The Yankees shook the baseball world early Saturday when they agreed to acquire 2017 National League MVP Giancarlo Stanton from the Marlins. As you’d expect, the deal has elicited no shortage of media reactions, many of which we’ve rounded up here:
- While the Los Angeles-born Stanton would have preferred to go to the Dodgers, they didn’t make an offer that “intrigued” the Marlins, Joel Sherman of the New York Post tweets. Sending Stanton to the Dodgers would have required the Marlins to take on more bad contracts than they were “comfortable with,” according to Sherman, who reports that LA wanted Miami to accept one or both of Adrian Gonzalez or Scott Kazmir and absorb $30MM of Stanton’s contract. The Marlins found acquiring Starlin Castro from the Yankees much more appealing, as he’s someone they could slot in at second base or flip elsewhere.
- The Dodgers’ wariness toward a more aggressive Stanton pursuit stemmed from the back-loaded nature of his 10-year, $295MM commitment, per Buster Olney of ESPN (subscription required and recommended). If he doesn’t opt out of his contract after 2020, Stanton will rake in $96MM over the final three years of his pact, when he’ll be in his late 30s. The Yankees will be able to slot him in at designated hitter then if his work in the field sharply declines with age, whereas the Dodgers would have had to continue running him out as a defender.
- Adding Stanton gives the Yankees as many as six major league-caliber outfielders, thereby making Jacoby Ellsbury and Clint Frazier potential trade candidates. The Yankees will work to rid themselves of Ellsbury, even if it means eating “a lot” of the $68.3MM left on his contract, George A. King III of the New York Post reports. Ellsbury was reportedly uninterested in leaving the Yankees as of earlier this week, but that was before the acquisition of Stanton relegated him to the role of a fifth outfielder. While Ellsbury, who has a full no-trade clause, would be a salary dump, the 23-year-old Frazier would likely bring back a quality return – perhaps a starter, King suggests. Additionally, the Yankees “would certainly listen on offers” for third baseman Chase Headley, per King. Headley is entering the last year of his contract, in which he’ll make $13MM.
- With new Marlins owners Derek Jeter and Bruce Sherman on a mission to continue paring down payroll to the $90MM range, Castro looks like their most obvious trade chip, Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald writes. By parting with Castro – who has two years and $22MM left on his pact – and not taking back another guaranteed contract, Miami would still be about $15MM above its spending goal, Jackson notes. Further payroll slashing could come from deals involving some combination of Marcell Ozuna, Christian Yelich, Martin Prado, Brad Ziegler and Junichi Tazawa. Moving Castro, Ozuna, Ziegler and Tazawa would likely obviate any need to trade Yelich, Jackson suggests.
- Prior to the Yankees’ Stanton acquisition, they looked poised to go after Nationals right fielder Bryce Harper in free agency a year from now. That may be out the window now, leading Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post to posit that the trade probably helps the Nationals to some degree because it appears to erase a would-be Harper suitor. However, several other teams will make big offers to Harper, Janes points out, so retaining him on what should be a record contract still figures to be a tall order for the Nats.
- Harper is among the losers in this trade, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic opines (subscription required and recommended). Unsurprisingly, Harper’s agent, the always colorful Scott Boras, disagrees. “A Bronx opera . . . The Three Tenors . . . Hal’s genius, vision,” Boras told Rosenthal via email, referencing Harper, Stanton, Aaron Judge and Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner. Boras added that the Harper-Stanton-Judge trio would be “a galaxy of international popularity” on the same team. While Boras clearly isn’t ruling out a Yankees-Harper union, Rosenthal sees Manny Machado as a more likely target for the club in free agency next year.
