Yankees..Rolen..Dark horse?

The Yankees these days are all about getting younger and smarter with their money. They also happen to have a huge hole at third base, and since they have no real prospects to fill said hole, here is what I think we should offer them:

Give Up:
Rolen
Bryan Anderson
Pj Walters

Get Back:
Ian Kennedy
Wilson Betemit

Now right off the bat some might be skeptical about this, but I feel its an incredibly smart trade for both teams. Posada is old, and even in his current contract discussions its accepted that by the end of his latest 3 year deal he will be DHing. The Yankees have a need for a young catching prospect to take his place, and while they don't need him right now they will in another year or two - exactly when Anderson is expected to hit the majors. Him and Rolen alone might not be enough to get Kennedy back though - a young starting pitcher is a pretty valuable commodity these days - and so I think we should also include PJ Walters, someone who has had some great success in the minors but still has some big question marks about how his stuff wil translate to the bigs. If not Walters, then some other middling prospect, a B level guy.

Ian Kennedy would also help us a great deal, shoring up our rotation and helping to make us younger and cheaper. Betemit could be a solid fill in guy for us, but hopefully he would only be our fallback option and we could pursue a better option at third.

Personally I would love it if we made a run at A-Rod (I can't help it, seeing him and pujols batting 3-4 would be just orgasmic, and with duncan batting 5 spot, jimmy 6 and eventually rasmus at #1 or 2???? foget about it, we are immediately back on top within a year). But even if we don't get A-ROD, there are still plenty of better options at 3rd this winter than Rolen at 13 million a season. If Tejada was willing to move over, he is definitely on the block. Also Uribe, Andy LaRoche, Chone Figgins, Lowell - people we could maybe get and save Rasmus.

My only question for you Cardsphan04 is where you heard reports about the Yanks looking at Rolen? I'd love to see the article if you can still find it.

My whole view on this thing is that it would free up salary.  Do i think we have a better option at third, no, of coarse not, but I would rather use that money towards pitching and it would help improve the team in the future.  If Rolens salary is off the books it would give an additonal 12 million in the offseason for the next 3 years.  The only reason the yankees would do this deal is because, well to them 12 million is nothing.  Its low risk with possible high reward for them.  For us we clear up salary and maybe get a good prospect, possibly Cox or one of the pitchers they got in the trade with the tigers for sheffield last year. (The yankees are loaded with pitching prospects).  I think we could still field a competetive team for 08' but I think we could build a world series contender for 09' and 10'.  With Rolens salary off the books, plus looper, Juan, izzy, and edmonds off also, you are looking at close to 40 million to spend next offseason.  If you want Johan santana or some real protection for albert in 09' then this is how you do it.

We need that money going into the next offseason when other third baseman will be available. If we get a good prospect with it, then awesome. There is probably only one team that has the money to take Rolen, and we are fortunate enough for them to have an opening for him. We need to take advantage of this while it is still possible

To be honest I would trade Rolen to any team that would take him just to move the salary.  What makes this even possible though is that it is the yankees that have the need.  They have the money