November isn’t usually a time for major MLB transactions, as the offseason tends to get going only after the Winter Meetings. However, such conventions evidently do not apply to resident ninja Brian Cashman and trigger-happy Jerry DiPoto. They collaborated to make the first major trade of the offseason yesterday evening, in which the Yankees received James Paxton from the Mariners for prospects Justus Sheffield, Erik Swanson and Dom Thompson-Williams.
If you want to relive the excitement, here’s the tweet that broke the news, by Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports.
There’s nothing quite like seeing “Source:” and “Yankees” in the same tweet.