After reading reports that the Brewers held strong in wanting Spencer Jones from the Yankees in a potential trade for Corbin Burnes, C-Mac decided he owed an apology to Brian Cashman.
“I have to apologize to my man,” C-Mac said. “I don’t know how I went against him. My own fault.
“I still feel that, in some ways, it was an underwhelming offseason…but I yelled and screamed at him for not getting Burnes. But now it’s been widely reported that it would have taken Spencer Jones, their top overall prospect…I did not think it would have taken that. That’s not what the Orioles gave them…two later top-10 prospects. That’s a Peraza and Pereria-type deal for the Yankees. Instead they insisted on Spencer Jones.”
Jones, who received his first big-league spring training invite this week, is the team’s top prospect, heralded as a lefty Aaron Judge. C-Mac wouldn’t part with that kind of potential for a rental starting pitcher, even if Burnes is the cream of the crop.
“He’s their best prospect in the farm system. As much as I’m all in, there has to be some common sense that you don’t trade your top blue chip prospect for a rental,” C-Mac said. “If you don’t have to give up your top prospect for Juan Soto, why would you have to give him up for Burnes? That’s where Milwaukee was, and I completely understand Cash. I apologize. I should have never doubted you.”