Yankees have perfect trade candidate that almost every MLB team should want
Is New York going to do something about this?
Yankees have perfect trade candidate that almost every MLB team should want originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Every time New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone talks about J.
C. Escarra, he makes Escarra seem like one of the best catchers in baseball. Boone specifically will say that Escarra would be a top 10-15 catcher in the game if he got to play every day.
The problem is that the Yankees have Austin Wells playing most days behind the plate. They've also got Ben Rice to potentially catch. Wells and Rice each hit left-handed, the same as Escarra.
There's really no path for him to play, no matter how good he has been defensively and even offensively when called upon. And while the Yankees seem committed to riding things out with Escarra as their backup catcher, they ought to see if another team views Escarra the way Boone does. Most teams could use a catcher like Escarra.