Dad Likes NY

From Tyler Kepner:

It takes a lot for Tom Holliday, who has spent a lifetime in baseball, to become excited at a game. But in July, when his son Matt hit a home run at Yankee Stadium in the All-Star Game, Tom got up from his seat and rejoiced. Deep down, he said, he hoped his son would play in Yankees pinstripes soon.

“If someone would have called me today and said Matt had gotten traded to the Yankees, I’d have been hunting for a place to celebrate,” Tom Holliday, the associate head baseball coach at North Carolina State, said in a telephone interview.

With Holliday ending up in Oakland and joining an organization that is notorious for flipping its better players (he could be traded again midseason), it seems clear that the Yankees will have the opportunity to sign Holliday for 2010. He’s going to be a free-agent at the end of the year and as long as he produces, he’s going to get a huge contract. As their OF approaches a period of uncertainty (Damon, Nady could leave after 2009), the Yankees will definitely seek to build with Holliday and the young Austin Jackson.

(Props to RAB).