Bowden posted a Winter Meetings wish list on the Athletic of moves he wants to see happen and it is heavy on the Yankees, a lot of which are just wild and there's no way I see all of these happening (nor do I think I'd want to). Again, these are what he wants to happen, not what he thinks will happen.

Any way, figured I'd share the Yankee specific parts and see what we all think

  1. Kyle Tucker to the New York Yankees for 10 years, $427 million

  2. Edwin Díaz leaves the Mets but stays in New York, joining the Yankees on a 5-year, $88 million pact with escalators that take the deal to $100 million

  3. The Brewers trade Freddy Peralta to the Yankees for right-handed pitcher Will Warren and shortstop/utility player José Caballero

  4. The Marlins trade right-handed pitcher Sandy Alcantara to the Yankees for outfielder Spencer Jones and shortstop Kaeden Kent

  5. Yankees acquire second baseman Ketel Marte from the Diamondbacks for right-handed pitcher Elmer Rodríguez and second baseman Roderick Arias

Other than Tucker and Peralta, this all feels pretty wild and fantasy baseball or The Show style wish list. Marte sounds great, but moving Jazz back to 3B isn't a good idea. Alacantara isn't the guy to target to me. And who would our SS be if Caballero is moved for Peralta (that package in general seems light to me).

He also has Hunter Greene going to the Red Sox and Joe Ryan to the Mets. If either of those guys are on the table those would be my preferred SP targets.

What do we think?

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  2. Jim Bowden is one of those guys who thinks George Steinbrenner still owns the Yankees

  5. Every winter, I am reminded why this guy is a former GM.

    Spoiler alert: they will re-sign Bellinger, add an unexciting reliever and starter via trade, and call it an offseason.

  11. As someone who has been a card carrying member of the Kyle Tucker fan club since he was a rookie, that contract is just too rich for me. He’s a great player but he’s a notch below Juan Soto. 

    At the time of the Soto sweepstakes, Soto has 4 seasons better than Tucker’s best and was 3 years younger. Tucker will be 29 on opening day and has never had a 5 WAR season. He’s not a great defender and also a bit of an awkward fit in that he’s almost exclusively played right field.

    I’m not going to be disappointed if we sign him but if we’re playing with a budget, I’m not sure he’s the correct choice 

  12. If they’re trading away caballero I’d assume the intent is to move jazz or marte to SS (and then slide Jazz to 3B moving McMahon to platoon/bench role when Volpe is back)

  13. Bowden would you like to be our GM?

    It’s so sad and frustrating that there’s (very obviously) moves to be made that could get us to the top. In the prime of a couple of ALL TIME greats. Maybe the “partners” (sorry listening to Kay and that shit has been pissing me off) should have some say in this and get Cashman out of there somehow.

    Hal does spend the money. I hope he doesn’t have alligator arms, for real, this winter, though.

    Cashman is the problem. We all know. A lot lot lot lot of wasted millions. As well as too much ego as we all know. Take away those two problems from that guy and this century’s story could/should/would be much different. 😔😔😔😔

  14. Elmer and Arias for a 145 OPS+ middle infielder seems a bit light? Why would the Dbacks give him up for that package?

    Also interesting that Bowden calls Tucker:

    >a five-tool player who does everything above average

    Which is maybe his scouting report from 3 years ago but everyone else I’ve read calls his defense pretty poor right now and the numbers seem to back that up. What’s the real story here? Is there a reason why his defense has dropped off and why that trend would reverse itself?

    Like OP, I’m not crazy about giving up SS depth when Volpe is rehabbing and even if he comes back early, we don’t know what he’s going to give us.

  15. Why doesn’t every team simply trade us their superstars for extremely underwhelming returns, are they stupid?

  17. I’m not saying he is or should be indespensable or anything but José Caballero is exactly the type of player this team needs. I’m not a big fan of this list. I also think its at best unrealistic. The Yankees aren’t going to take on that much payroll while exhausting the farm/young controllable talent. If you take out Tucker maybe the rest of this list is doable. I’d much rather an offseason with

    1. Resign belly
    2. Sign Imai
    3. Work out trades for Donovan, Jeffers, an impact back end RP
    4. Figure smth out and acquire another impact middle relief with high k rate

    Imo this would be an A+ offseason

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