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Evan & Tiki

Cashman speaks about trading for Williams

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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E and T Short: Why did the Yankees want Devin Williams

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0:00.0

Let's hear from Brian Cashman. What's you got?

0:01.7

All right. So the first thing will be why Devin Williams, Brian Cashman, and had this come to be.

0:06.8

We've been talking to Milwaukee about Devin for feels like years.

0:12.0

You know, whether it's previous years, it feels like every trade deadline and every spring training we've had conversation with those guys,

0:23.4

which have continued.

0:25.6

And it's nice to find a match.

0:28.9

But after a while.

0:29.7

And just, you know, what does this add to your bullpen?

0:32.1

How do you feel like this impacts you?

0:34.5

You know, the job, I always, you know, to be quite honest honest is to try to find as many quality talented

0:40.3

players as we possibly can to give uh Aaron Boone um to line up on both sides of the ball so

0:47.4

definitely this is a high quality arm you know to fit in with the pen and and we lost some key players here recently to free agency that obviously helped us navigate.

1:00.3

You know, you saw a number of those pictures, you know, getting big outs, especially in the postseason.

1:06.6

And so, you know, clearly there's some vacancies there.

1:09.3

And we need to try to find ways to replace it.

1:12.8

Now, we like what we already have on the roster

1:15.0

that we're happy to still retain,

1:17.7

but I need to give Aaron Boone and Matt Blake,

1:21.2

at least more options coming out of the pen for us.

1:25.8

So that's ultimately what led us to do something like this.

1:28.6

Yeah.

1:28.8

And I think also, as good as Luke Weaver was, we don't know if he's going to replete that

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