"I think the organization made the right decision not giving up, whatever you want to call them -- your top prospects, your blue-chip prospects -- just for a two-month rental," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said on Friday in his return to Yankee Stadium to wrap up the season with the media.
"It might have been different if you were going to have one of those guys over the next five to seven years, and you knew you were going to keep them."
The topic has been a point of contention among Yankees fans and even some of the players, who wondered why general manager Brian Cashman didn't get a front-line starter or right-handed bat to help the club.