April 16, 2026

54 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Yankees trade Vivas to Nationals for their No. 27 prospect”

  1. Luis Gil will remain behind in Tampa and throw live batting practice on Wednesday. The Yanks are considering optioning him to the Minors. If they don’t, Matt Blake said they may use him in a piggyback role.

  3. The Yankees will begin the season with a 4-man rotation. Max Fried, Cam Schlittler, Will Warren, Ryan Weathers — in that order.
    Anthony Volpe will likely start a rehab assignment around the second week of April, Aaron Boone said. He’ll essentially go through a full spring training at that point.

  4. Somehow I missed that Caleb Durbin is now a Townie and will be their starting 3B. It’s like Cashman consistently backs the wrong horse. Though I’m sure he’d put Durbin behind McMahon on the depth chart anyway.

    1. Why pay a few hundred thousand for 2 WAR when you can commit $32m for 3 WAR over 2.5 seasons?

    2. I suppose Durbin’s and McMahon’s contracts are both a bargain compared to the going rate for 1 WAR, which is $1-2B/day.

    1. Also, glad they’re finally letting him catch again.

      With Volpe on the IL, they were going to carry Escarra either way, and with the days off, Escarra would rarely play early on, so I think it made sense to concentrate on his first base defense during Spring Training. He’ll have time to get ready for catching.

    2. You think so, Brian? “First base is incredibly hard,” sure, but catcher is by far the hardest position

    3. You think so, Brian? “First base is incredibly hard,” sure, but catcher is by far the hardest position

      He knows how to catch already. So he doesn’t need to spend as much time learning it.

    6. Like, that’s why he’s not simply the starting catcher

      He won’t be catching for the first month of the season. He will only be playing first base. So they can spend the next month giving his catching attention in time for him to do some catching in May.

  6. There are things you can never quite get yourself to believe.

    Like I still can’t believe there was actually a major like pitcher names Grant Ball Four.

    2. That’s also hilarious. How do you go through a career with that?
      But the first one – damn, it uses the first name, too! And it has the verb, as well as the noun!

    2. Hahahaha no, it wasn’t an organizational decision, no one helped me, I and I alone get credit for deciding to trade Babe Ruth for No, No Nanette!
      Give me and only me the credit for that!

  9. The vaunted Yankees outfield of Judge, Bellinger, and Grisham, all down on strikes their first time through.

    DFA them all and play the Scranton squad instead.

    (If I can’t overreact to the smallest of sample sizes, what can I overreact to?)

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  14. Jones with two HR’s against actual MLB pitchers. One going oppo. Sure, it was in garbage time, but the pitchers aren’t total garbage.

    Could he actually pan out? If he does, the Yankees will never sign another prospect under 6’7″.

  15. Still not sold on Bellinger and Grisham instead of Tucker and Dominguez. Guess time will tell.

    “I still have to work on patience”
    – Robert Mueller

    1. Time WON’T tell, though.
      Where’s our comparison sample where they DID get Tucker?
      The time to judge it is now, when we know as much as they do.

    4. No, I don’t think you can presume that no other time can ever win if the Dodgers are involved.

  16. Grish might regress to his mean offensively and continue to deteriorate defensively. Or maybe he’ll hit like last year and stabilize his defense. Big swing.

    1. He must have a better year that Robert Mueller (quoted above) or the yanks are in trouble.

      If he regresses and it turns out cashman blew $22m that will certainly get him fired.,.right? Right?

  18. 2021 should have finished Cashman. Gallo and Heaney were bombs that cost the yanks a better shot at postseason glory. Gallo was defensible but Heaney, and the decision to keep playing him were not.

    Seeing Josh Smith get a SS is just insult to injury.

    1. Giving out a “Silver Slugger” award to utility players is just insanity.

      “Congrats! You’re the best hitter not good enough to win a starting job!”

      Some dummy was doing the same thing to show that Trevor Bauer was still good, because he did well against a “Silver Slugger,” and I was, like, “Who? I bet it was one of the dumb utility guys,” and, yep, sure enough, it was McKinstry

    2. he might not be a utility guy with volpe the last three years.

      heaney september 21

      7.2ip
      15h
      9er

      cost the yanks second

      they are dumb and blind and probably bad at pinball

    3. this whole grisham thing. sure, “no such thing as a bad one year deal” but…. there’s no proof, they say they wanted him, but it looks like they got too cute to me trying for a pick and i will take that belief to my grave

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