Despite Jack Curry's continued pleas that the New York Yankees are more likely to pursue a starting pitcher via trade rather than on the free agent market, they find themselves connected to two primo free agent pitchers one week before Christmas Day.
Former Yankee Michael King is reportedly receiving bids from the Cubs, Mets, Orioles, Red Sox and Yanks, seeking a four-year deal. For a risk-averse team looking for long-term rotation depth, not a short-term fix, that would seem to be tough territory for the Yankees to traverse. Now, if they could find a way to use their money on simultaneously shoring up the rotation past Gerrit Cole's/Carlos Rodón's contracts and getting back into the Japanese market, that would seem to be a better use of funds.