ESPN's Keith Law has become one of the most respected baseball analysts in the world, and I'm happy to say he agrees with me about one thing. That is, the person who should be patrolling the left field grass in Yankee Stadium this season. He had this to say in one of his Insider posts (thanks TYU): “Either [Xavier] Nady or [Reed] Johnson represent marginal improvements that may not justify the cost. Neither is really a full-time player. Johnson is strictly a platoon player, and can back up [Curtis] Granderson, but they have [Brett] Gardner for that. Nady, even when healthy, was a platoon guy until ‘08. I’m not a Gardner guy, never have been, but their offense is fine even if they put a pointed stick in left field (if the ball hits the stick, the batter is out). So why not play for defense a little with the cheap guy in-house? Eventually, some other option will emerge and there’s no reason for the Yanks to spend money on left field simply for the sake of spending...
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Join the Conversation - Great game today. Big C doing the thing. And C Grand coming through big time. Let's keep the roll going. 08:05:08 PM September 02, 2010 from Seesmic for BlackBerry
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