We've got three hours left before the MLB trade deadline and now the New York Yankees are on the board.

I know they've been on the board for like a week if they did trade for Ryan McMahon six days ago and Ahmed Rosario five days ago.

But over the last day with so much activity going on at the baseball trade deadline,

it had felt like the Yankees were left out.

They are no longer left out.

They have acquired David Bednar from the Pittsburgh Pirates, and we do know one of the

prospects going back, Rafael Flores, who is their eighth best prospect.

He is not a top 100 prospect.

Great.

So you got to be thrilled. You didn't give up any of the household names in return for him. And remember, unlike the relievers the Mets got and some of these relievers being moved, Bednor is not a rental. He is under team control for next year. So so far, and we'll see who else is in the deal, I'd be thrilled if I'm the Yankees. And Flores is a catcher first baseman. In the moment I see catcher first base, that tells me you're not going to be catching long term. Otherwise, you wouldn't have that first base designation. That's somewhere maybe Aaron Judge ends up long term. And for now you have a Ben Rice like that, depending on how close Flores is. And ultimately, he's going to the pirates. They can't sign anybody anyway. So if he's any good, you just sign him in 10 years. That's a great long-term view of it. So the Yankees do acquire David Bednar, and now they form a very solid back end of their bullpen with Bednar, with Weaver, with Devin Williams, with Tim Hill from the left side.

What more do you want, Sean?

Now I want to start.

In the bullpen, look, they made their bed, and are they laying it, right? And now... Was that an attempt? It was attempted. You had all the time. You had all breaks. Then roll of the tongue. Now I want a starter. I do. whether that is Sandy, whether that is Merrill Kelly,

let's go in that starter.

The problem with Sandy, is it,

are you going to really trust?

I know he's had a couple of

good starts as of late but prior to those couple of good starts as of late he hadn't had an

inning or a game that he didn't allow double-digit runs except for one he's out's out a bad year until recently, yes. He allowed zero. Every other game was a crooked number. And so he just had a rough year coming back from Tommy John surgery. But that's to be expected. So it's almost like you hope that he's okay for the back end of this season and into the postseason, and then next year he's going to be a lead for you. That be a lead for him, by the way. And you don't know when Clark Schmidt's coming back next year and Garrett Coles off Tommy John next. No, no, there's a lot of appeal to Sandy Alcantra for next season. I think the risk of this season is high. Kind of like what Toronto did with Shane Bieber. Shane Bieber's coming off of Tommy John surgery. He's pitching in the minor leagues right now in rehabbing. And look, there's every chance. Shane Bieber comes back and he's great. Like some people come back from Tommy John and they're immediately really good. Other guys struggle for a while. I always think of Zach Wheeler. Zach Wheeler was bad coming off of Tommy John and now look at him. You know, it didn't take that long, but it took a while, and he became one of the best pitchers in baseball of Tommy John's surgery. Yeah, the good thing for Alcantara is that he's got two years of control afterwards. Exactly. I think it's a longer-term play if you get Sandy Al-Contra. But the thing about guys who are under team control is that team doesn't have a rush to trade them because they

could trade them during the off season they could trade them next season but we haven't seen the

starters move like the rental starters like gallon and kelly and cease they're still out there

assuming that they're tradable assuming that they're going to be traded.

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