{"id":10030,"date":"2024-12-12T07:36:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T07:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=10030"},"modified":"2024-12-12T07:36:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T07:36:35","slug":"yankees-step-up-kyle-tucker-pursuit-as-possible-trade-package-competitors-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=10030","title":{"rendered":"Yankees step up Kyle Tucker pursuit as possible trade package, competitors revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And, just like that, a New York Yankees trade for Kyle Tucker appears to have gone from a wild pipe dream to a serious possibility.<\/p>\n

One year after testing the waters with a game-changing rental outfielder, Brian Cashman appeared on MLB Network to comment on his\u00a0team’s forthcoming aggressiveness, noting<\/a>, \u201cFrom the Yankees\u2019 standpoint, no retreat, no surrender.”<\/p>\n

At the exact same time,\u00a0reports of the team’s dogged pursuit of Tucker<\/a>\u00a0hit the airwaves, as Joel Sherman noted that signing Fried has allowed the team to fully engage with Houston on their walk year wonder.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Yankees, the Cubs have purportedly been active in Tucker’s market so far, with the Giants and Phillies also touching base with Dana Brown.\u00a0Brown made no secret of Tucker’s availability\u00a0<\/a>earlier this week at the Winter Meetings, and worked with Cashman previously on several Braves-Yankees swaps.<\/p>\n

According to Sherman, the Yankees’ package could start with Luis Gil and Ben Rice. Before rival fans enter and laugh, claiming they know better than the Astros’ front office what they’d like to have,\u00a0Houston is purportedly “very interested” in Gil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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