C.C. Ya Real Soon

I cannot wait to be at opening day of the New Yankee Stadium, sitting with a cold $8 beer and seeing the new "Hefty Lefty" climb on the hill to a standing ovation and throw his heart out. If is heart is even close to as large as his wallet right now, I would say this is a great move for the Yanks who have finally got a true Ace on their staff.

By the way, if you are a MLB fan and have been locked in a room this morning: Word is that CC Sabathia has agreed to a deal for 7years and 160million contract with the New York Yankees.

Did the Yankees offer too many years? Maybe. Did they offer too much money? Possibly. But they had to. CC was the one target that Ca$hman had to lock up. With the Yankees in desperate need of pitching, they had to overpay for him a bit. But was it really overpaying? Figure this: CC now is being paid close to Santana (depending on what you hear the contract is either just below Santana's annually or just above. Either way it’s not significant enough to say they are dramatically different). In addition, CC is younger than Santana. AND the Yankees didn’t have to trade 4 prospects.

What this does is give the Yankees a deeper rotation. Assuming they sign one more of the Lowe, Burnett, Sheets player, the Yankees rotation will look as follows:

#1 CC Sabathia
#2 Wang
#3 Sheets/Lowe/Burnett
#4 Joba
#5 Petitte/Hughes/Kennedy/X

This rotation instantly becomes the best in baseball if they can sign two of the Lowe/Burnett/Sheets trio.

All in all this is a great signing of a stud pitcher who arguably could have won the Cy Young in the NL last year and had won the award in '07.

Now all we need is the Angels to sign Texeira and the Sox would be shut out.

Also, I am secretly hoping that the Yankees can sign Manny to a 2-3 year deal and play him in left or DH him. Nothing would make me happier than to see him crush lasers in a Yankee uniform against the Red Sox.

And so the winter meetings continue.

Some great sites to visit while the drama unfolds.


http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

http://riveraveblues.com/

http://blogs.nypost.com/sports/st/