You mean like Jon Lieber.

I overheard Lupica on the TV today saying that the Yankees need Johan Santana because, naturally, the Yankees need an answer to Josh Beckett. The Yankees need a power pitcher who can blow people away in the playoffs.

1. Santana is 1-3, 3.97 in the playoffs.
   
2. Santana has zero rings.
   
3. The Twins would have demanded more from the Yankees than they demanded from the Mets. The reasons are obvious. The Yankees are in the American League and the Twins are quite likely to face the Yankees in the playoffs. If they needed to trade Santana before he became a free agent, they are much more likely to trade him to the National League. Which is what they did.

The Yankees are 2-10 in games started by Hughes and Kennedy.

The Yankees don't need a $20 million Cy Young Award winner.

They'd be in first place if Hughes and Kennedy were replaced with mediocrity.