Yankees: 3 Gary Sanchez trades NYY should pursue after benching

2. Gary Sanchez to the Angels

Is a platoon between 37-year-old Kurt Suzuki and Anthony Bemboom enough to get the Los Angeles Angels back to the promised land? Or, at least, the playoffs while Mike Trout scorches?

The Angels’ farm system remains one of the weakest in the game, so even at Sanchez’s absolute nadir, he should be able to pull a slightly more highly-ranked prospect if new GM Perry Minasian is interested (hate to lose former embedded Yankee Billy Eppler in a scenario like this).

At a certain point, the Angels have to “go for it,” but unfortunately, no Yankee fan is positive Sanchez qualifies as such. As is the case with Clint Frazier, the recently-dealt Mike Tauchman and the currently injured Clarke Schmidt, the Yankees are on an impressive run of devaluing trade chips. The return for Sanchez won’t wow anyone, but the moribund Yanks are very much in need of an ’04 Red Sox-style shakeup.

Perhaps Sanchez could net the Yankees low-level outfield depth, like 2020 third-round speedster David Calabrese (18 years old, ranked 11th in the system by MLB Pipeline) or Alexander Ramirez (also 18 and ranked 12th).

Add a back-end top 30 projectable pitching prospect (No. 29 Alejandro Hidalgo?), and we may have crafted the best the Yankees can do.