This has been a weird offseason. I thought last year that the best two teams in the American League were the Yankees and the White Sox. Neither made it far and both have done more to bolster their farm system then they have to help out their 2007 team. The Yankees traded their second big name player and once again, they did it for prospects. The Yankees shipped Randy Johnson to the Diamondbacks for reliever Luis vizcaino and three minor leaguers.
The three minorleaguers are Ross Ohlendorf, Steven Jackson and Albereto Gonzalez. Don’t know much about him, but we’re supposed to be getting someone to write about the Yankees minor league system so hopefully we’ll find out whether these guys are good or not. Then again, they could just be trading deadline fodder.
The good news is, you’d hope the Yankees wouldn’t be doing this if they didn’t think they could ink Roger Clemens. He’d be the big catch, the boss just has to make it happen.
