September 5, 2024
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A reader shared the following article idea with us the other day.
A new article series can be "Those that Got Away.”
This would consist of posting the current cumulative stat lines of players that were coveted by the writers and/or commenters of Start Spreading the News in the previous offseason or even during the season.
We like this idea!
So, good, or bad, or anything in between, please list in the comments the players you wanted the Yankees to acquire who they did not. Some of the players will have great stats, some will not. In a future article, we'll compile all their stats for 2024.
For today, please just list the names. More fun comes later when we list how they've done for most of the season.
Our editor-in-chief thought that Clay Bellinger, Corbin Burnes, and Luis Arraez (among others) would all be good acquisitions for the 2024 Yankees. Let's see what they have done...
Also, please keep this focused on the 2024 season. For this, we don't need to talk about how Bryce Harper (.284/148/444, an OPS+ of 148, two Silver Sluggers and an MVP award for Philadelphia) would have fit this team like a glove...
Finally, please leave the humor behind. We don't have time to waste on silly names and nonsense as we go through the lists.
Thanks! Have fun.
With 20/20 hindsight I like josh hader but realistically I wanted the Yankees to get clay bellinger. A blind man could see that Rizzo and Le Mahiue were done. Bellinger could have played center until the Martian’s return and then played first base. He is young and can hit for contact. His power numbers were , in my opinion, artificially high in cubbie land and. New York would have been perfect.plus the Yankees for all of their minor league investments do not have a first baseman prospect in their entire system . Great job Cashman. ,! Imagine having Soto, judge and bellinger batting 2-3-4. You didn’t ask but I will offer that the one player who the yanks traded th…
#1.....I wanted Josh Hader. The BULLPEN is a difference maker in most games. Top quality relievers are a bigger commodity in today's game that top quality starters. Too many times (like Carlos Rodon the other day in Texas) starting pitchers have pitched brilliantly and absolutely deserved a win, only for someone else to blow a save and deny him that win. Many relievers pitch almost every day, and effect the outcome of games every day. Starters can only control what happens once every 5 days, and then, they can only control the innings in the beginning of each game that they are allowed to pitch in, since unlike in previous decades, it is now rare for them to pitch com…
After the Yankees got Soto, Luis Robert was the guy I really wanted last offseason.
They never should have let Nat Eovaldi get away. It didn't make any sense then, and still doesn't. He left and signed for $2MM in Tampa, moved on and has 2 rings. Also, I was all for going after Josh Hader who has 29 saves and 2 blown saves this season. That is a difference maker, compared to the 11 blown saves their current closer has. Had they done that, they'd be sitting pretty right now playing out the rest of the season with a nice large lead.
Chad Green is a guy who got away
Puk is a guy they should have pursued