Over the past couple of years, expansion has been widely discussed in the sports media circuit. During the height of the pandemic shutdown, MLB Trade Rumors decided to have some fun with the topic and ran polls asking its readers which players they thought each team should protect in a hypothetical expansion draft. Our very own Peter Brody, meanwhile, tackled the question himself, selecting four players (Aaron Hicks, Luke Voit, Zack Britton, and Jonathan Loáisiga) to go along with the 12 players that MLB Trade Rumors decided were “automatic” inclusions.
That was more than a year and a half ago, and much has changed with the Yankees since then.