 The Yankees seem like they are in play Brian Kastron said pitching is the big story John Heyman a fan cred tweeted out Yankees have interest in Kluber Corasco and Paxton in addition to free agent targets Corbin Hap and CC and The Yankees are meeting at least with the Indians today. So knowing that we broke out some numbers This past year Kluber twenty and seven two point eight ninety are a Pits the most innings in the American League 215 has a whip of under one 222 strike has in 215 innings now the thing that was concerned you with the Yankees The Yankee players get great on how they do in the playoffs Kluber four and three three point nine seven which is not terrible But certainly not commensurate to the way pitches in the regular season. He's won two Cy Young Awards He's had three all-star selections Carlos Corasco this year seventeen and ten three point three eight hundred and ninety two innings pits two hundred and thirty one strikeouts a whip of 1.12 in the playoffs two series all in one one point six four James Paxton This year eleven and six three point seven six two hundred and eight strikeouts in a hundred and sixty and a third innings All three of those guys You are going to have to trade for Zach Grinke you'd have to trade for this past year fifteen eleven three point two one Playoff stats three and four and eight series four point oh three One of Cy Young in two thousand nine five all-star selections, and then there's Patrick Corbin With the Diamondbacks eleven and seven three point one five two hundred and forty six strikeouts two hundred innings two all-star selections two thousand thirteen two thousand eighteen sandwiching Tommy John surgery so he's gotten that out of the way pre-disastered he Would just cost money and has always dreamed about playing for the Yankees the other guys if you're gonna be in play for those guys You are going to have to give up big-time products So now you can really deplete what you have it doesn't take long Michael We have these have depleted what they the Yankees used to have the best or the second best form system in the game All the trades they've made the ones with the White Sox for David Robertson and Todd Frazier The ones for Sonny Gray mm-hmm a lot of your top prospects are gone now They have great prospects in the bottom levels that they signed internationally true, but we don't know what they are Yeah, you know you have Estevan Floreal you have Justice Sheffield and if you want you don't look at and do harm and and Labor Torah as prospects, but my question now if you're the Yankees and you know you have to improve your pitching Would you give up? Labor Tars and I wouldn't no, I'm not giving up Labor Tars for 32 year old short Cory Cluver. I'm Cleveland That's what I'm gonna hold out Would you give it up or do you not even go there and just say I can get Corbin for just straight money And then that's what I'll do right although I get I worry about these National League pitchers coming to the American League You wouldn't have that problem with Cleveland those guys have pitched in the American League pitched to Yankee Stadium Consistently, but all you have to do is have a couple of trades to deplete that farm system now If you get these pitchers and when yourself a championship, you're not gonna care necessarily Also factor in where do we stand with Frazier with the concussion and what's bird right now? I mean those are part of your future too that were guys that you felt were gonna be big-time prospects for you that right now You're not sure where you stand with those guys So count that plus what you would have to give up to get a Carrasco or a Cluver. I might just go Corbin He wants to be here. He had an excellent season last year Then you don't worry about any prospects and and Brian brought this up yesterday and talking about Sonny Gray You've got to know if somebody's built for New York now Corbin didn't grow up in New York City grew up in upstate New York. That's a big difference There are guys that have come here. That's just haven't done it. AJ Burnett was a better pitcher before and after with the Yankees Sonny Gray a really fine pitcher with the A's he's gonna be good wherever they trade him and they really Brian Castro said they've got a lot of bites on him. So they're gonna be able to trade him There are players that you know going way back Ed Whitson some players can't perform here I don't know how they I mean I'd have to do their due diligence on Patrick Corbin But you never really know until they put pinstripes on and that's you don't know that's a risk As you said the guys that we spoke about they played in the American League They face nine-man line-ups not line us with pitchers So Patrick Corbin's used to having an easy out now Corbin pitches in a building that does give up a lot of home Not an easy bill but you get to pitch a Chavez ravine you get to pitch an AT&T Park You do have ballparks in the National League that are spacious compared to the American League where you play it You know Fenway Yankee Stadium Listen, I know it's nitpicking, but you said there's a history there You can go to Brown and Johnson and was it right was it there was a Jared right right? Yeah, the really good pitcher in the National League came to the Yankees didn't pitch very well So they've had buyers remorse before but you give up a lot of prospects and if see if you sign a free agent It doesn't work. It just cost you money Mm-hmm, but if you if you trade for a clue burn He doesn't work out that then that's the prospects that you gave up that can come back and want you