Brian Cashman and the Yankees may never do business with Buster Posey, SF Giants ever again

While Buster Posey’s first two years as the president of baseball operations for the SF Giants have not exactly gone according to plan, at least he can hang his hat on the fact that he’s pulled fast one on the New York Yankees and general manager Brian Cashman twice now.

The whole Camilo Doval saga is the textbook definition of a fleecing. The Giants traded Doval arguably when his value was at its highest, got back four prospects in return, Doval struggled with the Yankees to the point that they traded him to the Pittsburgh Pirates who decided to DFA him and now he’s back with the Giants.

While we shouldn’t overreact to the two outings Doval had after he came back to San Francisco, he looked like his old self. Doval could be wild at times in his first stint with the Giants and was a bit of a diva too, but maybe his struggles in New York and Pittsburgh now make him appreciate the situation he had in San Francisco a lot more.

If he can get back to being his usual self next year and maybe even become a reliable closer again, that would be an absolute stroke of genius by Posey. Farhan Zaidi pulled off a similar heist when he traded Darin Ruf to the New York Mets in 2022 in exchange for J.D. Davis, Carson Seymour, and a few other pitchers only to scoop him back up in 2023 after the Mets cut him since he was so bad there.

The Doval trade isn’t the only example of Posey fleecing the Yankees though. It’s early, but it certainly looks like the Giants made the right call by trading Heliot Ramos when they did. In 38 games with New York, Ramos hit .198/.309/.379 with four home runs and 12 runs batted in.

That’s not completely atrocious and if Ramos ends up hitting a go-ahead homer off Tanner Scott to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series then the trade may end up looking quite different, but maybe this will be another Doval kind of deal.

Yankees may regret Heliot Ramos trade with Giants too

Ramos is under team control for several more years just like Doval was when he got traded, but if he does poorly in 2027 then the Yankees may choose to send him to another team if they’ve run out of patience with him.

By that time, there’s a chance that left-handed pitcher Henry Lalane and second baseman Kaeden Kent, who have both shown promise with the Giants, have already progressed through the minors and are knocking on the door of the big leagues.

It’s too early to declare the trade a total success, but if the Ramos deal starts to look more and more like the Doval deal then Cashman may not be all that interested in doing business with Posey and the Giants going forward. 

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