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jacobywankenobi 2
The Yankees certainly can’t trade Miller without bringing on another elite arm. As good as he and Betances were last season, they barely got by with just the two of them. If anything, they should keep Miller AND go after Kimbrel.
jonscriff
Coming from a Yankees fan… I’d trade Miller and prospects for Strasburg or just trade Miller for prospects and sign Jordan Zimmermann
mookiessnarl
Three years of Miller for one year of Strasburg? Not a good deal for the Yankees. If they can get someone to overpay for Miller and a slightly better deal for Kimbrel they should pull the trigger. But the only reason to do those deals is if you net up. No reason to move an elite closer if you can’t make that happen.
haakon14
Trading for prospects will do nothing for the Yankees. They don’t keep them around long enough
mj-2
The Braves primary target this offseason should be getting Kimbrel back. They’ve openly stated fixing the bullpen is top priority this offseason. How about starting with the guy you traded away that wrecked it in the first place?
Braves are lucky he’s even available to get back. Ship Folty off. Guy isn’t gonna make it and Padres are stupid.
aprogie
Braves aren’t competing yet so it would be pointless to trade away prospects for the future to get a good reliever when they aren’t even competing
mj-2
No it wouldn’t. At some point they have to start adding pieces to get them back into contention.
If they plan on competing in 2017 like they claim, that’s only a yer off. They have holes everywhere still. They have to start filling them at some point.
Even before they dealt Kimbrel they said they viewed him as a key piece for the future.
How has that suddenly changed? They only dealt him because it was the only way to move BJ, not because they didn’t want him or need him.
His contract runs through 2018.
How long exactly would you like to wait before adding MLB talent to be competitive again if the goal is 2017? Gonna do it all at once next offseason (with a barren FA pool I might add)….lol ok. Good luck
drum18
Trading Miller shouldn’t be an option for Cashman, as jacoby noted above. If anything, Cash should look to add to the bullpen. Girardi is one of the best pen managers in the game. More options would lead to more wins. An innings-eater (Mike Leake) and another starter should be the focus.
rct
I almost never understand trade speculation by the NY media. To get this straight: the Yankees could trade their closer for ‘immediate help’ (which = ???), then trade ‘prospects’ to replace their closer with a closer who puts up incredibly similar numbers but who makes slightly more money.
Why wouldn’t they just keep their closer and sign some ‘immediate help’, or just cut out the middle man and just trade ‘prospects’ for ‘immediate help’? Why trade Miller to then trade for Kimbrel?
Joey Domingues
Shhhh your making too much sense!
stonepie 3
cashman wants to fleece AJ over in san diego. also- kimbrel is younger than miller. i get your logic though…
start_wearing_purple
Replace “NY media” with “sports media” and you basically have a job description. Take a simple scenario and spin it to make it weird.
rmullig2
That’s not as interesting.
ianthomasmalone
What is the point of trading Miller and acquiring Kimbrel? Could Heyman think of nothing else to write about?
start_wearing_purple
My guess is Miller is available the way ANY player is available… only for the right price. If Miller’s name has been mentioned in trade talks it was probably with a team bringing him up and Cashman replying with “well what’s your offer.”
wilponzicream
Can someone please explain how exactly the Mets are not listed as having primary interest in Darren O’Day? They are certainly in the market for a top bullpen arm this offseason. How can these writers, including MLBTR btw, just assume the mets won’t up their payroll, just because they haven’t recently. If the opportunity presents itself that makes sense, I believe they will. Signing Cespedes or Murphy is likely stupid money (see Keith Law). Signing the right top reliever for a much shorter term commitment is a much less risky and high priority move. If Omar had been running that team we’d have Michael Bourn in center and Stephen Drew at SS, and a much higher payroll, but definitely not NL pennant winners.
rct
It hasn’t been reported here, but Marc Carig of Newsday reported that the Mets are interested in O’Day. As a cynical Mets fan, I would think that this is just bluster that they’re putting out there and they won’t spend for him.
Honestly, my dream offseason would be O’Day and some secondary pieces, but that’s just me.
CascadianAbroad
Not really the Cubs MO to spend big money on bullpen arms, but with O’Day’s consistency over his career, I’d make that buy at $7M/per to lock down the back end of the ‘pen.