Giambi Wants Nomar, Thoughts on Randy Johnson
According to the NY Daily News, Giambi was thought to have placed a recruiting call to Nomar yesterday. The two are said to be good friends.
Now, there are four suitors for Nomar: the Yanks, Dodgers, Indians, and Astros. The Yanks are the only team that are thinking about playing Nomar at first base. The other teams want Nomar to play outfield.
In other news, the Orioles, Dodgers, Red Sox, and Yankees appear to be the four strongest candidates to pick up Johnny Damon.
Let's hope that the Yankees are only faking interest to drive the price up on Damon. Just like they did with Pedro Martinez last off season.
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Very little media attention has been given to the mediocre season that Randy Johnson had in 2005.
He was nowhere close to being the perennial Cy Young candidate that he was throughout his 30s.
Few people know that during his last season with the Diamondbacks, Arizona officials told Randy Johnson that they could only offer him an 8 million dollar extension. This is the one and only reason why Randy asked to be traded to the Yankees.
Make no mistake about it: the Yankees were the only team that was willing to give Johnson a two-year extension at 16 million per.
Randy Johnson broke into the major leagues at 25 years of age - on the older side for star pitchers. He had major control problems until he was around 30 years of age, which is when he began his streak of Cy Young awards.
Even though he had made more than 111,582,500.00 dollars, that's 111.5825 million dollars in salary by the time he reached his last year with Arizona, I guess he wanted to squeeze out as much as he could before everyone realized that he was on the decline.
I'd like to hope that the 2005 season was just an adjustment year for Randy, and that he'll return to Cy Young form in 2006. But something tells me this won't be the case.
- Joshua
InsideTheYankees.com
Now, there are four suitors for Nomar: the Yanks, Dodgers, Indians, and Astros. The Yanks are the only team that are thinking about playing Nomar at first base. The other teams want Nomar to play outfield.
In other news, the Orioles, Dodgers, Red Sox, and Yankees appear to be the four strongest candidates to pick up Johnny Damon.
Let's hope that the Yankees are only faking interest to drive the price up on Damon. Just like they did with Pedro Martinez last off season.
***
Very little media attention has been given to the mediocre season that Randy Johnson had in 2005.
He was nowhere close to being the perennial Cy Young candidate that he was throughout his 30s.
Few people know that during his last season with the Diamondbacks, Arizona officials told Randy Johnson that they could only offer him an 8 million dollar extension. This is the one and only reason why Randy asked to be traded to the Yankees.
Make no mistake about it: the Yankees were the only team that was willing to give Johnson a two-year extension at 16 million per.
Randy Johnson broke into the major leagues at 25 years of age - on the older side for star pitchers. He had major control problems until he was around 30 years of age, which is when he began his streak of Cy Young awards.
Even though he had made more than 111,582,500.00 dollars, that's 111.5825 million dollars in salary by the time he reached his last year with Arizona, I guess he wanted to squeeze out as much as he could before everyone realized that he was on the decline.
I'd like to hope that the 2005 season was just an adjustment year for Randy, and that he'll return to Cy Young form in 2006. But something tells me this won't be the case.
- Joshua
InsideTheYankees.com
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