A Clean Shaven Nomar In The Future
A-Rod, Jeter... Nomar?
Anthony Nomar Garciaparra may be the next player to join the New York Yankees. Thanks to the large number of slums on the Yankees payroll, one of the only positions in which they will be able to make any serious improvement is second base. The position occupied by Miguel Cairo this previous season.
Now it is almost a certainty that the Yankees will claim Carlos Beltran, hence moving centerfielder Bernie Williams to the DH spot, if not to a position where he may be sharing ground balls with Jason Giambi at first base. Setting up maybe the most prestigious infield of all time.
If you had asked anyone 12 months ago who the 3 greatest shortstops in baseball were, many of them would have answered: Alex Rodriguez, Nomar Garciaparra, & Derek Jeter -- but would anyone have ever imagined that the three of them could be playing for the same team?
The New York Yankees have been rumored to be actively seeking a second basemen in Nomar Garciaparra. Now the 31 year old shortstop is coming off an injury-plagued season in which achilles and wrists issues have limited his playing time as well as his range as a shortstop. Well the next logical move would likely be to third base, but when a chance to play for the Yankees comes up, second base suddenly becomes a plausible option.
How will Red Sox fans react to seeing Nomar in Yankee pinstripes?
We were all sad to see him go but we all knew it was for the better, and to the Chicago Cubs, a team that many Red Sox fans previously shared a common bond with -- their inability to win it all. But this is different: now he could be heading to the hated Yankees.
New York seems like the best option for a free agent Garciaparra who will be looking for a short term contract hopefully above the 12 million dollar level, and there may not be many teams willing to pay such a bill for the questionable Garciaparra, whom of course rejected the 15 million dollar contract extension offered by the Boston Red Sox before the 2004 season.
Nomar Garciaparra will already be recieving a World Series Champion ring from the Boston Red Sox, and there would be no better time to accept it than April 11th at Fenway Park as a memer of the opposing New York Yankees.
This could be just another page in the rivalry that is unmatched.
Paolo DeVito
Transplanted Red Sox Fan
Anthony Nomar Garciaparra may be the next player to join the New York Yankees. Thanks to the large number of slums on the Yankees payroll, one of the only positions in which they will be able to make any serious improvement is second base. The position occupied by Miguel Cairo this previous season.
Now it is almost a certainty that the Yankees will claim Carlos Beltran, hence moving centerfielder Bernie Williams to the DH spot, if not to a position where he may be sharing ground balls with Jason Giambi at first base. Setting up maybe the most prestigious infield of all time.
If you had asked anyone 12 months ago who the 3 greatest shortstops in baseball were, many of them would have answered: Alex Rodriguez, Nomar Garciaparra, & Derek Jeter -- but would anyone have ever imagined that the three of them could be playing for the same team?
The New York Yankees have been rumored to be actively seeking a second basemen in Nomar Garciaparra. Now the 31 year old shortstop is coming off an injury-plagued season in which achilles and wrists issues have limited his playing time as well as his range as a shortstop. Well the next logical move would likely be to third base, but when a chance to play for the Yankees comes up, second base suddenly becomes a plausible option.
How will Red Sox fans react to seeing Nomar in Yankee pinstripes?
We were all sad to see him go but we all knew it was for the better, and to the Chicago Cubs, a team that many Red Sox fans previously shared a common bond with -- their inability to win it all. But this is different: now he could be heading to the hated Yankees.
New York seems like the best option for a free agent Garciaparra who will be looking for a short term contract hopefully above the 12 million dollar level, and there may not be many teams willing to pay such a bill for the questionable Garciaparra, whom of course rejected the 15 million dollar contract extension offered by the Boston Red Sox before the 2004 season.
Nomar Garciaparra will already be recieving a World Series Champion ring from the Boston Red Sox, and there would be no better time to accept it than April 11th at Fenway Park as a memer of the opposing New York Yankees.
This could be just another page in the rivalry that is unmatched.
Paolo DeVito
Transplanted Red Sox Fan
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