“It should tell them, hey, we’re in this,” Yankees Manager Joe Girardi said of the trade’s message for his players. “We need to continue to play and play hard and play better than what we’ve done. But Kahnle, from Latham, N.Y., has been even better than Robertson, striking out 60 over 36 innings while compiling a 1-3 record and a 2.50 E.R.A. The Yankees lost Kahnle to Colorado in the 2013 Rule V draft; the Rockies dealt him to Chicago two years later. A first-round pick by the Cincinnati Reds in 2007, Frazier played five seasons there before being traded to the White Sox in December 2015.

Source: New York Times July 19, 2017 04:53 UTC