“So we know this player very well from a personal standpoint and an amateur scouting standpoint in an extreme way”, Cashman said.
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In the same move, the Yankees did right by Beltran, who for three years has done everything they’ve asked of him and more.
The Royals traded him to Houston in advance of his free agency in June 2004 and seven years later, the Mets dealt him to the Giants for Zach Wheeler.
After the New York Yankees opted to trade closer Aroldis Chapman on July 25th, it foreshadowed the many moves the Yanks would make only a few days afterwards. Instead of going all in on the usual pieces to make a post-season run, they made a decision to go with a different formula. Right fielder Shin-Soo Choo is eligible to come off the disabled list later this week, after dealing with lower-back inflammation. “We didn’t want to give up Dillon Tate, but we’re happy with the deal”.
In truth, the Yankees were fortunate that Cashman had the leash to do it. Getting swept by the last-place Rays in three games, which extended their losing streak to four games and dropped them to.500, was pivotal in convincing management that the time to rebuild was now. Entering the 2015 draft, he was tabbed by Baseball America as the top pitcher and third-best prospect overall.
As ESPN.com Senior Writer Andrew Marchand put it, “Yankees fans have had it great for almost a quarter-century, finishing above.500 every season since 1992 and winning five titles”. The other top prospect Gleybar Torres comes to the Yankees due to the Cubs wealth of infield talent.
Texas completed the deal Monday, a day after Lucroy blocked a trade that would have sent him to AL Central-leading Cleveland. Jonathan Lucroy has been traded to the Rangers with RHP Jeremy Jeffress in exchange for RHP prospect Lewis Brinson and RHP prospect Luis Ortiz. But with the product on the field leaving so much to be desired, they finally gave in and realized that even though NY is just 6.5 games out of first place, they’re more likely to finish the season there than make a rapid climb atop the division. “We got to the point where we felt like Tate was not going to be in the Milwaukee conversation or any of the other stuff we had going on, so we just kinda pulled the trigger and got the deal done with NY, and then we moved on to try and close out the Milwaukee deal”.
The 30-year-old Lucroy is hitting.299 with 13 homers and 50 RBIs in 95 games this season.
“We’re kind of in unfamiliar territory with the Yankees”, said first baseman Mark Teixeira, whose eight-year contract ends this year.
On his Twitter account after Monday’s deal to the Rangers, Lucroy wrote, “let’s take this bad boy to the ‘ship!”
“Based on the position we’re at as a team, I don’t know the chance of this team making it to the playoffs”, Beltran said to Hatch, later adding: “I don’t know how many prospects they got in [all the trades] …” By not adding a controllable starting pitcher, the Rangers set themselves up to once again by in the same predicament they’ve encountered this year – a shortage of starting pitching. Jeffress, who has 27 saves this season, can’t be a free agent until 2020. He likely will be in a setup role for the Rangers behind Sam Dyson.
Teams don’t win every single year forever, and the Yankees formula of winning with veterans has been tested. As a starter, he was 6-5 with a 4.86 ERA. My who’s hot and who’s not and my sleeper pick for the week. He is hitting.237 with 11 home runs and 40 RBIs in 77 games for Double-A Frisco in the Texas League.
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RHP Nick Green Seventh-round pick in 2014. Moore is 7-7 and his 4.04 ERA is a bit high, but he provides depth to a Giants club that ranks sixth in the Major League Baseball with a 3.68 team ERA.
