Keeping score.

"The Yankees get increasingly touchy when asked about their farm system, but why aren’t Yankee fans allowed to ask how come they had to go get Kevin Youkilis to play third when A-Rod went down, and had to go sign scrubs from other teams to replace Curtis Granderson?

And when Teixeira goes down, the team known best for retired numbers had to start calling retired players."

"The Yankees get touchy." I suppose he is referring to Cashman?

Youkilis can play 1b and Nunez can play 3b, for what it's worth.

Youkilis wasn't signed to replace ARod. He was signed to get 600 at-bats and drive in 100 runs, playing 3b, 1b, and DH.


By the way, how many superstars are available ... short-term, mind you ... for CF and 1b?

Who is the superstar 1b who's going to replace Teixeira for a month? What are they going to do with Teixeira when he comes off the DL?

Bench players are just that. Nobody is questioning the low-risk/low-reward signings of Brennan Bosch and Dan Johnson.


"The farm system absolutely produced Robinson Cano, who has a chance to be one of the best pure hitters in all Yankee history.

There was Austin Jackson, whom they traded for Granderson.

And the suddenly irreplaceable — and much loved — Brett Gardner.

That’s it lately, if you’re keeping score at home."

Hughes, Nova, Phelps, Robertson, Nunez, Cervelli, Mesa.

If you're keeping score at home.

If you're keeping score at home about a meaningless measurement nobody cares about.