It wasn’t pretty, but the Yankees finished off the sweep of the Orioles with a 6-4 win in 10 innings that gets the back to .500. Read our recap here. Here is what the blogosphere was talking about today.
- River Ave Blues points out that the Yankees haven’t used their speed to their advantage yet. It’s still early, Brett Gardner will start tearing it up soon.
- It’s About The Money thinks it’s too early to start worrying about Mark Teixeira. I’m more worried about him further regressing than getting off to a slow start.
- Pinstripe Alley says that re-signing Freddy Garcia was a mistake. I disagree, he was a solid, cheap, depth signing and they had no way of known Andy Pettitte would return at the time.
OK, so I read the Pinstripe Alley article on the Garcia re-signing. Their argument is that Freddy is not better than young, AAA guys in the Yankees organization, like Phelps, and by re-signing Garcia for $4M, the Yankees are blocking younger, cheaper guys from moving up.
Freddy had an excellent 2011. When we re-signed him, we were desperate for quality starters. It's nice that Andy Pettite miraculously came out of retirement, but there was no way to know that when we re-signed Freddy. Hindsight is 20-20, but the Garcia re-signing was absolutely correct.