I know if I were Ca$hman I sure as hell wouldn’t pick up his $10M club option at the end of this season, that’s for sure. Corner outfielders are easy to find and to your point, if the Yankees let Swisher and Jones walk at the end of the season, another dependable veteran could be brought in at half or less than Swisher would cost as insurance should one of the kids get off to a rough start.

Theo has been actually pretty shrewd with the timing of several key moves that he’s made over time. For example, knowing when to let Man-Ram go even though he knew there would be fan backlash. His timing is just slightly off, but he’ll be able to let Cameron and slacker JD Drew walk at the end of the season without having to eat any big money too.

Of course he’s made some very expensive mistakes too. Dice-K was a horrible waste of money and he WAY over paid for John “I am a” Lackey. What amazes me is that for as smart as people think that Theo is he doesn’t apparently pay enough attention to the stats behind the stats when it comes to evaluating players.

Everyone who follows the Angels out here knew that Lackey at best was no more than a #3 starter (but one who could at least eat innings). The numbers Lackey put up that boosted his value in free agency had more to do with starting a lot of his games in pitchers parks including Angel Stadium, Seattle’s Safeco Field and whatever they’re now calling that obsolete stadium up in Oakland.

In addition, at the time Lackey was an Angel he pitched a lot of his games against the then all weak lineups in the AL West, not against the likes of the Yankees, Rays and Jays.

Theo made a shrewd move though when he landed Crawford (despite his slow start thusfar), and trading for Adrian Gonzales.

The Yankees on the other hand basically just handed CC a blank check out of desperation and gave ridiculous foolish money to A-Roid and Jeter, both who are on the wrong side of 35. Theo won’t make those kind of moves which makes me think that he’ll make only a token pass at bringing Big Papi back in free agency this year.

Just how much trouble is the Yankees pitching staff in? When the mighty Yankees have to resort to pulling bust Jeffrey Marquez off the waiver wire and immediately suit him up to play, it’s not exactly a sign that Hank and Hal (who are thought to be cheap), is giving Ca$hman any money with which to play and work with. JOMO.

RELEASE THE VAZQUEZ!

In Girardi’s defense, he couldn’t really yank AJ — he needed him to eat innings. Joba just went on the DL, the bullpen was in disarray, etc. and so on. If he’d had anyone TO call, I’m sure he would have.

Of course, counting on AJ to eat anything but a bowl of suck once the weather gets hot is pretty foolish in the first place, but…here we all are.