1. Yankees trade for a starting pitcher named Chris.
Flip. The. House. The Yankees didn't make any significant free agent acquisiti
ons last offseason. Then they pulled off a fire sale to improve their farm sys
tem from a top-10 group to a top-five, some say even a top-two. They can easil
y use some of the prospects they got from trading Chapman, Andrew Miller and C
arlos Beltran in a deal that would give them one of the two aces out there nam
ed Chris: Chris Archer or Chris Sale.
Both have multiple years of control left in their contracts for not much money
, especially when it comes to the Yankees. And acquiring either one of them gi
ves theYankees a much scarier rotation with Archer/Sale and Masahiro Tanaka at
the top.
And let's face it: While the Yankees are still in rebuilding mode, they're sti
ll always in winning mode. They never lose. They haven't had a losing season i
n 24 freakin' years. They traded two of the best relievers in the league