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Originally Posted by FeelGoodUnInc
There's no way I'd want Matsui traded...I'd rather have Sheffield gone, maybe Abreu can play another position
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Either way they need Melke Cabrera to play every day. The damn problem with this team is that they don't give the young guys a chance to develop.
People forget that most of the stars we had during the World Series years of the late 1990s were guys who weren't great when they first came up from the minors and had a few years to develop.
Bernie Williams hit .238 his first season, and did not hit .300 until his 5th year. But 3 years after that he won a batting title.
Mariano Rivera's first year he was 5-3 with a 5.51 ERA.
Jorge Posada's first 3 years he batted .250, .268 and .245 and averaged 11 HRs per season. But starting the year after that until this past year, he has averaged over 20 HRs, driven in 80-100 runs, and batted around .280.
With the mindset of the current management, these 3 guys would have been shipped out of New York within their first couple of seasons.
I'd prefer if they would trade some of the older guys to make room for the younger ones. That is how you build a World Series contender. You don't go out and sign 35 and 40 year old vetrans and expect them to play like they did when they were 30.