Let's get at it: Brian asks: Matt Blake was discussing filling Mike King's role in the bullpen recently Is that a good role for Loaisiga and how good could he be at replacing King, who was probably the best I still need to chew on a lot of these ideas more, but I wanted to bring this email out even prematurely

They had the opportunity to trade several impending free agents to bring back some level of prospect

But in the 5th, the Angels had runners and 1st and 2nd with one out for Neto, who struck out to bring

If it is not, they have until Tuesday to make changes, other than bringing someone up from the minors not trade Oswald Peraza for a starting pitcher or someone else by next week, they should definitely bring

It isn’t out of the range of possibility that all three make it to the Bronx this season, even though

Bring back Jazz, keep Volpe in the wings as a utility guy who can start at 2B if Jazz fails, and if worst

He would climb left-field walls and bring back potential homers.

Garcia is now less valuable than Mike King. In fact, using Mike King as a reference point, at the start of the season, Deivi Garcia could have been traded for 5 ½ players as valuable as King was. Now, you’d have to include a lesser prospect with Garcia just to fetch a single pitcher comparable to King

Under George Steinbrenner’s ownership, the Yankees would spend big to bring in top talents every year It didn’t always work, both in terms of on the field performance and bringing in every star player that While they did bring in Giancarlo Stanton, the move is now looked at as an albatross on the team’s ability I don’t want the Yankees to spend so that they see what spending brings.

have seemingly exhausted their 2026 budget with the moves they made and one of the largest moves was bringing

He’s undoubtedly the better hitter, but Cabarello brings a ton more value on the field and the bases.

During the Statcast era, Stanton is the undisputed king of hitting the ball hard: His flat, late swing