Take it from me, someone who, living in Houston, saw Xavier Nady 17 times a year: the guy can play. Marte I know less about, but it's always cool when one team gets one player with one particular opposing player in mind. In 1983, the Celtics went out and got Dennis Johnson specifically because nobody they had could stop the Sixers' Andrew Toney. What has mostly killed the Yankees the past four years (save that one lovely week back in August, 2005) has been the inability of anyone in the pen save Mo Rivera to get out David Ortiz. Is Marte the answer? You never know with relievers in the Bronx (Jay Witasik, Mike Myers, LaTroy Hawkins, Mark Wohlers--conversely, Graeme Lloyd, Jeff Nelson, David Weathers, Mike Stanton).
Mike Vaccaro of the Post sums up Friday night the best:
BOSTON - There was only one way for this beauty of a baseball game to end, of course. The tying run had to be on base. There had to be two outs in the ninth inning, with the MVP of the All-Star Game digging in to face the greatest closer in the history of the sport.
Some nights demand the full regal treatment. Those nights also deserve an appropriate conclusion. And so it was that Mariano RiveraMariano Rivera zipped a 95-mph cutter toward the outside corner, and J.D. Drew stood and stared at it, and home plate umpire Marty Foster lifted his right arm and tied it all up in a bow.
YankeesNew York Yankees 1, Red Sox 0.
"That," Joe Girardi said after he'd breathed his final sigh of relief, "was one whale of a game, wasn't it?"
Joel Sherman, puts the trade bluntly:Pittsburgh received four prospects, but the pirates were the Yankees.
If all goes well, count on Nady starting against Jon Lester Sunday night.
Had enough heat? Today, Pettitte's cutters v. Wakefield's slop, and my local Fox affiliate promises, promises me the game will (gasp) actually be televised in Houston.
See, out here in Friday Night Lights country, where baseball is a nice diversion between spring football and football, it's a rumor to us that there are any baseball teams in existence beyond the Astros, Cubs, Cardinals and Braves. Or so Fox would have us believe.
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I didn't think we would pull anything off but you can't go with a duo of AAA players in left field and expect to make the post season. Plus,it looks like we'll have a permanent hole on offense with Molina.
Yes, that game last night was a classic. I think Kevin Youkliss is going to have a stroke.
Gone unnoticed:
The Yankees announced they have outrighted Kei Igawa to the minors. It means every team passed on him on waivers and the Yankees still have to pay him (his five-year, $20 million deal runs through 2011).
Worst signing ever! Well,except for Pavano.
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