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.
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.
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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.
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.)
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.
I guess the Yanks are not hapless anymore? Except of course against the hapless Birds (6W/6L) and Rays (6W/6L)
Oh! But they are going ALL THE WAY
Right.
All the way to some early post season fishing and golfing outings.