On Monday, Buster Olney reported that the Giants explored the idea of trading for Jacoby Ellsbury in a bad contract swap that would send Johnny Cueto to New York. As Tyler Norton wrote yesterday, though, this just wouldn’t make much sense for the Yankees since this would involve trading Ellsbury for an even worse contract. And I have to agree, there’s just no Cueto make this work.
However, it’s fun to live in a fantasy world where the Yankees could actually rid themselves of Ellsbury, or just figure out what to do with him, period.