One month to the trading deadline, Cashman needs to start thinking about who he can protect from the rule 5 draft this winter, and who he needs to move for value before then. So I thought I'd take a shot at seeing where NY stands:
NY right now has a crazy 10 guys on the 60 day DL plus 39 players currently active on the 40 man roster. They have at least three must-add prospects in Estevan Florial, Michael King and Deivi Garcia, so that's 52, minus 6 guys whose contracts are expiring (Didi, Betances, CC, Gardner, Romine, Maybin) and minus 3 guys who are just dead weight (Tulo, Ellsbury, Barrett), so that is 43 currently.
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SP (12): Paxton, Tanaka, Severino, Happ, German, Montgomery, Loaisiga, Cortes Jr, Adams, King, Garcia, Abreu
RP (12): Chapman, Britton, Ottavino, Kahnle, Green, Tarpley, Hale, Cessa, Harvey, Holder, Heller, Acevedo
C (2): Sanchez, Higashioka
IF (11): Torres, LeMahieu, Voit, Urshela, Estrada, Andujar, Bird, Ford, Wade, Valera (Encarnacion has a $20M option with a $5M buyout)
OF (6): Judge, Stanton, Hicks, Frazier, Florial, Tauchman
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Other prospects who might need to be protected: JP Feyereisen, Kyle Holder (red hot recently), Luis Gil, probably others.
Cashman needs to move some relievers (he traded four at last year's deadline and could do that again), anyone after Green in the list is possible. From the SP list, Adams and Abreu are probably the most vulnerable.
They also need to thin out the infield a bit, Wade has been passed by Estrada and probably Valera so he is probably the top candidate to get moved there. Bird needs to go too but they will likely let him try to get healthy first. The OF still needs a backup with options who can play CF (Tauchman is good defensively but has been disappointing offensively so far), otherwise they might need to bring back Gardner yet again.
NY right now has a crazy 10 guys on the 60 day DL plus 39 players currently active on the 40 man roster. They have at least three must-add prospects in Estevan Florial, Michael King and Deivi Garcia, so that's 52, minus 6 guys whose contracts are expiring (Didi, Betances, CC, Gardner, Romine, Maybin) and minus 3 guys who are just dead weight (Tulo, Ellsbury, Barrett), so that is 43 currently.
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SP (12): Paxton, Tanaka, Severino, Happ, German, Montgomery, Loaisiga, Cortes Jr, Adams, King, Garcia, Abreu
RP (12): Chapman, Britton, Ottavino, Kahnle, Green, Tarpley, Hale, Cessa, Harvey, Holder, Heller, Acevedo
C (2): Sanchez, Higashioka
IF (11): Torres, LeMahieu, Voit, Urshela, Estrada, Andujar, Bird, Ford, Wade, Valera (Encarnacion has a $20M option with a $5M buyout)
OF (6): Judge, Stanton, Hicks, Frazier, Florial, Tauchman
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Other prospects who might need to be protected: JP Feyereisen, Kyle Holder (red hot recently), Luis Gil, probably others.
Cashman needs to move some relievers (he traded four at last year's deadline and could do that again), anyone after Green in the list is possible. From the SP list, Adams and Abreu are probably the most vulnerable.
They also need to thin out the infield a bit, Wade has been passed by Estrada and probably Valera so he is probably the top candidate to get moved there. Bird needs to go too but they will likely let him try to get healthy first. The OF still needs a backup with options who can play CF (Tauchman is good defensively but has been disappointing offensively so far), otherwise they might need to bring back Gardner yet again.