Yanks: Two Days Left Till the Trade Deadline
Chilling words from the man who can trade the prospects. Of course it's not always wrong to trade prospects and there are some I'd be willing to trade, but this market is ludicrous. I wouldn't trade a good prospect for a rental, like Lester. And I don't think Lester or Price are remotely available to the Yanks in trade. Also Price has been losing velo. We already have to model of lefty on the shelf in CC. Lester we can get as a FA if we want to. Of course, I'd rather not do that either.
Anyway no one is worth the top of the farm, not even Hammels. The players who are worth the most are guys like Trout, and they don't become available.
If Cash were to trade Severino and Judge or whoever, he'd not only be giving possible all stars, but he'd be giving up 12 years of control. The Yankee replacement cost for a top starter and an all start right fielder for those 12 years would run over 100M. That's literally how stupid it would be. Out the door it would be a 100M mistake. That's why they can't trade anyone who is good enough to be a Yankee regular. The cost is murderous.
Their best bet for the foreseeable future is to keep growing the farm until they not only have future cost saving Yankees, they also have extra guys who they can trade and feel like big shots.
But what's out there right now is not worth the still somewhat fragile top of the farm. It's just not. Keep dumpster diving and keep working the international market.
UPDATE: btw, once the deadline passes, I will start taking a look at our positional depth by position.
posted by Kalel9 @ 10:34 AM
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Without Tanaka, this team isn't worth supplementing. It really wasn't worth doing it with him given their numerous holes. Of course, I got attacked at blog for saying that, while posting under a pseudonym, which I expected, but someone needs to drop the pom poms.
It's funny you should mention Lester because I had this queasy sense this morning that they might kick the tires on him a little too hard. Not that a deal will get done, but it isn't a 0% chance.
I really wish they'd sell. Robertson could bring back assets, if chosen currently, that could really jump-start the next run.
What was it, like 10 years ago that we all came up with the "If we had $200m to spend..." thing for NoMaas. There have been some segments of encouragement for a while, but they have faded.
The opportunity to flourish is there again given their young assets. Please don't blow it again.
currently = correctly
Exactly, they either need to extend Roberston now or sell.
They have a chance to bounce back faster than people expect.
I can't see the BoSox trading Lester to the Yankees for anything - even the entire top 10 minor league list. They can't take a chance that Lester leads NY to the Series.
No and it would be stupid of us to trade anything for him when we can get him in the offseason if we want.
They would take that top 5 list in a heartbeat. Why? Because they know they would win the trade over time. They care about the long-term, unlike the Yankees
And btw, That's what I want from the Yankees: start thinking long-term again and stop relying on one year plans.
I think some starting pitching is worth trading for, not really to win this year, but to have the year after. At this point, I have no idea who's healthy and in our rotation for next year. Phelps? Everyone else we have signed might be starting the year on the DL for all we know.
BTW not saying they have to go out and get a guy, but if the right presented himself than they might be worth getting. Hamels for example is locked up in a long term deal, but might actually get even more money if he was an FA this offseason. I don't know what he would cost- it would obviously cost a lot, but its an ace we're talking about...
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