When you’re in “win now” mode like the 2025 Yankees, no assets are untouchable. They just have to be utilized properly, or sent in exchange for the correct targets.
In the instance of Garrett Crochet, the White Sox lefty wasn’t the ideal option at any price, let alone the one the Yankees were begged to pay. Ultimately, the 25-year-old flamethrower (top-of-the-league starter velocity) landed in Boston on Wednesday in exchange for four players from the Red Sox stacked farm. That package was highlighted by catcher Kyle Teel, one of the Big Four, and outfielder Braden Montgomery, Boston’s first-rounder in 2024 who was already threatening to make it a Big Five.
Shortstop Chase Meidroth is also a consensus top-10 Sox prospect, and may start right away in Chicago…