- The fact that Stanton is set to join a Yankees team that was just one win from securing a World Series trip last season is a major blow to parity in the AL, Dave Cameron of FanGraphs argues. Cameron classifies the Astros, Yankees, Red Sox and Indians as potential “super teams” heading into next season, and the Angels could be on their way to the playoffs after winning the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes. As impressive as those clubs look, there’s now less incentive for others to play for the last wild-card spot, Cameron contends, which could lead certain fringe teams to rebuild.
xscalabr
Marlins did better than most people think. I just don’t like Stanton’s contract at all
barkinghumans77
I’m as die hard a Cardinals fan as there is and would have welcomed Stanton. But I agree on that contract. Would really like to have Ozuna though.
davie acavando
You can like all you want but St. Louis will only attract B level free agents!
Dad
As long Mr personality Mike Matheny is around .
EndinStealth
Ozuna is not a free agent.
JKB 2
How does Matheny still have his job?
carlsoce
Neither was Stanton
southbeachbully
Gary Denbo was the director of the NY farm before moving to Miami to hold the same position with the Marlins. For that reason only I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt on Jose Devers. Guzman is widely considered to be a high-ceiling power pitching prospect. Otherwise, I was a bit shocked that those 2 were the only prospects headed to Miami. I think they could flip Castro and at least get a top 75-125 guy in return. People crap on Castro but I think he’s a good player with 25 hr .300/,350 potential.
jerseyjohn
Really? A live armed guy with control issues in A ball, a 17 year old IFA who anyone with $175k could have had, and a replacement level 2nd baseman. I agree the Marlins had their legs cut out from under them by Stanton but they got raped. Jeter/the team completely screwed themselves by not talking to their player with the no trade clause. Stanton if he doesn’t opt out probably will be an ugly deal in about 5-6 years but man he’s still pretty awesome in the present. A terrible freaking deal if you are an actual Marlin fan, how you put any kind of spin on this in unbelievable to me.
gavinrendar
I disagree that they got “raped.”
Stanton’s deal does not have that much surplus value. Do you think he would have gotten MORE than his current deal (especially including the opt out and no trade clause) on the open market? It’s not a team friendly contract. There was never going to be a huge haul coming back.
mlb fan
@gavinrendar….I have no idea why many people seem to think the Marlins were going to get a haul in the Stanton trade when the real value that they were seeking was salary relief, so that they could rededicate the $265 million that they saved in the trade somewhere else…….I think the Fish did about as well as you can do under the circumstances…..
KnicksCavsFan
Where do you get the “control issues” thing from? Please do your research. And what makes you think they didn’t talk to Stanton about trade possibilities?
msjrn509
NO ONE WILL EVER GIVE A MOST TERRIBLE CONTRACT SUCH AS STANTON HAD.THE TEAM IS STUCK THAT INITIATES SUCH.
ttinsley1434
Yelling doesn’t make your grammar any easier to read.
Dodgethis
I wonder if the giants will be suitors for Harper or Machado. I suppose it will depend on who they sign this year but taking the Yankees out of the mix has to help the giants. If they were willing to pay Stanton I would think they could pay one of those guys. I also wonder if the Yankees pulled the trigger on the Stanton deal because of the perception surrounding the Ohtani snub, where they clearly couldn’t spin it in a positive way. The rest of the off season should be exciting.
kiwimlbfan
Can you guys tell me who is likely to be more productive over the next 10 years, Harper or Stanton, presuming both stay healthy? This could actually save the Yankees money seeing they don’t have to go after Harper?
majorflaw
“ . . . who is likely to be more productive over the next 10 years, Harper or Stanton, presuming both stay healthy?”
Assuming you normalized their stats, as if they played in identical run environments, the nod would have to go to Harper as he just turned 25 whereas Stanton is 28. More likely that Harper will still be productive in the last year of your proposed contract at 34 than Stanton will at 37.
