Yankees offered Montero to the Royals for Soria

[Christophersp10]

11:23am: The Yankees dangled Jesus Montero in talks for Joakim Soria, reports ESPN's Jayson Stark, but the Royals weren't interested.


Got turned down. I think this deserves it's own thread because it is likely that the Yankees make a full court press for the next couple of days.

[nykgeneralmanager]

I'm really surprised by this. More surprised that the Royals weren't interested. What gives?

[Christophersp10]

Who knows, they are a team that has stunk outside of one year for the past 15 years. What is the point of having an elite closer if you only win 70 games a year? Montero had a slow start but has been tearing it up the past month. 20 year old kid in AAA.

[nykgeneralmanager]

All these trade talks really tell me that the Yanks don't think he can catch in the majors and they don't want to fill their DH spot with him because they need it for the older guys.

If you look at it from the Royals perspective, they have Butler at DH and Hosmer in the wings at 1B, so it kind of makes sense that they wouldn't jump all over Montero as much as other teams would.

[Christophersp10]

It tells me that developing pitching is alot harder than hitting. Yankees can always buy a bat. Getting an arm is more difficult plus the bullpen sucks.

[Pharmcat]

still, when you are a team like KC, you need to stack the farm with talent

they are on crack for denying this deal, NYY is also on drugs for offering this, pen arms are the most unsure thing in mlb, you dont give up blue chip prospects for them

[HCYanks]

Stark's Yankee rumors are consistently bad, so it's probably easiest just to ignore him.

[nykgeneralmanager]

Yeah, the word "dangled" is a nice word to use when you want to be vague

[Ed_The_3rd]

I have a massive man-crush on Joakim Soria (if I had to pick one guy to be the successor to Mo, it'd be him) but I wouldn't even think about offering The Jesus for ANY reliever. And, after watching how the Yanks have built their pen over the last few seasons, I doubt they would either.

Stark's Yankee rumors are consistently bad, so it's probably easiest just to ignore him.

This. Every year Stark pushes some hilarious "rumor" about what the Yankees are up to that shows that, aside from being generally (Please Use More Appropriate Word), he likely has no real sources within the Yanks' FO. ESPN has some solid baseball guys (Law, Kurkjian, Olney) but Stark and Kruk are seatmates on the short bus.

HOWEVA...I will concede that he might just be piggybacking on Heyman's report from the other day about the Yankees making an "aggressive" offer for Soria. Still don't believe it, though.

[jack_theripper]

no. stark's just penning his opinion about "yankees big proposal" that heyman wrote about.

cashman is NOT stupid to give up a catcher for a relief pitcher.

[Dr. Detfink]

Are the rumors that Montero is a bit of a cocky headcase enough to dissuade the Royals? Interesting for sure.

[jack_theripper]

Are the rumors that Montero is a bit of a cocky headcase enough to dissuade the Royals? Interesting for sure.

where the hell did you hear something like this?

he's never once had trouble with the media or the front office. they said he was a little out of shape in the beginning of this season, but nothing about being cocky

[jack_theripper]

Are the rumors that Montero is a bit of a cocky headcase enough to dissuade the Royals? Interesting for sure.

where the hell did you hear something like this?

he's never once had trouble with the media or the front office. they said he was a little out of shape in the beginning of this season, but nothing about being cocky