The New York Yankees undoubtedly request a left-handed reliever astatine nan waste and acquisition deadline.
Tim Hill has admittedly been excellent, but he's nan only accordant southpaw nan Yankees person had each season. Adding a harder-throwing lefty could some relieve immoderate of nan unit connected Hill and springiness head Aaron Boone immoderate different tricks to deploy precocious successful games.
Of each nan Yankees' section rivals, only nan Baltimore Orioles look for illustration sellers. But they person a lefty successful Gregory Soto who mightiness beryllium of existent liking to New York.
Soto made his 2 All-Star teams arsenic nan person for immoderate beautiful atrocious Detroit Tigers teams successful 2021 and 2022. But though he won't beryllium backmost successful nan Midsummer Classic this year, he's having a coagulated run pinch moreover amended under-the-hood metrics.
On Wednesday, Ryan Garcia of Empire Sports Media named Soto arsenic a apical potential waste and acquisition target for nan Yankees this summer.
"If nan Orioles take to sell, Gregory Soto and his expiring statement would beryllium apt to go, and I don’t deliberation nan value to salary would beryllium hefty either, which keeps nan doorway unfastened to different additions," Garcia wrote.
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"A talented southpaw who throws difficult while besides having a superb breaking ball, Gregory Soto could make nan Yankees a batch better."
Soto has a 3.54 ERA and 36 strikeouts successful 28 innings. His locomotion complaint is astatine a career-low 8.3 percent, though, and his 2.72 FIP is nan champion of his career.
If nan Yankees tin person their section rivals to manus them nan 30-year-old Soto without paying excessively steep a price, this could beryllium conscionable nan changeable successful nan limb nan New York bullpen needs aft nan All-Star break.
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