Time to Pony Up the Dough
More germane, though, is that they will be able to trade for more pitching again this year. Frazier, McKinney, Austin, Chance Adams, Estrada, and Wade are all pieces that could be turned from spare parts to fuel injectors.
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Cash, meanwhile, is as good as his name and so has 10-15 million dollars to spend at the deadline.
All of that will ensure trusted arms arrive in the second half. But it will also allow the team’s young pitchers such as Justus Sheffield, Domingo Acevedo, and Dillon Tate to either mature into starters on their own timetables, which could mean later this year or at least get big league experience out of the pen.
Either way that means more arms for the race are already in the fold.
The fans have seen this before. What looks like a thin pitching staff now will likely grow into something more fulfilling by the end of July. And a strategy that carried last year’s team to the ALCS might take one with a vastly upgraded offense to the World Series.
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That might be especially true as the New York Yankees do not exist in a vacuum. The Red Sox have won the division the last two seasons, while the Astros won the 2017 WS. But neither club has the resources to fortify their teams at the level the Yankees do.
In fact, almost no other contending team does, which might end up the ultimate reason this is the last team standing at the end of the 2018 season. The inhabitants of Yankees universe can see that happening. And they should know.
They are, after all, the only ones who have seen it 27 times before. Some even have the jacket to prove it.