Dead weight

If Carl Pavano gets his wish, the Yanks will be approving his surgery to care for his ailing elbow in the near future. This surgery will sideline him for most of the fourth and final year of his current contract. A contract in which he made a total of 19 starts and won 5 games in four years. That is almost $2million per start and $8million per win. This might be the biggest bust contract in baseball history. I actually am not surprised in the least. I knew Pavano as a kid growing up in Southington and he was a punk then. He was a slacker and a tiger doesn't change his stripes. The Yanks should have done their homework and known that he didn't have the character to make it on one of the biggest stages. I question his toughness in playing through these injuries. I question his integrity in hiding the cause of certain injuries (see his car accident that broke ribs that he hid from his team). Lastly, I am glad to see him go. I just wish that they spent the money elsewhere or traded him in one of the short windows that he might have had some trade value. Now they will get more of the same from him, nothing.