Yankees Reportedly Asking Marlins For Star-Studded Package

The New York Yankees are going all out on the last day of the trade deadline.

After acquiring All-Star closer David Bednar from the Pittsburgh Pirates and Jake Bird from the Colorado Rockies, New York is reportedly not done. The Yankees are intensifying their pursuit of further marquee arms.

New York’s interest in Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcántara has been well-documented in recent days. However, new intel from MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch suggests that the Yankees are looking to snag Alcántara in a package deal from the Marlins that includes another impact pitcher.

“The Yankees have asked the Marlins for a package that would include Sandy Alcantara and Anthony Bender,” Hoch posted to X with a few hours to go in the deadline.

Bender, like Alcántara, underwent Tommy John surgery within the last few years but is an elite talent when healthy. The right-hander is 2-5 this season for Miami with a 1.83 ERA, 35 strikeouts and three saves in 44 1/3 innings pitched. Still only 30 years old, Bender represents a special arm that would only add to New York’s growing options of late-inning studs.

Alcántara, meanwhile, has plenty of suitors beyond the Yankees, and it’ll be fascinating to see where he lands, or if Miami ultimately decides to hold onto him. The 29-year-old former Cy Young Award winner has steadily improved his stuff this season while working his way back from Tommy John.

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has not been afraid to exercise aggression this week, that’s for sure. New York is doing everything it can to ensure that its depth chart is deep enough to make another run at the World Series this fall.