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Old 07-24-2012, 10:39 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by CommishJoe View Post
Yankees needed a stopgap while Gardner is healing and Mariners needed to let him go. Sounds like a win-win to me. Yankees can platoon him in left with A. Jones, getting a defensive upgrade from Ibanez while lowering expectations on him.
Plus, I never/barely heard of the guys they gave up for him: reliever D.J. Mitchell and minor league right-hander Danny Farquhar. I should probably follow the Yankees affiliates more closely, I suppose.
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