THE RIDICULOUS YANKEES! BEST TEAM ADDITION WAS ALREADY IN HOUSE!

You know, I'm really not happy about how the Yankees botched the trade deadline. They really screwed that up to the point that the Red Sox and the Rays are off in the distance pointing and laughing at us. Our rivals made the upgrades that Brian Cashman claimed weren't possible. There were "limited opportunities" on the market. Limited to who? Only Cashman who can't seem to get the job done.

He has one job, and that is to build a championship caliber team, and find ways to improve upon it. Other teams did it, but he's just not capable. Sure, I know he added Heliot Ramos and Luis Garcia Jr. He added offense which is needed because this lineup is dead without Aaron Judge but, it's a band-aid fix. Neither of these guys play catcher or can come out of the bullpen. They are fine. I want more than fine. I am tired of settling or being complacent while our biggest competitors become more dangerous.

Nothing against Ramos or Garcia. They are just bats the Yankees hope will add some offense to the lineup. Meanwhile, we are still stuck with Austin Wells who can just continue to suck without having an excuse like he's under too much pressure and folding because of it. Now he can just suck because the Yankees will let him because now they have no opportunities instead of "limited opportunities." The only plus to this is Anthony Volpe can suck down in Triple-A and we don't have to watch him night after night screaming the same obscenities when he doesn't hit or screws up defensively. 

So the win for Cashman is we stop bitching about Volpe and now we get to watch George Lombard Jr. finally get his opportunity. He's as untouchable as one could be for a while, but the Yankees stupidly stuck with Volpe for too long. He certainly wasn't holding onto his spot because he earned it, they just wanted Volpe to blossom into something he was never going to be. If the Yankees weren't going to trade Lombard Jr, they needed to give him a chance. It's not like he could be worse. That's almost impossible....

So now you have to wonder if the Yankees best addition was actually a subtraction of Volpe and calling up top prospect Lombard Jr. That was their trade deadline. We got better by sending down a scrub. That's it. Lombard Jr is a talent for sure, we saw it last night there is so much potential there but.....this can't be the big splash for a team with championship aspirations!

We are defined as a team that makes additions by subtraction....that's what we have become. These "decision makers" are a joke. Time will tell, but I hope Lombard Jr. makes the Yankees regret being stupid for so long.

--Jeana Bellezza-Ochoa

BYB Senior Managing Editor

Twitter: @nyprincessj