{"id":42820,"date":"2025-03-20T14:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=42820"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:54:17","slug":"yankees-steal-100-plus-mph-starter-in-trade-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=42820","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Steal 100-Plus MPH Starter in Trade Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2178626336-e1742439623301.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2178626336-e1742439623301.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2178626336-e1742439623301.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2178626336-e1742439623301.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Steal 100-Plus MPH Starter in Trade Proposal\" width=\"780\" height=\"441\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Boone walking to the mound to change pitchers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Heading into the regular season, the New York Yankees rotation has multiple questions. Injuries are never something a team can plan for, but at this rate, the Yankees should understand they\u2019ll deal with them.<\/p>\n<p>Losing Gerrit Cole hurts. He\u2019s the ace of this staff, and many were hopeful that he\u2019d return to his Cy Young stuff in 2025. That won\u2019t be the case, but the Yankees can\u2019t let the season go to waste. Trading for another arm needs to happen in the near future, and a proposed trade from Nick San Miguel of Around the Fog Horn would help them do just that.<\/p>\n<p>San Miguel proposed a deal that would move Tim Hill to the San Francisco Giants for Jordan Hicks, a right-hander who can run it up on the radar gun.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\">\u201cAs a left-handed submariner who gets ground balls with regularity, he is the perfect pitcher to bring into the game with runners on base when you need to induce a ground ball and get an inning-ending double play.\u00a0 In return, New York would be getting an electric, if sometimes unruly, arm who has flashed potential as a starter. It is a move that could be beneficial for both sides if executed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_d_2_7\">\n<div id=\"inarticle_d_2_7_slot0\" data-google-query-id=\"CLjgu8WBl4wDFdSQWgUd6pIO6w\">\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\">\u201cThis close to Opening Day, a trade like this would be quite rare. But if the season goes on a bit and it is clear that the Yankees are in desperate need of another starter while the Giants could really benefit from having another left-handed reliever, maybe a deal like this could come to fruition,\u201d San Miguel wrote.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Hicks Has Question Marks<\/h2>\n<p>While Hicks was once a pitcher who could run it up to 100-plus miles per hour with relative ease, he transitioned into a full-time starter role for the San Francisco Giants last season. His velocity was down, which isn\u2019t the biggest surprise, but it\u2019s something the New York Yankees have to consider.<\/p>\n<p>Ready to go for his second stint as a starter, Hicks said he feels better this year than last. The Yankees might want to see it first, but that\u2019s a positive sign if they want him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m just built for a better season and feeling stronger further into the season,\u201d Hicks said, according to Maria Guardado of MLB.com. \u201cI feel stronger. I have a better base. My legs feel strong. It feels easier to hit the higher velocities. I\u2019d say that\u2019s one of the bigger changes. I feel good mentally. I think I\u2019m in a good spot with challenging hitters. I just want to be in the zone with all my stuff. That\u2019s my main focus.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>What\u2019s the Yankees Plan?<\/h2>\n<p>Right now, there isn\u2019t much the New York Yankees can do if they don\u2019t have starters ready to go. They\u2019ll have to roll out some questionable arms and hope things go well.<\/p>\n<p>That typically doesn\u2019t end well, but they\u2019re ready to do it.<\/p>\n<p>From the sound of things, it\u2019ll be a team effort for the Yankees until help comes.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s quality people that we know are capable of stepping in and getting it done,\u201d Aaron Boone said, according to Bryan Hoch of MLB.com. \u201cAnd that will be the expectation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jon Conahan covers the NBA and NFL for Heavy.com. Since 2019, his sports coverage has appeared at Sports Illustrated, oddschecker, ClutchPoints and Sportskeeda. More about Jon Conahan<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Yankees News<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed New York Yankees trade would send Tim Hill to the San Francisco Giants for right-hander Jordan Hicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Steal 100-Plus MPH Starter in Trade Proposal - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=42820\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees Steal 100-Plus MPH Starter in Trade Proposal - 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