Yanks should say no thanks for Santana

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Johan Santana’s great 2007
Published 12/27/2007 by Ben K. at River Avenue Blues
... Over at the Lo Hud Yankees Blog, Peter Abraham this evening penned a piece with which we here at RAB clearly agree. Abraham wrote that the Yankees should just say no to Johan Santana. ...

Passing on Johan
Published 12/27/2007 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
Peter Abraham gives his reasons why the Yankees should pass on Johan Santana : Spend the money on draft picks, Dominican shortstops and Taiwanese pitchers. Go find kids in Korea, Australia, Venezuela and everywhere else. Hire more scouts and go see every junior college prospect in Texas. Go find the next Santana, don't trade for the old one. The Yankees do have time on their side. The Twins, of course, run the risk that Hughes turns out to be so good next season that there's no reason for the Yankees to trade him. They also run the risk that Santana and a healthy Liriano have ...

Clemens and Santana: newsmakers for very different reasons
Published 12/27/2007 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... . Classy, Roger. Very classy. One non-Clemens nugget comes from Pete Abe's blog , as he writes that the new Santana rumor that surfaced recently -- that the Twins would accept a lower-tier package of Hughes, Jeff Marquez, and Melky -- should just be ignored. He wonders if the Yankees are going to keep these kids, or just play them to trade them: Trade these guys now and the message is pretty clear: The Yankees are only paying lip service to development. This isn't trading a few B-level prospects for Bobby Abreu in July. This would be an old-school Yankees move. We tend to ...

Trolling for Stories
Published 12/27/2007 by jscape2000 <info@pinstripealley.com> at Pinstripe Alley: Front Page Posts
... Peter Abraham thinks the Yanks should say 'no thanks' to a Hughes-Melky-Marquez package for Johan Santana. I agree with him if the Mets can actually field an offer (if I were the Twins, I'd want Johan in the NL). ...

Abraham: Yanks should say no thanks for Johan Santana
Published 12/27/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Abraham: Yanks should say no thanks for Johan Santana Yanks to go cold turkey on Santana? Big Boy Pete takes a look. It’s their money, not ours. But I sit there at the Stadium and listen. People cheer loudest for the players who came up in pinstripes. People respect A-Rod but they love Jeter. They wanted Clemens do well. They adored Andy Pettitte. Cashman has somehow made it cool for Yankee fans to care about Jose Tabata even though 99 percent of them have no idea what he looks like. Spend the money on draft picks, Dominican shortstops and Taiwanese pitchers. Go find kids ...

Thursday link dump
Published 12/27/2007 by ETVal at Valentine's Views
Since I'm not giving you anything original today, the least I can do is hunt around and show you what others are saying. So, here's a Thursday afternoon link dump for you. USA Today ranks the NFL's best play-callers. One thing I can tell you -- Kevin Gilbride of the New York Giants is not on this list. Still think the New York Yankees should mortgage the farm to get Johan Santana from the Minnesota Twins. I don't. Peter Abraham of the Journal News is a smart guy and he agrees with me. He lays out the case beautifullly for why the Yankees should pass on Santana in his ...

Yankee ghosts of Christmas past
Published 12/27/2007 by Mark Serio at BASEBALL HOT CORNER
... Peter Abraham's LoHud Yankee Blog published an article titled: "Yankees should say no thanks for Santana." Peter believes the youth movement philosophy should be adhered to, Baseball Hot Corner agrees completely and has ...

Santana update
Published 12/28/2007 by JMM at MY BASEBALL BIAS
... First, Peter Abraham wrote that the Yankees should, at this point, pass on trading for him. He believes the Yankees should continue to develop the young kids (Hughes, Kennedy and Chamberlain) instead of adding another $140 million dollars over the next seven years to their payroll. ...

Fun With Stats: The Case for Santana
Published 1/9/2008 by Paul SF at YFSF
... Peter Abraham, whose larger point was that the Yankees should keep their prospects, said Santana could become "the next Mike Hampton." Chad Finn, one of my favorite Sox bloggers, said he believes Santana showed " ...