BAD DEAL: TRADE DEADLINE REVEAL MAKES JACK FLAHERTY FAILURE MORE EMBARRASSING BECAUSE OF YANKEES INSIDER’S ……..
Jack Flaherty’s failure is made more unpleasant by a Yankees insider’s trade deadline revelation. It was obvious the Yankees would have to pay a huge price to acquire Jack Flaherty after the Houston Astros dealt three of their best prospects for Yusei Kikuchi. Up until the day of the trade deadline, when it became evident that the Yankees wouldn’t acquire Flaherty unless they could also include a new back in the mix. The Yankees were either “unable to match up” with Detroit or were too afraid of floating medicals to sign the best rental available on the market. They opted not to add a starting pitcher instead, and the Dodgers will now be strengthened by Flaherty’s 2.95 ERA, while they only had to give up one top-10 prospect (Thayron Liranzo, their third-best catcher) and Trey Sweeney, a player ranked in the top 30 to seal the deal. According to Bryan Hoch, Sweeney, a former Yankee, appeared to impress the Tigers, who weren’t overawed by any of the players the Yankees really kept in their top minor league. Sadly for those hoping for a bright spot, the Tigers scouts’ assessment of the Yankees’ system only serves to strengthen the opinions of those who think a deal should have been made regardless of injury concerns. Allegedly, Detroit was only impressed with the Yankees’ “lower-level” prospects. In an all-in year with Juan Soto, the Yankees arguably should have compromised on a few marginal lower-level players given the type of Dodgers prospects needed to close this deal.
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Of course the Yankees ought to have traded Jack Flaherty for a lower-tier prospect. Even if Flaherty encounters a few roadblocks, the price doesn’t appear to have been too high. What if it transpires that they made the incorrect “lower level” prospect protection decision? Well, anything. The 2024 Yankees would have had a better chance of adding to their trophy cabinet in the interim, but the 2027 Tigers may be able to brag about their accomplishments against the 2027 Yankees. All that’s left to do is focus on Los Angeles and see how Flaherty holds up from a distance. It remains to be seen if the Yankees were “pushing hard to consummate” a trade involving Flaherty after adding Jazz Chisholm on Saturday. Who ended the arrangement will never be known to us, at least not until the next Andy Martino book.
We do know, however, that sticking onto lower-level prospects in a championship-or-bust season is risk-averse general manager behavior, particularly as the price of said prospects declines and their quality declines out of need. For two main reasons, the Yankees’ abandoned Jack Flaherty transaction is not the same as the Frankie Montas trade. The Yankees either backed out of a nearly completed trade for Jack Flaherty due to health concerns, or they had trouble matching up with the Tigers in the first place, depending on how much you trust Brian Cashman or Ken Rosenthal. Whatever the justification, Flaherty wound up in Los Angeles instead, for a meager Dodgers deal, and Cashman got a hard time for maybe having a problem with Flaherty’s back—after getting a hard time for not We do know, however, that sticking onto lower-level prospects in a championship-or-bust season is risk-averse general manager behavior, particularly as the price of said prospects declines and their quality declines out of need. For two main reasons, the Yankees’ abandoned Jack Flaherty transaction is not the same as the Frankie Montas trade.
The Yankees either backed out of a nearly completed trade for Jack Flaherty due to health concerns,
or they had trouble matching up with the Tigers in the first place, depending on how much you trust Brian Cashman or Ken Rosenthal. Whatever the justification, Flaherty wound up in Los Angeles instead, for a meager Dodgers deal, and Cashman got a hard time for maybe having a problem with Flaherty’s back—after getting a hard time for not
Whatever the justification, Flaherty wound up in Los Angeles instead, for a meager Dodgers package, and Cashman took a beating for possibly having a problem with Flaherty’s back—after receiving a beating for not being more concerned about Frankie Montas’ sore shoulder earlier. Cashman shown commendable control if, as he refused to acknowledge on Wednesday, he is genuinely concerned about Flaherty. However, there are two main distinctions between grudgingly accepting Montas’s price and objecting to Flaherty. Just one? In 2022, Juan Soto was not a rental. Taking risks is more important now than it was in the past. More significantly, the Montas comeback came at a hefty price: left-hander Ken Waldichuk, a top-100 prospect JP