{"id":104401,"date":"2025-07-20T20:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=104401"},"modified":"2025-07-20T20:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:17:25","slug":"report-yankees-regular-contact-pirates-regarding-five-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/20\/report-yankees-regular-contact-pirates-regarding-five-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Yankees in \u201cRegular Contact\u201d with Pirates on Five Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Yankees have been in \u201cregular contact\u201d with the Pittsburgh Pirates as the trade deadline approaches. The players the Yankees are interested in are David Bednar<\/a>, Ke\u2019Bryan Hayes<\/a>, Mitch Keller<\/a>, Isiah Kiner-Falefa<\/a>, and Dennis Santana<\/a>. So says baseball insider Jon Heyman of the New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Jul 1, 2025; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher David Bednar (51) pitches against the St. Louis Cardinals during the ninth inning at PNC Park. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Heyman: Yankees Interested in Several Pirates Players<\/h2>\n

Hard-thinking fans and pundits joke that the Pirates are merely a farm team for the Yankees. However, the reality is that the Pirates have done as well with former Yankees as the Yankees have done with former Pirates. While the Yankees fleeced Pittsburgh in deals for Jameson Taillon<\/a> and Clay Holmes<\/a>, the Pirates also benefited from one-sided deals for A.J. Burnett<\/a> and Francisco Cervelli<\/a>. On the free agent front, the Yankees signed Gerrit Cole<\/a>, who neither the Pirates nor the Houston Astros could afford, while Pittsburgh outbid New York for the services of Russell Martin<\/a>. The Yankees fixed the issues that plagued Holmes, as the Pirates did with waiver claim<\/a> Santana.<\/p>\n

Yet, if indeed all five of the aforementioned players are headed to New York, the joke will become a reality. Pirates insider Noah Hiles recently gave all five players a greater-than-50 percent probability<\/a> of being traded by the deadline.<\/p>\n

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Yankees have been in regular contact with the Pirates, who have a few players who\u2019d interest NYY: Hayes, Bednar, Santana, Keller, IKF<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n