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Originally Posted by abailey3313
Teams value prospects more than ever before but they still trade them. Wil Myers got flipped for James Shields in the off-season. Shields is a decent enough pitcher, but he netted the Rays one of the 5-10 best prospects in all of baseball. If a contending team thinks they can work out a long-term deal with Cano, I don't see any reason why there wouldn't be suitors.
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James Shield was under contract for two more years with reasonable salary at the time of the trade. With Cano, it's half a year of expensive salary left. You can see how the former is way more valuable than the latter in terms of trades.
These days really you have to trade away relatively young and still relatively reasonably priced players to get good prospects. If Yankees have any player like that, they'd keep him.