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June 21, 2010, 09:03 PM

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Royals outfielder David Dejes
us is coming into his own in Kansas City. He's hitting .326 with 5 hrs, 22 doubles, and 31 RBIs in 264 at bats. Rumored to be on the trade block, the Royals are reportedly listening to offers. Dejesus is an exceptional fielder and at age 30, is someone that could improve their line-up immediately. He's the best positional player on the Royals, hands down.

My thought is that the Yankees would play Dejesus at right field and move Swisher to DH when Posada is catching. If Posada is at DH, Dejesus gives you a fourth option that you could switch out with any struggling player (like Granderson, who is hitting .240 avg and 6 hrs right now).

Catcher is actually a position of strength right now. Posada is still hitting the ball hard and despite being 39, seems to want to continue his career a little longer. The Yanks have a strong back-up in 24-year-old, Francisco Cervelli, who's hitting .292 with 5 doubles and 3 triples in 144 at bats. In addition to Cervelli at catcher, the Yanks also have top prospects #1 Jesus Montero, #2 Austin Romine, #7 Gary Sanchez and #8 J.R. Murphy.

Dejesus has real value in the trade market. His contract isn't up until next year and he would probably look to sign an extension if things work out with his new club. The Yankees will want to deal from their position of strength, catcher. The Yankees should deal either Monero (who's hitting only .243 with 4 hrs) or Romine (who's hitting .288 with 3 hrs). The Royals would probably go for a Romine deal if it included a tweener player like Chad Huffman. The Royals are building for 2012, while the Yankees want to win now. This deal makes sense to me.

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July 5, 2010 08:28 PM ET

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Every business and every household has a budget, especially a Break-Even Point. For example if a break even budget for a MLB franchise is $90 million, then why would the Millionaire owner of that team spend $30 million more a year on say an A-Rod, knowing that you will NOT recoup that loss. Any person with any common sense would not do that! I am guessing the Yankee$ Break-Even point is likely around $225-$275 Million a year (because their 2010 payroll is around $210 Million). If every MLB team had their own YES type of network to get TV revenue from, there would easily be more of a competitive balance, as an alternative to Revenue sharing. Being a fan of a team outside of the Yankee$, it bothers me that every time I pay my DirecTV bill, a portion goes towards the YES network, which inevitably pays the Yankee$. With that type of revenue coming in, the Yank$ CAN afford to keep ALL top home grown talent (Jeter, Rivera, Cano, etc.) unlike most MLB teams, AND add a few extra players (A-Roid, Sabathia, Texiera, etc.). Imagine if Derek Jeter came up the Pittsburg Pirates organization?? They could not afford to keep him! MLB is a joke, easily predictable, and that is why Football has passed it as the most profitable league in the nation.