2011

I know, I know its early but I could not help but to start thinking of next season while at work today. Of course we have some of our players who will become free agents next year the list includes Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte who I'm not going to include in my post because I assume they will all be back and make similar amounts of money as they are this season. Coming off the Books will be Vazquez, Johnson, Park, Winn, Thames, Miranda (Im not sure how it works with him since his original contract was a major league one) So coming off the books after raises for certain players is $13.65 million. So really I think there is a shot to sign one of Cliff Lee or Carl Crawford.

Lee would really help the team A rotation of Sabathia, Lee, Burnett, Hughes, Pettitte would be nasty. But I think that a battle for the 5th spot next season between youngsters such as Ivan Nova, Joba Chamberlain would be a better Idea. Last year we got nothing from 1 spot in the Rotation and won the world series. This year we are off to a hot start and have had just 2 good starts from Vazquez. So honestly I feel a young kid could handle the spot.

Crawford in my opinion would be the better option. the line-up would look probably like this.
SS Jeter
LF Crawford
1B Teixeira
3B Rodriguez
2B Cano
C Posada
CF Granderson
DH Swisher
RF Gardner
I really love speed guys who could steal a lot of bases this gives us 2 of them. But what I really love is the options signing Crawford would give us. Swisher would be the Usual DH but could Give Tex a day off when needed and Could play right while Gardner is the DH or plays the other 2 outfield spots. This should really be an interesting debate in about 7 Months.