The Yankees will be bunkered down in Pittsburgh in a couple of weeks for an interleague weekend series with the Pirates. During that time, Larry Rothschild should be under direct orders from team management to have dinner at least twice with Pirates pitching Ray Searage, with the Yankees gladly picking up the tab.
The ability of Ray Searage to make successful reclamation projects out of pitchers the Yankees had cast off as hopeless was first noticed back in 2013 when A.J. Burnett flourished in a Pirates uniform (16-10 that year) after having been banished from the Yankee kingdom following three years of torture and a 34-35 record.