With the dust firmly settled on the July 31 trade deadline, the New York Yankees plethora of moves signaled a clear desire to upgrade the bullpen and the bench, even though the early returns show the efficacy of those moves hasn't been what they hoped for, Beyond the obvious, however, is a hidden subtext that speaks volumes about how the organization feels about one of it's struggling young stars.
Catcher Austin Wells has long been the apple of the Yankees' eye. The organization actually drafted the 26-year-old backstop twice, once in 2018 in the 35th round when Wells was coming out of high school, and then again two years later in the first round after Wells' time at the University of Arizona.