Also worth noting, compare Harper’s MVP season with Stanton’s. As great as Stanton was, Harper was better and he did it at age 23, still a few years short of his prime.
delete
It seems to me that no one wants to play for the Giants. They are the ugly girl at the school dance! I think the Yankees pulled the trigger because they got a great deal on the MVP. Considered that?
davie acavando
Cubbies are suitors for #34
jjnjyoung
Think about this Stanton being with marlins. And Jeter a former Yankees player. Now Stanton lead the Giants and Cardinals along giving the Yankees tme to get there afairs in order then made the deal for Stanton. MLB Should have a outside commission look into this. I feel there is foul play going on here. Just a thought.
JKB 2
Think about this.
How did Stanton lead anyone along? He gave teams consideration and said no.
Think about this:
Explain how Stanton gave the Yankees “time” to get “things in order”. Tell me how.
They traded Castro and two low level prospects. They could have done that at anytime. You see Stanton did not do anything.
Giants and the Cardinals made better offers then the Yankees so Miami pursued those options first. No conspiracy here.
Yankees made a better offer then the Dodgers so ….
And I love your “Jeter a former Yankees player” suggestion of conspiracy. Can you back that up with anything at all to support your argument? Or since Jeter was a Yankee he is really a mole in the Miami front office sent in to steal Stanton for the Yankees?
How did Jeter and Stanton get together to pull of this conspiracy
WarrenSpahn
The Giants will sign a couple former All-star, broken-down, has-been Free agents and cross their fingers. Think Jacoby Ellsbury and Adrian Gonzales. They really need to blow it up and do what the Astros did – sign and develop some good young players. The problem is that management believes their own hype that Hunter Pence, Johnny Cueto, Matt Moore, Pablo Sandoval, etc. all just had “off years”, and they will all bounce back together and into the playoffs. Not. What should also be disturbing for the Giants is Buster’s lack of pop – 12 home runs last year. He’s becoming Joe Mauer.
yanks48 2
Lol super team. No such thing. This isn’t the NBA. Lot more room for error. A megastar joining a good team here is 1/4 the effect of whatever team a Lebron or KD type player would join in the NBA. Even with Stanton, I would be shocked if the Yankees win more than 110 games. We now have relatively unknowns at 2B and 3B and still got a fifth rotation slot to fill. Weren’t the Phillies supposed to be a super team around half a decade ago with a rotation of Halladay, Lee, Oswalt, and Hamels and lineup with Howard Utley and Rollins? Pretty sure that went nowhere.
Adam6710
And how did the Yankees get to be this “super team”? Through drafting, signing amateurs, quality player development, and solid trades using their minor league depth.
delete
Leave it to Dave Cameron to call this Red Sox team a super team and group them with the Astros, Yankees, and Indians. LOL
KillahAC
Red Sox Win the East two years in a row and ended the season with a better record than the Yankees, so yeah a super team.
Dannydeman
Or through throwing money at Tanaka and Chapman, getting the nl mvp by taking on 265 million in contract.
southbeachbully
110 games? I think the Yanks would be happy to win 100 games. Only 6 other teams have ever won 110+ games with the 1927 Yanks being one of them.
The Yanks do have question marks at 2b but a healthy competition between Torres, Estrada and less talked about Nick Solak could be interesting. They’ve said Headley will be the 3b and his job to win/lose. I’m not worried about 2b. If they can play solid defense then I think the team can be patient with their bat.
adamontheshore
Don’t forget Wade in the second base competition. A lot of fans are pretty low on him after his big league performance, but he is a highly regarded player who didn’t get consistent at-bats.
Chucky25
I wouldn’t be shocked if they went out and got one year of control out of Ian Kinsler ,and give Torres more time to return from injury
KnicksCavsFan
I doubt it. They might go get a vet who can play a few IF spots as a back up but they have 4 2B prospects in Torres, Estrada, Wade and Nick Solak who’ve played AA or higher. They also have a 25 yo slick fielding utility player in Torreyes who slashed .292/.314/.375 for them last year in the majors in 108 games. 2B represents an opportunity to try and save $$$ too. Bringing in Kinsler runs counter-productive to what they’ve been doing the last 3 years.
