Austin Jackson (Right) high-fives Hall of Famer, Reggie Jackson (Left) after hitting a grand slam on Tuesday.Jackson 'n' Jackson:
As Yankees' top prospect, Austin Jackson, was rounding the bases on Tuesday, Reggie Jackson was feeling like a proud-papa. Reggie has taken it to himself to help and support Jackson throughout his minor-league career, attending to numerous games at each level that he has reached. "Its a good thing," Austin said after the game. "He comes back and works with me in the cage and gets me back to where I need to be when I'm struggling a little bit. It's good to have a Hall of Famer working with you." Jackson was reassigned to minor league camp after the game, making his grand slam a bittersweet-victory.
Girardi: Nady is starting RF:
Joe Girardi announced this week that "if we were to break (camp) today, Nady would be my right fielder." This comes as disappointing news to Nick Swisher, who has had a very odd off-season. He was dealt to the Yankees in the beginning of the year as part of a 4-player trade and was informed that he would be the club's starting first basemen. Once the Yankees signed Mark Teixeira however, it became apparent that Swisher would instead battle Xavier Nady for the right field spot. After now losing that job to Nady, Girardi will have to work hard to find at-bats for Swisher.
However, I strongly believe that Swisher should be the right fielder, not Nady. He is better in basically every category. Nady will hit about 25 HRs and drive in over 100 runs. Swisher will hit 25-30 HRs but will probably not reach the 100-RBI plateau for he is willing to take a walk in a RBI situation. However, that too is another one of his strengths: his eye. Swisher has one of the best eyes in the game (see the book "Moneyball") and works deep into counts, a trait of recent successful Yankee teams. Scouts also say he is the better baserunner and fielder. This basically means that the Yankees are choosing the worse hitter, fielder, baserunner, eye, and power-hitter to play right field for them.....wait what??
Yanks Looking to Get Melky-Dealty:
Earlier this off-season, the Yankees attempted to trade Melky Cabrera for Mike Cameron of the Milwaukee Brewers and after it seemed like a deal was imminent (so close that I even added Mike Cameron to the Yankees roster in MLB '08 The Show) the talks were broken off. A couple months later, they were renewed again. However, they too were broken off. Well now Melky is still out there and the Yanks are looking to deal him (just not for Cameron). The most likely suitor at the moment are the Chicago White Sox who would most likely use Cabrera as their starting CF.
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