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Posted on 07/26/2018 2:36:39 PM PDT by TBP
Where does Happ fit in the rotation? Ahead of Gray probably, but ahead of Tanaka or CC Sabathia?
Yes, I realize Happ strengthens the rotation and makes the club better the rest of this season and in October. Got it. But he's unlikely to be re-signed. He's a placeholder until young southpaw Justus Sheffield is ready. He buys time for Sheffield to develop. This is a lot to give up for 10 starts.
In a period of about 36 hours, every team in the American League East has made at least one trade — and the Yankees, Blue Jays, and Rays have made made two each.
Something needed to be done as dreading the next Sonny Gray start is an issue. Also, can’t have enough lefties in Yankees Stadium.
They got to keep up with the Astros.
It doesn’t sound like a smart move on its face, but the Yankees are actually facing a problem in the off-season where they would lose prospects in the Rule 5 draft. Basically, they can only protect 40 players in the draft ... and they would lose some good prospects because of this roster limit anyway. That’s why they’re more willing to part with some of these minor leaguers in trades that don’t seem like good deals right now.
It’s crazy that the Yankees could easily win 100 games, but not win the division since the Red Sox are so hot.
Subject for another time and place, perhaps, but the Yankees may face the one game wild card playoff game, while other division winners may have won far fewer games. This is a fine Yankees team but their bad luck is seeing the Red Sox having one if their best years ever.
I agree.
The Yankees don’t need DeGrom. What they need is some guys to chew up big innings, and a couple of hitters who can actually put the ball in play with runners on base. For all the hype about the Yankees, they are a very poorly constructed team that can score a ton of runs but has also been shut down by some pretty marginal pitchers. They’re hitting lower than .170 with runners in scoring position over the last two months. With a lineup like this, they couldn’t win a playoff series even if they had a five-man starting rotation of Koufax, Seaver, Ryan, Carlton and Maddux.
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The Yankees should have gotten Jacob deGrom.
Sonny Gray cannot handle the pressure of playing for a big-market, win-now team like NY.
Tanaka, Sabathia, Gray, Happ, Severino sounds like a good rotation.
We’ll see.
The Red Sox has David Price, and he’s so-so in innings.
At the rate try are going they will be lucky to make the playoffs.
Don’t be shocked if this team collapses down the stretch and doesn’t even make the one-game wild card playoff.
Their salaries should be based on end of the year performance only, not future hoped for performance.
As a Rays fan, my first reaction was that Archer won't be putting on the pinstripes anytime soon. He probably wants to go to Beantown to reunite with his mentor Price, but it wouldn't surprise me if Archer is still on the Rays in 2019. We're cleaning out all our journeymen to rebuild a strong young team, but we need at least three decent arms, and that would be Snell, Faria, and Archer, probably in that order.
(P.S. Alex Cobb has to be kicking himself for leaving the Rays to get stuck with the O's.)
I'm not sure who is stuck with who. He's 2-13 with a 6.17 ERA.
Astros are missing some opportunities.
Astros need a closer.
He takes the place of the drek that took over for Monty. It is quintessential to win the division, so they don't have to play Russian roulette with the wildcard playoff game. Every trip around the rotation with and automatic loss set the Yankees behind the Sox. Now, they get a veteran to keep them in the game. So when the Yankees play the remaining 10 games with the Sox, they don't have to win 9 of 10 to just get back into the race.
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