The trade deadline has passed and we are now into August, and that means it is time for another edition of our MLB Trade Rumors archives series. After all, what good are trade rumors if we’re only going to look at them once, and forget about them five minutes later? Few things in baseball can made you facepalm quite like old rumors.
Anyway, the Yankees were 56-51 and only three games back of the second Wild Card spot on the morning of August 1st, 2013. They added Alfonso Soriano prior to the trade deadline and that was pretty much it despite glaring needs up and down the roster.