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New York Yankees deal Jesus Montero for Seattle Mariners' Michael Pineda
TheRemedy360Ressurection:
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--- Quote ---The New York Yankees have traded top prospect Jesus Montero and right-handed pitcher Hector Noesi to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for phenom pitcher Michael Pineda and righty Jose Campos, a source told ESPN.com's Jayson Stark.
The Yankees receive the 22-year-old Pineda after he went 9-10 with a 3.74 ERA for the Mariners as a rookie last year.
After an up-and-down year in Triple-A, Montero came up to the majors and showed off his electric bat. In 18 games, he hit .328 with four home runs and 28 RBIs. He was expected to be the Yankees designated hitter this season.
While there are no questions about Montero's bat, there are some doubts on whether he can catch in the majors. The Yankees almost dealt Montero once before to the Mariners in a 2010 trade for Cliff Lee. The trade fell through and the Mariners ended up sending Lee to the Texas Rangers.
Pineda adds more youth to the Yankees' rotation behind CC Sabathia. After Pineda, the Yankees have Ivan Nova and Phil Hughes, who are both 25 years old.
Hughes will likely have to compete with Freddy Garcia and A.J. Burnett for the fourth and fifth starter spots.
Later Friday though, the Yankees added yet another arm, signing former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney.
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Not happy about this in the least.
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This guy is regarded as a better hitting prospect than Dustin Ackley, and we all saw what he could do last year. Besides the fact that Pineda is on the Yankees there's not a whole lot to be upset about here.
DJ SUGAFREE QUIK:
Why is it that the moroners[just made that up] keep trading with & helping out their archrivals? Not supposed 2 do that. When they do that, they keep getting the wrong side of the deal. Kinda understand now why seattle's management banned their fans from wearing yankees suck shirts at the games. They're 1 of the yankees farm teams. Do some seattleites wish that it was the baseball team that moved to OKC instead of the sonics?
TheRemedy360Ressurection:
--- Quote from: DJ SUGAFREE QUIK on January 19, 2012, 02:21:55 AM ---Why is it that the moroners[just made that up] keep trading with & helping out their archrivals? Not supposed 2 do that. When they do that, they keep getting the wrong side of the deal. Kinda understand now why seattle's management banned their fans from wearing yankees suck shirts at the games. They're 1 of the yankees farm teams. Do some seattleites wish that it was the baseball team that moved to OKC instead of the sonics?
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It was a strength for strength trade, the Mariners are loaded with pitching but have had historically bad offense the last two years and we got one of the top hitting prospects in baseball. Aside from CC the Yankees didn't have a lot going in their rotation so they got a great pitching prospect in Pineda, it was a good deal for both teams. I don't know when the Mariners and the Yankees became "archrivals" considering they're in different divisions and play across the country, but hypothetically, what makes you say we are a Yankees farm team? The only other significant trade we made with New York was when we acquired Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps which George's dad bitches about on Seinfeld, it's a known fact that the Yankees got ripped off, so I don't really know where you're getting your information from. Also, the two times I've seen the Yankees play at Safeco Field I've rocked my Yankees Suck tshirt, so I don't know what you're talking about.
MistaNova:
--- Quote from: TheRemedy360Resurrection on January 14, 2012, 05:08:46 PM ---Well Hultzen was just drafted last year so we really don't know a while lot about him yet..Paxton and Walker would be better examples cause they've been in the organization for a bit and are some of the top prospects in baseball, not sure what Hultzen's status is. As for someone who can hit, our organization is short on those which is why we made the trade in the first place lol. As far as I know y'all don't have much pitching aside from CC so I think it's a good deal for you.
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I hope the Mariners'll use Montero as a catcher rather than a DH over there. A lot of people say he won't make it behind the plate, but as kid who took Posada's job(s) away from him he'd better be the next Yogi Berra...
Still with Sabathia, Pineda, Kuroda, Nova & Hughes (I guess) the Yankees got themselves some good arms now :).
TheRemedy360Ressurection:
^ Yeah, it seems like most scouts don't think he's gonna be a catcher, but after watching the Mariners for the last few years as long as he can hit I'm happy lol. And yeah Sabathia/Pineda is gonna be a crazy 1-2 punch.
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