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New York Yankees Profiles: James Paxton, the Yankees per nine strikeout leader

The New York Yankees came up short trying to acquire pitching help at the trade deadline last season, and that put pressure on James Paxton to shake off a rough stretch in midseason. He went through a period where the Yankees lost all six of his starts. In one game at Fenway Park, he gave up seven runs in four innings. The Yankees expected more from Paxton because the Yankees had won six of his first eight starts. Paxton did get past his rough stretch when he finished with a team-leading eleven consecutive wins.

Paxton, born James Alston is thirty-one years old, he is Canadian that previously played for the Seattle Mariners.