This Week on the Blog

Alright, the Yanks had their draft and kept winning, the Knicks and Rangers kept preparing for their drafts and the Giants completed the OTA portion of their offseason workouts. Let's talk about this week.

Yankees: Losing Jordan Montgomery to TJS was brutal for Jordan and the Yanks.  What's more, even though they already have 5 starters, the Monty situation will probably push them to add another starter through a trade. Worse, still, Tanaka tweaked both of his hammy's while running the bases last night. They don't know if he'll miss a start, but they need healthy guys.  Interestingly, Justus Sheffield was great again last night.

In other Yankee business, the Yanks will continue signing their draft picks, and I'm sure we'll keep talking about that.

Giants: The Giants have completed their 10 OTA's without incident. This week they'll head into their mandatory mini-camp, then take off for 6 weeks.  If Odell can actually take part in team activities, I think his new deal will be made by the start of training camp.

Knicks:  The Knicks have started working out this year's draft prospects. I'm not sure if all of them are geting dinner with the coach - for example Mikal Bridges was in yesterday morning and who has dinner that early? - but some of them are.  Michael Porter Jr. is due in this coming week, and the Knicks did have a representative at his recent pro-day, but not Perry or Mills. Porter remains a wild coard. Wendel Carter Jr. has already been in and would "love to play with KP."  Btw, that would really work.  In other Knick news, there's a sudden talk the Kyrie Irving will bolt the Celts for the Knicks in 2019.  Hmmm.

Rangers: The Rangers are also preparing for their draft, though whatever they are doing is not garnering the big name visits that the Knicks are.  To wit, it's easy to see the Ranger deciding to trade up for someone, in the first round, but no such tartget has been identified.  Zadina would be a good one, so would Boqvist. Tkachuck would be fine at 9, but not in a tradeup.  Anyway, the Rangers don't have any prospect linked to them (yet) in the same way that Trae Young is with the Knicks.  Who knows if that's even real or just smoke.  I think I would marginally prefer Carter.

So there we are, and the Yanks are  still rolling.  The Giants need an uneventful minicamp, and the Knicks and Rangers need to keep figuring out what will be possible in their draft and FA windows.  Okay, have a great one, peeps.