BOSTON — The Yankees have had “on-going,” talks with the Royals about Andrew Benintendi over the previous couple of weeks, a workforce supply mentioned, confirming a report Sunday. The Royals need to flip the possible All-Star outfielder for prospects to assist their rebuild and have had scouts on each stage of the Yankees system for the reason that starting of the season in search of doable matches.
The New York Post first reported the talks between the groups.
Looking for an improve within the outfield over a struggling Joey Gallo or Aaron Hicks, who has began to interrupt out over the past month, the Yankees have additionally been wanting on the Pirates Brian Reynolds, however some within the Yankees group really feel strongly that Pittsburgh will in the end maintain on to him to rebuild round.
The thought within the business is that the Royals are additionally coming in excessive on their asks for Benintendi, in search of a high prospect, and should not discover a commerce accomplice earlier than the deadline. The Yankees actually have these with Anthony Volpe, Oswald Peraza, Jasson Dominguez, Austin Wells and Ken Waldichuk topping their prospect lists.
But the Royals spent weeks scouring the Yankees system within the spring and early months of the season and a few of their group assume there are many different prospects to attempt to work a cope with. Even within the lowest stage Florida Complex League, the supply mentioned there are “lots of players to consider,” in a doable deal. It is price remembering that the Royals did specific curiosity in Miguel Andujar again within the 2019 Winter Meetings.
The Yankees are actually within the driver’s seat as they strategy the commerce deadline on Aug. 2. With one of the best document in baseball and an unimaginable 15-game lead within the robust American League East, they’ve to enter this in search of what they assume may help them in doable playoff clashes.
On Thursday, Brian Cashman mentioned they have been assessing their wants.
“Our staff is hard working at trying to constantly assess if there’s any opportunities both from within or outside imports, that potentially would impact us in a positive way. So we have until the beginning of August to do so. I’ve had many conversations with my opposing general managers, and we’ll see if it takes us anywhere, but we’re certainly really happy with the team,” Cashman mentioned. “And the place they’re at and the way they’re going about their enterprise. But we additionally know there’s all the time unfinished enterprise if there’s alternatives to,add, enhance and provides (supervisor) Aaron Boone and his employees a greater probability to compete, clearly, particularly when it counts essentially the most, which is that if we qualify for (the playoffs) in October.
“So that’s obviously the discussion we’re going to continue to have, Cashman said. “And if we get anything, everything I get as opportunities presented or opportunities I present, I will run it by the boss (Hal Steinbrenner) and he’ll give a final say on what we should do.”
The Yankees have additionally expressed curiosity to different groups in shifting Gallo, who they acquired from the Rangers ultimately 12 months’s commerce deadline, based on an American League govt. The lefty-hitting outfielder has struggled to regulate to enjoying for the Yankees, to say the least. In 128 video games, Gallo is slashing .163/.295/.372 with a .666 OPS, 23 dwelling runs, 43 RBI and 72 walks. He has struck out 180 instances in 393 at-bats.
Benintendi could be a pure match.. The 28-year-old is slashing .317/.387/.402 with a .789 OPS. A free agent after the season, Benintendi performed 5 years in Boston, together with profitable a World Series in 2018 with them, so it will not be as a lot of an adjustment to the Bronx.
The Yankees have confirmed to be a reasonably full workforce, so they’re dealing from a place of power, however there are issues that may very well be a priority down the stretch.
Though their rotation has been unbelievable to begin the season, there are some issues concerning the finish of the season with their pitching. Nestor Cortes, who has pitched 93 innings in his longest season within the large leagues, now has already thrown 89 innings earlier than the All-Star break and he has struggled over his final six begins. While Luis Severino appears to be like nearly as good as he did in 2018, the Yankees are very conscious he has solely thrown 27.2 innings over the earlier three seasons due to accidents that included having Tommy John surgical procedure.
The Yankees have depth with Clarke Schmidt, JP Sears and even Domingo German, who might come again from the injured checklist earlier than the All-Star break, so pitching isn’t excessive on their checklist of wants. But as Cashman may be very fond of claiming “you can never have enough pitching.”
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Source: www.bostonherald.com