Dannydeman
Not to mention having only two reliable starter in Severino and maybe gray?
KnicksCavsFan
Tanaka and Montgomery.
larry48
Yankee over under 90 would take under. Judge will hit less pitcher will adjust what will he do more strike ours, Stanton if he stays healthy not like;y only did it once. He will have adjustment to American league hr less than 36. No casro won several games with home runs, Sanchez less as pitcher get book on him and more.
mriescher
The Yankees clearly aren’t going into next year with 6 OF so I wouldn’t be surprised to see one if not 2 be traded for other players Ellsburywill be a salary dump and Hicks/gardener will be traded as well
southbeachbully
Gardner will be a FA after 2018. I could see a 4 man rotation of Judge, Hicks, Gardner and Stanton. Frazier becomes the 4th OF but gets a chance to start in 2019 when Gardner departs.
jerseyjohn
And you’ve been a fan how long, ten minutes? No team should be counted on for 110 wins so yeah don’t count on that. We didn’t trade Headley and as much as he’s the definition of replacement level talent he’s not unknown and he plays 3rd. We will probably re-sign CC to be the 5th starter again. If we don’t Chance Adams who’s well regarded is considered ready right now to at least get a try in the bigs. Not printing world champs 2018 shirts yet but this team certainly looks like they have a chance.
fox471 Dave
Just 110 games?
bonquisha
Of course youd be shocked. Youd have to be dumb to somehow actually EXPECT 110 wins. Did you even think before you wrote that haha
jleve618
That phils rotation was lit though.
jleve618
Only problem was when they brought lee back it ruined all the cool H2O shirts.
AndThisGameBelongsToMySanDiegoPadres
How exactly is the $30m the Marlins are paying the Yankees if Stanton doesn’t opt out paid out? Is it a lump sum paid immediately after he decides not to opt out, at the end of the contract or somewhere in between? Or are the Marlins paying the Yankees something like $3m a year for the post-opt-out years plus his $10m buyout or something like that?
yanks48 2
Don’t think that info is release, but if your wondering about the AAV for luxury tax purposes, it counts the same regardless
22222pete
I dont think the Yankees see a dime if it. Its paid out directly by Miami to Stanton when the time comes. Yankees pay their portion. Its the same with every deal when a team eats part of a contract like Texas did with Arod.
Stantons going to opt out before that just like Arod. Main difference is Yankees wont extend Stanton who will head for LA or elsewhere on the WC
ABCD
My reaction is I need to start going to MLBTR anonymous after reading 1700 comments in the five Stanton articles plus Ohtani, etc over the past couple days.
ck420
Alright where is JD Martinez going
Priggs89
Boston
delete
If you ask a Mariners fans he’s 100% going to the Mariners and haha at the Yankees for getting rejected by Otani
southbeachbully
Why do ppl act as if the Yanks should be offended he didn’t choose them? He didn’t choose 23 other teams too. It was the media, not the Yankees who assumed they would sign him. Relax.
Segovia3047
As a Mariners fan I would be extremely upset if we signed JD, his defense is almost as bad as Cruz’s.
dugdog83
He is not that bad defensively. He’s not good but he’s not as horrible as everyone keeps saying. It just a reason to say he doesn’t deserve full payout.
If your looking at his fielding stats look at the players right around him. You’d be surprised.
MZ311
As a Yankee fan, haha on never watching a meaningful game for the rest of your life. How’s that 240 mil to Cano working our for you?
Kslaw
Really a Yankees fan asking how bad contracts are working out? Wait until all the bad ones are off your favorite team before saying something like that.
ABCD
Boras reminds me of Trump. Say a bunch of crazy stuff, someone believes him, and then he gets what’s he wants.
delete
Boras reminds me of Trump too. Aggressive, hugely successful, and makes you melt down like a snowflake
redsox 1976
F…k the Yanks !! Now DD have to pay 200+ for JD
thetruth 2
What crazy things did Trump say? Israel and Japan deport all illegals and have strict borders so are they crazy then according to you?
jdgoat
I hate to get into this stuff, but can you seriously not think of any crazy things he’s said?
