Why Yankees should target starting pitching at trade deadline

Gregory Fisher | USA TODAY SportsLook, these things happen. It’s baseball. There will be some stinkers over the course of 162 games. But while the Yankees have no reason to panic, that does not mean they cannot reflect on it.

Their sensational pitching staff has stumbled in Minneapolis. Jameson Taillon was ineffective on Tuesday to open the series against the Twins. But the bats were able to pummel their way to a 10-4 win. That did not happen Wednesday. Nestor Cortes was lit up for the first time in, er, forever in an 8-1 loss.

We get it. The Yankees are going to lose games. Starters are going to have bad outings. But even so, we cannot shake the feeling they should try to add another arm by…