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13528818 mavric said:
that are ABSOLUTELY untouchable. And Frazier and Torres are two of them. I would add Rutherford, Kaprielian, and Chance Adams to the list of untouchables. |
If you go into trade discussions with five untouchables, you will not come out of it with anything but fringe players (and certainly not a top of the rotation starting pitcher). I agree that Torres needs to remain untouchable but they should decide between Frazier and Rutherford (and make the other available) and the same goes for Adams, Kaprielian, and Sheffield (meaning keep the one you prize the most and make the other two available). So in my world I've reduced your five untouchables to three untouchables, which is probably still too many untouchables to land the likes of Sonny Gray or Gerrit Cole (assuming the Yankees view either of the two as frontline starters going forward).
p.s.--Also, it's hard to tell how the Yankees view a wildcard like Florial compared to Rutherford and Frazier and the same goes for an up-and-down-up-again prospect like Mateo. Yankees management and the pro scouting community may rank their prospects very differently than what we're hearing from the media consensus.