Peavy not going to White Sox, Yanks should go after him

[AgainstAllOdds]

11 mil a year is a bargain for this guy. Although he said he wants to stay in the NL, but im sure you throw a little more money in the contract, he would be willing to move.


Lets get this done yanks.

[rjt721]

Peavy would get crushed pitching in the AL East. Going from Petco to that Little League park in the Bronx wouldn't be pretty.

[Salcas]

Don't want him

Although if Joba goes down, we could use him.

[diogee]

Agree with RJT...wouldn't be good for Peavy to be pitching in the Yankee whiffle ball park. AL East has much better hitters than he faces right now and plays in a pitchers park.

[jellobiafra]

Typical Yankee thinking. Ahhh.... just throw some more money at him and he'll be ours.

This is why the rest of the world hates your team.

[AgainstAllOdds]

Whatever gets the job done, son.


On another note if Joba is injured and Wang comes back only to get shelled, they will have to look for someone else.

[smitch124]

Give Chi-Archie a look, he had a good repertoire...

[Chi_archie]

Whatever gets the job done, son.


On another note if Joba is injured and Wang comes back only to get shelled, they will have to look for someone else.

just call some one of from your farm team......

the one in pittsburgh, I think they are called the pirates.....

they have a lot of young starters that could help you...

Peavy would have done bad in the cell, in chicago.... that place is a launching pad in the summer.... he doesn't want to go to the AL,

away from petco peavy is just a little bit above avg... put him in a high pressure situation in NY, in that uber launching pad, facing the bosox, blue jay, and tampa bay lineup about 35% of his starts.....

his era would be 4.75 or higher.....

no way he would consent to being traded to the yanks

[jellobiafra]

Whatever gets the job done, son.

I would respect the Yankees if this was truly their motto. But it's not. The Twins are a "whatever gets the job done" team. The Yankees are a one trick pony. There's no "whatever" about it. It's just donkey kong everybody over the head with monopoly money and hope for the best.

[Salcas]

I would respect the Yankees if this was truly their motto. But it's not. The Twins are a "whatever gets the job done" team. The Yankees are a one trick pony. There's no "whatever" about it. It's just donkey kong everybody over the head with monopoly money and hope for the best.

Typical hater.

[jellobiafra]

Typical hater.

[Casperwaits]

The Yankees won't get him. They would have to give up somebody of value for him. The Yankees don't have crap in their farm system. He would be a Red Sox a lot wuicker than he would be a Yankee. Not only that, he said one of the few teams he would play for in the AL would be the Red Sox.

[Casperwaits]

The Yankees won't get him. They would have to give up somebody of value for him. The Yankees don't have crap in their farm system. He would be a Red Sox a lot quicker than he would be a Yankee. Not only that, he said one of the few teams he would play for in the AL would be the Red Sox.

[jellobiafra]

You could say that again....

[AgainstAllOdds]

Lets just think about this for a second. (Note, it maybe a far out concept but worth the thought)

Yanks get Peavy. Wang comes back and pitches decent. You move Joba and Hughes back into relief. It would look something like this.

Starting

Wang
Pettitte
Peavy
Burnett
CC

Relief

Joba
Hughes
Bruney
Coke
yada
yada

Closer

Rivera


Who could compete with that? Every problem solved.

[Shortstop]

Why in the hell would you leave San Diego to go to the White Sox? The White Sox suck and aren't going anywhere but down this year.

Good decision Jake!

Plus the Padres have won 5 in a row and the Sox got beat 20-1 today.

[madmaxx]

yanks have nothing for prospects and the decision is peavy's not the padres

[ijustwant2bpaid]

Yanks will most likely get some lefties so they dont get jacked to right field i think..

[Chi_archie]

Zach Duke......

[CashMoney]

Joba is fine....thankfully just a bruised knee. Wang should be back soon too. Oh yeah....forget throwing money at Peavy....throw money at Peavy and the Padres

[Bluehorseshoe]

Yanks will most likely get some lefties so they dont get jacked to right field i think..

They really should.

Dig up Ron Guidry and throw him on the mound if you have to.

[AMBlai01]

Everyone keeps saying that the Yankees don't have prospects but they actually do now. 3 years ago they had nothing....they actually have a very deep farm system now. It is really not as bad as everyone tries to say it is because everyone keeps thinking about the way it used to be.

That being said...getting Peavy is an awful idea. I really don't want him on the Yankees...things seems to be going well right now lets hope that continues and if we need something more lets evaluate in a month or so...

[Deuce]

Steinbrenner is chucked. Peavy does not want to play for a loser. Peavy would get chucked either way in the AL.

[SBR Lou]

Typical Yankee thinking. Ahhh.... just throw some more money at him and he'll be ours.

This is why the rest of the world hates your team.

If your team, or any team for that matter, had the resources NY had, would you not expect them to use them to acquire whoever they felt could give them a better shot to win a championship?

[pavyracer]

How are the Yanks going to get him without any prospects?

[jellobiafra]

If your team, or any team for that matter, had the resources NY had, would you not expect them to use them to acquire whoever they felt could give them a better shot to win a championship?

Actually, I've come around to not minding the practice of throwing money at everything. It's clearly led to a certain sort of organizational laziness; reliance on the easy way out. The Yankees have become such the one trick pony that they have lost focus on what it takes to truly be a successful franchise - player development. It wasn't big money contracts that earned them their success of the 90's an early 2000's. It was scouting, drafting and developing players from within.

So by all means keep trying to win championships by throwing more money at players than any other team has the means to match. The only thing that really annoys me is the associated arrogance exhibited by the OP here. The matter of factly stated mindset that "we can have anything we want, just throw more money at him" grates me a little. It'd be nice if you guys showed even a shadow of humility. But no. You all seem perfectly content if not downright proud of the fact that you exploit you inherent advantage over every other team in the league at every possible turn.

Even here where Peavy has explicitly stated he doesn't want to play in the AL, much less the for the Yankees, you guys still think he's yours once you get around to dumping enough money in his lap. It's a foregone conclusion, because you guys can have anything you want of course. You're the Yankees after all.

[Casperwaits]

If your team, or any team for that matter, had the resources NY had, would you not expect them to use them to acquire whoever they felt could give them a better shot to win a championship?

It isn't about money with Peavy, it's about prospects. The Padres are not letting Peavy go for a song. The Red Sox are a lot more likely to get Peavy from the Padres than the Yankees are. Peavy, once again said he would like to play for the Red Sox.

[pavyracer]

Yankees fans are the definition of sheep fans. They will pay $200 to watch a game so their team can buy the best players that become busts after joining them. This is why it will be years before they win anything again. New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys are the perfect examples of failures. If you can't win it we will buy it. It doesn't work like this.

[Bluehorseshoe]

How are the Yanks going to get him without any prospects?

It's never going to come down to who to send. He won't play there.


If he had to ask people about Chicago, you think he's going to be able to handle NY??

Ed Whitson revisited.