FanGraphs | Michael Baumann: By now you know that the Chicago Cubs traded for righty Edward Cabrera yesterday, after a couple of days where it had sounded like the Yankees had the inside track. Cabrera is far from a finished piece, but shows tremendous amounts of potential and two stellar secondary offerings. He’s just the kind of player that would likely blossom in Yankee pitching theory, but according to Jon Heyman the club was never close to agreeing to a deal with the Marlins.
NJ.com | Randy Miller:
The Yankees haven’t exactly set the hot stove on fire this winter, with Trent Grisham returning to the club, as well as bringing back Ryan Yarbrough and Amed Rosario being their only MLB-level deals. Still, we can retain some optimism that Cody Bellinger’s most likely destination is a return to the Bronx, as no team on the market has come close to his reported ask of seven guaranteed years. If Belli can come down off of that number, the Yankees still make the most sense for the left-hander to play behind Aaron Judge.
Bleacher Report | Zachary D. Rymer: I’m a pretty pro-analytics guy, in general. I think the more information that you can use to make a more informed decision, the better, and that the tools we have now are better than they’ve ever been at isolating who’s a really good player, and who’s benefitting from a really good situation. Still, BR posits a potential problem with the analytically-inclined baseball world — there’s so much information that it’s beginning to overwhelm front offices. Decision paralysis could be a cause of the much slower offseasons we’ve seen in the past few years, as often times every data point in favor of a player can be flipped against him.
