Would Yankees Be In On Freddie Freeman?

This is if, the Yankees lose Mark Teixeira for the whole season. Also -- this is if -- the Yankees would be willing to take another big contract.

Would the Yankees be willing to trade for Atlanta Braves first baseman, Freddie Freeman? After I just discussed them having to sell either Aroldis Chapman or Andrew Miller. Now with the Yankees sweeping the Los Angeles Angels and putting themselves back to .500, I'm not on the Yankees-should-buy bandwagon.

As of right now, it's very possible for the Yankees to get a Wild Card spot. There's a lot June baseball to go, before we hit the July trade deadline.

And if the Yankees are still in the race or in position to be in the playoffs, they're gonna be buyers. One of the spots I can see the Yankees filling up, if (and this is a big 'if') Teixeira goes down for the year, the Yankees will look for a first baseman.

Yankee GM Brian Cashman has already stated that Teixeira could end up having season ending surgery. Which would really suck since this will be -- in all likelihood -- his last season with the Yankees.

But if Teixeira goes down for the year and the Yankees are in the thick of the playoff hunt, would they consider trading for Freeman?

Trading for Freeman should be easy. Why? Because he'll make $20-22 million for the next five seasons. I'm sure the Braves would love to get rid of that contract. Although, that's the part of Freeman the Yankees would want to stay far, far, far away from. They do not want anymore big contracts.

But at the same time, Freeman is only 26-years-old. By the time his contract ends, he'll be 31. Which isn't terrible.

As for his productivity, he's been okay. Not enough to be worth $21 million a year. The reason I link Freeman to the Yankees because Teixeira might go down and Freeman's a left-handed hitting power bat.

Freeman had one big season in 2013, where he hit 23-homeruns,109-RBIs and batted .319. In Yankee Stadium his average could go down but his power may go up. But I didn't like his 2014 season, when he played 162-games but only hit 18-homeruns -- should've hit more than that.

From what it looks, acquiring Freeman has a good/bad attraction. Bad: because of the money he'll make. Good: because he's still very young.

Also, acquiring Freeman would have a lot to do on how the Yankees feel about Greg Bird.