YANKEE RUMORS & BYB: PART 30

AJ Burnett: According to Andrew Marchand who spoke with a Major League baseball "exec", it's unlikely that the Yankees will trade Burnett because there are too many problems with the Yanks unloading him right now. He outlines them HERE, but in the nutshell:

"1. He is viewed as an erratic, back of the rotation type guy, who has a reputation for accountability-issues

2. Even if the Yankees picked up $22M of the $33M, there may not be any takers

3. If a team wanted to spend that type of dough, they could've signed a guy like Joe Saunders (1-year, $6M)

4. Most teams have already spent their money for the year so they don't have $8-to-$10M laying around"

Well then... now that that's out of the way... can we play ball already?Yoennis Cespedes: According to ESPN, Cespedes is excepted to meet with interested teams within 7 to 10 days according to Cespedes' agent. Read about that HERE. Jim Bowden tweets that 6 teams are interested in Cespedes. If I had to predict, I'm going with the Cubs or Marlins. I wish the Yankees were in on this guy, but I would think at this point it's doubtful, although, we did trade for Alex Rodriguez in February... remember? Oh right, that's when we didn't care about spending money. Stay tuned to this story, it will get interesting soon enough.

Jim Hendry: Hendry is the Chicago Cubs former General Manager. He is now the Yankees special assistant to Brian Cashman according to ESPNChicago.com...read HERE. It's amazing how deep the Chicago connection goes with the Yankees. Joe Girardi, Larry Rothschild, Lou Piniella, Jim Hendry...is Ferris Bueller next?Scott Kazmir: If you had a shot to pick up Scott Kazmir cheap, would you? I used to think that it would be a good idea. I had this silly fantasy, that when he was cut loose by the Angels, the Yankees would sign the lefty cheap, re-invent him as a lefty specialist to pitch to 1 or 2 batters and then send him to the showers. Well, Kazmir is available and wants to pitch in 2012, but a few reports indicate that his fast ball is only clocked in the mid 80's which makes me wonder... what the hell happened to this poor guy? Anyway, you can read about my theory on what I would have done with Kazmir back in July 2011 when I wrote WHY THE YANKEES ARMS RACE HAS STARTED. If anything, you'll chuckle.

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