Day 342

Fresh Start_342: 2017 Yankees Trade Deadline response
I don’t love this trade for the Yankees. The bombers traded for Oakland’s Sonny Grey before this afternoon’s 4PM EST trade deadline and the asking price for Grey was just too high. Grey is a good pitcher and is exactly what the Yankees need to make a strong push for the division in 2017; but to give up three of the bombers top tweleve prospects is a very high asking price. Granted Grey is 44-36 in his career with a 3.42 career ERA—he is not a Cy Young award winner.

To give up Jorge Mateo, James Kaprielian, and Dustin Fowler is too much for my liking. My opinion on Mateo being expendable has not changed, but I personally love Kaprielian. Even with Kaprielian having Tommy John surgery in February, the upside on him is comparable to what Grey is now. Fowler and Mateo would have been as far as I would have gone, but with the deal that went final I would have demanded that Jacoby Ellsbury be involved for the price of giving up Kaprielian.

Giving up this much in the long run is tough to swallow after completely selling at the deadline last season. This move might have been a most after what the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox did at the deadline today. Boston went out earlier in the week to get former Yankee Eduardo Nunez while getting former Met reliever Addison Reed to bolster the Sox pen. Houston also helped out their bullpen by acquiring Francisco Liriano who is a crafty veteran who they will use as a long reliver.

Getting Jamie Garcia yesterday and Sonny Grey today are acquisitions that will HAVE to make an immediate impact in the Bronx to further the distance between the Yankees and the Red Sox in the division race. With the bullpen struggles that the Yanks have had this season Grey and Garcia will need to provide length to give Betances and Chapman needed days off as we get into August and September. I don’t hate either of these trades, but I don’t love them. For a grade I would give the Yankees a B- at this years’ deadline with all the moves that were made. And, for what it is worth, these moves better pay off.
Sources:(baseballreference.com, mlb.com)

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