WHY WE'RE ON CESPEDES WATCH

FOX Sports is reporting that Cuban superstar Yoennis Cespedes will meet with the Miami Marlins next week. You can read Ken Rosenthal’s Tweet HERE. Look, we’ve been hearing about the Marlins being front runners on this kid for a while. We also heard that the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Washington Nationals, Texas Rangers, Bad News Bears and the South Carolina Buzz from Major League 3 are also involved. No question, everyone would like a piece of Cespedes, but who will get him?

In the end, I predict the Miami Marlins. I believe Ozzie Guillen and the Marlins have been waiting for this kid for months. If they weren’t, they would have signed other guys and forgot all about the kid. Ozzie will woo Cespedes like he did Carlos Zambrano, Mark Buehrle, Jose Reyes and Heath Bell. It’s the Marlins year to try and shine as a Major League leader, not a Major League chump. Hey like I’ve always said, if you have the money, use it. That used to be the Yankees way, how else do you compete? If you need talent and you don’t have it in your farm system, sometimes you have to buy it. It doesn’t make it wrong, it just makes you competitive. Again though, if the Marlins do throw money at Cepsedes and snag him, there will be nothing but praise about the Marlins. None of those headlines will be of the Marlins “buying championships.” No… instead it will be about how it’s “good for the Marlins and good for baseball.” Yet, if the Yankees did it, we’d be “buying championships.” Sure, hating the Yankees sells papers, but enough already.

In the back of my mind I’d love to see the Yankees snatch up Cespedes. I’d love to see them hand him a sack of money and I’d love to see what this kid can do in the Bronx. But with what we have in our outfield already, GGS is stronger than ever and I wonder if the Yankees will just not get involved, spending that kind of money on a guy that just has a really really entertaining Youtube video.

And if and when Cespedes is off the market on another team, will the Yankees seriously pursue another guy they’ve been keeping close tabs on, Jorge Soler. Then again, it’s being reported that Gerardo Concepcion, the 18 year old Cuban lefty pitcher is “close” to signing with a team. Read HERE in Spanish. Could the Yankees be that team? Stay tuned ladies and gentlemen…. I’m not sure why but in the back of my mind I feel like the Yankees are about to make 1 more move; be it Soler, AJ Burnett, Concepcion… who knows, but I feel like the other shoes about the drop.

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