I agree with the tenor of this. I have no quarrel with this move in a vacuum - the Yankees receive the odds-on best player in the deal, at the risk of Durbin becoming a Major Leaguer and providing years of controlled value. I love Nestor both as a competitor and a guy that has only ever wanted to pitch for the Yankees from the point he was drafted, but there's not a "high-end" aspect to his production, and he's coming off a season that was marred by shoulder and forearm injury. That's a solid allocation of assets for a team that is attempting to compete at the highest level.Those moves, IF they can't swing Tucker (which I have to assume is somewhat on the unlikely side), may include just resigning Torres and leaving Chisholm at 3B.
More generally - I think Cortes is being slightly underrated here too. He's been a 3-4 WAR starter 2 out of the 3 years since he became a fulltime SP, with the down year being injury related rather than underperformance. One year of a 3-4 WAR starter has real value.
I think the problem for me arises if this becomes a situation where a big name, MVP-production bat is attempted to be replaced at least in part by acquiring a big name, dominant bullpen piece. Adding an elite closer, especially if his salary is going to be used as a mean of limiting further expenditure, does nothing for me in the conversation of the Yankees regrouping as a championship contender. Tucker is the prize here - he is the guy that could conceivably replace the a good majority of Soto's loss, with the non-zero chance that he even eclipses him next year.
In a nutshell, you brought in Soto because you needed an elite bat. He was an elite bat, and played a major role, often propping up the offense for stretches because it was at times top heavy. When you now lose Soto, bringing in quality pitching, including a dominant closer, doesn't bolster my confidence in this operation dynamic. It would feel somewhat misguided, reactionary, and clunky.