The August 31st trade deadline is quickly
approaching and while we have seen more than a few teams take advantage of this
month’s waiver wire trade deadline deals the New York Yankees have not been one
of them. New York was said to be interested in the New York Mets second baseman
Neil Walker before the team sent him to the Milwaukee Brewers while the team
also thought they had a deal for Jay Bruce in place, also with the Mets, before
he was shipped to the Cleveland Indians to solidify their playoff push. The
good news for the Yankees though after missing out on two key players for their
own postseason run is that the team can still make the very best trade they can
during this month of August and it won’t even cost them all that much.
What do I mean? Well I don’t mean the Yankees can acquire
another player from another team because of the payroll freeze set in place by
Hal Steinbrenner but I do mean the team can get healthy, get some players off
the disabled list and hit their stride right at the perfect time of the season.
Currently the Yankees have a lot of big guns on the disabled list and many of
them are getting close to coming off the disabled list including second baseman
Starlin Castro, first baseman Greg Bird, RHP Masahiro Tanaka and LHP CC Sabathia.
Bird’s struggles have been well documented this season
across the Yankees blogosphere but what many of those posts fail to address is
the fact that Bird was trying to play through an ankle injury which could have
absolutely led to him slashing just .100/.250/.200 in 60 at-bats. Bird is set
to begin his rehab assignment tomorrow with the Scranton/Wilkes Barre
RailRiders although his rehab could go the maximum time allowed since the
left-hander has missed so much of the 2017 season already.
With Castro, a 2017 AL All-Star, and Bird the Yankees
offense should be much better while having two veteran arms in Sabathia and
Tanaka can only benefit a young team headed towards a potential playoff berth.
This may be the best, and only, option for the Yankees this month to improve
the team so let’s hope for the best and hope for the health and effectiveness
of these four players.
We still might need that left handed bat. But you forgot about Holliday. We need all five clicking to over take Boston.
ReplyDeleteI don't have high hopes for Holliday as he will be zapped of power, energy etc. due to his bout with Epstein-Barr. I could be wrong and if he came back healthy and hitting the ball well he could be huge. I just don't have high hopes personally.
DeleteIF Bird can come back hitting as he can, then he IS the left handed bat...don't you think?
ReplyDeleteGreat point, Mr. Reed.
DeleteThank you Mr. Burch!
DeleteI do so miss the bygone days around here. When we disagreed with someone we Commented on it and got a lot of different opinions. Now days, if one disagrees with what someone writes they ignore the comment.
Bye, Bye and take care of that family of yours...it's been fun!
Well some of our more opinionated people have seemingly disappeared for whatever reason. That falls on me I'm sure. I have been distant, busy and dealing with real life stuff. But I am still around and I read every single comment that's written here. And I always will.
DeleteI hope you're not leaving us too.
I disagree with Mr Reed!
ReplyDeleteI disagree, I bet you don't. You're just trying to be witty and provocative. Hahaha.
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