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Originally Posted by Loose Cannon
how many "real deals" have we had the past couple of years. I am sick of hearing about how this guy is tearing it up in AAA and then he gets to the majors and he's average/below average. Halladay is proven.
I mean I know they are still young, so I am not going to cast a stone yet, but our young guys haven't really stepped up like everyone said they would. The Yankees win behind the veterans. They've always won behind veteran players. So I am really not sold on the Yankees trying to build for the future with thier minor league system because frankly I think people overate the players in the system a lot.
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Well I mean at one point all the current veterans were young guys coming up through the system helping us win championships in the 90s.
I think the Yankees need to keep using the minor league system like they've been doing recently. They're still gonna be big in the FA market when they need to but they need to complement those guys with young guys that aren't gonna cost 20M a year. I know we're talking about Halladay here though. I just don't see why the Yankees would or should give up some of their big young guys for him. They didn't for Santana and he was 3 or 4 years younger than Halladay currently is. I mean we really aren't getting the prime years of Roy Halladay if we trade for and extend him. We are gonna be getting him when he is 35,36,37. And while he could possibly still be as great as he is now in his mid to late 30s, chances are he won't be.