Trade

Today, the Yankees traded Wilson Betemit, Jeff Marquez, and Jhonny Nunez for Nick Swisher and Kanekoa Teixeira.

What a steal for the Yanks. They gave up three players going pretty much nowhere, for a solid bat who can play all three OF spots and 1b. In over 2000 career AB's he has a 112 OPS+ and early Marcel projections had him achieving a wOBA above .350 (projected for Chicago). Hopefully this doesn't keep the Yanks from looking into Teixeira, but either way its still a great trade.

Swisher was pretty unlucky last year as well:

'07: LD: 20% GB: 38% K: 19.9% BB: 15.2% ISOP: .193 BABIP: .308
'08: LD: 19% GB: 35% K: 22.8% BB: 14.0% ISOP: .191 BABIP: .251

And here are Swisher's contractual obligations for his age 28-31 seasons from Cot's:

09:$5.3M, 10:$6.75M, 11:$9M 12:$10.25M club option ($1M buyout)

* 2012 option increases to $12M with top 5 in MVP vote any year 2007-11

Teixeira ain't so bad himself.