Just a quick note on our draft coverage today: Kevin Goldstein's final draft projection will be up around midday, as he tweaks it until the last possible minute. At 5 PM, join him here for a pre-draft chat of one hour. Following that, head over to ESPN to chat with Kevin during the draft. Rejoin us after the day's final picks, as 30 minutes after the draft, Kevin will return for a post-draft chat, which we will schedule as soon as the timing becomes clear. As always, the chats are open to all comers, subscribers and non-subscribers alike. I hope you enjoy the draft and Kevin's coverage. I also hope that your team gets something good. The team I follow doesn't even have a pick, its management having punted its first-rounder on Rafael Soriano. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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Have your whine over Soriano, but don't expect sympathy from non-Yankee fans. Here's another saying, "you win some, you lose some." Buying free agents has been the Yankees' modus operandi since the earliest days of free agency and have won the most championships in that time period as a result (with due credit for doing some other things well). I recall back in the winter before the 1978 season, the Yankees already had one of the best relievers in baseball (Sparky Lyle then, just as they have Mariano Rivera now), and they went out and bought up Goose Gossage anyway. That worked out very nicely for them.