OK, it's not quite that bad, but it still definitely sucks. The fallout from yesterday's revelation of Michael Pineda's torn labrum is still falling out, and I've got just as many opinions on the situation as everybody else. Rather than try to compose them in a clearly-worded and orderly post, I'll take my usual easy way out and just stick to the bullet points.
- First off, anybody who wants to play the "Cash fucked up, we got sold a lemon!!!" card can just stop. For a trade of this magnitude, and surely for every trade, the Yankees always put players through the full gauntlet of physicals and tests to make sure there are no health concerns before pulling the trigger and making the deal go through. That's standard practice.
- There's no way that Cash, Levine, or anybody else from the organization who was involved in this deal would have gone through with it if anything showed up during the pre-trade physical that would have led them to believe there was a problem with Pineda's pitching shoulder. If there was, and they still went through with a trade involving their top prospect, they would all deserve to be fired and would never hear the end of it in New York. They know that, we know that, so just cut the crap with the doomsday theories.
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