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12.25.2002
Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day. I feel bad not having posted in several days, but I've been away skiing (poor me) and it's Christmas time...even though I don't celebrate it, it's worthy of a few days off. And we're back. Again, keep hitting the dump. Yanks sign Contreras at 4 years, $32 million I really hope Jose Contreras is the goods. As a Yankee fan, I was really hoping to see him go to Boston and bomb, but I guess now I have to root for him. I'm pretty leery of foreign players in general (less so those from Japan, simply because we have better ways of forecasting their performance in the MLB), and pitchers in particular I think are dangerous. While we've obviously seen a tremendous amount of success from some Cuban pitchers, with El Duque being a great example. If this means that the Yankees lose both Duque and Clemens (which it likely does), I think it's a bit of a risk. And one that comes at significant cost. In an offseason where the team was supposedly trying to pare payroll, the addition of the expensive Contreras flies in the face of that stated objective. Which is okay, but I don't want to see the team cutting salary at the expense of talent later this season (or offseason), because the Yanks do in fact have a pretty decent staff even without Contreras. - |