Youth movement continues in the Bronx
August 29th, 2007 9:19 PM
It’s a great day for all those New York Yankees fans who spend their time on blogs and message boards dissecting every move the team makes, or doesn’t make.
IPK is coming! IPK, in case you don’t know, is Ian P. Kennedy, the Yankees No. 1 pick in 2006. Fans on Yankee sites everywhere have been calling for Kennedy (12-3, 1.91 ERA at three minor league levels this season) to replace the struggling Mike Mussina in the Yankees rotation.
Now they get their wish, at least for Saturday’s game against Tampa Bay.
This is great news for those fans who have been demanding it. It’s also bad news for the rest of baseball.
That’s not because you can expect Kennedy to go all Joba Chamberlain on the rest of the league. Kennedy, according to MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch, is more like Mussina than he is Chamberlain.
The arrival of Kennedy, whether for one start or the entire month of September, is bad news for baseball because of what it signals — the Yankees deepening commitment to developing AND USING their …