Now that J.A. Happ is officially back with the Yankees for two years, $34 million, plus a vesting option of $17 million in 2021, should he reach 165 innings or 27 starts in 2020; the 36-year-old left-hander wants free agent Manny Machado to join him in pinstripes.
The first-time All-Star in 2018, Happ, told the AP that getting a player of Machado’s ilk, “would be exciting.”
Naturally, having a two-time Gold Glove winner playing behind the ground-ball inducing Happ makes total sense. Throw in the fact that the Yanks could use some of Machado’s .