You know you’re not in a great place as a team when the trade deadline has come and gone and much of your fan base is clamoring for a reunion with a 32-year old first baseman who hasn’t been effective regular in three years and ran a .548 OPS in his only major league action this year, but that’s where the Yankees are. The clamor, of course, has come as a result of the combination of Anthony Rizzo’s placement on the IL and Luke Voit exercising the opt-out in his minor league deal with the Yankees.
Voit was bad enough in the majors this year that the Brewers, with whom he signed a minor league deal over the winter, cut bait after just 22 homerless games.