It's official ladies and gentlemen. Johnny Damon was discovers with that Detroit Tiger's Royal D emblem. That's right, after countless hours of talks between agents and 7 million dollars later, the contracts have been established and the trade finalized. Many people in the detroit area have been quite cynical of this deal, but let's look at the real number. The trade for Granderson wasn't really a bad one. Yes he was a good center fielder, and ironically the lead of hitter. Let take under consideration why he was the lead off hitter. He was very fast and but really swing the bat worth ...(explicit)...
The numbers never lie. A good buddy of mine who I will quote explains this situation clearly. "Lets look at the facts...Curtis Granderson in 2009 struck out 141 times. In comparison Johnny Damon had his highest number of strike out's he's ever had last year...98. It gets much worse for Grandy, in 2006 the year the Tigers won the Pennant he struck out for a grand total of (ready for this) 174 times. Thats 174 possible at bats that could have driven in runs to win us the World Series in 06. Let's look at other facts...Curtis batted an absolutely awful .249 last year...Damon by contrast batted .289 which exceeded one of his all star years in 2002 where he batted .286. Now I'm not saying Damon had an all star year last year but .286 is very respectable in contrast to what Granderson was producing batting average wise. Sure he hit 30 hr's, but did that really help us when the majority of those homer's were 1 run shots." (Joe Kish) Simply put this is a trade for good offense swapping for good defense the Yankees need in right field.
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