{"id":33430,"date":"2025-03-16T01:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=33430"},"modified":"2025-03-16T01:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:19:03","slug":"yankees-land-bonafide-star-in-blockbuster-trade-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=33430","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Land Bonafide Star in Blockbuster Trade Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2179014328-1-e1742058816499.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2179014328-1-e1742058816499.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2179014328-1-e1742058816499.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2179014328-1-e1742058816499.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"New York Yankees, Zac Gallen, Arizona Diamondbacks\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"200\" data-dom-ready-time=\"272\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Aaron Boone arguing<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0New York Yankees\u00a0will start their season on March 27, but will be without some of their top arms.\u00a0Gerrit Cole, most importantly, is out for the season after undergoing surgery. The right-hander will need to be replaced, but there aren\u2019t many options for the Yankees to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>While the Yankees prospect pool isn\u2019t what it once was, they still have pieces to make a trade. Whether that\u2019s to land an ace is one thing, but the Yankees have a few prospects they could move in bigger deals if they\u2019re willing to move on from players.<\/p>\n<p>Among them is Zac Gallen, a right-handed starter with Cy Young stuff the Yankees will only hope will eventually be available.<\/p>\n<p>Deesha Thosar of Fox Sports pitched the idea of the Yankees trading for him, questioning if the\u00a0Arizona Diamondbacks\u00a0would be willing to eventually pay him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fair to question whether the Diamondbacks are comfortable paying Gallen the top market price after they signed Corbin Burnes to a six-year, $210 million contract. Gallen, 29, will hit free agency after this season and is expected to command around $200 million overall if he has a solid year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Diamondbacks fall out of contention before the summer, they could strongly consider moving Gallen at the trade deadline to reap the benefits of a prospect haul. By then, the Yankees certainly wouldn\u2019t be the only suitors for Gallen, and Arizona would need an impressive offer to part with its longtime ace,\u201d\u00a0Thosar wrote.<\/p>\n<h2>Are the Yankees Looking?<\/h2>\n<p>The New York Yankees need arms.<\/p>\n<p>However, this late into the offseason and spring training fully underway, there aren\u2019t a slew of options for them to pursue. If anything, the Yankees could sign a free agent, but there aren\u2019t any legit arms on that front like Gallen.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Cashman\u00a0acknowledged the need for an arm, adding, however, that there isn\u2019t much out there for the Yankees.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Styles__StoryPartContainer-sc-1mfrmm0-0 bxycmk story-part markdown\">\n<div class=\"Styles__MarkdownContainer-dxqlie-0 brhVGr\">\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll just evaluate what\u2019s available, and this time of year, very little is available,\u201d Cashman said a day after the Yankees announced that\u00a0Cole\u00a0would have\u00a0season-ending Tommy John surgery, according to\u00a0Bryan Hoch of MLB.com. \u201cNormally, the more significant opportunities don\u2019t exist until the Trade Deadline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Styles__StoryPartContainer-sc-1mfrmm0-0 bxycmk story-part markdown\">\n<div class=\"Styles__MarkdownContainer-dxqlie-0 brhVGr\">\n<p>\u201cWhen we\u2019ve had these conversations many a time over, you hope you can withstand injuries and avoid injuries early from Spring Training up through the Draft, because going outside the organization is just that much more difficult to do. So we\u2019ll rely on what we have, and we\u2019ll explore what is limited available in the marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waiting until the deadline could be a disaster, but there\u2019s a better chance of someone like Gallen being available then.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Cashman Understands Yankees Would Have to Trade Prospects<\/h2>\n<p>At this stage of the offseason, and in the campaign, the New York Yankees have no choice but to move prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Cashman knows that\u2019s the case, and also added the money factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve obviously got big commitments already,\u201d Cashman said. \u201cThe inventory that is going to be available is going to be limited, and then there\u2019s costs associated with those acquisitions. Some of it is in terms of prospect value. Some of it is in terms of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gallen, however, is only set to make $13.5 million this year before he gets his big payday in free agency next winter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article__author-bio\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Aaron Boone arguing The\u00a0New York Yankees\u00a0will start their season on March 27, but will be without some of their top arms.\u00a0Gerrit Cole, most importantly, is out&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Land Bonafide Star in Blockbuster Trade Proposal - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=33430\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees Land Bonafide Star in Blockbuster Trade Proposal - 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