In what has been a very long and unusual offseason, with a lack of big trades and contracts to discuss (sans Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Boone) potential trades to clear salary for the superstar-filled 2018-2019 offseason have been a primary focus of writers and fans alike. Obviously, the players most heavily featured in these deals are the ones with large salaries and can be easily moved. Jacoby Ellsbury is the obvious candidate to find a new home.

Rumors have it that Ellsbury would be willing to waive his no-trade clause to join the San Francisco Giants, but with this newest development of McCutchen, it seems as though the Yankees are out of luck with finding a potential suitor. However, two things can still hold Yankee fans with some hope.

The Giants went into the offseason needing TWO outfielders: McCutchen makes one, they still need another.

and,

The Giants need a solid CF: McCutchen may not be in AT&T, but we know one person who could be.

Over his last three years, the now-former Pirate has posted cumulative advanced defensive ratings of: -52 DRS, -27.8 UZR, and a Fielding Percentage of .990. These numbers are pretty telling of how well McCutchen rates in the demanding center field position, nevertheless playing that way in the much harder AT&T Park.

Ellsbury is by no means a superstar CF, but he is competent: something that McCutchen (unfortunately for himself) has to understand he is not. His last three years have produced much better advances statistics: +6 DRS, -6.2 UZR, and a Fielding Percentage of .991.

By all accounts of the stats, it shows that Ellsbury should play better in CF than that of Andrew McCutchen.