Yankees: Grading every move they made before the trade deadline

The Yankees were very active prior to Tuesday’s non-waiver trade deadline making multiple moves to bolster their starting rotation and bullpen. They also made some trades to acquire international slot money to give themselves a chance to sign some young talents to replenish their farm system.

Brian Cashman once again did everything he could to improve this Yankee team for the stretch run. For the most part, he did so without having to give up any of the teams’ top-tier prospects. He gave away some solid young players, but none of them projected to have much of a role on the Yankees big league roster in the coming years.

The Yankees might not be done making moves but in the meantime, here are some grades for every trade they made before the deadline.

July 24th: Yankees acquire LHP Zach Britton from the Orioles for RHP Dillon Tate, RHP Cody Carrol, and LHP Josh Rogers

The Yankees already had the best bullpen in baseball before the trade for Britton and now they have arguably the best pen any team has ever assembled. The headliner going to Baltimore in the trade was Dillon Tate the Yankees 9th best prospect prior to the move according to MLB Pipeline.

Along with Rogers and Carroll, all three players needed to have to be put on the Yankees 40-man roster this off-season in order to protect them from the Rule-5 draft. Not everyone can be protected so the Yankees opted to deal them for Britton so they could reserve those spots for other top prospects like Justus Sheffield and Chance Adams.

The Yanks have so much young pitching talent that they felt comfortable trading all three players even though Britton is just a rental and a free agent after the season. However, you can’t blame them because Britton is a stud and he is going to help the Yankees bullpen dominate and shorten games from here on out and in the postseason.

Grade: A-