Yankees get Edwin Encarnacion. Is the fix in?

We are less than 2 years removed from Derek Jeter helping to buy the Marlins, then almost immediately ship their best player, Giancarlo Stanton, to the Yankees for basically nothing.

Now the Mariners have traded Edwin Encarnacion, who's only the AL homerun leader, to the Yankees for a nothing prospect.

So, is the fix in?

Encarnacion is not some overpaid scrub that a team would just be incredibly desperate to dump their salary. He's raking this year. He can still play in the field. He has a sizable contract but nothing that any contender would not be willing to take on if it gave them that added boost for a world series run.

So what gives? Why would Seattle dump him to the Yankees out of the blue for nothing? Did their GM make no other calls? Was this lousy offer from the Yankees the only one they were even willing to take?

It stinks to high heaven. Now this is hardly the first time teams have just given the Yankees good players for nothing, but the money made sense. This makes NO sense, unless this was orchestrated by MLB to prop up the Yankees.

Hell, Seattle is still paying the bulk of the money according to everything I read. It does NOTHING to help Seattle at all. But it makes the Yankees that much more absurd. The Yankees have not played in a world series in 10 years. The fix appears in to end that drought.

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