Yankees to acquire LHP James Paxton for package headlined by LHP Justus Sheffield

[Harold Hutchison]

The Paxton trade is something like Peralta/Woodruff + Ponce + Stokes. Ponce and Stokes you can live without but I'll keep Peralta and Woodruff for 6yrs over 2yrs of Paxton. The Yankees can afford to make that trade as 10 of their top 12 prospects are pitchers and Sheffield doesn't have the upside of a Whitley.

 

Some numbers for the last two years:

Player A: .242, 153 R, 39 HR, 132 RBI, 128 BB, 258 K, 49 SB

Player B: .239, 142 R, 34 HR, 122 RBI, 108 BB, 332 K, 61 SB

 

Player A is Troy Stokes

Player B is Corey Ray

 

I think a lot of people look at Stokes being all of five feet and eight inches tall, and underestimate him, but over the last two years... over his career, in fact, I think he has performed. His K numbers are high, but Ray's are about 33 percent higher.

[StearnsFTW]

Paxton absolutely made sense for us, just not at that price. I personally think burnes is a better prospect than sheffield. Comparable is probably peralta, diplan, stokes. Still a lot, i wouldn't have hated it. If burnes was included it would have been dreadful

 

Well, I think it was fairly obvious the price would be huge, so yeah, risking a massive prospect haul on a guy who gets hurt every year never made any sense for us.

 

 

 

Peralta, Diplan Stokes? Yeah I'd do that. Not Burnes though as you said.