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Pitchers are like pass-rushers.
You can never have too many of them. Just ask the Mets.
That’s why the Yankees could use another starter. Despite having agreed to a new one-year, $10 million free agent contract with CC Sabathia last week and completing what would be a five-man rotation that includes Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka, Sonny Gray, and Jordan Montgomery, another thoroughbred in the stable won’t hurt.
It’s exactly why general manager Brian Cashman is dangling his deep supply of prospects out there for starting names like Gerrit Cole, Michael Fulmer, Patrick Corbin, and Danny Duffy.