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Sunday, July 31, 2016

Yanks Trade Miller for Four Prospects

The Yanks, this morning or over night, traded LHP Andrew Miller to the Cleveland Indians for another parcel of big prospects including slugging CF Clint Frazier 21 and LHP Justus Sheffield 20.  The other two are right handed relief pitchers Ben Heller, who's in AAA and throws 100, and JP Feyereison, who must throw hard because he has a lot of K's and walks.  Frazier and Sheffield, who's Gary's nephew, and thus part of a ridiculously huge sports family will probably both go into the Yanks top 10.  This is looking like another strong trade for the Yanks.  Now, we'll just have to see what else they do.  They still have too many old bats.

Let me also add, it is an absolute pleasure to had watched Andrew Miller, and under different circumstances you don't trade guys like him.

37 Comments:

At 6:43 AM, Blogger Mike in Mississippi said...

At long last, the Yankees are making decisions that are good for the team instead of good for Randy Levine's marketing strategy.

 
At 6:43 AM, Blogger Michael said...

Full sell mode is here

 
At 6:43 AM, Blogger TB said...

Sorry peeps for all my posts but I am excited.


Jeff Passan 40s
Ben Heller could make this a blockbuster for Yanks. I've talked with multiple evaluators this year who think he's a closer within two years.


 
At 6:47 AM, Blogger Mike in Mississippi said...

Good. The pen in today's game is more important than ever. Also have to think it's a near certainty Chapman is re-signed in the offseason.

 
At 6:51 AM, Blogger TB said...

Good to see Hal rolling up his sleeves


Joel Sherman 21s
Hal S very involved yesterday with #Yankees baseball ops, down to reading reports/watching film on Frazier/Sheffield

Levine must be steaming, stomping his feet, pulling his hair.

 
At 6:55 AM, Blogger Kalel9 said...

Feels like they're playing chicken with the Braves on a McCann deal, but I wouldn't be surprised if something gets done at the deadline.

 
At 6:58 AM, Blogger TB said...

I love this video of Frazier!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEnEwssDyY0

 
At 7:04 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

Go Hal!

 
At 7:05 AM, Blogger Kalel9 said...

Still haven't done anything that will open roster spots for the kids in AAA, but it's still early.

 
At 7:08 AM, Blogger TB said...

Can you imagine a future OF of Judge, Frazier, Rutherford?

Andujar 3B, Torres SS, Mateo 2B, Bird 1B, Sanchez C

Kap, Sheffield, Severino, Adams ...

+ alot more prospects, I'd expect a trade of prospects for a few MLB players in the future.

 
At 7:10 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

Yeah, they should just give McCann away. And accept any reasonable deal for Gardner.

 
At 7:23 AM, Blogger Kalel9 said...

Jack Curry says multiple moves are now coming and that Beltran is in play.

 
At 7:26 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

Sherman

#Yankees felt they were on verge of completing trade yesterday for a veteran reliever, so stay tuned

 
At 7:26 AM, Blogger TB said...

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeyman 2m2 minutes ago Manhattan, NY
yanks getting tyler clippard

 
At 7:27 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

More

Hal S very involved yesterday with #Yankees baseball ops, down to reading reports/watching film on Frazier/Sheffield

 
At 7:28 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

Hal keeping that silly dual mission

 
At 7:29 AM, Blogger Kalel9 said...

We got Tyler Clippard back...

 
At 7:32 AM, Blogger TB said...

yep, no word yet on the cost.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/tyler-clippard

 
At 7:38 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

Owed $4.25 next year. Just goofy.

 
At 7:39 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

#Yankees plan is for Clippard to work 7th inning, hope Warren, young arms Severino/Green/eventually Mitchell can set up Betances

 
At 7:47 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

Beltran at DH

 
At 7:52 AM, Blogger Kalel9 said...

Eh, some of the upper level relievers are hurt, and I'd rather get Clippard or someone in there than to have Girardi abuse Betances even more than he normally does.

 
At 7:54 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

It's the reason Hal wanted the trade though that bothers me.

 
At 7:57 AM, Blogger TB said...

Clint Frazier ✔ @clintfrazier
Thank you @Yankees for this amazing opportunity! I can't wait to chase my dream in pin stripes! #Yankees

Again, So sorry to see Miller go but this needed to happen for the overall future success of this team!

 
At 7:57 AM, Anonymous Steve said...

Would love to see McCann traded. Opens up the roster for next year. If McCann is traded it allows them to play a little more hardball with offers on Beltran. It makes it more realistic for them to extend the QO for Beltran since he could be penciled in at DH (with McCann he will need that DH spot if Sanchez is in the cards for next year). If Beltran accepted the QO he can be a middle of the order bat at DH full time and potential trade bait next deadline, if rejected its a first round pick. So the Yanks should be able to force the offers to at least include something to the magnitude of a first round pick.

 
At 8:01 AM, Blogger TB said...

Strange no word on what we gave up for Clippard yet, scares me a bit!

 
At 8:10 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

Sherman

The Yankees are listening on all of their veteran players. They have gotten a few nibbles from the Braves about Brian McCann. The Rangers have circled a bit around Carlos Beltran. But the Yankees current policy is not to throw money into trades to complete them, which – at minimum – is holding up those deals. They also want to move Ivan Nova in his walk year and will listen on Nathan Eovaldi, Michael Pineda, Brett Gardner and pretty much anyone.

However, Steinbrenner also told his baseball operations people that despite falling 4 1/2 games back in the wild card, he wants to continue to try to win as much as possible in 2016. Dellin Betances will become the closer and young starters such as Chad Green, Luis Severino and – when his injury-rehab is complete – Bryan Mitchell will be given more prominent bullpen roles. The Yankees also a deal in principle with the Diamondbacks for righty reliever Tyler Clippard.

 
At 8:17 AM, Anonymous Steve said...

Sounds like its Campos for Clippard

 
At 8:18 AM, Blogger Kalel9 said...

We sent them Campos. Now he can go be injured all the time for them.

 
At 8:23 AM, Blogger TB said...

Interesting, Campos is a good arm but like you said, always seems to be injured. We need to start purging potentially talented players at the lower end of our 40 man roster anyway. We could lose a lot in the Rule 5 draft. Might as well get some MLB for them.

 
At 8:48 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

He would have been a reliever here if anything given their history.

 
At 8:50 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

But more important than even trades is to give their high end position prospects opportunities now. Nothing would make a louder statement that things are truly changing.

 
At 8:52 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

Also whether it's now or in the offseason, I think they will trade prospects for a big starting pitcher.

 
At 8:59 AM, Blogger Mike in Mississippi said...

Yankees GM Brian Cashman: "We're trying to get back to a situation where we can build an uber-team, and a sustainable one."

This should be the goal, not this treading water, mediocrity nonsense they've been selling us the last couple of years.

 
At 9:04 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

Well, that is a 180 from what he said a few years ago, and Hal seems to be on board. As a result, they are giving themselves a chance. The missing piece (the hard part) is consistently giving every young player, including their own, as much opportunity to fail as Hicks is getting.

 
At 9:21 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

It's not Girardi

Regarding Aaron Hicks' struggles, Cashman pointed to Jackie Bradley Jr.'s struggles prior to this season. -- @FeinsandNYDN
via http://cbssportsapp.com

 
At 12:12 PM, Blogger Kalel9 said...

Eh, you never know when people are covering for others. Cash has always said he doesn't tell Girardi who to play.

 

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