The New York Yankees are officially making moves simply to
make moves, I’m convinced of it, and there is no plan of attack and no
direction for this team right now. FYI, before you comment in the comments
section, mediocrity and failure is not a direction in my book, they are the New
York Yankees dammit. For much of the offseason the team looked to be getting
younger, more versatile, cheaper and more dependent on their own homegrown
players and then Stephen Drew showed up.
I understand the signing, I truly do, because it gives the
Yankees a true low risk high reward guy that can bounce back offensively and be
a real bargain at only $5 million. On a win now team and an offensive
juggernaut this signing is ideal because it gives Refsnyder one more year or at
least a half a year, which I agree he needs defensively, to work on his tools
and such and it also allows Jose Pirela a bench option. It also gives the team
a true backup at shortstop if the team decided to move on from Brendan Ryan.
The problem here is, in my opinion, the team is not a win now team and the team
is not an offensive juggernaut.
Even if Drew bounces back and plays to the back of his
baseball card or better the Yankees team will still struggle as a whole to
score runs, again in my opinion. Drew does make the defense better but honestly
Refsnyder, and WAR supports this theory, gives the Yankees a right handed bat
that would truly help the lineup. Drew just makes it easier for opposing
managers to bring in a left handed LOOGY and mow down more than half of our
lineup in the later innings.
I’m not mad about the signing I just wish the Yankees would
go one way or the other. Either go young, rebuild and retool on the fly or go
all in and spend, spend, spend. No words right now.
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