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even though i don't think "clutch" exists, you're basing your entire opinion of the guy off of 12 games?
and have you watched him this year? his batting average is going to be lower than delgado's if he keeps this crap up (not that batting average is that important, but if you're gonna hit .258 you better OPS better than .800) he pulls inside pitches foul and rolls over on outside pitches (except for the hard ground ball he hit last night to score a run...dunno how kouzmanoff didn't get to it though). it's starting to appear that he only hit so well last year because delgado was hitting so well behind him. delgado has been mediocre this year, so beltran gets more off-speed stuff and he's looked horrible. i will say that he plays very good defense (anybody see that catch in houston when he ran up that stupid hill?)...but defensive ability is overrated in baseball.
and nykgm, why would you trade 2 pitchers when pitching has been the yankees' achilles heel this season? pettitte and mussina aren't going to be around forever, you know.
edited to fix numerous grammatical and syntax errors. yikes.
By the time Pettitte and Moose are gone (after 2008), Hughes, Chamberlain, and Wang will already have been together for almost a full year. And by 2009, Kennedy, Horne, Marquez (who are all better than both Clippard and DeSalvo), and a few others will be major league ready. And that doesn't account for any free agent signings in that 2-year period. The Yankees are so ridiculously stacked with pitching prospects that they can lose 2 of them and not even blink. I'm not even exaggerating. And while pitching is the Yankees' achilles heel, it isn't starting pitching, it's the bullpen.
Like I said, guys like Clippard and DeSalvo exist in every farm system. Maybe certain farm systems like the Nationals would be hurt by losing Clippard, but not a system like the Yankees' which is #1 in pitching.
How did he ever make the alstar game? He is the most non-clutch hitter I've ever seen. We better trade him now or we'll get 4 more years of .250 batting average at our number 3 hole. I don't understand why they refuse to bat him 6th. He is not a 2, 3, 4 or 5 hitter. The stats speaks for itself. Could you imagine if A-Rod hit .250 
We need to trade him for some young bats. He strikes out with people on base like it's part of his religion or something. The Mets can't be serious about winning a world series with Beltran as their 3 hitter???? Sure he has 16 homers. But does anyone remember any of them. Were any of them crucial. 
Minus that one Philly series he has 12 homers. All the excuses of Alou not being in the lineup makes me sick. The problem is Carlos Beltran doesn't belong on this team for that salary 
. Let's move on and Let's go Mets!
