September 9, 2024
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This list, generated from our readers and writers, contains players that individuals hoped the Yankees would (or could) acquire in 2024.
Here are those players and their 2024 statistics to date (as of Sunday evening):
Vlad Guerrero, Jr. - .326/28/94, 168 OPS+
Josh Hader - 7-7, 3.28, 29 saves, 122 ERA+
Cody Bellinger - .265/15/60, 109 OPS+
Luis Arraez - .313/4/42, 105 OPS+
Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 6-2, 2.92, 136 ERA+
Blake Snell - 2-3, 3.62, 108 ERA+
Jordan Montgomery - 8-6, 6.43, 65 ERA+
Corbin Burns - 13-7, 3.19, 119 ERA+
Dylan Cease - 12-11, 3.71, 110 ERA+
Luis Robert - .216/14/34, 86 OPS+
Nathan Eovaldi - 11-7, 3.55, 111 ERA+
A.J. Puk - 4-8, 3.30, 2 saves, 134 ERA+
Josh Bell - .247/18/66, 96 OPS+
Matt Chapman - .249/22/69, 122 OPS+
Michael Kopech - 5-8, 3.60, 12 saves, 115 ERA+
Jack Flaherty - 11-6, 3.01, 137 ERA+
(Readers - iof you'd like to add other names in the comments, please feel free,)
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Thanks for the helpful tips. Really appreciate it. Area Code
I had relievers Robert Stephenson and Phil Maton on my "wish list" as well.
Shoto Imanaga would have been a fine addition to the starting staff, and should definitely be on your list.
But my preference during the last off season was to vastly improve the bullpen.
Kopech and Puk to me are the 2 that got away. But with the high cost of Mark Leiter, I think that price could've been used to get at least one of those guys. YY was never coming here, for his own reasons. Hader. Could he have handled the media here? Chapman eventually gets overpaid (by contract length) for being an already lesser Chapman. The free agent I really wanted was Lee, to play CF, but that was a no go once they traded for Soto, Grisham, & Verdugo at the Winter Meetings.
But the truth is, the Player development entire program is total garbage. To me, that is the biggest issue. Too many injured pitchers, too many underperforming bat…
Chad Green, IIRC