Yankee Hotstove

Nothing Going On

The hot stove is really simmering slow this year. C.C. Sabathia is still sitting on 2 offers, one from Milwaukee for 100million and one from the Yankees at 140million. Still no decision as he waits out to see if anybody else is about to come in and give him an equivalent offer to the Yankees, preferably from the NL West. Alas for C.C.,  none of the NL West teams have made any kind of offer.

There Goes Drew Henson

One of the biggest prospect misses for the Yankees in my mind was Drew Henson. He was a power-hitting prodigy who couldn't quite conrol the zone. Yet he was young for all the minor league steps he played in until he faltered at AAA. Then, he got traded and was brought back, but with the A-Rod trade, and overnight, he becamse a redundant project. So he decided to jump ship and head back to football, where he got buried in Texas, Dallas and was completely off the radar.

Today, there's this article.

After whiffing with the New York Yankees and later flopping for the Dallas Cowboys, Henson is getting a chance to salvage his NFL career with the winless Detroit Lions.
"I've learned to be thankful for what you have and to take nothing for granted," Henson said Monday. "Even when things haven't turned out the way I wish they did with football or baseball, my perspective has changed and I'm at peace with whatever happens with my playing career."

Detroit played him on Thanksgiving in a 47-10 loss to Tennessee — replacing Daunte Culpepper for the third time in four games — and Henson threw his first pass since playing on the same holiday four years ago in Dallas.
Henson completed one of two passes, connecting with Calvin Johnson on a 20-yard out.

"He did good, coming in and playing without much gametime recently," Johnson said.
Coach Rod Marinelli said Culpepper will start Sunday at home against the Minnesota Vikings, the team he once starred for. But his first impressions of watching the 28-year-old Henson in a game were positive.
"He's really a talented guy and he's with a (quarterbacks) coach that he's familiar with in Scot (Loeffler) and he's put in a great offseason," Marinelli said. "You're still knocking rust off a guy after being out a while, but he has unlimited potential."

I'll always  remember Pete Gammons once said that the Yankee system was stocked with prospects and the infield to dream of consisted of Nick Johnson, Alfonso Soriano, Derek Jeter and Drew Henson. It didn't work out that way at all, but that's all part of history. Good luck to Henson, I say.