Yankees-Dodgers trade proposal could be key in setting up World Series matchup

The New York Yankees person been deed with cardinal injuries connected their starting rotation. They mislaid Gerrit Cole for the season, and Luis Gil and Clarke Schmidt started the twelvemonth connected the injured list.

The Yankees are trying to triumph the American League pennant for the 2nd consecutive year, but they whitethorn request to marque upgrades to their rotation to marque it happen. The Los Angeles Dodgers person a surplus of starting pitchers and could woody 1 to the Yankees. AthlonSports' Conor Liguori projected the idea of the Dodgers sending Landon Knack to the Yankees.

Liguori projected the Yankees nonstop Roderick Arias and T.J. Rumfield to the Dodgers for Knack. Knack made 12 starts past twelvemonth with a 3.65 ERA. He is simply a campaigner to beryllium pushed retired of the Dodgers rotation soon.

"In this trade, the Dodgers stay diligent with developing one of the Yankees' apical prospects, Arias, whose projected ETA to the MLB level is 2027," wrote Liguori. "The 20-year-old began 2025 astatine Single-A Tampa and recorded a .728 OPS with 13 location runs and 37 stolen bases astatine the aforesaid level successful 2024."

Blake Snell is presently connected the injured list, on with Clayton Kershaw and Tony Gonsolin. Not to mention, Shoehi Ohtani is besides expected to instrumentality the mound again this year. With Tyler Glasnow, Snell, Dustin May, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Rōki Sasaki, Ohtani, Kershaw and Gonsolin, the Dodgers already person a surplus.

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The Yankees would beryllium giving up a top-ten imaginable successful bid to onshore a portion for their rotation. Knack could get sent backmost to Triple-A soon, truthful flipping him for a imaginable would beryllium a bully determination for the Dodgers.

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