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MLB Trade Deadline: Previewing the AL East

By Jason Evans

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 06: Manny Machado #13 of the Baltimore Orioles bats in an interleague MLB baseball game against the New York Mets on June 6, 2018 at CitiField in the Queens borough of New York City. Orioles won 1-0. (Photo by Paul Bereswill/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 06: Manny Machado #13 of the Baltimore Orioles bats in an interleague MLB baseball game against the New York Mets on June 6, 2018 at CitiField in the Queens borough of New York City. Orioles won 1-0. (Photo by Paul Bereswill/Getty Images) /
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NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 16: Giancarlo Stanton #27 of the New York Yankees celebrates his fifth inning home run against the Tampa Bay Rays with his teammates in the dugout at Yankee Stadium on June 16, 2018 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) /

New York Yankees

MLB Trade Deadline Status: Buyer

The New York Yankees will be finding themselves yet again buying at the trade deadline. They added Giancarlo Stanton in the off-season, plus rookies Miguel Andujar and Gleyber Torres during the year which has their offense at the top of the league. In fact, at AAA they have their opening day third baseman, an outfielder who’d start for multiple teams, their first baseman for part of the year and another outfielder who was up in the majors briefly.

They’ve lost two of their starting pitchers in Jordan Montgomery to Tommy John surgery and Masahiro Tanaka to blowing out his hamstrings running the bases. They’ve relied on rookies Domingo German and now Jonathan Loaisiga to take those spots.

The bullpen has been it’s normal, dominant, stellar self this year.

What they could target:

Pitching, pitching and oh yeah, pitching. GM Brian Cashman won’t be afraid to pull the trigger on a big deal to help them land a starter or two to take them over the top. Any and all starting pitchers that end up being put on the market, you better believe they will have a conversation with the Yankees.

A left-handed reliever may be on the wish list as well. Outside of closer Aroldis Chapman, the only lefty reliever is Chasen Shreve. Over the last month, his ERA close to 9.00.

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