As the trade deadline officially passes, the New York Yankees were the biggest losers at this year's deadline mark. After 106 games into the season with a lackluster offense, New York makes zero trades for any offensive help while only making two minor reliever additions to the bullpen.
The Yankees were certainly very confused coming into this trade deadline. They've played some really bad baseball as of late and could've easily been sellers at the deadline but they did not sell. Although they sit last in a very tough AL East and are now only 3 games above .500, the Yanks are only 3.5 games out of the last wild card spot and are still very much in the race with 55 games left to play.
No matter how bad the bats have been as of late, this team is still very well in it and it is just baffling to me that they didn't go out and acquire some new offensive talent to help this team out. Instead they go and add to what has been their one strong suit, the bullpen.
Even if the Yankees did sell at the deadline, they still could've easily stayed in the race for that last wild card spot and embrace the let the kids play mentality. Obviously the players that are contributing to this team right now aren't getting the job done, so go out there and call up some of the kids and let them show you what they can do to help this team win some ball games.
This mentality is being embraced all over the league with teams like the Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, and Arizona Diamondbacks just to name a few. In addition, the one thing that these teams all have in common is that they all currently occupy a playoff spot and are doing it with a subpar payroll. Nowadays it's been proven that bigger payrolls don't always mean more success, in fact its the complete opposite.
The race for the last AL wild card spot is currently very congested between I believe 4-5 legitimate teams. 3 of those teams were buyers at the deadline and very much improved their teams unlike the Yankees and the Mariners. There's only one spot really up for grabs as of now and the Yanks don't seem very motivated or good enough to contend for that spot currently.
One thing is true, the offense has been in a major slump almost this entire season and it doesn't seem like they are going to break out of it anytime soon. A fresh couple of bats to the lineup might've really helped this team out, but obviously Brian Cashman and company had other ideas.
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