Soriano Back In The Bronx

As we debate A Rod a time out to note that Jeter just went yard in his first AB back

 

Outing alert: Boom is MankyJimy.

 

Jeter singles , Soriano homers to right

 

Again, if you oppose Boom's argument, you presuppose the Yankees wouldn't have added another player of A-Rod's caliber, either via trade or free agency.

Your hole at third base after Boone blew out his knee could have been filled other ways. Instead of A-Rod (3B) and Miguel Cairo (2B), you maybe could have had Tejada (3B) or someone of that caliber and Soriano (2B). Honestly, I'd take the latter combination every single time.

 

Or Mike Lowell when The Marlins made him available.

 

Phillies were also dangling Rolen around then.

 

Boom's "argument" is that he "never fit in." Which is kind of silly. He fit in well enough to be an extremely productive player. Remember, Boom also tried to argue that he won two MVP awards as a Yankee by piling up statistics in meaningless games. Apparently, those entire two seasons were meaningless.

 

Name the available players that were of Arods calibre through those years? So you are going to play Soriano at second over Cano? Ok.

A lot of assumptions that the Yanks could just go out and do these things.

 

Are there any Scott Boras free agent clients that lived up to his hype? Came close to earning their big fa contract?

 

Soriano today 4/5 with walkoff single

 

Maddux, Beltre, Lohse, Pedro Alvarez, Strasburg, Harper, Machado, Harvey and Carlos Gonzalez, but there have been a ton of dogs.

 

Uh, what?