With all the local newspapers talking about what changes the Yankees can make I thought it would be fun to come up with some radical ideas of my own to improve the ol' ballclub.
1. Hire yours truly as the General Manager. Seriously. I'm not kidding.
2. Have a fire sale and remake the team into a national league style, small ball team built around pitching, defense and speed.
2a. To do so let Hideki Matsui walk as a free agent replacing him with Minnesota's Jacque Jones.
3. This is from Newsday's Jon Heyman but I liked it so much: Sign free agent SS Rafael Furcal.......to play second base.
4. This will never happen but: Move Derek Jeter to center field, Alex Rodriguez back to shortstop, and trade Gary Sheffield, Robinson Cano, and Chien-Ming Wang to the A's for thirdbaseman Eric Chavez and starting pitcher Barry Zito.
5. Bring back recently fired Orioles manager Leo Mazilli as the bench coach in place of the soon to be departing Joe Girardi and hire the Braves Leo Mazzone as the pitching coach in place of Mel Stottlymyre.
6. Sign Orioles closer B.J. Ryan as the primary 8th inning set up guy and eventual closer replacment for Mariano Rivera.
7. Trade Sp Carl Pavano to the desperate for starting pitching Seattle Mariners in exchange for lefty reliever Eddie Guardado.
8. Sign a free agent catcher like Bengie Molina or Ramon Hernandez and move Jorge Posada to DH.
9. Now that Giambi's trade value has been restored swap him out to Colorado for Todd Helton.
10. Petition MLB to be realigned into a division with Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Colorado, and Detroit.
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