ABCD
Sorry.
Sam.rhodes16
The Israelis are literally paying african migrants to leave, and people want to tell me trump is “literally Hitler.” Alright, by your standards so is BB Netanyahu.
jerseyjohn
Funny he reminds me of Hillary, always lying.
kiwimlbfan
This is a baseball blog guys. Head over to Fox or Politico for that rubbish.
mlb fan
@klwlmlbfan….no kidding……this is where we come because we want to get away from all the hate and politics….they should take that nonsense on the road……
ABCD
Sorry, guys.
brucewayne
Do you know how to tell when a politician is lying? When their mouth is moving!
66TheNumberOfTheBest
If they trade Cutch (which reading Huntingdon’s comments today sounds near certain) trading Cole for a package involving Clint Frazier makes a lot of sense.
Then they should sign Todd Frazier to go with Adam Frazier and really corner the Frazier market.
card collector18
I appreciated this
Begamin
I dont think you need to flip Frazier since Gardners contract is up in the next year. The Yankees have enough prospects to the point where they dont need to flip their best prospect and overpay for a guy like Gerrit Cole.
It would be smarter to just resign CC or let Adams get a shot than trading Frazier for Cole.
jimmyz
I think the Yankees and Pirates line up pretty well on a Gerrit Cole trade. Cole for Clint Frazier, Chase Headley and an interesting A ball pitcher like Matt Sauer or Nolan Martinez makes sense for both teams. Cole is a cost effective means for the Yankees to strengthen the their rotation. The Pirates get Frazier who would pair with Austin Meadows as McCutchen’s replacement and push Polanco to produce or be moved. Headley is a stop gap third baseman that allows the Pirates to keep contending even while trading Cole and the Bucs get a young pitcher as a kicker in the deal.
Flapjax55
“…Allows the Pirates to keep contending even while reading Cole…” Really? With what pitching. Full rebuild. No contending.
Yankeefanatic
The fact that people are divided over Trump comments goes to show me people still don’t know and truly understand secret societies, or the art of misinformation, the hegelian principle of change, psy ops, or how the whole world is run by the very few…All this drama is for masses confusion. One big illusion for us to argue about. Even sports, is in the same bag of tricks with politics. All theater, all distractions, to divide and create sides to cheer for and FALSELY DEFEND.
metallica321
Nobody likes his contract
wayneroo
Except him.
mike156
The idea that Stanton wanted to go to the Dodgers but LA didn’t offer enough to “intrigue” Miami does take a little out of the secret Jeter/Cashman conspiracy thoughts. I don’t love this deal for either team, but given the Marlin’s financial situation, it probably works for them.
steven st croix
Angles aren’t the best team in their division, they aren’t close to a super team. They do have 1 super player.
Philliesfan4life
the angels will be a good team if the rotation can finally stay healthy. a one-two punch of ohtani and richards.
rez2405 2
Simba and Upton say you don’t watch baseball
brucewayne
I think the Astros would have something to say about that! You know, the team in that division that just won the WS!
arp7241
Really hope Frazier goes to Braves. Teheran (or possibly Folty) and a couple low prospects…
Kslaw
Braves fans need to get off the Teheran can get top prospects bus. Not going to happen.
Segovia3047
What kind of Prospect would the Yankees have to give up to get rid of Jacoby Ellsbury and his entire Contract? Estevan Florial? I could see a team like the White Sox doing that.
(Assuming he waives his NTC)
southbeachbully
I cant see the Yanks giving up Florial just to move a bad contract. People are starting to pay attention to him. Hicks I think will man CF until he’s ready.
