WHY NOT GO AFTER A TOP FREE AGENT IF WE'RE THE YANKEES?

Several days ago, Mark Feinsand (HERE) had a piece that highlights the Yankees meeting with Joel Pineiro’s agent and the whole time I’m reading it thinking about last winter when the Yanks thought it was 1995 and Bartolo Colon was available. Except, it was 2011 instead. Yes, we dodged an absolute collapse and Bartolo Colon and Freddy Garcia did pretty good for us, but I don’t want to do that again.

We are the mighty Yankees and we should be looking at quality pitchers and any time the Yankees are lumped into talks with the Mets for 1 pitcher, like Joel Pineiro, you know we don’t belong there. The Mets are broke. The Mets need pitchers that can get through some starts but at the same time, don’t cost a ton of dough. The Yankees don’t usually do this. This is a new world for me and many of you and I just don’t want to be caught up in a scotch-taped rotation again in 2012.

(In Photo: Tim Redding)

I don't need Brian Gordon joining us to get us through a start in the middle of the summer, or better yet, Tim Redding...remember him?

If we were to sign someone like Joel Pinerio and he shits the bed, it's the same thing as Colon breaking down in September for us, we just don't need it. The Colon-Garcia Saga happened once, and it was brilliant, but that was last year, it can't be this year.

I know, the market is light this year, but if you’re going to go that route, signing Garcia was fine for a back end rotation guy, now we need a top pitcher to sandwich in between CC Monster and AJ Burnett. Joel Pineiro is not that pitcher. You know what I mean?

Now, people are going to read this and say “Casey, don’t panic. You don’t know what your talking about, the Yankees are merely looking at Pineiro, no offer has been made.” I’m here to tell you I know that, but I also want to bring it to you straight, that's why you read us. Do I see Cashman signing Joel Pineiro now? No, but if things start moving, there is no doubt, he could...I just don't want to fall into that web again...I like certainty.

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YANKEE RUMORS & BYB: PART 16

Yu Darvish: Hal Steinbrenner has stated that he has no problem pursuing Japanese sensation Yu Darvish, but the real question is, will he post? According to reports, Yu's father believes the chances are "50-50". No doubt he said that in Japanese...that's a joke. The point is I think it's safe to say that if Yu posts, the Yankees will do their best to get him. If not, I believe they will then go hard to sign CJ Wilson or Mark Buehrle... that is unless Wilson doesn't sign with the LA Angels and Buehrle signs with the Nationals. Read Wilson and the Angels connection HERE and Buehrle and the Nationals connection HERE.
Jair Jurrjens: Wally Matthews of ESPN says the Yankees are concerned about Jurrjens knee and believe that he may have serious knee injury. You can read about it HERE. This past weekend, we wrote WHY NUNEZ MAY BE AN ATLANTA BRAVE...MAYBE. In it, we informed you that the Braves like Eduardo Nunez and would possibly want to trade Jair Jurrjens. We will keep an eye on this one and let you know if the Yankees are seriously interested in pulling the trigger for Jurrjens or if they will hold off.
Eric Chavez: Yes, it's true, Chavez has decided to play in 2012, but will the Yankees sign him? Read it HERE. Brian Cashman has stated that he'd bring Chavez back at the right price and if you factor in that he will most likely get hurt at least once in 2012 and play a handful of games as a bench player as well as fiilling in at first and third, I'd say Chavez knows exactly what he's worth. Chavez hit .263 with 2 home runs and 26 RBIs in 58 games last season.
Joel Pineiro: I liked Pineiro when he was younger and better. I don't care for him now and the fact that Cashman is asking about Pineiro only means one thing to me, he just wants to visit all options before he makes a move. This Pineiro meeting, read HERE doesn't mean much, unless the Yankee brass believes they can get lightening in a bottle, similarly to the way they found in with Bartolo Colon and they can get him for cheap.

Anything happens, we will have it here on Bleeding Yankee Blue.

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