{"id":51870,"date":"2025-05-28T08:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T08:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=51870"},"modified":"2025-05-28T08:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T08:47:53","slug":"yankees-perfect-trade-deadline-target-just-emphatically-made-his-own-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=51870","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; perfect trade deadline target just emphatically made his own argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mb-0 md:mb-9 relative md:mx-10 md:mb-9\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"overflow-hidden bg-lightGrey\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full\" title=\"Texas Rangers v New York Yankees\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_53,w_3496,h_1966\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/GettyImages\/mmsport\/43\/01jvwm4x699eqj2we569.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Rangers v New York Yankees\" width=\"3496\" height=\"1966\" \/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"ml-1 pb-2 mt-4 md:m-3 text-darkGrey font-group-tiny\">Texas Rangers v New York Yankees | Dustin Satloff\/GettyImages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex flex-wrap justify-center lg:justify-normal\">\n<div class=\"flex lg:mr-4 lg:w-[calc(70%-3em)] max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"hidden md:block md:mx-4 hidden md:block\" data-testid=\"share-menu\">\n<div class=\"sticky top-20 mb-3\" data-testid=\"share-menu-inner\">\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">The New York Yankees&#8217; rotation, which was supposed to be capped by Gerrit Cole, has held its own nicely in recent weeks after\u00a0trimming both Carlos Carrasco (DFA)\u00a0and Marcus Stroman (injury), while absorbing a\u00a0turnaround from Will Warren. Carlos Rod\u00f3n and Max Fried have been devastatingly good atop the five-man unit. Clarke Schmidt has steadily improved, while Ryan Yarbrough has been a throwback godsend. Someday, perhaps, Luis Gil will join as well, though his throwing program continues to be kicked down the line.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">Still, Rod\u00f3n and Fried could really use a right-handed co-ace, and that&#8217;s what the trade deadline is for. As if the\u00a0Yankees&#8217; ideal target wasn&#8217;t already obvious\u00a0prior to Thursday&#8217;s series finale with the Texas Rangers, Nathan Eovaldi emphatically rubber-stamped himself as the man for the job, zipping his trademark heaters and all but begging for an overdue Yankees reunion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">Eovaldi, who found a little bit of his swagger in New York in 2015, then changed everything post-Tommy John with the 2018 Boston Red Sox, continued his engagement with the Rangers this past offseason, and the Alvin, TX native has been every bit of himself. As expected, he blitzed through the Yankees (in a 1-0 loss) last Thursday, his sixth straight start allowing one earned run or fewer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">The Rangers may be an AL West \u2014 and, hell, an American League \u2014 contender by end of season, but right now, their offense is still mired in the mud. In fact, it was so bad that they managed to get\u00a0Aaron Boone&#8217;s brother hired.\u00a0Given their rotation talent, what if &#8230; the Yankees tried to overwhelm them and pick up the hefty-ish cost of Eovaldi&#8217;s remaining contract if Texas remains dead offensively as the deadline approaches?<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"scroll-mt-24 my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">Yankees trade deadline target (fingers crossed) Nathan Eovaldi effortlessly shoved against everyone except Jorbit Vivas<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">The only issue here is that the Rangers, as a trade partner, aren&#8217;t lacking for pitching prospects; four of their Top 10 on MLB Pipeline \u2014 plus the unmentioned Jack Leiter \u2014 are power righties. The Yankees intentionally built up their pitching reserves in last year&#8217;s draft, then brought in Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz in the Carlos Narvaez trade. They&#8217;re overflowing in that department, but don&#8217;t have quite as enticing options offensively. Maybe they Rangers would be interested in some lefty variance, like Yankees pitchers Brock Selvidge or Griffin Herring?<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">Eovaldi\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>signed at $25 million for each of the next two years, so while the Yankees would be relieving a financial burden, the Rangers&#8217; ask won&#8217;t be flimsy here. They&#8217;ll need to be impressed in order to cut bait on the final 2.5 years of someone they clearly believe in and continue to return to. The Yankees don&#8217;t have a single lefty prospect with high enough upside to<em>\u00a0lead<\/em> a package. Would Spencer Jones, Everson Pereira, and a lefty be enough?<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">Eovaldi still strikes out fewer batters than he probably should, given his powerhouse stuff. He&#8217;s 35 years old, so the next two seasons\u00a0<em>could<\/em> get uglier. But, at this moment in time, he&#8217;s the horse you&#8217;d choose to complement what the Yankees already have. It&#8217;s a shame this process won&#8217;t be easier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Rangers v New York Yankees | Dustin Satloff\/GettyImages The New York Yankees&#8217; rotation, which was supposed to be capped by Gerrit Cole, has held its own&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51870","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&#039; perfect trade deadline target just emphatically made his own argument - 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=51870\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees&#039; 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