This afternoon your Detroit Tigers traded catcher Ivan Rodriguez to the Yankees for reliever and former cat Kyle Farnsworth.  Excuse my french, but...Kyle freaking Farnsworth!  I don’t mind trading Pudge, Brandon Inge is a fine catcher.  He’s great defensively and has a good enough and powerful enough bat for a catcher.  I don’t really mind bringing in Farnsworth, he’s having a pretty darn good year based on his stats, and if we’re convinced Todd Jones is all the way out as closer, it’s a decent move to bring someone in to close with the young, shaky, injury prone, and givers of walks Fernando Rodney and Joel Zumaya at the end of our ‘pen.  My problem is that the Tigers should have got more from the consistantly over-paying Yankees.  How ‘bout we mix in a prospect...maybe an infielder...maybe a shortstop for Bill James’ sake?  The Yanks are notorious for paying too much and decimating their farm system.  Why?  Because they can.  They’ve got all the money and arrogance to do it.  My other question is:  What does this say about our beloved baseball team?  Are we buyers, sellers, or what?  Have we given up on the season, or is this the move to shore up the bullpen coming down the stretch?  I can’t make heads or tails of it.  I just wish we’d have got something more in return.