The Yankees were sellers! The Yankees almost made the World Series in 2017! What a winning strategy! Let's do it again in 2025 and every year!
The reality is that the Yankees traded Andrew Miller (who cares?), an out-to-pasture Carlos Beltran (who cares?), and Aroldis Chapman (a star closer who the Yankees re-signed for the 2017 season).
It was shrewd enough, I suppose.
You lose an old CFer and a relief pitcher and take a chance on a dozen prospects. Maybe a few of the prospects will stick.
The returns were Nick Green, Erik Swanson, Dillon Tate, J.P. Feyereisen, Clint Frazier, Ben Heller, Justus Sheffield, Rashad Crawford, Billy McKinney, Gleyber Torres, and Adam Warren.
The big payoff in 2018 was trading some of those prospects for long-forgotten Canadian pitcher James Paxton.
So the only consequential player the Yankees got in return was Gleyber Torres.
Fans enjoy it when the team packs it in. It takes the pressure off. Spend a Sunday afternoon watching Happy Gilmore 2 instead of another aggravating loss to the Phillies. Emotionally disengage.
It's fun to play GM and imagine a team in the near future with no injuries and young players exceeding their potential.
It's also fun to prove you're smarter than Brian Cashman. Totally. You know you are smarter than that guy.
But "The Process" seldom works.
There is no way out for this team. Nobody wants your nasty fruit salad at the potluck dinner and nobody wants Giancarlo Stanton.
The only hope is that the players on the 2025 Yankees play better. Then you hope against hope that they turn it on in October.
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