My dream Yankees offseason

I want the Yankees to make two huge offseason moves:

Get Leo Mazzone to be the pitching coach and lure Theo Epstein to NY to replace Brian Cashman.

Epstein is a free agent and the Red Sox apparently aren't even offering $1 million per year to stay on as their GM.

And the Yankees have gotten permission to talk to long time Braves pitching coach Leo Mazzone to replace departed pitching coach Mel Stottlemyer.

I seriously can't think of a better 1-2 offseason punch than adding arguably the best pitching coach in baseball and the architect of the 2004 Red Sox that reversed the curse.

At a minimum, it would be worth $3 or 4 million a year to lure Epstein just to see the reaction that the move would get from Red Sox Nation. And I'd love to see Bill Simmons' reaction since he said himself that Red Sox fans can't complain about anything for 5 years since they finally won the World Series.

And maybe Mazzone could turn the Yankees' pitching staff into more than it has been over the past few seasons.

Given that adding Mazzone and Epstein wouldn't add to the Yankee's luxury tax payments, The Boss should back up a couple of Brinks trucks right now.

Give Mazzone $2 million a year and Epstein $3 or 4 million a year.

Heck, that would be less than half of the money that comes off the books with Kevin Brown's contract expiring..............................