re yankee thoughts velarde etc in article netnews upenn edu kkeller mail sas upenn edu keith keller writes real long but good post on yankee trades omitted i disagree on one point velarde yes maybe the yanks should have let him develop but he rode the columbus shuttle way too many times to do so probably the fault of george but no matter now his usefulness is done he will not be able to develop into a good player this deep in his career at least i don t think so his fielding is horrendous at rd maybe he d be good at short he can t his the curve at all and i think all his trips from new york to columbus and back have demoralized him to the point that he just doesn t care get rid of him i say the sooner the better for both the yanks and velarde keith keller let s go rangers velarde hasn t been to columbus if i recall for about three years granted he hasn t been a full time player but when he does play i ve always thought he had a good bat he might be demoralized about not playing full time but he hasn t been shuttled around i think he s been in new york ever since he had hits in ab back in or i believe i don t think he is gold glove calibre but he doesn t boot it around either i think if velarde is given a chance he could become extremely productive i don t have any stats to back this up and i don t know if his defense would cost any games but i think he could help and he has this year he has hr already same goes for jim leyrtiz he has a big mouth but he does get the job done when he concentrates i think the situation with leyritz is that he believes he is a potential super star and he gets pissed about not playing i think he might have realized something when the marlins or rockies didn t select him the yanks need to worry about the bullpen right now kamieniecki and wickman militello in the bullpen ouch i m praying that the bp will return to last year s form chris what i m listening to giant wam umd edu anything that guitar god go yankees dann huff plays on
