{"id":45921,"date":"2025-07-29T20:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45921\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T20:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:55:16","slug":"yankees-focused-on-pitching-could-still-add-bat-at-mlb-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45921\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees focused on pitching, could still add bat at MLB trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once the Yankees landed Ryan McMahon and Amed Rosario to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/26\/sports\/ryan-mcmahon-embracing-whirlwind-first-career-trade-to-yankees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">address third base<\/a> and a maneuverable righty hitter with a strong history against lefties, they moved to pitching, pitching and pitching<\/p>\n<p>And yet \u2026<\/p>\n<p>No one should be surprised if they add one more bat before the deadline, preferably right-handed with the ability to play shortstop if necessary. Outside executives say the Yankees still have interest in obtaining a player, offering something from the buffet of defense, righty hitting and\/or speed.<\/p>\n<p>The idea would be to try to build a deeper, more versatile and more functional positional group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once the Yankees landed Ryan McMahon and Amed Rosario to address third base and a maneuverable righty hitter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2320,363,15238,369,480,99,358,1231],"class_list":["post-45921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}