Two years ago, when the Red Sox traded two of their top prospects -- Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech -- for Chris Sale, the Yankees were in the bidding for the star left-hander as well. But Yankees general manager Brian Cashman felt the White Sox' asking price was too high and stepped aside, clearing the way for Sale to head to Boston.
"Thank God I didn’t do that, actually," Cashman told reporters at the general managers' meetings, according to the New York Post, "because you’d be missing some serious components of our major league club right now that are under control. We wouldn’t have gotten anywhere if I did anything like that with the White Sox back then."
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