We have entered the dog days of August, and for the first time, there are no more trades to look forward to. This is the first year of the single trade deadline, and that means the current Yankee roster is the one you’re going to see all year. With no trades made, Brian Cashman is betting on his current crop of players as the team pursues their 28th World Series title.
At the end of the day, it seems Cashman was never comfortable with the prices charged on the trade market. It was a tough deadline to assess – the cost of acquiring Marcus Stroman was far lower than I think anyone would have predicted, but conversely, the pieces sent in the Trevor Bauer deal were more than most thought.