{"id":58161,"date":"2025-06-24T07:47:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=58161"},"modified":"2025-06-24T07:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:47:34","slug":"trade-pitch-sees-yankees-land-2-million-starter-with-best-stuff-on-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=58161","title":{"rendered":"Trade Pitch Sees Yankees Land $2 Million Starter With \u2018Best Stuff on Market\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"has-video 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\/06\/Yankees-Trade-Edward-Cabrera.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Yankees-Trade-Edward-Cabrera.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Yankees-Trade-Edward-Cabrera.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Yankees-Trade-Edward-Cabrera.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Aaron Boone\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"1059\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1114\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"featured-widget-area\">\n<div id=\"heavy_multi_stn_video_player_widget-4\" class=\"stn-player-cls stn-player-container\">\n<div data-stn-player=\"8efwxt1u\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Considering\u00a0the number of injuries they have\u00a0had to endure this season, including the loss of their No. 1 starter for the entire season due to Tommy John surgery, the New York Yankees starting rotation has been surprisingly good.<\/p>\n<p>With a\u00a0collective ERA of 3.49, Yankees starters have been fourth-best in the big leagues. Their consistency is due mainly to lefties Max Fried and Carlos Rodon who have made a\u00a0league-leading 16 starts each, with respective ERAs of 2.05 and 3.10.<\/p>\n<p>But the Yankees rotation\u00a0suffered yet another injury on Sunday when No. 5 starter Ryan Yarbrough went on the injured list with a right oblique muscle strain.<\/p>\n<p>That led to the call-up of Allan Winans, a career minor leaguer who on Monday\u00a0became the eighth starter\u00a0used by New York in 2025 through 78 games.<\/p>\n<h2>Yankees Must Upgrade Starting Staff at Trade Deadline<\/h2>\n<p>Yankees general manager Brian Cashman will undoubtedly look to upgrade the starting staff at, or possibly before the July 31 trade deadline, with an eye to bringing more stability to the injury-battered rotation. But who will Cashman be seeking to acquire, and which players is he willing to give up in return?<\/p>\n<p><em>Pinstripes Nation<\/em>\u00a0columnist Sara Molnick\u00a0published a trade idea on Monday that would upgrade the Yankees rotation with a 27-year-old right-hander who has put together a solid if not spectacular 4.23 ERA over 73 career starts, and who would continue providing value to the Yankees for\u00a0at least three more seasons\u00a0after this one.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but the Miami Marlins\u2019 Edward Cabrera will likely be available. The Marlins are perpetual sellers, it seems, and this year will probably be no different with the Fish languishing in the National League East basement at\u00a0at 31-45, 11 games out of a playoff spot and 15 games behind the division-pacing Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>In fact,\u00a0<em>The Athletic<\/em>\u00a0ranks Cabrera 12th\u00a0on their MLB Trade Deadline Big Board \u2014 a ranking of the the players the publication considers the top 30 trade candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Marlins don\u2019t\u00a0<em>have<\/em>\u00a0to move Edward Cabrera. He\u2019s under team control through 2028, and his front office would have to hope that the team would\u2019ve made some progress toward competitiveness by then. He\u2019s also made some recent improvements: he dropped his arm slot, added a sinker, moved to the curve over the slider, and is in the midst of his best stretch of command ever. And if he threw this way for an entire season he might just improve the return,\u201d wrote\u00a0<em>The Athletic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther teams have to be enticed by the recent form, though, and he has the best stuff of any starting pitcher thought to be on the market,\u201d the publication\u2019s Big Board report concluded.<\/p>\n<p>According to Molnick, however, \u201cthe Marlins will demand premium prospects for Cabrera\u2019s services.\u201d Cashman\u2019s previous efforts to shield organization No. 1 prospect George Lombard and previous No. 1, now a Major Leaguer, Jasson Dominguez from trade negotiations might not hold up this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam control through 2028 makes Cabrera extremely valuable beyond this season. He could anchor the Yankees rotation alongside Gil, Fried, and Rod\u00f3n for years,\u201d Molnick wrote. \u201cCabrera\u2019s combination of talent, durability, and control makes him worth a significant investment. Few available pitchers offer similar upside and longevity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his three years of team control, Cabrera is on a modest one-year contract worth just under $2 million for this season.<\/p>\n<p>Would the Yankees be willing to mortgage their future for an increased chance to return to the World Series for a second straight year \u2014 something much less likely to happen with an injury-filled rotation that still must get through 84 more games before even taking on the postseason?<\/p>\n<p>History says the answer is yes.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees have an unprecedented historical propensity for spending money big on free agents \u2014 dating back to late owner\u00a0George Steinbrenner\u2019s 1975 signing of pitcher Jim \u201cCatfish\u201d Hunter for what was then an astonishingly rich, five-year, $3.25 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter\u00a0was the first big money free agent in baseball history, and the Yankees got him, setting a trend that continues today and makes it much less crucial for the organization to maintaina constant stream of prime prospects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Considering\u00a0the number of injuries they have\u00a0had to endure this season, including the loss of their No. 1 starter for the entire season due to Tommy John&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58161","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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