’Tis the season.
With the July 31 trade deadline looming over clubs looking to buy or sell, the presence of out-of-town scouts in major league press boxes is impossible to ignore.
“General coverage’’ is the stock answer when a scout at this time of the year sheepishly answers to “What are you doing here?’’
Obviously he is looking at players the Yankees might move, though most of the sellers are more interested in the talent in the minor leagues where Clint Frazier, Justus Sheffield, Tommy Kahnle, Tyler Wade, Cody Carroll, Albert Abreu, Abiatal Avelino, Domingo Acevedo, Freicer Perez and Luis Medina reside.