Let's play a game. You are the Yankees President/GM and have blackmailed Steinbrenner into giving you total control of the team, what would you do to make the Yankees a better team? Realistic things only
I would..
1. Put Gene Michaels in charge of all scouting and make him my secondhand man.
2. fire that fatty, Billy Connors, and every other idiot from the Tampa office.
3. resign Bernie to a 2 year 3 million dollar deal to be a good switch hitter off the bench
4. double the budget for international scouting, and heavily market the Yankee brand in the Dominican Republic so that the young talent will be killing each other to see a Yankee scout, and theoretically will increase the amount of talent that scounts see.
I've got some others, but they're more like wishes, not really things I see can happen. Trading Giambi, etc. I think the Cubs or some other NL team might actually take Sheff (especially if they feel they can compete next year) for a really good CF for us. Thoughts?