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Are all the bullpen signings a way to get rid of Ellsbury?

The Mariners were able to use 3 years of control Edwin Diaz to get out from under Cano's terrible contract.

Maybe Cashman signed Britton and Ottavino because he has a deal set up to trade Green to get rid of Ellsbury's contract. Green has been significantly more valuable than Diaz over the last 2 years and while Cano is still productive right now, his remaining contract is much worse than Ellsbury's.

This allows the Yankees to sign Machado $28Mx8yrs)and trade Andujar to the Padres for Kluber. Then Cashman just has to figure a way out of Gardner, Happ, LeMahieu, and CC's contracts and use that money to sign Harper($28Mx8yrs) and the he'll have executed the perfect offseason and only would have committed $7M more to the team below than the current roster.

RF Judge

LF Harper

DH Stanton

3B Machado

C Sanchez

2B Torres

CF Hicks

1B Voit/Bird

SS Tulowitzki

Romine, Wade

Kluber, Severino, Paxson, Tanaka, Gray

Chapman, Betances, Britton, Ottavino, Holder, X, X, X

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