Lauren Gardner coming to from
studio okay a lot of people at
their holiday parties this
evening we are braking news and
you know that brian Cashman and
scott Boris were very busy the
following those winter meeting's
in san Diego as one of the best
arms and the free agent market
was highly touted.
The Yankees had a lot of
interest in him but there was a
little bit of a gap it was said
that after they got married
Judge deal done that they were
motivated to get this thing
done.
Now you look at a probable
rotation for the 2023 season.
How about this anchored by
Gerrit Cole the lefty roden
there in the two spot and the
nestor cortes luis Ceferino
Frankie Montas and so on and so
forth for moore on this one.
Let's bring in our own brian
Hoak who has been following the
story closely brian, what was
your reaction to this news when
it just broke?
I'll tell you, I think that
Palestine runner lived up to his
words, he told erin Judge when
there were negotiating that 19
year deal how Steinbrenner said
, look we can get this Diehl
done and we can still due more
to make the Yankees better to
close that gap on the Houston
Astros and he's delivered buy
getting Carlos Yordan the best
available starting pitchers on
the market now that Jacob deGrom
and Justin Verlander off the
board, this is a big one for the
Yankees I think you'd have to go
back two decades to find a more
formidable starting rotation in
the Bronx, I'm going back to
when Mike Mussina roger clemons
Andy Pettitte, those guys were
all in there because even in
2009 when they won the World
Series, they did that by halving
, only three guys make starts, I
think top to bottom this yankee
rotation, it's probably the most
formidable in the american
league right now.
I think it's a big step forward
for a team that needed to do
moore here this off season.
And why was it so important to
get a lefty in that rotation?
I think Yankees, you know
lefties and yankee stadium are
always very valuable and you can
go back historically the way the
park dimensions work their, but
it's not just the fact that
roden pitches with his left hand
, it's the fact that he is
really, really good and we were
talking to Aaron Boone about him
a little bit during the winter
meetings and that was what he
said, he said, man, he's good,
he's really good, he would be a
difference maker in any rotation
and now he'll be coming to the
Bronx and we have heard that he
is an east coast guy's from
Miami will kind of leaning that
way, was hoping that something
would work out on the East coast
for him after being out in san
Francisco in the bay area for a
couple of years here, I think
this is going to be a good fit
him coming in the Bronx.
The question with him has been
help but when he's on the mound
he's as dominant as anybody.
Yeah your write his stuff is
absolutely filthy and the way
that ballpark is laid out.
I think his stuff is going to
play very well.
You're just talking about him
being a Miami guy.
Obviously he held his own in
Chicago with the media.
It's a different story in san
Francisco how do you think he's
going to Handel the new york
media?
I think he'll he'll be ready for
that.
I think that you dont come in to
the Yankees fold and not
understand what that mean's
playing in a major media market
like new york city the spot
light burns a little brighter.
It just does that's reality and
I think that you don't come to
the Yankees and accept that kind
of money, that kind of
commitment there.
He has a no trade clause that I
think shows that he wants to be
a yankee, he wants to be in pin
stripes and with him and
Gerrit Cole at the front of that
rotation and then you guys like
luis Ceferino Frankie Montas
next Cortez in there.
I'll take my chances with that
rotation and playoff series and
that I know the pitching was not
the reason the Yankees got
eliminated in the A.L.C.S. It
was that they don't hit but you
know pitching wins championships
and the Yankees have a really
good step right now when you
look at that at that on paper,
especially when healthy, that's
going to be tough to contend
with.
Are U guys?
Are our the Yankees done now in
this off season?
No they have more to do that
definitely and brian Cashman is
talking to us about that at the
winter meetings and saying that
left field is a vacancy right
now, that's something they need
to address.
And uh you know Andrew
Benintendi still out there is a
free agent would not rule out a
reunion with him.
I think that just comes to the
matter of figuring out of salary
and a length there.
But clearly the Yankees traded
fur Benintendi for a and they
didn't get to see him fully
because he got injured there
with kind of that freak wrist
injury but maybe you bring him
back, maybe you work on the
trade, you could bring in some
guys there, I know they've
talked to the twins for max
keppler but I don't see them
going into 22 23 with some
combination of Aaron Hicks and
Oswaldo cabrera in left field.
That's the way it would be a on
paper right now.
I think there's more to do