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@MLBNetwork breaks down the reported Devin Williams for Nestor Cortes trade.

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[Music] gam H Lauren shti with you in studio K with this breaking news on a Friday Devin Williams has been traded to the New York Yankees New York acquiring the right-hander from the Brewers according to multiple reports Jeff passen reported this oh 20 minutes ago that they were finalizing a deal and then he follows up with the package Caleb Durban Nester Cortez going the other way to Milwaukee Caleb Durban won breakout Prospect of the year in the Arizona fall league he had a chance to break the Yankees major league roster this year 25 years old played in triple AA a year ago and Devin Williams the headliner of course an All-Star in 2022 and 2023 was NL Rookie of the Year in 2020 and it’s a two-time NL reliever of the year JP morosi joins us now with more on this deal JP hello to you I see that smile you love a deal on a Friday afternoon good afternoon to you how’d this deal get done Lauren good afternoon this is Major news following up on the winter meetings and it really is Lauren directly linked to what happened at the winter meetings in this sense when the Yankees signed Max freed it it gave them a depth of starting picturers from which to trade there was the possibility of trading one of those starters for Kyle Tucker for Cody Ballinger but instead they flip Cortez to Milwaukee and address a need at the end of the game which remember because of clay Holmes now being a met the Yankees had to fill in one of their key leverage spots late in the game and so now you consider Devin Williams pairing up with Luke Weaver how about that tandem that combination of a couple Elite change UPS both at the end of the game and then of course Cortez will go and help the Brewers rotation that’s why this makes sense for them they of course and you consider the way that their starting depth has gone it was basically a year ago that they had to trade Corbin Burns to Baltimore Cortez is now on an expiring contract so both Devin Williams and Cortez will become free agents at the same time roughly the same time and now you also address with the Brewers a an issue of their infield depth now that willia damus is signed with San Francisco we talk about Caleb Durban the great native of Lake Forest Illinois and notably Lauren I love this a proud division 3 baseball Alum Washington University in St Louis he is a true scholar athlete and he is very Fleet of foot he was averaging better than one stolen base per game tell me you goog it and didn’t know it off the top of your head please oh oh Lauren this is I I I love my scholar athletes he is one of them from the great wasu in St Louis JP is Devon a rental or is this a rent to buy situation with one year left excellent question I I do think that Williams’s representation and perhaps Williams himself will welcome the move to a place that has the capability of signing him long term and at least that possibility now exists in a way that certainly we saw the Yankees trade for Juan sto and I believe Lauren if my information is correct stto did not signed back with the Yankees I think I’ve got that right that he signed somewhere else but with Devin Williams perhaps after having to go to arbitration year-over-year there is now the opportunity for him to sign long term look at that whip 97 and I and I think Lauren has to be said and and I love the change of scenery and the chance to write a different story these two pitchers in this trade gave up the two most famous home runs of the 2024 postseason a change of scenery a chance to write a new beginning for both Cortez and Milwaukee and dein Williams beautiful poetry would we be talking about this JP if one Soo was a Yankee yes or no that’s a great question I I think it’s still possible it’s still possible that that we’d still be talking about this because the need at the back end of the bullpen was real here’s what the bullpen looks like and notably Klay Holmes’s name is not in this list right now nor is Tommy Canley so the perhaps the the need for a really good right on right or right on left which is what Devin Williams is is the reason why so I’m going to say even if Juan SoDo was a Yankee this trade very easily could have happened what’s next for New York on their wish list I still think they want to get a left-handed athletic bat and that’s where Cody Bellinger is still a possibility Kyle Tucker is still possibility Lauren we are not done with significant trades between now and Monday morning’s hot stove between oh I like that between Bellinger Tucker and Christian Walker who’s most likely I’m putting you on the spot to be a New York Yankee at opening bre Cody Bellinger Cody Bellinger is most likely because I I think that the asking price will be most reasonable and while the Yankees have now parted with two players here they still have enough depth Lauren to make a Cody Bellinger you like this deal for both sides yes I do I do I think it was the kind of deal the Brewers have made in the past they have to make and they still traded Corbin Birds last winter and they made it to the postseason anyway Lauren Devin Williams did the New York Yankees for Caleb deran and Nest Cortez breaking news on MLB Network on this Friday thanks for joining us back to your regularly scheduled programming

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