Aaron Boone: Lance Lynn, Alex Cobb “aren’t really in play” for Yankees
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During their quest to acquire starting pitching in recent months, the Yankees have been connected to a litany of potential trade and free agent targets. The list includes right-handers Lance Lynn and Alex Cobb, who rank as two of the best free agents remaininAaron Boone: Lance Lynn, Alex Cobb “aren’t really in play” for Yankees
During their quest to acquire starting pitching in recent months, the Yankees have been connected to a litany of potential trade and free agent targets. The list includes right-handers Lance Lynn and Alex Cobb, who rank as two of the best free agents remaining in this year’s class. It doesn’t appear either will end up with the Yankees, though, if we’re to believe manager Aaron Boone.“At this point I don’t see those guys as realistic options,” Boone said Sunday (via Bryan Hoch of MLB.com). “It’s my understanding that those guys aren’t really in play for us.”With the Yankees poised to stay under the $197M luxury tax threshold and having anywhere from $10M to $15M left to spend, Lynn or Cobb would likely be a tight fit for the club’s budget (MLBTR predicted $14M per annum for Lynn and $12M a year for Cobb at the outset of the offseason). Although things haven’t gone according to plan for either pitcher since the market opened, they still seem likely to reel in contracts worth somewhere in the $10M to 15M-per-yea Read more