While you can’t blame a team for asking, I can only imagine how quickly Yankees general manager Brian Cashman hung up on the Detroit Tigers when they asked for Gleyber Torres in return for left-handed pitcher Matthew Boyd.
Perhaps, requesting the Yanks’ stud 22-year-old infielder was just the Tigers’ way of beginning negotiations, but according to George A. King III of the New York Post, that’s how high Tigers GM Al Avila values Boyd, who is club-controlled through 2022.
Nevertheless, Steinbrenner is more concerned about what acquiring a pitcher would cost in young talent.