Cliff Lee Traded to Yankees?

by on 06/14/2010 in MLB News, Yankees Blogs

The trade deadline is July 31 and General Managers are like sharks looking for the perfect meal, but the meal is more like a meal ticket. The teams that are in the hunt to make the playoffs will be the fastest swimmers. Who will land the biggest prize?

Cliff Lee Traded to Yankees

It’s not that far fetch that the Yankees could land Cliff Lee. They already have a solid rotation with CC Sabathia (6-3), AJ Burnett (6-4), Phil Hughes (9-1) and Andy Pettitte (8-1). Why would the Yankees pull the trigger for Lee? I can think of a few reasons;

  1. Boston Red Sox will be interested
  2. 9 million for an established successful pitcher who is light’s out in the playoffs
  3. Yankees can afford him and have players to trade

Cliff Lee from extracting a king’s ransom is the plethora of other pitchers available at this deadline derby. None is quite like Lee, of course, and those in his neighborhood make more than his $9 million salary. In other words, he is the perfect mercenary and cheap according to Jeff Passan at Yahoo Sports.

Come the July 31 trading deadline, Lee will be somewhere other than Seattle.

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