The end of an era. Good guy in the clubhouse and a team leader. But the emergence of Gary Sanchez made him expendable. See the report below from espn.com:
“The Houston Astros acquired catcher Brian McCann in a trade with the New York Yankees on Thursday, sending two minor league pitchers to the Bronx.
In exchange for McCann, 32, the Yankees received minor league right-handers Albert Abreu and Jorge Guzman.
The Yankees are kicking in $5.5 million of the $17 million McCann will make each of the next two seasons, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney.
McCann’s role on the Yankees decreased in 2016 with the emergence of Gary Sanchez. McCann only started 12 games at catcher from Aug. 1 on. He was mostly used as a DH against right-handed pitching. He finished the season with a .242 average, 20 homers and 58 RBIs.”
Also, the Yankees are supposedly one of 4 teams in on the Carlos Beltran sweepstakes along with Toronto, Houston and Boston. SU would still prefer to go young and not spend money here. And, as long-time SU subscriber A. Grossman keeps pointing out, they need more starting pitching.
There are also Mike Trout trade rumors out there where the Yankees would trade many of these prospects to the Angels. Again, SU says stick with the youth program and don’t tie up so much money in any one player.
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Will miss McCann’s leadership but, together with Tex retiring, you are eliminating two bats from the lineup which were just incapable of beating the shift- also, will increase team speed somewhat and let Romine be the backup catcher exclusively. Still feel Beltran would be a good signing.
They need one superstar liie Trout. Besides Didi, who might have had his best season ever…. though we will see whobrlse came close on evrn hitting 270? We need Trout snd ya might tiss in Beltran as our every day DH. We become instant contenders. Imagine Trout, Sanvhez and Beltran as your 2, 3 and 4 hitters. Wow
I get all the love for Beltran but worry that he is poised for a dramatic drop-off in production a la A-Rod. True, A-Rod suffered from years of injecting chemicals into his body which no doubt had some cumulative effect. But 40 years old is up there and Beltran has played a lot of years. DH will limit the toll on his body for sure but I still worry. He is clearly better than Kendry Morales who is also being talked about. I don’t like him – too many strikeouts.
Morales already signed with Toronto
Unrelated comment: Knicks score 47 points in the 4th quarter… and lose. How exactly does that happen?
I saw that too this morning. I had turned off the game in the 1st half when they were getting pummelled. Must have made a lot of 3-pointers. Derrick Rose was disappointed in the team’s effort. Credit to him for calling out his teammates.