Mike Lamb is a solid pickup for the Yanks. He and Houston are both probably slightly below average hitters; either one would form a decent LH part of a platoon. The problem is that neither of them is very good defensively from what I hear, which is more of a problem because of the rest of the Yankees' infield defense. They'll probably get someone else, but this is nice insurance in case they don't.

And I think either of those guys would have made more sense for the Mets than Zeile because they signed minor league deals, are cheaper, and are lefthanded (better able to sub for our righthanded 3B and 1B).

And I think I'd take Villone over Erickson or Baldwin. I wouldn't give any of them a guaranteed deal, but I guess it couldn't hurt to bring one of them into spring training to battle it out with Heilman, Griffiths, Yates, and Roberts. Argh, why didn't we sign Batista?