As first reported by the YES Network’s Jack Curry, the New York Yankees have traded for coveted A’s starter Sonny Gray, arbitration-eligible the next two years, under organizational control through 2020.
Source: Sonny Gray will be traded to the Yankees.
— Jack Curry (@JackCurryYES) July 31, 2017
Joel Sherman further reported that the Yankees would be parting with three assets, two of whom had major upside prior to 2017.
#Athletics are getting Jorge Mateo Dustin Fowler and James Kaprielian for Gray. #Yankees
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) July 31, 2017
Once the top pitching prospect in the Yankee organization, James Kaprielian sat out a large portion of 2016 with a flexor strain and was sidelined for all of 2017 and the early part of 2018 after undergoing Tommy John surgery in April of this year.