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Clarke Schmidt might be the Yankees’ internal deadline addition

The MLB trading deadline is 18 days away, so it’s a safe bet that fans of all stripes are being serenaded by analysts, pundits and perhaps even random bystanders with a time-honored baseball maxim: teams can’t have enough pitching.

The Yankees, being a baseball team, naturally can’t have enough pitching either, and speculation has already started to swirl about whom they might target on the trade market. But before Brian Cashman and company jump headlong into the trade pool, it’s worth considering if the best option to bolster their starting rotation is already in the organization.