After Aaron Judge went down with a wrist injury in late July, the Yankees curiously didn’t pick up an outfielder. In fact, they considerably thinned their outfield depth chart prior to the non-waiver trade deadline, dealing away Billy McKinney and Tyler Austin. With Clint Frazier and Jacoby Ellsbury on the shelf along with Judge, the Yankees subjected their fans to a dangerous amount of Shane Robinson during the month of August.
Finally, just before the waiver deadline, Brian Cashman dealt for Andrew McCutchen, and our long national tri-state-area nightmare was over.