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Originally Posted by alnorth
Yankee haters, calm down. It wont happen without a 3 or 4-way deal, because the Yankee farm system simply is not good enough. If a trade happens, it is more likely to be with some other team.
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Exactly this. I talk to Bob Dutton three or four times a year when we come across each other at a merchant's office we both do business with. I actually talked to him last week about this and he said essentially the same thing. Said it would take something like Will Myers and Eric Hosmer plus probably one if not two (DeJesus-type quality) current big league players to make it happen. He said he just didn't see it happening this year. Didn't rule it out, but said the price would be so high (in talent) that he just didn't see a team parting with (or having) the top level prospects it would take to pull it off. He said it would be much more likely to happen next offseason with there being only one year left on the deal because the asking price wouldn't be quite as steep as it is now with a guy like Zack under contract for two years at $13 million per. That is insanely cheap for a guy with his talent.
Decide for yourself, but that all seemed to make pretty good sense to me.
