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Yankees continuing to look for pitching

Via Buster Olney, the Yankees continue to look for pitching (particularly left-handed) before tonight’s midnight trade deadline. As I explained earlier today, a player has to be in the organization by 11:59pm ET tonight to be eligible for the postseason roster, and there are no loopholes to get around that one. The Rangers acquired Mike Gonzalez from the Orioles earlier today, and that’s about as good as the trade help gets this time of year. I don’t expect the Yankees to do anything, and in fact Olney says they aren’t particularly optimistic about getting a deal done. Still got another six hours to go though.

Categories : Asides, Trade Deadline

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Jesse says:

August 31, 2011 at 5:34 pm

I’d love to have Randy Choate. But that won’t happen.

Mike Axisa says:

August 31, 2011 at 5:39 pm

He’s done for the year with a shoulder problem.

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- Jesse says:
  
  August 31, 2011 at 5:42 pm
  
  Oh, even better! He’d fit in perfectly with Marte and Feliciano!
  
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tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside the Elder says:

August 31, 2011 at 5:35 pm

Why would the Rangers need to acquire Mike Gonzalez when they already won the 2011 World Series a month ago when they added 5-time Cy Young winner Koji Uehara and 14-time Cy Young winner Mike Adams to create the first ever Death Star Bullpen Of Doom and Pain?

This doesn’t make any sense at all. I’m confused.

Will (the other one) says:

August 31, 2011 at 5:45 pm

It’s because you can never have too much of a good thing–even if you’ve already had as much as you can possibly handle of that good thing.

Think of it this way. Let’s say you’ve just had a delicious, filling meal–so filling, in fact, that you might burst if you eat just one more mouthful. You couldn’t even find room for an after-dinner mint, not even if it were wafer-thin. So you lean back in your chair, gaze out the window, and look up at the moon. Now, we all know that the moon isn’t really made of green cheese. But what if it were made of barbecued spare ribs? Would you eat it then?

I know I would.

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- tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside the Elder says:
  
  August 31, 2011 at 5:47 pm
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXH_12QWWg8
  
  Oh, sir, it’s only wafer-thin!
  
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Jorge says:

August 31, 2011 at 5:50 pm

Because they want to triple the dissappointment of another team’s middle reliever not working out for you.

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tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside the Elder says:

August 31, 2011 at 5:40 pm

Tom Gorzelanny or Dontrelle Willis?

D-Train’s always death to lefties (.184/.238/.289 v. LHB this year, .205/.280/.294 career). Gorzelanny’s pretty good too (.167/.224/.308 this year, .235/.300/.366 career).

D-Train can’t be that expensive, he’s a FA and not on track to be a Type A or B. He likes Cincy, but he could easily just sign back there this winter.

Mickey Scheister says:

August 31, 2011 at 6:09 pm

I agree, but I’d also add CMW or possibly Chen for depth. One of those four.

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E-ROC says:

August 31, 2011 at 6:19 pm

Like Tom Gorzelanny. I preferred him over Laffey. I doubt the Reds will trade D-Train though. They could use his help.

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your mom says:

August 31, 2011 at 5:53 pm

I know Cash is working hard on getting Kershaw.

Xstar7 says:

August 31, 2011 at 6:13 pm

He’s working on a three team deal:

Dodgers get: Raul Valdes, Francisco Cervelli, Jorge Vazquez, A-Rod’s jock strap

Phillies get: James Loney, Casey Blake, Hiroki Kuroda, Duke Snider’s corpse

Yankees get: Clayton Kershaw, Cole Hamels, Matt Kemp, the Philly Phanatic, and the rights to Dodger Stadium.

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- Phil Phuckin' Hughes says:
  
  August 31, 2011 at 6:19 pm
  
  Phuck the Phanatic. He’ll just be Hughes’ bitch.
  
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  - Xstar7 says:
    
    August 31, 2011 at 6:22 pm
    
    We’ll do to the Phanatic what we did to the Yankee Dandy.
    
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