Begamin
If Ells waives his no trade then he’ll be flipped for low-mid tier prospects and have most of his contract eaten by the Yankees just like how the Stanton trade went down. No need to package him with a high level prospect to move him. A contending team who needs a CF or 4th outfielder would be willing to trade a low prospect or two for a cheaper ellsbury.
Kslaw
I don’t see ellsbury waiving his NTC to go to a rebuilding team. Like begamin said, it would need to be a contender he can play for for him to consider is my thought.
re-tweeted cleats
I could see Ellsbury (plus 20 Mil) being traded along with Betrances to LA for mid level prospect or two. Ellls wants west coast. LA gets a lock down 8th and 9 th.
SundownDevil
Ellsbury for Cano. Both of them get to go home; Ellsbury lives in Oregon, and Cano still lives in NY in the offseason.
southbeachbully
Can Frazier headline (meaning other prospects included) a deal for
Cole and Cervelli from the Pirates?
Michael Fulmer and Justin Wilson from the Tigers?
AndThisGameBelongsToMySanDiegoPadres
Well I mean considering that Justin Wilson plays for the Cubs…
Begamin
I dont think a deal for Frazier makes sense for the Tigers. Frazier is a MLB ready high level prospect, not somebody who will come in just in time for when your team is rebuilt, which in the Tigers case, looks to be a long time. No point in Flipping one young star for another when youre completely out of contention.
Ry.the.Stunner
The Tigers don’t have the authority to trade players from other teams.
WalkersDayOff
Why would the marlins want to keep starlin? Deal him to lower the payroll even more
Bartman
Stanton get physical and doctors inform him that he needs to get his Giancarlo removed. Agrees and changes first name to Aaron.
mbgutt
Rich get richer
antsmith7
Clint Frazier is going to be a star. Whoever gets him in a trade is going to win big.
yanks2009
Hey redsox1976
Who is paying $30 millions dls annually to a pitcher?
redsox 1976
How much you pay CC? Alex?Tex?Ells?
22222pete
Yankees should keep Frazier and Ellsbury and trade Gardner. Frazier can be DH. Give Gardner a chance to play full time in a contract year. He is more likely than Ellsbury to be disgruntled with a PT role as Hicks will likely get most of the playing time in CF. Ellsbury got his dough so he wont mind.
When Judge and Stanton need a rest let them sit, they dont need to DH as they dont get a mental break doing that. Frazier can split DH with Gary
Begamin
Nah, you keep Gardner. A true Yankee. They should keep Frazier too. I would only try to move Ells and Headley. While I think Frazier is almost if not MLB ready, i dont think he is ready for as much playing time as you are suggesting. Unless he blows me away in spring training, i say keep him at 5th OF or have him start the season in AAA.
panickingcalmly
The Three Tenors, Hal’s genius, vision…? God, Boras is such a tool.
limjaheytrailerparksupervisor
Couldnt agree more, I’m sure harper called him right away and demanded he did whatever it takes to make him a Yankee.
MauiDan
I have five words that are of great comfort to Red Sox fans: Jacoby Ellsbury and Adrian Gonzalez. Both are former Red Sox with huge contracts. Both are way overpaid and don’t even start at their positions, so they’re basically useless now. The Red Sox are so fortunate to be rid of them both, and seeing the Yankmes take on yet another exorbitant and soon to be useless contract after the ARoid debacle is a truly beautiful thing. Just because the Yankmes front office is still incredibly stupid doesn’t mean the Red Sox should follow like lemmings. Hopefully DD won’t.
LostYankeeinexile
And where did the Red Sox playoff finish this year? Would you like your consolation bucket of chicken and pitcher of beer now or later?
Kslaw
Can’t be that upset with the finish when you lose to the WS Champs is the way I see it. Yeah the yanks gave them a good run and almost pulled it off but they both lost.
redsox 1976
Ask CC for the beer and the chicken!!
ctguy
Sandoval will pass the beer & chicken that the Red Sux are paying for
YanksFan87
How about this? Sandoval + Castillo 29mil salary being paid for by Sox for 0 HRs…
Kslaw
Lol i like this. Love these crazy contracts that get looked over by fans.
