We're getting a late start, as we imagine plenty of you are after Snowmageddon II, and with today being a holiday for some we imagine we might be blogging a little bit into the wind. A little nugget on ESPN.com, though, caught our eye and reinforced that if the Twins are serious about entertaining offers for Francisco Liriano, the Yankees have the potential to be a suitor. Buster Olney writes all about the Yankees' lack of depth, summarized with this sentence:
The Yankees thought they would sign Cliff Lee and missed in that pursuit, and in early January, they thought Andy Pettitte would come back, and he did not. So the Yankees need to find 400 innings somewhere, beyond what they hope to get out of CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Phil Hughes.
In other words, the Yankees are missing two high-end left-handed starters with top-of-the-rotation potential. Instead, they are hoping for a bounceback year from Burnett and wondering if Phil Hughes -- who was lit up by the Rangers in two ALCS starts last year -- is more of a No. 2 starter or a No. 4 starter. So they're potentially desperate. Maybe this isn't the time to do it. Maybe you would never entertain the notion of trading Liriano to the Yankees.
It's food for thought, anyway. We invite you to play let's make a deal in the comments to see if there might be a trade with the hated Bronx Bombers that makes any sense.
