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For most of MLB<\/a> history, the\u00a0New York Yankees<\/a> have been tangled up in trade and free-agency rumors involving every single major name in the sport.<\/p>\n They might no longer be the Evil Empire \u2014 they’ve ceded that moniker to the Los Angeles Dodgers \u2014 but that’s still the case.<\/p>\n That’s why, if the Detroit Tigers make Tarik Skubal<\/a> available in trade talks, they will most definitely be in the mix to trade for him.<\/p>\n However, according to The Athletic’s Jim Bowden, they won’t go all-in to land the two-time AL Cy Young winner, and they’ll only try to get him if the price makes sense.<\/p>\n “…There really isn\u2019t a need to trade their top prospects to land Skubal. They\u2019re not going to offer Carlos Lagrange or George Lombard Jr. for a rental,” Bowden wrote<\/a>. “That being said, I can see them making a low-ball offer of Spencer Jones and Ben Hess and at least stay involved in the talks. If the prospect price becomes realistic, they\u2019ll be players.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That approach makes sense, especially given how this team has operated in the Hal Steinbrenner era; they no longer go after superstars just for the sake of it.<\/p>\n That said, whoever trades for Skubal likely won’t be seeing it as a rental. They’d give up valuable assets to get a chance to re-sign him in free agency to the big-money deal he’s looking for and worthy of.<\/p>\n Then again, the Yankees may have some issues, but their starting rotation, when healthy, certainly isn’t one of those.\u00a0<\/p>\n Carlos Rodon and Gerrit Cole are back on the mound, and with Max Fried, Cam Schlittler, Will Warren and Ryan Weathers, they might not need to go all-in to get Skubal.<\/p>\n Whatever the case, the Yankees should still be a player in the trade market, as they’ve been way too streaky at the plate this season, and they may not have enough firepower to end their franchise-worst World Series drought.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Yankees won’t sell the farm to trade for Tarik Skubal<\/h2>\n
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