CLEVELAND – While rumors continue to circulate about the Yankees and Manny Machado, Aaron Boone said that he did not feel the need to talk to his team.
"It's that time of year," Boone said Thursday before the Yankees launched a four-game series against the Indians. "You could end up answering the rumors all the time, so no, I do not."
The Yankees and Orioles have had, and continue to have, discussions about Machado, a free agent after the season, but as of Thursday night, nothing would happen
The Yankees – obviously – do not want to give up their best hopes for what could very well be equivalent to a two-month rental and , just as obvious, it does not hurt the Orioles to ask them.
Yet, the prevailing feeling in the industry is that if the Yankees end up with Machado, it will follow a similar scenario from last December with Giancarlo Stanton, in which the player, in essence, fell on their knees.
The priority of the Yankees remains, as has been the case since the winter, the acquisition of the launch depth.
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Stanton came in on Thursday. 6 with a .411 OBP in 20 games since his homer walk-off against the Mariners on June 21, a circuit that brought the predictor's predictable conversation testing his first "Yankee Moment." But Boone did not buy the lazy narrative suggesting that the blow had unleashed Stanton.
