{"id":40058,"date":"2025-04-11T02:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T02:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=40058"},"modified":"2025-04-11T02:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T02:37:53","slug":"breaking-yankees-trade-proposal-reunites-with-former-fan-favorite-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=40058","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Yankees Trade Proposal Reunites With Former Fan-Favorite Ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<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-1603616900-1-e1743471251420.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-1603616900-1-e1743471251420.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1603616900-1-e1743471251420.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1603616900-1-e1743471251420.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"New York Yankees, Michael King, San Diego Padres\" width=\"780\" height=\"441\" data-img-load-time=\"1526\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1546\" \/><\/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 smirking<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been an ugly past few days for the\u00a0New York Yankees, a team that understood heading into Opening Day that their pitching staff could be a significant issue.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Carrasco\u00a0was roughed up on Tuesday, allowing four earned runs in 4 1\/3 innings pitched. The Yankees\u2019 expectation that Carrasco would be the type of arm he was made no sense, and it\u2019ll only end poorly if it continues.<\/p>\n<p>If the Yankees look to improve their rotation over the next few weeks to months before the trade deadline, they\u2019ll have to hope multiple players become available. Right now, the market seems relatively quiet outside of a few arms, and unless prospects start turning around, the Yankees\u2019 farm system isn\u2019t exactly great.<\/p>\n<p>However, Joseph Zucker of Bleacher Report proposed the idea of the Yankees potentially trading for\u00a0Michael King\u00a0or\u00a0Dylan Cease\u00a0of the\u00a0San Diego Padres. He added how helpful either of them could be, but didn\u2019t add what a package would look like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same is true for Michael King, who has a $15 million mutual option for 2026. King was filthy in his last start, fanning 11 batters and walking just one in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy keeping Cease in particular through Opening Day, San Diego showed it\u2019s aiming for the postseason, and an 8-2 start justifies that belief. Should the Padres fortunes take a turn, the Yankees could seemingly try to re-open negotiations over Cease or pursue a reunion with King,\u201d\u00a0Zucker wrote.<\/p>\n<h2>How King or Cease Would Help<\/h2>\n<p>If the New York Yankees were to get a deal done for either of the right-handers, there\u2019s reason to believe they could be one of the better teams in Major League Baseball again.<\/p>\n<p>However, until they add another ace-caliber starter, there will be questions about whether they\u2019re contenders.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_3_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-3 adthrive-ad-cls\" data-google-query-id=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>Dylan Backer of Empire Sports Media spoke about how both could potentially benefit the Yankees, adding that King could be a trade candidate due to his familiarity with the Yankees organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Yankees already have a lot of money attached to their starting pitchers, which may prevent them from pursuing King or Cease in the open market. Cole is making $36 million per season, Max Fried signed a contract worth $218 million this past offseason, and Carlos Rod\u00f3n is still under a six-year, $162 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, given Cole\u2019s injury this season, the Yankees would only need an option that will get them through this season. King could be a strong option to pursue in the trade market given his familiarity with the organization and sparkling pitch arsenal, and he would provide them with a true frontline arm to pitch alongside Fried in the rotation,\u201d\u00a0Backer wrote.<\/p>\n<h2>Is King Available?<\/h2>\n<p>The New York Yankees will be in the market for a starter, but again, it\u2019ll come down to who\u2019s available. If either San Diego Padres ace is on the market, the expectation is for the Yankees to pursue them.<\/p>\n<p>However, it remains uncertain if the Padres would trade either player, putting the Yankees in a tough scenario as the season continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut sources familiar with their internal deliberations say it would happen only if it makes the Padres significantly better in at least one of the three spots at which they appear to have deficiencies offensively,\u201d wrote San Diego Union-Tribune\u2019s\u00a0Kevin Acee. \u201cDesignated hitter, catcher and left field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Padres are in cost-cutting mode and may be looking to move Cease and his $13.25 million salary as he heads into his walk year,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Aaron Boone smirking It\u2019s been an ugly past few days for the\u00a0New York Yankees, a team that understood heading into Opening Day that their pitching staff&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40058","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 - 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