CHICAGO — When General Manager Brian Cashman decided he did not want to trade his top prospects for the starting pitchers his first-place team needs at the moment, it was a show of faith in the farm system, particularly the pitchers he will be counting on now.
Cashman was doubling down.
That decision did not deliver any return Saturday night, however, as Bryan Mitchell and Diego Moreno, the two young pitchers the Yankees turned to, were not ready for their opportunity in an 8-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
Mitchell quickly put the Yankees in a hole, and Moreno ensured that they remained there when he yielded a three-run homer in the fifth inning to the former Yankee Melky Cabrera.