Originally Posted by
Enscheff
The Yankees operate on a completely different plane of baseball than teams like the Braves.
The rest of the league hemmed and hawed over a Stanton trade for 2 months, then the Yankees swooped in and made a deal happen over the course of 2 says.
The Yankees win 90+ games in an rebuild year. Meanwhile, the Braves can’t manage to even figure out how to bottom out payroll during their rebuild.
The Yankees sign ARod for $300M and can afford to wait for the deal to expire. Meanwhile, the Braves sign Markakis for $44M and have to scramble to unload the final year of his deal.
The Yankees sign Chapman when nobody wanted to deal with him, then flip him and Miller for packages that completely redefine the trade market for BP arms. Meanwhile, the Braves are scrambling to unload JJ and his $5M.
The Yankees promote players like Sanchez and Judge when they are ready, and they produce like stars. Meanwhile, the Braves rush prospects to MLB at the cost of future value in some lame attempt to drive fan interest.
Pitchers the Braves have to offer are going to be pretty far down the list of targets for the Yankees. They don’t need to add a 2 win guy, and that’s all the Braves can afford to offer. The Yankees will be aiming higher than anything the Braves have.