Monday, July 7, 2008

Yanks to Scout Victor Zambrano?

From Mark Feinsand with a hat tip to Steve Lombardi:

Scott Kazmir is pitching at Yankee Stadium Tuesday night. Can Victor Zambrano be far behind?

In their never-ending quest to find starting pitching, the Yankees plan to send a scout to watch the free-agent righty throw sometime this week, according to a source.

Zambrano is infamous for being the pitcher the Mets got when they shipped highly touted prospect Kazmir to Tampa at the trading deadline in 2004.

Zambrano, who went 10-14 over three seasons with the Mets, pitched for Toronto and Baltimore last season, but hasn't pitched in the majors this year. After being designated for assignment by Colorado at the end of spring training, Zambrano went 0-6 with a 9.45 ERA for the Rockies' Triple-A club.

Come on Cashman, you can't be serious. Victor Zambrano?!?! Please stay away from this bum.

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

OK let me get this straight. We don't go after Santana and now we pass on C.C. so we can go get a look at Zambrano, Victor that is. Why is it so hard to imagine Yankee life without Cashman.

Greg Cohen said...

They're completely unrelated. C.C. and Santana would have cost the Yankees a ton, and they made the right decision to stay away from those trades.

Even though Zambrano would cost nothing, they shouldn't sign him, but like I said it's completely unrelated to Santana or Sabathia. It's not like Cashman is thinking that since he didn't get Sabathia he's going to get Zambrano to make up for it.