The Yankees acquired pitcher James Paxton from the Mariners in exchange for prospect Justus Sheffield:
In the deal for Paxton, along with Sheffield, the Yankees surrendered Double-A oufielder Dom Thompson-Williams and righty Erik Swanson, who finished the season with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
So the Yankees get a proven talent for a possible future star pitcher. That’s exactly the right thing to do if the Yankees want to win with this team now.
Thompson-Williams played 2018 as a 23-year-old and was still in A ball. Swanson will play 2018 as a 25-year-old and owns good three-true outcome numbers. While Justus has good strikeout numbers, he’s yet to find his control and doesn’t do that great a job of keeping the ball in the park.
On the other hand, Paxton never pitched a full season in the majors. His 28 starts in 2018 was by far the most he made in one season, and still failed to pitch enough innings to be counted in the ERA leaders. The Yankees job will be to keep him healthy for the season.
He only pitched at Yankee Stadium once in his career, this year.
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