The World Series will start tonight without
the New York Yankees, which is pretty depressing.
I will watch some of the World Series
and root for the San Francisco Giants to win it all, but I do not harbor much
ill will toward the Detroit Tigers. It was not their fault that the Yankee hitters decided to sleep walk through the postseason. I like Detroit’s chances
with Justin Verlander leading their rotation and their sluggers Miguel Cabrera
and Prince Fielder. But I can’t help but wonder if they are really that good of
a team or if the ALCS sweep was mostly the result of the Yankees stinking up the
joints in the Bronx and Motown.
So instead of preparing to represent the
American League in baseball’s final showdown, manager Joe Girardi and general
manager Brian Cashman were busy the last few days sharing their thoughts on the
state of the Yankees and their season with the media. We didn’t get much in the
way of insight, but I suspect there will be some major changes this offseason.
However, despite how badly I and other
Yankee fans want to get rid of Alex Rodriguez, I have serious doubts that
Cashman can pull off a trade, even if ARod changes his mind about playing in New
York, which he should. ARod is a small fraction of the player that he was once
and other baseball officials would have to be blind to have missed that. I
really believe that the only way the Yankees will be able to trade ARod is if they
agree to pay all but a few million dollars a year on his remaining contract,
which means that deal will continue to strangle the Yankees for years to come,
even if ARod experiences an AJ Burnett-like resurgence somewhere else.
But Cashman and Girardi will have plenty
of time to ponder how to make things
work with ARod at third base next year while they watch the Tigers battle for the
World Series championship they could have had with a little
more effort from the offense. Completely depressing, indeed.
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