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SamFuldsFive
Kyle Hendricks is the best #5 in baseball. Get out of here with that Liriano nonsense.
mp9
Absolutly Right!
jdgoat
How is Kyle Hendricks a 5 starter? He’s fairly easily their 3rd isn’t he
chesteraarthur
because he is starting their 5th game.
jdgoat
I don’t think that makes you the 5th starter though in their sense. If that were the case, Aaron Sanchez is the jays fifth starter which obviously isn’t true. The article is strictly on skill, not where they are slotted
chesteraarthur
I agree. But I assume that is what SFF was referring to.
TheGreatTwigog
I feel like we’re really forgetting Pomeranz. Before the trade and injury he a Cy Young candidate and worth an arguable top 20 prospect. I don’t expect him to return to that form, but he deserves to be called Boston’s 4th starter until he sucks this season.
bfolls
I think Anderson is more the 5 considering he had to win the job over Montgomery. Hendricks just happens to be the pitcher who will be starting the 5th day. I think either Epstein or maddon was saying that they were doing that because of certain match ups
chesteraarthur
“To be perfectly honest, if half of the prospects pan out to be good to MVP level players, then the Yankees will not need to sign Bryce Harper nor Manny Machado.” – That should not be something you are counting on.
MB923
Agreed.
Bruin1012
Pan out to be good to MVP level are you serious be happy if a couple are good asking them to be MVP level is probably asking to much.
66TheNumberOfTheBest
“But the biggest factor short-circuiting a trade is the reluctance of every general manager to be Rich Hahn’s next victim.”
Actually, the TOP reason why Quintana hasn’t been traded is this inaccurate narrative.
The Sox ripped off NO ONE. In fact, they were the ones who were conned…into making a fair deal.
The Sale deal was fair because the Red Sox got a top 10 pitcher.
The Eaton deal APPEARED to be a heist on paper. In reality, the giant red neon BUST sign is flashing above Giolito’s head and lots of people knew this before the trade. Hahn evidently did not. Remove his name value and a deal of Eaton for Lopez and Dunning is about right.
PS- First sentence of this piece reminds that there is little quality control in blogging…
“One after another, media insiders continue to hack away at the artifice that has walled in Quintana.”
Poor Jose…walled in by all that artifice.
TheGreatTwigog
Hahn is trying to get the post hype deal on Giolito, and he picked up two other great prospects in that deal. For a team not trying to win, they got a great deal.
brood550
That article about the Yankees signing Machado or Harper leaves out a lot of background. Good article but it shouldn’t really be using the stolen base numbers against Machado. Not his fault the O’s had the red light on all year last year for all players and stole 19 as a team compared to the Nats’ 121. Harper’s best year for stolen bases was 21 last year while being thrown out 10 times. Machado’s best year he stole 20 while being thrown out 8 times.
Not to even mention the Yankees have been supposedly shopping Castro for quite a while now. Which would open up a spot in the infield and also free up more money. Personally I would actually say that seeing as how the Yankees will have over $75 million off the books by then and the luxury tax threshold should move up. I see them making a run at both especially if they move Castro. But I could also see working with Scott Boras being a holdup on dealing with Harper.
andm369
I would take Manny over Harper.
billysbballz
Pinstripe Prospects worried about Yankee tradition and facial hair is typical of a blog with a few loyal visitors trying to get people to visit and comment on the stupid crap they write. A few weeks ago they were going all political and now it’s hair issues. Enough. Fake news. No story there, Yankee tradition is what it is. No names on the back of the jersey and keep your egos in check as the team comes first. In a world with millennials having the need to voice whatever is on their mind that very moment and demand safe spaces for their feelings that blog fits into that space.
billysbballz
The real story with Quintana is that Hahn is really pushing hard to trade him now before any injury concerns or possible regression on a last place team brings his value reasonably down.
I would not deal the farm unless I was one pitcher away (Astros, Seattle, Texas, etc) and I would do that at the deadline only soooo that limits the market.
Hahn wants the Yanks and Braves and Pirates involved to rip a chunk of their farm from them but it makes zero sense unless those teams actually think they are ready to win it all and still they wouldn’t know that until the deadline?
If Hahn wants to trade Q now the asking price will come down and it has little to do with prior trades he made!