to keep the Yanks at the top of the pack. Following several months of anonymous reports stating that "CC wants to stay in the NL and in California" it will be interesting to see what the man himself decides to do. It truly seems like a case of "love or money" and I for one am hoping greed prevails.

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