CHICAGO – MAY 14: Josh Harrison #5 of the Chicago White Sox looks on against the New York Yankees on May 14, 2022 at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Ron Vesely/Getty Images)
The New York Yankees have a left area drawback, however — say it with us now! — they don’t have any cash to spend to repair it, both.
No, significantly. They might both spend a measly $3 million for a marginal improve (even the Adam Duvalls of the world are actually gone) and threat the best ranges of taxation, or they may give Aaron Hicks and Oswaldo Cabrera (and Rafael Ortega!) reps and reassess on the deadline.
Per MLB insider Jon Heyman, the identical concern that has torpedoed each deal because the Carlos Rodón contract went last has reared its ugly head once more within the Jurickson Profar non-chase.
The Yankees have mentioned signing free agent Jurickson Profar. However the Yankees are adamant (at the very least for now) about staying underneath the “Steve Cohen tax” threshold of $293 million. They’re at about $290M. They, too, checked in on Josh Harrison.
Checking in on Josh Harrison makes (gulp) all of the sense on the earth, if New York can’t transfer off Hicks’ cash (or Josh Donaldson’s cash, or Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s cash …). He shouldn’t value a lot, and offered 1.4 WAR and a slightly-below-average 94 OPS+ at a number of positions final season.
Plus, the Red Sox are interested, if Brian Cashman wished to dam one among their 16 consecutive uninterrupted mid-level transactions.
Why … did the Bombers tender Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s $6 million salary again? Is that this one other a type of conditions that might’ve simply been solved by an enthusiastic non-tender?
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- The New York Mets are nonetheless pursuing left-handed Andrew Chafin, in addition to former Yankee Zack Britton, as famous final week.
- The Boston Pink Sox have now turned to shortstop Elvis Andrus, along with Harrison, of their try to flesh out their roster with “some guys,” a confirmed methodology of World Sequence rivalry from all the way in which again in 2013.
- The Minnesota Twins swapped Luis Arraez for Pablo López and Miami’s No. 5 prospect Jose Salas, a 19-year-old shortstop. One other shortstop. Royce Lewis. Brooks Lee. Austin Martin. This fella. Carlos Correa. Attention-grabbing throughout.
