However, there are a few reasons why I don\u2019t think they land him. Number one: I\u2019m not sold on the Twins being sellers. If the Astros, Mariners, and Orioles are going to buy, why wouldn\u2019t the Twins? They have a better record than all of those teams, and they\u2019re just a game out of the final Wild Card spot and just three games back of the division.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s say they do sell; the Yankees would likely get outbid. If they are selling, my guess is they\u2019re looking for prospects. With how desperate the Yankees are for Jeffers, which has been widely reported ad nauseam, my guess is the Twins front office would hold Cashman\u2019s feet to the fire and force him to overpay. That\u2019s not what Cashman does, and this is a very solid pivot that helps both teams.<\/p>\n
Carson Kelly\u2019s .976 OPS against left-handed pitching ranks second among catchers. He\u2019s a veteran with a mutual option at the end of the season for $7.5M. The Cubs are clearly not selling, but they could net two Yankees pitchers, and they already have Miguel Amaya, who\u2019s younger, cheaper, and putting up a season nearly identical to Kelly\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Doval has been a rollercoaster on the Yankees, but there\u2019s no debate about the level of stuff he has. He could simply be a pitcher who bounces back when he leaves New York, or he\u2019s broken. I would take that risk if I were the Cubs, or they could simply lean on his 3.54 xERA and 3.76 xFIP. <\/p>\n
Beck was dominant in Triple-A but struggled once he got called up. He\u2019s a 27-year-old who can start right now or be a long reliever in the bullpen. He fits a need for the Cubs, who need pitching depth, and all they have to give up is one of their two catchers, who\u2019s likely a free agent after the season anyway.<\/p>\n
Trade Idea Number 4<\/p>\n
Yankees Receive: LHP Adrian Morejon<\/p>\n
Padres Receive: RHP Ben Hess, OF Spencer Jones <\/p>\n
I want Mason Miller more than probably any Yankee fan on the planet. I\u2019d give up a top-10 prospect in the system just so I could watch him walk out to \u201cBlind\u201d by Korn and throw one inning in pinstripes. He would be the best reliever the Yankees have had since Mariano Rivera.<\/p>\n
When I originally pitched a trade that involved Lagrange and Lombard for him, my fellow Yankee fans freaked out. Here\u2019s the thing: that probably doesn\u2019t even get it done. The Padres don\u2019t look like true sellers, so any trade involving Miller would have to be an overpay, and what I offered is likely in the \u201cfair\u201d range. Let\u2019s pivot to the Padres\u2019 second-best reliever, who\u2019s a free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Morejon is a left-handed missile throwing 99 mph bowling balls with a 2.47 FIP. He\u2019s up there for the best left-handed reliever in baseball. I personally think he\u2019s better than David Bednar, but who cares; you\u2019d have both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, there are a few reasons why I don\u2019t think they land him. Number one: I\u2019m not sold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-308063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}