Yankees have path to trading for Mike Trout originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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Mike Trout had an exceptional series in Yankee Stadium earlier this season.
Maybe the best move is for the New York Yankees to bring him aboard full-time.
Trout is off to his best start in years, and that prompted a new article from The Athletic’s Keith Law on Monday in which he urges the Los Angeles Angels to trade their future Hall of Famer away.
The premise is that Trout’s trade value will likely never be this high again, and that’s probably true.
He’s still owed nearly $200 million, and his age and injury history are not encouraging.
Law rattles off a handful of teams that could work for Trout, including a return back toward home to play for the Philadelphia Phillies.
But the Yankees are another one of the teams Law suggests, thinking that a contract match and some prospect value could get a potential deal done.
“The Yankees could get creative here with some of their own big contracts and perhaps slot Trout in as their DH,” Law writes. “They still owe Giancarlo Stanton, who is nominally their DH in his brief interludes between IL stints, about $40 million through the end of 2027, including the buyout on his 2028 team option. They could send Stanton to the Angels to offset some of Trout’s remaining contract, and have enough second-tier prospects after George Lombard Jr., and Dax Kilby to put together a compelling package.”
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Trout has never shown much of an interest in asking out of town. If he had wanted that, he would’ve done it a long time ago.
But baseball fans as a whole would surely like to see Trout in a more competitive organization. He’s only played in one playoff series in his entire career.
He’d sure be a fun fit in the Yankees’ lineup with Aaron Judge and Ben Rice. It’s certainly something Yanks fans can dream on.