So the trade deadline has come and gone. The Yankees were extremely active. But are they better than they were two weeks ago?
The simple answer is yes. We’re certainly not worse. Every player we got, we got for a song and a dance. I actually heard a guy on the radio today moaning and complaining about the unfairness of the Yankees situation.
Here’s the thing, Berkman, Kearns, and Wood are not the players most people probably think of when they first hear the names. They are serviceable. They will do steady work. They may even get really hot at some point in the next three months. But they don’t make the Yankees significantly better. What these acquisitions do more than anything else is keep these players off of the Rays and Red Sox.
The price that was paid for them is worth that in and of itself.
Both Berman and Kearns are capable of hitting the game winning homerun in a key game. Both are more than capable of going 0-4 in a game that matters.
Wood is more than capable of lights out work, and he’s also more than capable of serving as the other team’s late inning batting practice pitcher.
This trade line activity is about the possibility that each player brings. It’s about what might happen.
At the end this season will come down to what Tex, Jete, A-Rod and Robbie do.
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