The Yankees received a talented, young haul from the Cubs in exchange for reliever Aroldis Chapman last week.
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“That’s probably a better question for (general manager) Al (Avila)”, Ausmus said. “A lot more things could happen”.
The Yankees have traded relief pitcher Andrew Miller to the Cleveland Indians.
Cleveland will send four players, including highly touted outfielder Clint Frazier, to NY in exchange for Miller, one of baseball’s best set-up men. “But that might have just been the fact that I was sleeping still”. “We would not have parted with the talent we did had their not been additional years of team control”. In fact, Miller said, he remembered being asked about it as early as spring training when there were already concerns about whether the Yankees could stay healthy enough and consistent enough to compete for a playoff spot. “I know when we go into NY next week, we don’ have to face Andrew Miller, which will be really nice”. “It’s certainly a time I’ll look back on fondly”. It was a good experience. “I wish we would have accomplished a little bit more”. They even added another Major League pitcher, Adam Warren, in that deal.
While it is exhausted now, the group will rest much easier in its post-deadline slumber knowing that its work has Cleveland well-suited for a possible World Series run. “He helped us the last couple of years. We knew we needed to win, and we didn’t do it”.
“He was probably as good as he has been all year”, Seattle manager Scott Servais said after Saturday’s win at Wrigley Field.
In doing so Cashman convinced Hal Steinbrenner to end the charade that these Yankees were contenders for a championship, and he was finally able to admit to the reality of needing to rebuild for a brighter future.
G, Fla. – Let it be recorded that July 31, 2016, is the date when the Yankees began to reap what they sowed almost a decade earlier.
“Chris and the guys just went and got the very best guy there was”, he said.
Hence the events of the past four years, in which this team has managed precisely one – one! – postseason game, which they lost, and the events of the past four months, in which an aging, overpaid and underperforming roster has struggled just to remain a.500 team, and the events of the past week, when the front office finally began to shed some of the relics of their past for what they hope will be the building blocks of their future. After he struck an agreement and hung up with Cashman, Antonetti spoke with Andrew Miller, his team’s new bullpen weapon.
But it’s hard to rationalize this as anything other than a team selling at the deadline, something the Yankees haven’t done with much significance since 1989 when they sent Rickey Henderson to the Athletics.
Miller is signed through 2018 as part of the three-year, $27 million contract he inked as a free agent with the Yankees in the offseason. I’m going to miss that. The 21-year-old center fielder from Decatur, Georgia is ranked the 21 best prospect in baseball by Baseball America.
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“We’re trying to get back to a situation where we can build an uber team, a sustainable one”, Cashman said.
