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| Yankee Trade Targets: Cliff Lee and Lance Berkman | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 9 2010, 04:09 PM (134 Views) | |
| Grandy4MVP | Jun 9 2010, 04:09 PM Post #1 |
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| Grandy4MVP | Jun 9 2010, 04:16 PM Post #2 |
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If this team gets Cliff Lee you can just hand us the trophy and cancel the season. |
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| Venom | Jun 9 2010, 06:17 PM Post #3 |
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May the Force be with you
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Trading for Lee makes little sense, we can just sign him in the offseason. If they trade Montero for him I would be upset. Berkman sucks. Overrated 34-year old "slugger" who is injury prone and on the decline. No thanks. |
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| Yanksfan03 | Jun 9 2010, 06:39 PM Post #4 |
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VC 4 Life.
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I want no part of Berkman, for the right price I would love to get Lee now but like Rob said, it'll be infuriating if they were to trade somebody like Montero for him when there is a good chance we could get him for nothing but money in the offseason. |
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| YankeeBaseball | Jun 10 2010, 07:19 PM Post #5 |
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Yanks will get Lee — but when? Ken Rosenthal Updated Jun 10, 2010 1:22 PM ET The Yankees are going to end up with Mariners left-hander Cliff Lee. The only question is whether they land him in a trade this summer or as a free agent this winter — and a trade might not be as far-fetched as it appears. True, the Yankees currently boast five healthy and effective starters. True, they simply could wait for Lee to become a free agent and sign him in the offseason without losing any young talent. But one rival executive says the Yankees will be undeterred in their pursuit of Lee on the trade market. His reasoning is simple. “Top of the rotation starter,” the exec says. In fact, the Yankees might even have landed Lee last winter if the Phillies had been more willing to trade the left-hander to the team that beat them in the World Series. The Phillies, who drew criticism within the industry for not shopping Lee more aggressively, actually approached the Yankees in the final 36 to 48 hours before completing the three-team blockbuster that brought right-hander Roy Halladay to Philadelphia and sent Lee to Seattle, major-league sources said. The Yankees were willing to include top catching prospect Jesus Montero in a package for Lee, according to two sources. But the Phillies’ overall asking price was so high, the talks never advanced, another source said. The dynamic now is different; the Yankees’ rotation is perhaps their greatest strength, ranking second in the American League in ERA. Javier Vazquez is pitching better. Phil Hughes is developing into a star. And remember, the Yankees refrained from trading for Johan Santana after the 2007 season in order to wait for CC Sabathia as a free agent the following year. The Mariners, however, are preparing for the Yankees to pursue Lee, according to the New York Post, which quoted a “person familiar with Seattle’s thought process” as saying the team would ask for one of the Yankees’ young catchers as well as Triple A shortstop Eduardo Nunez. The Yankees, to part with such a package, would want assurances that they could sign Lee to an extension, the Post said. The Mariners, according to the newspaper, already are scouting the Yankees’ farm system. The Yankees, in turn, are certain to scout Lee in the coming weeks, but perhaps only as preparation for his free agency. Yankees scouts saw approximately 20 of Sabathia’s starts in 2008 before the team signed him as a free agent at the end of that season. Lee repeatedly has made it clear that he wants to hit the open market, but the Yankees almost certainly will be his high bidder and perhaps he would make an exception to get to them sooner. The Mariners would need to grant the Yankees permission to open a negotiating window with Lee for such a deal to transpire. Lee, for his part, is leaving his options open regarding a possible extension. “If we were to get to that point, we would just take it on a team-by-team basis,” Lee’s agent Darek Braunecker, said. Get me Lee :drool: and kick Javy to the pen(or trade him). I'd rather we make Chubba Chambermaid the center of the deal if possible and throw in a couple B prospects rather than further diminishing our sparse farm.... |
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| Yanks473 | Jun 11 2010, 12:41 PM Post #6 |
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And the Band played on......
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We dont need Lee at all right now. Get me a bat and a reliever. |
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| Grandy4MVP | Jun 11 2010, 01:11 PM Post #7 |
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If you get Lee you then try and flip Javy to the National League for a bullpen arm. |
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| YankeeBaseball | Jun 11 2010, 01:57 PM Post #8 |
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Exactly ! :thumbup: |
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| HomieYank | Jun 11 2010, 02:26 PM Post #9 |
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Why not just get the bullpen arm for WAY less than it would take to get Lee? |
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| YankeeBaseball | Jun 11 2010, 06:02 PM Post #10 |
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because without Pettite and Javy, we NEED Lee next year but he might sign an extension whereever he's traded this year. besides, most of our "prospects" are homiehyped crap anyway, so no great loss. Just get me top-o-tha rotation Lee... :agent: |
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| HomieYank | Jun 12 2010, 02:30 PM Post #11 |
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Unless he goes to the mets or dodgers I don't see him signing an extension. |
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| YankeeBaseball | Jun 12 2010, 07:46 PM Post #12 |
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the dodgers don't have any money for an extension at this time due to the divorse. |
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| moomoo24 | Jun 13 2010, 04:23 PM Post #13 |
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Isn't Lee a Boras client? Highly doubt he's signing an extension and if that's the case no way you give up the prospects for a rental. |
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