Bleeding Yankee Blue: SYNDERGAARD STAYS PUT...NOW WHAT?

Friday, August 2, 2019

SYNDERGAARD STAYS PUT...NOW WHAT?

The trade deadline has come and gone and as we know the Yankees did...UGOTZ!

Much to my delight, Thor aka Noah Syndergaard is staying in Queens for the time being. I am not the only one who is happy about this.

Source: CBS Sports

"Five games out and two months left to play in the season," Syndergaard said. "I think technically selling would just be giving up. I think we have plenty of opportunities to make a run at this thing."
There is always buzz about Syndergaard being traded. I even saw a potential trade that said the Mets should trade Edwin Diaz and Noah to the Red Sox for Andrew Benintendi and a prospect. Needless to say, I laughed out loud at that one. If Noah is going to go anywhere, I would want it to be in New York so I can still go see him play.

Although it will be an uphill battle for the Mets the rest of the season I think that keeping Syndergaard and adding Marcus Stroman to the lineup could add something to the team. In the wise words of Home Run Derby champ Pete Alonso...LFGM.

Now, back to the Bronx. What does all of this mean for the Yankees? It's no secret the Yankees are looking for a new starting pitcher. Maybe it was because Mercury has been in retrograde, but the stars just didn't align for the pinstripes.

“Whether or not a deal would be done would depend on the ask, as far as what players we would have to give up. Brian and his team worked very hard throughout the process. This time, unfortunately, none of the deals matched up,’’ Steinbrenner wrote in an email. “For me, it has always been a balance of doing everything we can to win now, while at the same time trying to not jeopardize our chances the following year or years. If our highest-end prospects are involved, the deal has to be a fair one. Otherwise, no deal is better than a bad deal as far as I am concerned.’’

The pressure is on for our current rotation to keep us above the competition for the rest of the season. Hopefully, the quietness during the trade deadline won't come back to bite us in the butt.

Coming up, we have the Red Sox coming to us for a four-game series. Hopefully, this one will go better than the last and the Yanks have the momentum to keep this going until October.