I have no idea what Cashman is thinking. He should easily be the most aggressive GM for Cease and he's still playing games. Maybe Hal gave him a lifetime contract.
The Yankees made an offer but it didn't include any of their high impact players. For some reason they think they can acquire Cease with a collection of their low tier guys.
I'd take Leiter in a minute. They tried to change the shape of his fastball and fucked him up. Then they tried damage control and fucked him up even more. I'd let him to go back to how he was in college and let him throw the s%*# out of it again.