NY Daily News headline for this story: “Yankees get Angels starter Andrew Heaney for Junk in trade”.

This is a good get for the Yankees. Heaney's peripherals are quite a bit better than his ERA.

Yeah, I've been saying that for years, but it just hasn't worked out. Heaney with men on base yields a .799 OPS for his career, and an .850 OPS with two outs and men on. Maybe they can fix him from the stretch, or maybe they can find him a sports psychologist, but Heaney's stuff has always been better than his performance. He seems like a great guy and I wish him well, but the Angels were going nowhere counting on him at the top of the rotation.

Incredibly, Elvis Peguero has only the second-funniest name in this trade!

Heaney has good stuff, but seems to be victimized by big innings. I am kind of surprised he hasn't been tried in the bullpen at this point.

I am kind of surprised he hasn't been tried in the bullpen at this point.

Have you seen the Angels starting rotation the last five years? Anyone who can go more than fiving innings and keep an ERA under 5.50 was going to be one of their best five starting pitchers. Sure, he might have been better in the bullpen, but that would have been counterproductive for the Angels.

Heaney will have a start where he'll locate his pitches exactly where he wants and give up one run over six or seven innings looking like an ace or a good number two. Then he'll have a start where he'll walk three and hit a batter over the first three innings but somehow give up zero runs, and then maybe he looks better in the fourth and you think he's settling in, and all of a sudden he's being pulled with one out in the fifth, having given up four runs and leaving two guys on base. He's maddeningly inconsistent. My son and I would always take a guess as to whether we were getting Good Heaney or Bad Heaney on any given start.