Welcome to BronxBombers08!

I know the Super Bowl is right around the corner, and there are no bigger Giants fans than me. But that doesn't mean I forgot about the Yankees.

As I'm sure you already know, the Yanks have been involved in trade talks with the Minnesota Twins over the past several months. The centerpiece of these trade talks was ace left-handed pitcher, (one of the best of this generation, or any generation) Johan Santana. Santana consistently ranks among the best of major league pitchers in statistics such as Strikeouts, Innings Pitched, Wins, and Quality Starts. Santana, at 28 years of age, has already made himself a viable candidate for the Hall of Fame when he hangs 'em up.

Acquiring a pitcher of this caliber would have launched the Yankees right back to being a World Series favorite for 2008. So the question is, why couldn't they reach an agreement? The answer is simple... the Twins were too greedy! You see, the biggest rival of the Yankees (the Red Sox of course) was well aware of what it would mean to add a pitcher like Santana to their roster. So they threw their name into the trade talks with the Twins as well. Some speculate that this move was just a ploy to get the Yankees to have to increase their offer, but that will remain unknown. So the Yankees and the Red Sox seemingly had set themselves up for a bidding war for the Twins star. The mistake the Twins never realized they could make, was waiting too long to pull the trigger on a deal. Both the Yankees and the Red Sox offered incredible amounts of proven MLB talent to the twins, but Minnesota kept holding off on making a deal, believing that they could squeeze more out of one of the teams. Sorry, but that ended up costing them quite a bit.

Both the Yankees and the Red Sox backed away from the superstar pitcher and left the Twins with only one place to turn... the unlikely New York Mets. The Mets unloaded a bunch of minor league prospects in the 11th hour of Minnesota's declared deadline for trading Santana. With that offer now being the only one on the table, the Mets flat out stole a potential Hall of Fame pitcher. Good for them, now they have been projected as a World Series favorite to represent the National League. But between you and I, I still think they're a second rate organization that will probably fall short of their potential. But we'll save that for another post.

So the Yankees off-season negotiations with the Twins didn't work out. Some might be upset by that news, but consider this... The Yanks would've lost at least two up and coming stars in this deal. You never know, sometimes the best deals are the ones you never make.

Thanks for reading my first ever blog! I hope you had as much fun reading it as I had rambling on about the team I love! You're always welcome (provided you aren't a Red Sox fan... jk) and I hope you check this out next week.

Go Giants!!! Coming Soon: Go Yanks!!!

To learn more about the New York Yankees and just how great of a franchise they really are please visit:
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=nyy