The New York Yankees have shown at least a willingness to sell at this year’s trading deadline after already completing a deal with the Chicago Cubs involving Aroldis Chapman and at least discussing deals involving others. We’ve heard it for the better part of a month now that the Miami Marlins need starting pitching and pitching upgrades across the board and the organization may be interested in some arms currently wearing Yankees pinstripes so if Miami wants one of the young arms currently on the Yankees staff I have a few demands before we make this work.
The problem for Miami is there farm system is almost as
barren as Brian Cashman’s head (that’s a bald joke for those who are looking to
deep into this) which means the Marlins would have to trade from their MLB team
to facilitate a trade in my opinion. Now I know what you’re thinking, that kind
of defeats the purpose. No? Well yeah it does unless you consider that injured
players can be traded as players to be named later. Enter Carter Capps.
Carter Capps had tommy john surgery back in March of 2016
and will miss the entire season and likely part of the 2017 season with the
ulnar collateral ligament surgery. Would the Yankees be willing to take a
waiver on Capps for say an Ivan Nova, Michael Pineda or Nathan Eovaldi in hopes
of him coming back better and stronger than ever after rehabbing? Maybe.
Capps posted a 1.16 ERA in 2015 with a whopping 16.8
strikeouts per nine innings with a blistering 98.1 MPH fastball that would fit in
quite well with Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller. Wait a second. D for Dellin.
M for Miller. C for Capps? The return of No Runs DMC? I like it.
