The 2019 free agent class was supposed to be a monster haul for the Yankees, and it was supposed to start with Patrick Corbin. It just seemed to make too much sense. New York had shown an interest in trading for Corbin after the 2017 season. Corbin was from New York, had verbally expressed a desire to pitch for the Yankees to Bob Nightengale in a USA Today interview, and was only meeting with teams in the northeast. The Yankees stunned much of the baseball world by not even bothering to make Corbin an offer, and he signed a 6-year, $147M deal with Washington.
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