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Hal Steinbrenner says his New York Yankees may need a starting pitching upgrade if they’re going to reach their first World Series
since 2009.
Steinbrenner Stephone Anthony Jersey , the Yankees managing general partner, said Wednesday the club will explore the trade market for an arm, especially
considering the recent loss of left-hander Jordan Montgomery, who had
season-ending Tommy John surgery on June 7.
The Yankees entered Wednesday with the best record in baseball, narrowly ahead of AL East rival Boston. The club has space to acquire an impact player
and still remain under the $197 million luxury-tax threshold, a goal the team
has stated several times.
”Clearly starting pitching was always a concern,” Steinbrenner said, speaking to a small group of reporters at an owners’ meeting. ”It’s definitely one of the
areas we’re going to be looking at.
”Purposely left a decent amount of money for just this,” he added. ”If we decide to go get a pitcher and if a pitcher’s available, I think we definitely
have the flexibility that would allow me to do just that.”
Cole Hamels, Chris Archer and Madison Bumgarner are among the biggest names that could potentially be available at the deadline, but they would likely cost
one or more of New York’s blue-chip prospects. Steinbrenner wants to be cautious
about moving high-ceiling youngsters to beef up the rotation.
”It depends what the asks are. I mean, I love the young guys,” he said. ”Our fans love the young guys, and I think it’s obvious to all of us. They’ve made a
heck of an impact, and to see Gleyber (Torres) and (Miguel) Andujar and others,
you know Andrus Peat Jersey , right off the heels of (Aaron) Judge and (Gary) Sanchez and (Luis) Severino, I mean it’s pretty amazing.”
The team does have internal options, and Steinbrenner said he’s willing to stick by some young, untested pitchers if needed. Jonathan Loaisiga will make
his major league debut Friday, rookie Domingo German has held his own in six
starts, and prospects Justus Sheffield, Chance Adams and Erik Swanson could get
looks later this year, too.
”We’ve got some options for August, September, but again, we’re going to look at anything that comes across our desk,” Steinbrenner said.
OFF AND RUNNING
Steinbrenner praised first-year manager Aaron Boone, pleased with his performance thus far despite the rookie manager having no professional coaching
experience prior to the season.
”Everything we could ask for. Calm, cool, collected,” Steinbrenner said. ”Players have a lot of respect for him. He’s been great in the clubhouse and
he’s been great with his coaching staff, and the coaches he’s brought in have
been good so I mean it’s as advertised.”
NO WORRIES
Giancarlo Stanton has been good Doug Flutie Jersey , but not great, in his first year with the Yankees. He entered Wednesday batting .240 with 14 homers, 34 RBIs and a .797 OPS – compared
to a 1.007 OPS when he won the NL MVP Award last season. Steinbrenner believes
New York’s marquee offseason acquisition will crank up his production soon,
though.
”He’s had ups and downs, but when he gets hot, he’ll carry a team,” Steinbrenner said. ”We’ve all seen that and it will happen. Work ethic is great.
Worked his way right into the clubhouse in a great way, teammates like him, so
he’s going to be great.”
NOT-SO-FRIENDLY SKIES
New York has had eight games either postponed or suspended by poor weather already this season. If that wasn’t enough of an inconvenience, they’ve also
encountered their share of travel snafus- which included having to spend a night
at Dulles International Airport in mid-May due to weather and a problem with the
plane.
As an experienced pilot himself, Steinbrenner understands that air travel can be an inexact science.
”We all fly commercial and even small jets, even my plane has problems from time to time and I fly a dinky little propeller plane,” he said. ”So you start
to get into these airliners, I mean they’re complex from the avionics to the
life support systems to the engines to the hydraulics. They’re just complicated
machines. … It’s obviously air transportation, very reliable and very safe. But
it’s very safe and very reliable because they don’t take a plane up if it’s not
close to a hundred percent, right?”
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The Oakland Athletics will go for their season-high fifth win in a row when they open a four-game series against the Chicago White Sox on Thursday night at
U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago.
Oakland (38-36) has achieved a four-game winning streak on four occasions this season, including its current stretch Aaron Burbridge Jersey , but has yet to make it five. The A’s have outscored opponents 28-15 during this week’s streak, which includes two wins
apiece against the Los Angeles Angels and San Diego Padres.
A’s hitters slugged five homers in a 12-4 rout of the Padres on Wednesday. The team already has four players with double-digit blasts, including Khris
Davis (20), Matt Olson (15), Jed Lowrie (11) and the injured Matt Chapman
(10).
“We definitely have some power,” Oakland manager Bob Melvin said to the A’s official website. “That’s one of the strengths of the team.”
As Oakland is riding a hot streak, Chicago (24-49) is mired in a seven-game losing streak. A loss in the series opener would give the White Sox their worst
skid of the season, which is saying something considering the club’s ugly
record.
White Sox manager Rick Renteria’s club is coming off back-to-back sweeps at the hands of the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians. In Wednesday’s series
finale, Chicago managed only two hits in a 12-0 loss to the Indians.
“It’s tough, but instead of getting frustrated, we have to keep working, use that feeling to work harder,” White Sox second baseman Yoan Moncada said to the
team’s official website. “There are still plenty of games to play, and we can
improve. We can keep getting better, and if it is not this year, then next year.
But definitely the games we have this year, we have a chance to improve.”
White Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito (4-7 Harrison Phillips Jersey , 7.19 ERA) will look to improve in his 15th start of the season. The former first-round pick of the Washington Nationals (No. 16
overall in 2012) has terrific potential but has been unable to produce
consistent results in his first full season on the South Side.
Poor command has plagued Giolito, who has 45 walks in 71 1/3 innings. He also has hit 10 batters, which is tied for most in the majors along with Cole Hamels
of the Texas Rangers and Carlos Martinez of the St. Louis Cardinals.
This will mark the 23-year-old’s first career appearance against Oakland.
For the A’s, right-hander Chris Bassitt (0-2, 2.45 ERA) will make his third start of the season. The 29-year-old is seeking his first victory since Aug. 4,
2015, against the Baltimore Orioles.
Bassitt is quite familiar with the White Sox, who drafted him in the 16th round in 2011 and developed him in the minors. He went 1-1 with a 3.94 ERA in
six appearances (five starts) as a rookie in Chicago in 2014.
On Dec. 9, 2014, the White Sox shipped Bassitt, Marcus Semien, Josh Phegley and minor leaguer Rangel Ravelo to Oakland in exchange for Jeff Samardzija and
Michael Ynoa. The trade did not pan out as hoped for Chicago, which retained
Samardzija for one underwhelming season before he signed as a free agent with
the San Francisco Giants.
Bassitt has faced the White Sox once in his career. That was in 2016, when he gave up eight hits and four runs in 5 1/3 innings, but did not get a decision in
Chicago’s 5-4 victory.
This will be the first meeting of the season between the teams. Last year, Oakland won the season series 5-1.
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