At pinstripealley.com in a post titled "Why is Curtis Granderson a Yankee?", these Yankee fans seem just as puzzled by the Granderson trade as Tiger fans.
"Try and figure this one. The Detroit Tigers are the same team that seems most likely to sign former New York outfielder, Johnny Damon. To a contract, according to the rumor mill, that will pay him more than the $6.5 million Curtis Granderson will make in pinstripes.
What in the world were the Tigers thinking? It's a good question, and it's one Tiger fans and beat reporters are still asking. Fairly.
I don't know what the Tigers were thinking either. No way Jackson replaces Granderson's production, at least not this season. As a Yankee fan, all I can say to Tiger management is this.
Thank you very much."
Wonderful! Yankee fans are laughing (or at least scratching their heads really hard) at us.
Couple this with an article by John Lowe in the Detroit Free Press about how the Tigers don't know what to do with pitcher Phil Coke, one of the pitchers they got back in the trade.
"I've been really tossing and turning on what to do with Coke," Jim Leyland said.
I would too as he is not particularly good and THIS was part of our return for Granderson.
??????!
You would never know that the Tigers and the Yankees, heck let's make that the whole American League, are competitors.
2 comments:
Phil Coke will be Leyland's new "Get me a pack of Cigs, ROOOK" gopher.
However, you also got Schlereth and Scherzer in the deal. I wouldn't scoff at that. Plus, Eddy Jackson may have been a one-year fling, maybe he won't be, but it's a pretty easy to pitch to the Punch and Judy hitters of the AL East.
I would have traded Jackson for Scherzer straight up and there are indications that Arizona would have done that because for some reason they were not sold on Scherzer. Jackson had a miserable second half last year after having thrown a ton of innings in the first half so I am still mystified as to Arizona's interest in him. He looked like a present-day Mark Prior in the second half.
I don't think the Tigers wanted to deal with Arizona straight up because they needed a third team so to move Granderson. That was the priority. Granderson HAD to go. Once he was gone, the Tigers seemed to breathe a huge sigh of relief and nobody can really understand why.
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