The New York Yankees once again have an opportunity to get
younger, better and more versatile this offseason and all they have to do is
trade away Brendan Ryan. Sounds easy enough right, the guy can play all over
the infield extremely well and has a modest salary. While Ryan comes with
obvious offensive question marks there are certain teams out there that could
afford to survive with a defense first (only) second baseman, the Washington
Nationals.
The Nationals do not seem very comfortable with handing the
second base job to Danny Espinosa and the team would rather have the likes of
Anthony Rendon at third base and Ryan Zimmerman at second base. I don’t pretend
to be an expert in the Washington farm system but a quick google search and
some research tells me that their best prospects who could take over the
position spent the 2014 season in High-A ball and are probably two years or
more away.
If the Nationals would take Ryan and his salary for
essentially a throw in player, probably a big pitcher that we can drool over
that’s in A Ball, New York could make room for Jose Pirela on the bench. If
Didi Gregorius were to struggle the recently signed Stephen Drew could serve as
the backup while Pirela could serve as the backup at second, his most natural
position anyway. It is also worth mentioning that Pirela played every position
in the minor leagues except for pitcher and catcher so it would not be out of
the realm of possibilities to plug him in at short, or anywhere for that
matter, in a pinch.
With this trade the Yankees save a couple million bucks,
they get younger, they give a shot to one of their own and ultimately I think
the team gets better. This trade seems to fit the mold of everything Brian
Cashman has been trying to do this offseason, doesn’t it?
Also, as an FYI, if you want to remove the words "Washington Nationals" and replace them with the words "New York Mets" that works also.
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