{"id":67602,"date":"2025-06-06T07:23:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=67602"},"modified":"2025-06-06T07:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:24:47","slug":"yankees-land-24-million-gerrit-cole-replacement-in-trade-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=67602","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Land $24 Million Gerrit Cole Replacement in Trade Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2217674530-e1749148558796.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2217674530-e1749148558796.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2217674530-e1749148558796.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2217674530-e1749148558796.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Land $24 Million Gerrit Cole Replacement in Trade Proposal\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Boone during batting practice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The first-place New York Yankees are far from a perfect team, but much of that can be attributed to injuries. If the Yankees want to win a World Series, they have to forget about those injuries and try to do whatever they can to make a trade for an ace-caliber arm and a third baseman at the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding some of the players the Yankees could be interested in, Merrill Kelly of the Arizona Diamondbacks should be a name at the top of the list.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks, who were expected to be a bit better entering the season, are in an unfortunate situation in the loaded National League West. They already sit 7.5 games behind the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers, and with the San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants playing as well as they have, it\u2019s only a matter of time before the Diamondbacks decide to sell.<\/p>\n<p>When searching for potential trade options around Major League Baseball, Empire Sports named Kelly as an option for the Yankees, stating that while he isn\u2019t an ace-caliber arm, he could turn into a very good pitcher for the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile not the frontline starter that he was during Arizona\u2019s improbable run to the World Series in 2023, Merrill Kelly still is an effective starting pitcher who could take the ball in a postseason series\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuis Gil could outperform him, but you have no certainty that he\u2019ll return and perform the way he did last season. Kelly is a strong Game 3 starter on a contender, and if the Yankees want to make him even better, they could have the veteran alter his pitch usage a bit,\u201d Ryan Garcia wrote .<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Yankees Plan on Being Aggressive at the Trade Deadline<\/h2>\n<p>There isn\u2019t much of a question about what the New York Yankees will do at the trade deadline. According to a report from Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Yankees fully expect to add a starter, with him saying that if there\u2019s one thing he feels confident about, it\u2019s that New York will add to its starting rotation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one thing I feel pretty comfortable and confident about is they\u2019ll acquire a starting pitcher,\u201d Sherman said . \u201cAnd then the question is, what exactly is available in the marketplace?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeams don\u2019t want to concede, and there are some teams who are very much all-in, teetering teams who don\u2019t want to do it,\u201d he added, in reference to selling off starting pitchers.<\/p>\n<p>With Gerrit Cole out for the remainder of the year, it\u2019s almost impossible for the Yankees to find a pitcher of his caliber. However, Kelly has been excellent, posting a 3.78 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, and striking out 64 hitters in 69.0 innings.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Diamondbacks Expected to Be Sellers<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason to believe that the New York Yankees will have an opportunity to trade for Kelly, too.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ken Rosenthal, if the Diamondbacks continue to play the way they have, Kelly is expected to be available. The right-hander is set to hit the free agency market at the end of the campaign, making him an intriguing Target for contending teams like the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Burnes is out, they\u2019re likely looking at \u2013 I think \u2013 becoming a seller,\u201d Rosenthal said . \u201cAnd who to they have to sell? Well Zac Gallen is a potential free agent, Merrill Kelly the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees could lose him for nothing at the end of the year, but their goal is to win a World Series, and Kelly would help them accomplish just that.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Conahan covers the NBA and NFL for Heavy.com. Since 2019, his sports coverage has appeared at Sports Illustrated, oddschecker, ClutchPoints and Sportskeeda. More about Jon Conahan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Yankees trade proposal lands a Gerrit Cole replacement in Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Merrill Kelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":67605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Land $24 Million Gerrit Cole Replacement in Trade Proposal - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=67602\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees Land $24 Million Gerrit Cole Replacement in Trade Proposal - 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