{"id":65352,"date":"2024-01-06T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=65352"},"modified":"2024-01-05T23:36:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T04:36:17","slug":"yankees-orioles-trade-dylan-cease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/01\/06\/yankees-orioles-trade-dylan-cease\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees, Orioles Reportedly in a Race to Trade for This Ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports claim that the Yankees and Orioles have entered the race to trade for White Sox ace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/ceasedy01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-01-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dylan Cease<\/a> &#8211; but what will it cost to get him?<\/p>\n<h2>Yankees, Orioles in Race for Cease<\/h2>\n<h3>The Report<\/h3>\n<p>What started as a dull offseason didn&#8217;t take long to get interesting. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/ohtansh01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-01-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=yamamo004yos&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-01-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/12\/09\/shohei-ohtani-record-breaking-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">both went<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/12\/21\/yoshinobu-yamamoto-signs-dodgers\/\" target=\"_self\">Dodgers<\/a>, the free-agent and trade market quickly heated up and it&#8217;s rumored it might go up another notch. On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5180684\/2024\/01\/05\/dylan-cease-trade-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Athletic&#8217;s<\/em><\/a> Ken Rosenthal claimed the Yankees and Orioles expressed trade interest in White Sox ace Dylan Cease.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Yankees and Orioles are among the teams that have expressed &#8216;sincere interest&#8217; in trading for Dylan Cease, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Ken_Rosenthal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cn9kfvPLmB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Cn9kfvPLmB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Walk-Off (@BRWalkoff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BRWalkoff\/status\/1743299460652785843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The AL East rivals would benefit from the frontliner&#8217;s services, but are they willing to pay the White Sox&#8217;s hefty price tag?<\/p>\n<h3>The Asking Price<\/h3>\n<p>The former Cy Young finalist is one of the biggest names on the trading block, and Chicago is valuing him accordingly. They are reportedly asking for four top prospects in return.<\/p>\n<p>The reason they&#8217;re asking for the moon is because they&#8217;re giving up a star. Cease is coming off his third straight 200-strikeout season, is still in his prime at 28, and is under team control until 2026. He posted a mediocre 4.58 ERA in 2023, but dominated teams in 2022 when he earned MVP votes and compiled a 2.20 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Besides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/colege01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-01-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerrit Cole<\/a>, the Yankees struggled with their rotation, failing to have any other qualified players record under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/teams\/NYY\/2023.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4.50 ERA<\/a>. New York is looking to change that in their all-in approach for next season, and getting a guy like Cease would do just that.<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles fall into a similar boat. The rotation wasn&#8217;t the strongest, but they made up for it with one of the best bullpens in the MLB. After winning the AL East for the first time since <a href=\"https:\/\/champsorchumps.us\/records\/al-east-winners-full-list\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2014<\/a>, they know their championship window is now and the ace would help their chances.<\/p>\n<h3>Who Gets Cease?<\/h3>\n<p>Rosenthal claims that other teams like the Dodgers and Cardinals could be in the mix, but the most serious interest is from the Yankees and the Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>If the asking price is truly a prospect package, the Yankees may be low on resources after already shipping off a bunch of their blue chips to San Diego for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=sotoju01,soto--004jua&amp;search=Juan+Soto&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-01-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Soto<\/a>. The Orioles have the pieces to make a move, but the organization has a history of keeping their farm system guys in-house.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for certain, whatever team Cease is on come Opening Day will be one lucky organization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports claim that the Yankees and Orioles have entered the race to trade for White Sox ace Dylan Cease &#8211; but what will it cost to get him? Yankees, Orioles in Race for Cease The Report What started as a dull offseason didn&#8217;t take long to get interesting. Since Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4905,"featured_media":65370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1071,3,10,5,35],"tags":[1524,542,611,2133,4527,2178,6553],"class_list":["post-65352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-orioles","category-whitesox","category-yankees","category-news","tag-dylan-cease","tag-featured","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-juan-soto","tag-mlb-trade-rumors","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}