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NY Yankees Covering the Bases: Gerrit Cole, Aaron Judge and replacing Anthony Rizzo

Gerrit Cole is finally back on the mound for the Yankees, striking out five and allowing two runs in four-plus innings in his season debut versus the Orioles on Wednesday. MLB trade deadline watch: Yankees’ ‘gold coins’ MLB trade deadline watch is a collection of news and notes from our reporting team of Patrick Mooney, Will Sammon, Katie Woo and Ken Rosenthal. With the New York Yankees on pace for around 110 wins, and Juan Soto set to become a free agent after this season, Chicago Cubs right-hander Hayden Wesneski understands what the organization’s pitching prospects must be thinking right now: “I could be gone in a month.” “Not that you’re necessarily hoping for that,” Wesneski continued, but history shows that the Yankees are a behemoth that develops players in the minor leagues, markets those prospects to the rest of the baseball industry and then cashes them in as trade chips. Yankees’ Anthony Rizzo could miss 4-6 weeks with an arm fracture While recent injuries to Judge and Soto proved to be much less serious than originally feared, the veteran first baseman was not as fortunate. Why Yankees promoting Ben Rice ahead of next month’s trade deadline was the right move One potential beneficiary of Rizzo’s injury?

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