MLB insider proposes Yankees-Diamondbacks blockbuster involving 31-HR All-Star

For nan New York Yankees, it's astir crunch time.

Following a disappointing extremity to nan first half of nan season, nan Yankees are locked successful a tight section title amid an American League playoff image that's looking amended by nan day. The Toronto Blue Jays person surged retired successful beforehand of nan Yanks while nan Boston Red Sox are nipping astatine their heels.

Third guidelines has go nan astir glaring weakness for New York, and starting pitching is connected nan database now excessively aft Clarke Schmidt's season-ending injury. Addressing some needs should beryllium a apical privilege wrong nan adjacent 2 weeks.

Could nan Yankees drawback a 3rd baseman and a starter successful nan aforesaid trade? One Major League Baseball insider thinks so.

On Sunday, Jon Heyman of nan New York Post pitched a trade successful which New York would onshore 3B Eugenio Suárez and SP Zac Gallen from nan Arizona Diamondbacks successful speech for pitching prospects Cam Schlittler, Cade Smith, and Brock Selvidge.

“'It feels for illustration nan Yankees will do thing big,' 1 rival exec said. To capable each 3 needs astatine erstwhile is tough, but wouldn’t a waste and acquisition pinch nan Diamondbacks for 2 rental players activity beautifully?" Heyman wrote.

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"The issue, of course, is that nan D’Backs still want to buy, not sell, arsenic GM Mike Hazen told america connected 'The Show.' Suárez should beryllium nan Yankees’ apical 3B target arsenic a righty bat pinch large powerfulness (31 homers)."

Suárez and Gallen are some axenic rentals, truthful nan Yankees would expect this move to wounded their early outlook successful speech for a amended changeable astatine a long-awaited World Series title.

And while Suárez is having a awesome play and looks for illustration nan champion 3rd baseman (and perchance champion wide hitter) available, Gallen has limped to a 5.40 ERA, a acold outcry from his third-place Cy Young decorativeness successful 2023.

Giving up 3 of champion pitchers successful nan full workplace strategy is surely an all-in move, and those are nan kinds of moves nan Yankees look primed to make. 

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