A lot of calm for the offseason: Yankees rocked the baseball world on Friday night with a couple of steps to strengthen the starting rotation and bring them back to the world championships.
Agreed to send the head of Jesus Montero, the risk of the Seattle Mariners in the trade for four players combined right-hander Michael Pineda studies in the Bronx. And later, as agreed in the contract for one year $ 10 million free-agent right-hander Hiroki Kuroda.
Both trade and the signing of the medical examinations are pending for all players, participants and confirmed by a person familiar with the situation. No Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, who missed most of the preseason star players change teams incredible rate, did not return a call seeking comment.
Pineda, throw hard 6-7, 260 pounds right-hander, who turns 23 on Wednesday, is a type of young people in making the ace of the Yankees were trying to develop or acquire for years. It was a long coveted ace Felix Hernandez of Seattle, but Pineda may be the next best thing.
Pineda was 90-10 with a 3.74 ERA for the Mariners last season and was part of the All-Star team after going 8-6 with a 3.03 ERA before the end of the first half. Cola was ejected in the second half, going 1-4 with an ERA of 5.12, but his 173 strikeouts in 171 led to the roles of the Youth League of America. He finished fifth in the Rookie of the Year voting, behind the Yankees about Ivan Nova. "
It was Kuroda, who turns 37 days February 10 from 0.13 to 16 3.07 era for the Dodgers last season. A veteran who must rely on the spectrum behind a hole in the CC Sabathia and join Pineda, Nova, AJ Burnett, Phil Hughes and Freddy Garcia to give the Yankees seven different viable - two or three times more than was in 2011, when he won the American League - best 97 games, but lost to the Tigers in the first round of the playoffs.
Yankees also received 19-year-old right-hander Jose Campos, Seattle and right-hander Hector Noesi sent to the Mariners in the treatment Monteiro, Pineda. Fields was 5-5 with an ERA of 2.32 A to Everett in 2011 category.
The Noesi, 24, 2-2 with a 4.47 ERA in 30 games, including two starts, the Yankees in 2011.
Montero (22 years) is one of the highest risk injury in a baseball game, but the talent is as a receiver. He intended to use the Yankees as a designated hitter this season, and now might be to sign a veteran bat to complete the list, or can be done by adding salary after signing Kuroda.
Said the Yankees partner Hal Steinbrenner Newsday on Wednesday meetings of the owners of the ball "in the state of Arizona who are" concerned "about the salaries of the team, but Steinbrenner also said." Having said that, if the deal comes under favorable conditions, then it's something we'll see. "
Montero Yankees agreed to trade once the sailors, in a deal for Cliff Lee on the trade deadline in 2010. But Seattle supported by trade, and instead of treating me in Texas.
Montero showed flashes of offensive skills when he hit .328 with four homers and 12 RBIs, 61 bats, last September and made his way to the list of postseason. But the Yankees have a higher risk filtering and behind him, including the Austin Romine, who spent time in the majors last season. However, it is unlikely that the Yankees move only in the Montero trade what they see as a pitcher No. 1 and 1A.
Cashman also dream about the future of the rotation of Sabathia, Pineda, Nova, Manny Banuelos Betances Medellin. The Betances Banuelos, Yankees prospects of higher wages in the year away from joining the big club.
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