MB923
The Red Sox in 2018 will be paying more money to Pablo Sandoval and Rusney Castillo than the Yankees will be paying for Giancarlo Stanton
rodrda01
Ouch.
posterizer
Haha
posterizer
They traded nothing for the reigning MVP. Are you an idiot? Red Sux fans are so bitter with their team- David Price- bullpen in the payoffs. Sale- can’t ever win in big games. First Base- talk about a horrible player with a horrible contract.
Cardinals17
If those Boston players are that bad, a trade with the Cardinals looks like a good fit. The Cardinals would take Price, Sale and Handley for Wacha, Carpenter, Fowler and Piscoty. Deal???
Franx
So is it unreasonable to think the Jays could be good trade partners with Miami? Miami has Christian Yelich and Castro now. Castro’s contract is two years at $22MM and Yelich is four years at $28MM, couldn’t the Jays just absorb their contracts? Miami wants to use him as mostly a trade chip and they need pitching, and the Jays have a couple of young guys in SRF and Connor Greene. But they could also add Travis to the deal, give them a young 2nd basemen, that is cheap, and if his legs get out of Toronto maybe they will do better.
Here’s my only issue, is that the Jays can’t really afford to give up that much pitching, so do they give up Alford or Pompey? Maybe even Pillar in the trade? I have no clue if Miami actually wants anything from the Jays, but I really hope the Jays brass sees the potential in getting both Castro and Yelich, it would shore up two holes for the jays for a long time.
stubby66
That’s it Boras you keep making the American Past Time an event that regular families can’t afford to go see
ullnvrknw
Yankees will now use Clint Frazier and pair him up with Headley or Gardner to go after a SP.. A low hanging Ace will be Gerrit Cole from Pittsburgh. They won’t be resigning him and they are on a salary dump mission, with the intent to retain quality prospects in return. Frazier will get this done. Yankees will then use Montgomery and Chance Adams as the fifth SP
Gwynning's Anal Lover
After reading the news about Stanton, I made a sandwich. That was my reaction.
redsoxiniowa
Lol, good stuff!
Pax vobiscum
Hope Tanaka’s arm holds out. Hope Sonny Gray isn’t another Javier Vasquez. But at least there’s Otani.
Kslaw
I hate the yanks as much as the next guy but that rotation is better than people give it credit for. On paper it looks pretty good. When you a top 3 of severino, Tanaka and gray you arent in too bad of shape.
KnicksCavsFan
So you question two guys who’ve succeeded at the mlb level, had injuries along the way but glimmer over the talented yet unproven player who has never played a lick of American professional ball, let alone never lived in the country who also is coming off an injury riddled season who also wants to play the field or DH too? Ok… no blind bias there.
Sportsfan67
And the Jeter owned Marlins become the newest Yankee farm team. How surprising (wink, wink)
Flapjax55
Exactly. Winking back at you.
posterizer
espn.com/fantasy/baseball/story/_/id/21719306/fant…
mike156
I wonder what the reaction would be if Stanton had went anywhere else, with comparable economic and talent considerations. I think people are losing sight of the reality of the business deal because of Yankees/Jeter. Stanton has a very risky contract–virtually everyone agreed on that–before the trade. Most fans of other teams did not want their teams trading for him because of that risk. Miami accomplished a lot by just getting out from under the risk. They got three pieces that might have some use–Castro can be flipped for something immediately, and they got economic flexibility. The Yankees absorbed the risk. The best outcome for them is Stanton is a monster for the next 3 years and then opts out and goes to LA. Then they would have traded Castro and two prospects for 3 years of Stanton.
