Report: “Overwhelming offer” needed for Padres to trade Yates

Jun 15 2019 by Gaslamp Ball

 

According to MLB.com’s AJ Cassavell, the Padres would need an “overwhelming offer” to trade closer Kirby Yates. Of course, this news comes on the heels of a separate report indicating that the front office is listening on almost all of their position players, so perhaps it’s worth considering why, exactly, the Padres would hold off on dealing Yates—a past-thirty reliever with presumably high trade value. As the article explains:

First, the Padres think there’s a...

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