Rather than dissect Wallace Matthews's idiocy point by point, just read the article with an understanding of the difference between coincidence and correlation.
The recent Yankee Championship teams were not built on small ball. Even if they were, they'd have been even better with ARod at 3b instead of Brosius, Boggs, and C. Hayes. Less flavaful without C. Hayes, but better.
Oddly, Wallace Matthews seems to think that ARod's $16M is the reason the Yankees have a poor bullpen:
"And surely for every Rodriguez, there are dozens of Mike Stantons and Jeff Nelsons and David Weatherses out there. What the Yankees need to do now is take the money they will save on A-Rod and go find them."
Dozens? Try hundreds.
The Yankees, by the way, have already "found them." Farnsworth, Gordon, Dotel, Osuna, Hammond, Acevedo, Benitez, Nelson II, and don't forget Mendoza II, whose one inning probably didn't justify the salary.
Middle men in the bullpen are plentiful and inexpensive for a reason: They're not reliable. If they were reliable, then they'd be closers or starters.
What is likely going to occur is that ARod will opt out (if it's not worth discussing, then why are we discussing it?) and go play for Anaheim and pad his stats against Scott Proctor and the rest of the Yankees' revamped bullpen.
I've got an even better strategy: Sign ARod and, at the same time, "find" better relief pitchers.
Voila! It's a win-win and I thought of it all by myself.
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