The Dugie Down Bronx: Red Sox trade Alex Verdugo to Yankees
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BREAKING: The New York Yankees are acquiring outfielder Alex Verdugo in a trade with the Boston Red Sox for right-handeres Richard Fitts, Greg Weissert and Nicholas Judice, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN.
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Is this setting up a big OF acquisition? Ohtani?
Anyone familiar with what we’re getting back? Any chance we could have had one of them anyway soon under Rule 5 like Whitlock if we hadn’t done this?
If the Yankees were going to get Ohtani would they still do this?
So many questions
Anyone familiar with what we’re getting back? Any chance we could have had one of them anyway soon under Rule 5 like Whitlock if we hadn’t done this?
If the Yankees were going to get Ohtani would they still do this?
So many questions
Those guys are frozen currently, unable to be included in trades, so no. Weissert is on the 40 man, the other two not.
Verdugo handled RF in Fenway better than most expected. I suspect he'll do the same in left at the Stadium
There's a "if the dick Fits" joke.
Verdugo will put up good numbers at Yankee Stadium, but I'm hardly sad at seeing him go. He was a frustrating player more often than not.
Verdugo will put up good numbers at Yankee Stadium, but I'm hardly sad at seeing him go. He was a frustrating player more often than not.
Verdugo is going to hit 20+ homers with Yankee Stadium as his home ballpark. It's going to piss us off to watch him be an all-star there.
BUT...hopefully this (a) is a good return and (b) opens the door for a major acquisition.
BUT...hopefully this (a) is a good return and (b) opens the door for a major acquisition.
I find this very interesting on a more high level side of things. Trading major league value for prospects to a rival has to signal something large on the acquisition front.
They want two OFs but one of them has to play CF until Dominguez is back, I guess it could be Judge.
I want them to keep Duran and always thought Verdugo was the odd man out and wouldn’t be worth signing after this season. I don’t know anything about the return, but I’m not upset about trading Verdugo
I agree that the short porch in RF is perfect for maximizing Verdugo's limited power. He'll be a thorn in our sides for one year at least.
We didn't even get a 2B out of this? Why
Closes the book on the Betts trade as a massive failure that everyone involved should have follow them to their graves and beyond.
Closes the book on the Betts trade as a massive failure that everyone involved should have follow them to their graves and beyond.
We could open up at bats in the outfield by moving the guy my brain currently thinks is Daisuke Matsuzaka to DH. Fuckin' brain.
Not a fan. I liked the deal when it involved getting Torres back, who is a perennially underrated glue guy in NY who would address a big lineup need for 2024. But not nearly as excited about these guys.
One of these recent incidents, Cora was absolutely ripshit, I remember, and unceremoniously benched him. Postgame he singled out “a player who was not at all ready to contribute to his team,” or something like that. It seemed quite a bit more serious than late to a meeting.
Dugie when he was on, was one of the better players on the team but could never string together a full season to justify investing long term. Which is really a shame because he was fun to watch when everything was clicking.
Not going to lie. I love the guts Breslow is showing. Makes a significant trade with the Yankees as his first major move. Hopefully the evaluation of Fitts, who feels like the prize here, is correct.
Is he joking? Verdugo doesn't have much value to the Padres, why would they trade a rental for a rental+prospects.
Also King+Thorpe+Verdugo is a laughable trade package for Soto.
There is simply no way the last piece to finalizing a Juan Soto trade being Alex Verdugo
Imagine being traded for Mookie Betts and Juan Soto and everyone in both fan bases hates you because you're neither Mookie Betts nor Juan Soto.
I kind of loved the deal until I read this. That'd be extremely weird for the Padres, though.
Right there. If he says these are the arms, these are the arms.
He will unfortunately mash for them most likely, as noted above, but I still will not miss Dugie. Weird to say given he was above average in the field and at the plate, but there you go.
2b is low on our list of priorities--particularly organizationally. Need every upside arm we can get and frankly I'm impressed we got a guy with starter upside for a one year Verdugo rental
I guess he was frustrating behind the scenes, at least to Cora, but I was pretty fond of Dugie. Sad to see him go, and will hope he gets off the Yankees ASAP.
Seems like Breslow is replenishing the pitching pipeline with a AA prospect and some raw arms to start work on. Curious if another shoe drop is coming soon.
Seems like Breslow is replenishing the pitching pipeline with a AA prospect and some raw arms to start work on. Curious if another shoe drop is coming soon.