With the trade between the Yankees and Pirates coming to a conclusion today, A.J. Burnett largely dominated headlines. Not much else happened across the blogosphere but I have a couple links for your Friday evening. Read them and enjoy your extended weekend!
- Hideki Okajima failed his physical for the Yankees. With him off the non-roster invitees list, the remaining lefty specialists to keep an eye on are Cesar Cabral and Mike O’Connor. As I mentioned last night, I wouldn’t mind seeing Clay Rapada come to camp on a minor league deal.
- Mike Axisa released his 2012 Preseason Top 30 Prospects today. Mike always does an outstanding job at both listing and summarizing each player. In my opinion, his lists supersede even Baseball America’s, but to my disappointment, Tyler Austin only placed 15th.
Thats wraps up Nightly Links for this week. Enjoy your first A.J. Burnett free weekend in three years!
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TIQ IQ
Very interesting to see that Cabral can opt for free agency instead of going back to the Red Sox if he doesn’t make the team. That significantly raises the chances he’s going to be around at some point this year. I doubt he makes the team but the Yankees could easily get him to opt for free agency and go to Scranton for a little more development.