I think in part the Encarnacion move was to keep him from the Rays or Red Sox. The real error which was true for Stanton as well, was having them on the playoff rosters. I said at the time they shoiuld've been left off, and Tauchman and Ford included. They helped get you to party, and with Houston not having a left handed pitcher, made a lot more sense to me. I asked previously, who was this stud pitcher Cashman was supposed to acquire?, and at what cost? Look they had Sonny Gray who did well in Oakland, took a nose dive in the Bronx, and then makes the NL All Star team. Maybe it was Gray, maybe it was Rothchild, but not everyone is cut-out to pitch or play for the Yanks.