re yankee thoughts scott asd com scott barman writes in article apr clam com sam steamer clam com sam mandelbaum writes wade boggs i live in boston and like wade a lot but his career is winding down and i would rather see the yanks start to develop a long term solution i e hensley muelins russ davis velarde besides wade just doesn t have any range what a shame about charlie hayes huh who would you have playing b wade boggs or charlie hayes my choice is boggs no contest it will give them time to develop younger talent in an area the yankee farm system seems to be deficient a hem two words russell davis playing in the cavern at albany aa last year down the alleys and to center davis went with homers there aren t any small parks on the road in the eastern league either he s and his mle was hr i have no fielding statistics but from seeing him a number of times last year i d say that he s not brooks robinson but neither is he howard johnson unless they think they can win the pennant this year which seems possible and need boggs to do it i think they re making the same sort of mistake with davis that boston made with boggs leaving him in the minors for two or three years after he d shown that he was a good hitter spike owen see wade boggs i d much rather see them develop dave silvestri or whoever wade and spike next to each other in the infield is going to raise the yankee staff era point and these guys are on the down sides of their careers too bad they gave up on randy valarde too many trips on the columbus shuttle hrm they still have him on the roster ab through the first two weeks they ve just never figured out what to do with him i suspect that he hits enough especially vs lefties to be a reasonable shortstop one rumor running around during spring training was that they wanted to convert silvestri to be a catcher because his body type was wrong for a shortstop you d think that somebody in the same division who plays baltimore about a dozen times a year would know better mike jones aix high end development mjones donald aix kingston ibm com if one of our guys went down i just doubled it no confusion there it didn t require a rhodes scholar if two of my teammates went down four of yours would i had to protect my guys don drysdale
