By spreading Solak and Widener two two teams for Drury yesterday, the Yanks, with all of their enviable depth have made sure the next trade will hurt. Right now the Yanks continue to have a conga line of talented kids on the way, but by taking out 2 from from the lower top half of their talent pool, they're going to have to move closer to the top or to the top to add anything else. Now this might just be true for this offseason, because the guys from last year's draft like Stephan, Otto, Sauer and Schmidt (who started throwing off a mound yesterday) could move into the top 10 or top 5. Likewise, kids like Dermis Garcia and Luis Medina could fly up the charts and push other guys down. Still the Yanks have now traded something like 14 prospects since going all in on Robertson, Kahnle and Todd Frazier, and while they've had a secondary active period in this year's IFA class, and added more teenagers, that's still a lot of prospects to give up. Heck, there are entire organizations that don't have the combined upsides of the 14 kids the Yanks traded in their entire systems. We can trust we'll have another strong draft that will be lopsided based on draft strength and IFA agreements, and we'll have another strong international class, but it would really behoove the Yanks to start trading their over 30's as parts of any deals in the near term. They can never go back to that fallow period that started when George decided to skimp on the drafts.
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They really don’t need to do anything. I wish they would revert the patience that got them in this position.
Honestly, it really just feels like they’re keeping third warm for Machado — which, as someone who prefers Harper, kind of annoys me.
Think there are a bunch of Andujar believers in the org, and more of those than Hicks believers.
Something I left out: we are also losing prospect depth through graduation. To wit, once Gleyber becomes the 2B, he's no longer part of our enviable depth, and so on and so forth. So if this Cuban kid is the goods, it would probably behoove us to get him.
Rangers are interested in him and traded a player to the Reds for an additional $250K of spending money.
How much do the Yankees have left to spend?
Not much.
This sounds like a Naehring move. He was big on Didi, so maybe he will be right again.
Cash said they'd been after Drury for years.
I definitely think it hurts Andujar’s chances of ever being the Yankees’ third baseman, especially when you figure in a possible Machado signing.
I think they'll eventually trade Didi and move Gleyber to short and Drury or one of the others to second. Turns out Nevin managed Drury in the minors and is also a big fan.
I really hope that happens, but I have to see it.
I didn’t know Drury’s natural position is third base.
Played alll the in school and the minors.
I'm also starting to think we have to get rid of both Ellsbury and Gardy.
No real insight, offered, but listening to Boone doing on his weekly radio show with the new hosts on WFAN is kind of fun.... at least for now. ;)
One down.
We made a painful trade?
“I want us to be obsessed with controlling the strike zone. That’s one of our bumper stickers.” - Aaron Boone
Music to my ears! I spent a decade complaining about the Girardi era failure to GRIND.
Drury hit in the hand. Seems to be ok.
Too much beat writer love for Torreyes.
Two.
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