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You guys have one of the best farm systems in baseball, ours is gutted.....

 

@cubman987 Your new avatar for a few days...


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Best part of that EE trade is this little nugget fact

Really, the only good part

 

^someone should sig that

 

Well for starters we can talk about the Chris Sale trade.

 

Done.

 

Are you kidding me? We gave up Yoan Moncada, the best prospect in baseball at the time. Now he's turning into a great player. And three other players, including a pitching prospect who was highly ranked at that time too, Michael Kopech.

 

The Yankees didn't need Encarnacion; therefore draining the farm wouldn't make any sense. It was obvious he was ripe for the taking; ANYONE, including those teams who might benefit from having a right-handed slugger in their lineup (know any?) could've had him. Personally, I wouldn't have been nearly as satisfied with the trade if the Yankees gave anybody worth their weight for him. With Stanton coming back soon and Judge maybe a few weeks away, yet another right-handed power hitter wasn't on too many wish lists for Yankees fans.

 

Only way that trade makes sense is if they trade Frazier for a TOR starter.

 

You know as well as I do that they'll want more from the Yankees than just an average bat with lousy fielding.

 

His bat is above average and has a chance to be elite. His fielding is poor. Obviously it would take more than just him for a TOR starter.

They should have signed Dallas Keuchel, but Hal is cheap.

 

I heard on his show today, Chris Russo suggested that if the Yankees want to go all the way and win the Series this year, that they need to trade Frazier to the Giants for MadBum. The Giants are Russo's team, so he must know exactly why they'd go for a trade like that.

 

I don't think Bumgarner would be the answer for the Yankees at all. He's not what he used to be.

 

Decent enough chance they'll be back at it in October, which make the Dodger bullpen issues (specifically, Jansen) in this series (well, yesterday & Saturday's -Rizzo's homer!- games), even with any trades that happen in the summer, something to watch out for.

 

If you ask me, no one, including German, sticks out in the rotation right now. Can you bank on anyone routinely giving you at least six quality innings in every start? That's SIX; not five, and then count on the pen to wrap the game up. And forget about seven innings.

 

Nice game Masahiro. Way to prove me wrong.
Gee Boone, maybe it's a good idea to give him an extra day's rest?

 

So I went to the ChiSox/Yankees game at the park formerly known as New Comisky in Chicago last week and they handed out these nifty shirts in honor of the 40th anniversary of "Disco Demolition Night". The DJ who was responsible for putting it together way back when was on hand to throw out the first pitch.

 

I miss old Comiskey Park and Tigers Stadium so much.

 

Encarnacion's first HR as a Yankee was like one of those pitches that someone else would have sliced, opposite-field, for a 1B or 2B into right-center, but he just put it in the seats...

 

I remember a game in the first half of Judge's rookie season where he took that Derek Jeter swing where Jeter would hit the ball over the Second baseman into right field...you know the swing, and Judge hit it into the second deck in Toronto. Crazy.