The Pirates are stripping down all the way to the studs out in Pittsburgh as they undergo a deep rebuild under the helm of old friend Ben Cherington. They traded Joe Musgrove to the Padres last week, and this week they have traded another member of their rotation. This time it is right-handed pitcher Jameson Taillon, who was traded to the Yankees for a package of four prospects. Those prospects are Miguel Yajure, Roansy Contreras, Maikol Escotto, and Canaan Smith.
I won’t pretend to be some sort of expert on the prospects who were dealt, but this certainly seems to be a quantity over quality deal for Pittsburgh, which is not to say the prospects they got back are not good but rather that there is not an elite prospect in the bunch.