Per ESPN:

Winner: New York Yankees -- They turned Andrew Miller, Aroldis Chapman and Beltran into top-50 prospects Gleyber Torres and Clint Frazier, a top-75 prospect in Justus Sheffield and Dillon Tate, the fourth overall pick of last year's draft. A middle-of-the-pack farm system is now probably in the top five. Great job by GM Brian Cashman in turning two relievers and a designated hitter into young talent with plenty of upside -- exactly what the aging and mediocre Yankees needed to do.

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EnySpree wrote:Cashman is a hall of fame executive.... he fires out and gets it done. No matter what the organization wants to do he goes out and gets it done. He moved a 39 year old free agent to be for a killer package. He got a killer package for a top free agent reliever that might even end up resigning with the Yankees this winter. He also got the adequate compensation for arguably the best closer in the game.... all in just a couple days. He's a beast.

Well, the team has been disappointing for a long time. Maybe that's on the Steinbrenners and not Cashman, or maybe both. We don't really know for sure. If that's entirely on the Steinbrenners and Cashman really is great, then I hope they stay a mile away from all future decisions. This is an exciting and shocking new direction!

Bonn1997 wrote:

EnySpree wrote:Cashman is a hall of fame executive.... he fires out and gets it done. No matter what the organization wants to do he goes out and gets it done. He moved a 39 year old free agent to be for a killer package. He got a killer package for a top free agent reliever that might even end up resigning with the Yankees this winter. He also got the adequate compensation for arguably the best closer in the game.... all in just a couple days. He's a beast.

Well, the team has been disappointing for a long time. Maybe that's on the Steinbrenners and not Cashman, or maybe both. We don't really know for sure. If that's entirely on the Steinbrenners and Cashman really is great, then I hope they stay a mile away from all future decisions. This is an exciting and shocking new direction!

He just does what his bosses want and does it well. They may or may not listen to him, but whatever is going on, if the Steinbrenners or the brain trust or whoever wants something to happen Cashman makes it happen and then some.

Nalod wrote:we tried and had a team but could not hit.
Chapman move was great because we got back far more than he cost us last year.
And yes, we have assets to make trades with as well if need be. Saw one kid is a Sheffield. Wasn't Gary Sheffield and Doc Gooden Cousins?
Good bloodlines for baseball!!!
Hopefully Byrd comes back next year strong. Starphuch days maybe ending soon enough!

We'll still get that starphuching game going... but at least now we have the potential to grow our own Jeter, posada, Mariano, Petite and Bernie... we'll see but it's still some exciting **** nonetheless.

Fyi.... there's no direct relation between the Sheffield kid and Doc and Gary

Nalod wrote:Yankee ticket prices are high, those fancy backstop seats go empty when economy or team flounders, and that stadium is big and expensive!!!
Given the hard salary cap, money don't talk like it used to. On the West Coast, the Angels are learning some hard lessons about finance.
Can't starphuch in baseball anymore like the good old days. Plenty of stupid money available in smaller markets now. Yankees are finally facing the post Jeter/Mariano era.
Jete's moved on.......

Yankees milked the graceful exits of these first ballot HOF's with style and grace. Posada not so much but sometimes you have to know when its time to hang it up as well.
We may never have another run like the Core Four team in our lifetimes, but then few teams ever do.......

Bonn1997 wrote:

foosballnick wrote:Smart moves by Cashman who has probably been hindered in the past from this type of personnel refresh by the Steinbrenner family. Yanks now have one of the best farm systems and will have significant salary coming.off the books this year and next (CC, Tex, Arod total about 70 mi). For a team with tons of cash and resources, this is a deadly combination. Hopefully they make smart moves to surround young core players with veteran leader types who produce (similar to moves they made in the 90s.....think Paul O'Neil, Scott Brocious types).

Yeah, I agree. I've been harsh on Cashman at times but it does look like he can make great deals when the Steinbrenners get out of the way. I hope they stay out of the way and let Cashman build long-term. It could be a deadly combination like you were saying.

I became a Yankee fan in the early 90's right after the mets decided to start sucking. I was to young then to figure out how things work, like building a dynasty.

When I saw all these trades happing, at first I wanted to puke, how dear this prick give us no shot at the playoffs this yr. But form all accords, the yankess are now close to contending then they were a wk ago, which still baffles me, because I don't watch minor leaguers, and i don't wacth college baseball, so i don't sht about elite prospects.

All I know is they yankess brought half of there championships, and it just seemed like the right thing to do.