Random: Trade Deadline
To date, the effective sum of the Yanks efforts to shore up the club prior to the trade deadline have gone as follows: acquired Karim Garcia, Armando Benitez and Jesse Orosco, dealt Raul Mondesi. Or, in lay terms, basically nothing of any actual import.
We'll see if Cashman can work some magic to fill the sinkhole in RF and the gaping chasm between starting pitching and Mariano. Given the relievers left on the market, it seems doubtful that will get fixed, maybe we'll land someone to make up for Mondesi's defense in right.
Normally, I would perserverate on passing on Urbina for Benitez. No. I cannot. I'm fixated on the Orosco move.
Jesse Orosco made his first big-league appearance in 1979.
Three years removed from the bicentennial. The Deer Hunter won best picture. My Sharona topped the charts. The world series champs wore yellow polyester unis. Grrrr. Come on Cashman, do like Young MC before Thursday, close-of-business.