The Yankees announced that they’ve acquired outfielder Eric Young Jr. from the Brewers in exchange for cash considerations and assigned him to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Young, 31, is a veteran of seven big league seasons and is known for his standout speed. He’s a career .247/.314/.328 hitter in 1683 big league plate appearances and has 144 steals in 179 attempts over the course of 557 Major League contests (an 80.4 percent success rate). This season, he’s spent the entire year with Milwaukee’s Triple-A affiliate in Colorado Springs, batting .263/.338/.339 with 23 steals in 29 attempts over the life of 116 games. He’ll give the Yankees an option as a pinch-runner off the bench late in games in September as the club hopes to remain afloat in the race for the second American League Wild Card spot. New York is currently 3.5 games behind the division-rival Orioles for that spot, but they’d have to leapfrog the Royals, Astros and Tigers in addition to Baltimore in order to secure a postseason berth.
how much is a baseball player worth don’t understand cash for player why don’t they say how much it is?
So people like you cant put a cash value on a player, which would basically further the idea that the teams ow them like slaves
These would be really well-paid slaves. Perhaps you need to do a little bit of research on the way slavery actually operated before you compare baseball players to them.
Thank you for posting what I was thinking.
Slaves? The least paid player makes more than the hardest working average joe…
How about you look up what Marvin Miller did for the MLBPA if you think ballplayers are ‘slaves”…
“Cash considerations” usually just means that the Yankees are paying the rest of his contract. Since the Brewers are out of contention this year, they figure they can save a few dollars on him to spend in the offseason. They likely would have released him anyway, but a team willing to pay his remaining salary is even better. That’s my understanding anyway
No. Instead of sending a player in exchange for another, the team just send cash, and usually the team acquiring the player is also on the hook for the player’s contract.
Playoff bound
The final piece. AL East teams better be scared.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Couldn’t they just have used Gamel in this role?
Not exactly the same type of player as far as speed/baserunning goes
Gamel was traded today.
That’s what he meant, “why trade one outfielder to then trade for another one”, but thechamaleon is right.
Looks like the return the yanks got has some upside.
I have heard Eric Young Jr has lightning fast speed that Yankees don’t have because of all these slow veterans like McCann