Best of the Yankees on WFAN: Silent Nights

Evan & Tiki

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4.6 • 945 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Boomer & Gio and BT & Sal are all wondering the same thing: where have the Yankees been at the Winter Meetings? Plus, Sal suggests Nice Hoerner as a good fit for the Bronx Bombers; a caller asks who will win the World Series first: the Yankees or Mets? And Evan Roberts dives into what the Yankees’ selecting a player in the Rule 5 Draft means for the offseason outlook.

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0:00.0	December means the holidays and intense regular season football.
0:07.1	It also means a very long, drawn-out, Major League Baseball offseason.
0:12.0	But things should be happening this week.
0:14.8	Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the Juan Soto Siding, which kicked things off.
0:19.5	People expect, at least these insiders expect, believe maybe could be trending that
0:26.0	Kyle Schwaburber is going to be the first one to fall.
0:30.1	I thought maybe Kyle Tucker would be the first one to fall.
0:32.4	Looks like Schwarber would be the first one to fall.
0:34.7	Is he gone to the Reds?
0:36.2	I don't know.
0:37.1	I mean, I know that obviously, you know, the Phillies are involved. The Mets are involved. I don't believe. I know the Reds are involved. Imagine how many home runs he'd hit at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati? Yeah. I mean, do they have the money to pay him with all these other teams that are involved. He's a local kid too,
0:54.7	by the way. He grew up 30 minutes outside of Cincinnati. But you always tell me no hometown discount.
0:59.5	No, but I could see the team spending money on a hometown guy to get the fans excited to sell more
1:06.8	season tickets. Yeah. So that, so's... Especially a home run hitting guy.
1:11.3	Sure.
1:12.1	So, yeah, so apparently, I guess Kyle Tucker was down.
1:15.5	This was a report from Brian Koch, I believe, from MLB.com, who covers the Yankees saying
1:22.8	that Kyle Tucker was down in Florida, did not visit the Yankees facility in Tampa, but went to nearby
1:31.0	Dunedin to check out the Blue Jays facility. And apparently the Blue Jays are hot on him and Yankee
1:36.5	fans are flipping out because they don't think anything else is going to happen in this offseason.
1:41.2	Like they're going to try to go get Cody, try to re-sign Cody Bellinger. Maybe they don't. But it just feels as we sit here right now that they're not going to be spending big money. And maybe it has to happen in the trade market. And even if it happens in the trade market, they can't bring in a large salary because Brian Cashman said himself that Hal gave him a drop dead number. That's it. Drop dead
2:02.7	number. Can't go over it. And obviously their payroll is where it is right now. So that's
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