LAKELAND, Fla. — Not everyone agrees the Yankees are a better team with Adam Warren in Chicago and Starlin Castro at second base in The Bronx.
Warren’s ability to start and relieve was invaluable to the Yankees across the previous two seasons. And even if there was a huge hole at second, some believe Warren was too high of a price to pay.
Manager Joe Girardi was a big fan of Warren’s, but justified the deal this way:
“To get something, you have to give up something good,’’ Girardi said of the Winter Meetings swap that plugged the Yankees’ second base hole with a three-time All Star who had 991 hits before his 26th birthday, which arrives March 24.