Yankees Shopping Season

The temperature climbs while baseball's pennant race heats up. MLB's trade deadline is on the horizon. Let's hit the links for some New York Yankees related trade rumblings and rumors:

• "This race may be decided not by who is on each of these teams now but by who will be in a few weeks. The Yankees have made an annual theatre of making moves at the deadline, and they have the resources to do it..."--(SI.com)
• "What this means is probably there will be little phrenetic trading in these last four weeks before the deadline."--(Peter Gammons/ESPN) Fortunately, not many Yankees rumor mongers have a clue what "phrenetic" means.
• "Who could use Halladay? Well, considering he would be at the top of any rotation, the answer is everybody. And he’s relatively affordable, making $30 million over the 2009 and 2010 seasons.
  Initially, I’d be surprised to see the Yankees jump into the fray."--(NY Times)
• "The uncertainty of Chien-Ming Wang's shoulder could thrust the Yankees into the trade market, with a starting pitcher at the top of Brian Cashman's shopping list."--(NY Daily News)
• Halladay revisited: "In the Yankees’ case, players who would be most attractive in this kind of deal include Joba Chamberlain, Phil Hughes, Dellin Betances, Austin Jackson and Jesus Montero. In other words, their best young players in the majors and their top prospects in the minors." --(NY Times) A package of high profile, overrated prospects (Montero and Hughes) might work. It would take guts and brains which is why it won't happen.

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