The Seattle Mariners and the New York Mets just completes a blockbuster trade. It’s a typical New York Mets move: weakening an already weak farm system in return for a bad contract. The New York Mets are still unlikely to go to the playoffs anytime soon and now have a bad contract on their hands. In the meantime, Seattle got
Read moreThe Seattle Mariners are actively shopping Robinson Cano and the Arizona Diamondbacks are actively shopping Paul Goldschmidt. I decided to look at possible destinations. Photo courtesy for NBCsports.com. 1. SEATTLE TRADES CANO TO THE NEW YORK YANKEES FOR OF JACOBY ELLSBURY This trade has already been considered but didn’t happen because the Bronx Bombers wanted “significant cash” as part of
Read morePhoto courtesy of Lindyssports.com. Arizona is actively trying to trade Zack Greinke. Greinke has the highest AAV of any starting pitcher and for a rebuilding team, he’s simply not a fit due to that salary and his age. What teams would make sense to acquire him and for who? With all of the starting pitching free agents in Arizona’s near
Read morePhoto courtesy of WikiMedia. Bryce Harper is “custom-made” for Yankee Stadium. He is a lefty bat and the Yankees just happen to need lefty bats. Just look at the amount of righties in their lineup: C Gary Sanchez, 1B Luke Voit, 2B Gleyber Torres, 3B Miguel Andujar, RF Aaron Judge, DH Giancarlo Stanton. He’s also great at getting on base
Read moreThe season is over and the Boston Red Sox are World Champions, eliminating New York along the way. The Bronx Bombers will want to have an offseason that will keep this from happening again in 2019. With that in mind, I decided to write my suggested blueprint for it. The number one concern for the team should be starting pitching.
Read moreThis offseason is going to have plenty of trades. However, there are five big trades that especially need to happen. These trades are big and so will most likely actually not happen, but they should. 1. NEW YORK METS TRADE SP JACOB DEGROM TO THE OAKLAND ATHLETICS FOR LHP A.J PUK, SS FRANKLIN BARRETO, C SEAN MURPHY AND LHP JESUS
Read moreThe New York Yankees acquired Andrew McCutchen in a trade that would’ve been huge a couple of years ago. San Francisco received at least something in return for the former superstar, while the Bronx Bombers now have a temporary replacement for Aaron Judge that is better than Neil Walker and Shane Robinson and a solid bench piece upon Judge’s return.
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