Ken Rosenthal: Don’t Be Foolish, Yankees Aren’t Done Yet

(Zell's Pinstripe Blog)

  Ken Rosenthal believes that the Yankees are far from dealing this off-season. He believes that the Yankees should go after Ben Sheets as their #5 starter, and Juan Cruz to be the setup man. The Yankees really haven’t said much or expressed a lot of interest in the two, but anything can happen.

Sheets is definitely injury prone, but he is worth the risk. He would supply the Yankees with more starting pitching depth. On the other hand, Cruz could give the Yankees a much-needed setup man, and he wouldn’t cost much. Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman has said that Joba Chamberlain will be in the rotation, so the 1-2 punch of Joba/Mo is gone for now.

     You can never say the Yankees are done spending….

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Both Sheets and Cruz are Type A free agents who were offered salary arbitration, but they would cost the Yankees only fourth- and fifth-round draft picks. The Yankees already have signed three higher-ranking free agents—Mark Teixeira, (CC) Sabathia and (AJ) Burnett.

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Sheets, while a physical risk, could be the Yankees’ answer to Brad Penny and John Smoltz, both of whom signed with the Red Sox for relatively low base salaries with the chance to earn significantly more through incentives.

SI.com, citing a baseball source, reported Tuesday that (Andy) Pettitte is weighing a lesser offer to return to the Astros. However, Astros GM Ed Wade told FOXSports.com, “I haven’t had any discussions with Andy or any of his representatives at all. We’re up against our (budget) number right now.”

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