redsoxiniowa
So NY now has 2 guys that cannot hit a curveball and will strikeout a combined 400 times, while bashing 120 HR and 240 RBI!? Gonna be fun to watch this season, one way or another
nats-taylor
Power
Vogt83
This trade will actually help the Phillies more than anyone…. Just about takes the Yankees out of the Harper/Machado race… With zero payroll on the books and the Yankees and Dodgers stretched to the limit on payroll… That leaves just the Cubs to compete with… They must love those odds.
posterizer
Yanks can easily afford Machado, who coincidentally last season basically said he wanted to be a Yankee
Vogt83
They have ZERO payroll. They can’t be out bid. Money talks.
brown trout fisherman
The fact that he wants to be a Yankee when he currently plays for the O’s
shows and proved he play for money. Screw that hothead.
Vogt83
They have ZERO payroll. They can’t be out bid. Money talks.
nyy177
Zero payroll? Really? You underestimate the Yankees. The Phillies lol. Expect the Yankees to be in the Machado race, not so much for Harper though.
Vogt83
The Phillies have zero money on the payroll right now…with limitless assets… Can’t be outbid… Now if these players WANT to take less money from the Yankees..that’s cool…but the Phillies will not be outbid for these players….can’t be done.
nyy177
True true. But the real question is, who REALLY wants to play in Philly??? I guess we will find out next year.
takeyourbase
“and the Angels could be on their way to the playoffs after winning the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes.”
Sure they could. So could 29 other teams who didn’t get Ohtani. This kid hasn’t thrown a single big league pitch. Why do people act like he’s God? All he is at this point is a big pile of hype.
Dan2Bfvr
Another lopsided trade that once again hurts the integrity of Baseball. Figures, typical Yankee fashion, they don’t win the WS so they go after the league MPV. The Bronx All-Stars should solidify their roster by bringing in Bumgarner, Strousburg, Trout & Arenado, why not? What do they really have to look forward to? Just about guaranteed a playoff spot, but we all know “heart” trumps $.
Totally lost respect for Stanton, he could have went anywhere and there were better suitors. Waaaa, Stanton wanted to be on a winning team and I get that but why the “Evil Empire”?
brown trout fisherman
Couldn’t agree more
KnicksCavsFan
Ummmm because he has a no-trade clause, wants to play in LA and nixed playing in St. Louis or San Fran for whatever reason? Seriously…I didn’t want the trade to happen ( I’m a Yanks fan btw) but this literally fell in their laps. And please don’t tell me that if he were a FA that other teams couldn’t afford him at $25 mil per. It was a limited market because the Marlins gave him too many years and the no-trade.
nick9797
Home Run Derby middle of the lineup: Sanchez, Stanton, Judge. That’s nuts!!
brown trout fisherman
Change his name to Giancarlo James or Lebron Stanton.
Front running BEOTCH
KnicksCavsFan
Would you say that if the Dodgers had stepped up and gave the Marlins what they wanted? Clearly that was Stanton’s 1st choice by far. Stop being a hater.
HarveyD82
I don’t know how marlins fans deal with this. all the rebuilds, all the tear downs, why even have a baseball team in Miami? It’s a football and basketball city. contract the marlins to another city. maybe they’ll get owner stability.
ken48tribe
Marlins might have avoided some of the conspiracy pr if Jeter had talked with Stanton when team was first purchased. Instead Jeter said he’d talk to him when needed. Early on, even just a get to know you conversation, would have made the whole process smoother and less like a soap opera.
KnicksCavsFan
Why would Jeter need to speak with anybody prior to the purchase? What could Stanton say that would’ve changed Jeters mind? It’s a business. Relax.
JKB 2
Naturally Rosenthal and Byrne kiss the rear end of Boras as usual and allow Boras to manipulate the article to get his two cents in.
Sorry Boras but if the Yankees are out that is not a good thing for your market. Everyone knows you want the Yankees in to drive up the price. There will be plenty of teams bidding but your Yankee bluff is not going to work. It should not matter anyway but the bluff will not work.