[Gom]

These guys are unproven and therefore cannot be seen as viable options, Jacko. Listen, my Yankee friend, our farm system has been shit. We had a dry spell for nine years. We got lucky in the draft and got Joba and Kennedy. Hughes was a no-brainer. Cashman is a terrible judge of pitching talent. We don't know about the kids yet, and that was all Oppenheimer anyways. Under Cashman's reign, we've had Weaver, Vazquez, Brown, Randy Johnson, and the return of the Rocket. Let's not forget his collassal error in choosing Pavano over Pedro, and his decision to let Santana go to the Mets for Kennedy, Cabrera, and a bar of soap. Last year he underbid for Matsuzaka, and overpaid for Igawa. Ted Lilly wanted to come back to the Yankees, pitches well against the Red Sox. We got Igawa. Lilly had a 3.83 ERA with a 1.14 WHIP. They would have cost about the same, but due to Lilly's salary instead of the posting fee, it would have been a small increase. So he saves money, and we get Igawa...he of the 6.25 ERA and the 1.67 WHIP. Lets not forget that Lilly threw over 200 IP. Instead, we watched the Red Sox hit 4 consecutive homers against Wright...and the bad pitching stories go on and on and on. His positives have been Moose. That's it. The likely fact is that most of these guys will not have successful major league careers. Marquez is a junkballer. Sanchez is an injury risk, so is Brackman, and so is Horne. Now, they may all pan out. How often does that happen? You're talking like these guys can come in now and be serviceable major league pitchers. Our rotation is as suspect as it's been in years. Hell, last year, going into spring training, our rotation was more stable.

I've said this before, stop reading the press clippings. The Yankees pitching is much, much weaker than you'd like to believe, and our GM is the most overpaid and overrated GM in the game. That's one thing he and his managing lackey, Torre, have in common.